begging people talking about public school enrollment to remember demographic trends. "we're seeing a drop in middle school enrollment!!!!!!" golly gee I wonder if there was anything going on 11-15 years ago that had any impact on birth rates probably not
highly recommend not making your job your entire personality. my life improved significantly when I recognized i was a person more than i was a journalist
it’s interesting how differently friday morning swim club and Black teenagers gathering around chicago are treated.
only one of those groups has gotten a fawning segment on national news.
Has Friday Morning Swim Club gotten too big for its own good?
As more people join the early-morning plunge, the club is breaking almost every rule the park district has about swimming — and getting away with it.
When I was kindergarten, I often came home from school in tears. I couldn't understand what was wrong with me — both the other boys and I knew I wasn't one. But I didn't quite fit in with the girls either.
It took 17 years for me to find words for myself.
Newport News School Board votes to defy state law requiring transgender student protections.
Newport News is one of the largest districts in the state and among the first in Hampton Roads to refuse to follow the law passed in 2020.
journalists loooovvvveee to say media literacy will save democracy but then exercise absolutely 0 critical thinking about the narratives they’re repeating
I'm outside the Division St Foxtrot in Wicker where people are FREAKING out about the chain's closure. One woman just told me she moved to the neighborhood because Foxtrot was here
@BlockClubCHI
there's an exceptionally thin line that education reporters (myself including) are walking right now.
do we debunk conspiracy theories and risk giving bad actors oxygen? do we let them fester and risk misinformation spread?
it's really tough, and really stressful.
personnel news: Friday will be my last day at the
@Daily_Press
and
@virginianpilot
.
I’m moving to Chicago next week — career news tk.
In the meantime, I’m looking forward to learning about a new place. (hi Chicago followers! let’s talk!)
okay NEW BIG THING from the
@suntimes
and me:
We're launching a text alerts service for the DNC. I'll be texting you about protests, cops, traffic, politics and more. If you've ever wanted my number — now is your chance.
Today’s the last day of early voting in Virginia.
Outside the Kempsville location, the line is hundreds and hundreds of people — and it isn’t even open yet. I ran the line to give you an idea:
it's the most important Peninsula holiday of the year — the anniversary of Fabio getting smacked by a goose while riding a roller coaster at Busch Gardens.
oh cool, a second round of Gannett layoffs this year. i love not knowing if i’m going to have a job in a few weeks. does great things for my mental health.
idk how anyone from a marginalized background (poc and trans ppl especially) survives in journalism even for a short period of time.
like it's not about microaggressions, it's just straight up aggression
hi! I don't think I ever clearly stated this in a tweet but i am non-binary and use they/them pronouns. i'd appreciate it if you used them for me too!
anyway enjoy
#TransAwarenessWeek
!!!
Here's a week of A1s from the
@virginianpilot
and
@Daily_Press
between Nov. 5, 2018 and Nov. 11, 2018, but with a catch — I edited out all the writers and photographers who have left or taken buyouts since then.
There's a lot of white space.
What makes me feel safe in Chicago isn’t an illusion that drunk men can be stopped from calling me slurs. It’s the trans community I’ve found around me.
wrote a mini-column for the
@Suntimes
Pride series about being a f*g and "safety."
sort of a mini-personal news post: i'm back at the
@Suntimes
and on twitter after three months offline following a lil mental health thing <3
this is also an endorsement post for "getting help." turns out it does exist.
i had a lot of time to kill, riding in coach for three days from Chicago to California, so I brought a couple of disposable cameras along with me. here's a little thread of my favorite photos:
personnel news: today is my first day as a news planner with
@Gannett
, working with western Illinois papers.
basically my job is to communicate with the illuminati to make sure news happens before deadline.
Not to go into my whole life story, but this is why my reporting doesn't really litigate whether trans kids are trans are not — I know firsthand.
The more newsworthy question to start from then is, what should schools do about it?
so these buses get a police escort but I, the cutest smartest sleepiest girl in Chicago, have to walk to the bus in the cold???? how is this fair
@unitsnations
@ fbip
gotta feel for everyone who paid their own way to a conference, hoping to break into an incredibly difficult profession, just to have all the programming you were looking forward to be disrupted by this.
30. I've said goodbye to 30 journalists since I started working at the
@Daily_Press
in May 2018, before Tribune Publishing bought The Virginian-Pilot.
Almost none were replaced. I think there are only 15 of us left from the original DP.
Today marks goodbye
#31
.
We, the journalists of the
@Daily_Press
,
@virginianpilot
, and its community publications, are forming a union. As an organized workforce, we hope to protect the future of these crucial institutions. Follow
@tidewaterguild
to learn more. Thanks!
#TeamTidewater
In western Illinois, the last staff members of (at least) two daily and four weekly newspapers are gone.
They're not the kind of places to draw attention from media reporters, but there were already so few journalists covering their communities.
I worked at Tribune Publishing from 2018-2021, and the gender and racial pay gap was glaringly obvious.
A pay study I worked on that analyzed 384 editorial employees pay found that the median pay for Black women was 22.5% less than white men companywide.
Seven Chicago Tribune journalists filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against the newspaper and its owner, alleging violations of equal pay based on sexual and racial discrimination.
today marks my one-year anniversary of moving to Chicago! a year ago, i completely uprooted my life and career because i knew i needed to make a change. it wound up being one of the best decisions i’ve ever made.