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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall

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Automotive reporter for @Detroitnews . Former Youngstown Vindicator reporter. Proud Youngstown native and @pointparku grad. News tips: khall @detroitnews .com

Michigan, USA
Joined December 2013
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
1 year
A quick🧵 on this @UAW election: Four years ago I met a couple of guys at a protest who wanted to create change in the UAW and their efforts led to the historic shift in control of the union that we’re seeing now.
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10 months
@UAW Workers have walked out of the plant.
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10 months
@UAW President Shawn Fain says he sees “no point” in meeting with Donald Trump when he’s in Detroit tomorrow. “I don't think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for. He serves a billionaire class.”
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5 years
UAW Brian Rothenberg Spokesman: These UAW members not so long ago helped saved a company that many people didn’t think was going to survive.
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5 years
There are 46,000 GM workers across the U.S. Strike pay is $250 a week.
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10 months
UAW President Shawn Fain says if “serious progress” isn’t made by this Friday, he’s calling on more local units to strike.
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Friday, September 22nd. Noon. The working class won't wait. #StandUpUAW
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5 years
MSU fans burning a couch on Gunson Street in East Lansing after the loss to Texas Tech @LSJNews
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10 months
I’m at @GM ’s Davison Road Processing Center, the automaker’s largest customer care and after sales plant, where workers are getting ready to go on strike.
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9 months
Breaking news: I got married. Be back soon!
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2 years
Get engaged in the dark in the woods and the pictures will be real trippy. Gram said: “It’s about time.” This is a placeholder ring until the real one comes in but I love it!
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10 months
@UAW President Shawn Fain has called on all of GM’s workers at CCA centers (18 across the country) to go on strike. This will add 3,100 members to picket lines.
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4 years
Downtown Rochester is worth a visit.
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2 years
Good morning from me and the duck. Happy auto show day!
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1 year
Four years ago this month I started covering GM and the auto industry at @detroitnews . Sometimes I still can’t believe how cool it is that I cover autos in Detroit for a Detroit newspaper.
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
10 months
I’m here at @Ford ’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne where workers are picketing. They’re receiving a lot of beeps in support from drivers going down Michigan Ave.
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
1 year
What a team! ⁦ @CWilliams_DN ⁩ took 1st place for best explanatory reporting from ⁦ @SPJDetroit ⁩. ⁦ @BreanaCNoble ⁩ ⁦ @JGrzelewski ⁩ and I took 1st, 2nd and 3rd for auto reporting. Thankful for our leaders ⁦ @DanielHowes_TDN ⁩. Missing ⁦ @stevemurphy_dn
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7 years
Who's ready for the Youngstown Foundation amphitheater?
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10 months
BREAKING: @UAW President Shawn Fain calls on GM's Wentzville plant, Ford's Michigan Assembly plant and Stellantis' Toledo Jeep plant to go on strike.
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3 years
This is #puremichigan .
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5 years
I nearly had to tackle a person to get one of these. I went to 10 stores and found only two with copies left. If only that need for the newspaper existed before the end of @vindicator ...maybe the end wouldn’t be here so soon. RIP, dear friend.
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1 year
I just heard the loudest thunder ever and saw lightning. Does that happen in blizzards???
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5 years
My family gets me. I cried my eyes out when I got this gift: My aunt’s old Vindicator delivery box, the 1908 Vindicator bound volume, Vindy pens, chip bag clips, magnets and a pin. I can’t believe this 150-year-old paper is gone. #supportlocalnewspapers
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6 years
Much love, Youngstown and @vindicator .
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5 years
I’m thrilled to be on the @detroitnews autos team. I’ll be covering @GM . Email me with tips: khall @detroitnews .com.
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
10 months
When breaking news happens … we all chip in. Love this team @BreanaCNoble @JGrzelewski . Photo captured by @Hayley__Harding from the parking garage.
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2 years
Message from the Woodward Dream Cruise …
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2 years
Eyes on the prize @JGrzelewski
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9 months
Everyone clap for my dear friend and colleague. She’s the best teammate and I’m so grateful I got to work with her in TWO newsrooms. I’m sad to see her go but so excited for what she’s gonna do next. 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Jordyn Grzelewski
9 months
That’s a wrap for me at @detroitnews ! It’s been a memorable ride over the last 3.5 years on the business & autos team, especially these last few months covering the UAW negotiations & strike.
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
2 years
I keep seeing this phrase “brand journalism” on marketing job listings. Can we stop that? That’s not journalism. That’s writing promotional content for a company.
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5 years
My first newsroom family ❤️ @vindicator
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3 years
It’s been such a year I forgot I finished my master’s in 2020 during a pandemic while working full time. I got this cute reminder today.
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1 year
Under 150 days until the biggest party I’ll ever throw. I mostly just cannot wait to show off Youngstown 😍I guess marrying the person I love is also cool 😎
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3 years
Off today to get this master’s degree with my fellow Spartans
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2 years
Look what’s arrived at @NAIASDetroit . I loved the shaggy van thing as a kid!
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8 months
Cheers to @JGrzelewski ! 3.5 years of the best autos team ever.
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1 year
Thrilled to be named a VP of the Automotive Press Association today. If you’re not a member, I highly recommend you reconsider. Sign up here:
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4 years
I toured ⁦ @GM ⁩’s face mask production facility today. These paid volunteers are making 70K masks a day for frontline workers mostly in Michigan.
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2 years
We’re calling it a day. Stay tuned for Mustang news from @JGrzelewski
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1 year
Today @hmackayDN and I saved a sick finch from the streets of Detroit. Not pictured: Hannah the hero delivering him to a bird rehab in Saline after working all day. His name is Newsy in case you wondered. He will be healed and released🙂
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3 years
This reporter and this poodle are fully vaccinated and ready to cover all the in-person events and hit all the dog parks. Thanks for the great shot @JGrzelewski
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2 years
Our first auto prom
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1 year
On assignment at LG Energy Solution in Holland. Stay tuned for a story.
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2 years
A decade ago I had a pixie cut (yikes) and placed first with fellow Vindy colleagues in the APME awards. Celebrating my 10th year as a professional newspaper reporter which is NUTS.
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2 years
Dino update … it’s nap time.
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3 years
The Cruisin’ has started down Woodward in Birmingham. I’ll be here all day. DM me with any cool finds.
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3 years
The best gift we got ourselves this year @JGrzelewski
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1 year
A decade in newspaper journalism and still loving it.
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4 years
Just finished my last paper for my master’s degree from @michiganstateu and NOW I NEED ICE CREAM. I completed this program in two years while working full time as a reporter. I don’t recommend doing that unless you don’t mind losing sleep and sanity.
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2 years
Today I’m 31…which feels weird to say. The day started with delicious doughnuts from @BreanaCNoble , and then @JGrzelewski bought lunch for me. I mean, can my team be any more awesome?
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6 years
Youngstown is everywhere. I found some Giannios candy in a Michigan grocery store ❤️
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11 months
@UAW President Shawn Fain on @CNN right now.
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1 year
Happening now: @UAW President Shawn Fain and @BernieSanders are hosting a live broadcast that will feature stories from three Detroit Three hourly workers. Sanders kicks off the "fighting back against corporate greed" discussion.
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1 year
Scott Houldieson of the @UAWD_Reform starts a chant: “NO COLA. NO CONTRACT.”
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1 year
A decade ago today I graduated with my college roomies from the best place on earth @PointParkU . I had no idea what my career in journalism would look like but today I’m on a fierce, all-female autos team at a Detroit daily and the NYT credited one of our stories 👏👏
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3 years
Workers at GM’s Factory Zero in Detroit are getting vaccinated today.
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3 years
I ran this little squirrel dude to a wildlife rehabber last night after finding him all alone in my garden. She was such cool lady and rehabs 100 squirrels a year!! She reports today little dude is bruised but OK and eating lots. If you ever need a rehabber, I know one now!
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
1 year
The UAW comes after @GM again for its wages at its joint venture Ultium Cells battery plant with LG Energy Solution.
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OUR DEFINING MOMENT. A new industry is being born. New standards are being set. It's not just about Lordstown. Everywhere, our message is the same: Our country deserves good, safe, living-wage union jobs. It's time to build an EV industry that puts workers first. #UAW
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4 years
Pretty proud of the feast @JGrzelewski and I created.
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2 years
Let’s talk about this Dino room …
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3 years
Biden in the Hummer EV pickup.
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8 months
The bride’s ride.
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3 years
Baby’s first Zingerman’s ⁦ @JGrzelewski
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4 years
Oh heyyyyyy
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4 years
This is a race to watch ...
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Gary Miles
4 years
James leads Michigan's U.S. Senate race in early returns
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3 years
Stuck inside a tent as it pours with most of the @detroitnews autos team. It’s a good Tuesday.
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1 year
32 and thriving today. Hoping I get the Costco membership I desperately want and some “flared leggings.”
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2 years
Not too late to get a copy of today’s @detroitnews which features two stories based on reporting I did in Tennessee last week.
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3 years
She’s doing an interview. This is fine. Or is he doing the interview, @JGrzelewski ?
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5 years
I drove a Mustang through the Arizona desert today. Pretty solid Monday.
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3 years
Members of the Factory Zero team, including Plant Director Jim Quick (second from left), who got emotional when talking about today: “This is a great day for us,” he said. “The team deserves it.”
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3 years
Burgess Foster of Grosse Pointe Woods calls the apple pie hot dog “the American dream.” He has quite the review:
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
4 years
JUST IN: Joe Biden opens 9-point lead over President Trump in Michigan, Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll finds via @detroitnews by ⁦ @CraigDMauger
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
3 years
Scenes from the Freep 5K today!
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10 months
One month out and the wedding nightmares have started …
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1 year
Why aren’t we talking about this
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3 years
Happy Friday! Have a nice stretch like @JGrzelewski ’s Ziggy cat.
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2 years
Good morning from Bourbon Street.
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3 years
Happy birthday to the best boi ever.
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2 years
Your ⁦ @detroitnews ⁩ auto beat reporters together again ⁦ @BreanaCNoble ⁩ ⁦ @JGrzelewski
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3 years
I’m only getting married to have the cookie table one day
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2 years
Heaven is having Vernors slushees on tap 🤤
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5 years
I’m back home in the great Mahoning Valley. Check out GM Lordstown Assembly, which is now home to Lordstown Motors Corp. and its Endurance electric pickup truck.
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2 years
BRUNCHIN in NOLA
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3 years
Everyone loves a DeLorean
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1 year
@elizfarrell Sure looks like it.
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3 years
A big day for shopping at Somerset. The parking lot is packed. If you come, expect to park on the third floor.
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1 year
200 days until the biggest party I’ll ever throw. AND I MEAN EVER.
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@MayorMikeDuggan @GovWhitmer @SecretaryPete are announcing a Binational Alternative Fuels Corridor between the U.S. and Canada for EV charging. We’re here on the Detroit River across from Canada.
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9 years
Bar Rescue fans: The Royal Oaks episode will air at 10 p.m. Oct. 18 and the Martini Brothers episode will air at the same time Oct. 25.
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
5 years
I’m reflecting on the five years I spent @vindicator . I made so many memories there. So many friends. I learned a great deal, too. Here’s one of those memories with @JGrzelewski at the @CanfieldFair . We loved being fair reporters.
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3 years
I did it!
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
3 years
I did my taxes, bought some rain pants, drank some whiskey with @juliejalopy , had all of my friends and family wish me happy birthday and I got these cookies in the mail from @MarkMSweetwood . It’s been a good day. Cheers to 30.
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
2 years
I interned at the PG a decade ago. These will always be the people who got me where I am today. Solidarity forever 👊🏼
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞
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Thank you to the @local34022 for sending the coffee, hot chocolate and doughnuts to our picketers this morning!!
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Watch the new UAW president speak at day 1 of the union’s bargaining convention here …
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UAW President Shawn Fain: “We are united to serve you. Now, we’re here to come together...for the war against our one & only true enemy: multibillion dollar corporations & employers that refuse to give our members their fair share.” #UAWSBC2023
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Thankful I got to work with @JGrzelewski . Read her latest on @vindicator ’s closing: ‘Like removing the heart from the city': Youngstown’s Vindicator prepares for final publication
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Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall
2 years
Happy fall!
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