Amazing hire for @nytimes.com (and a world-class fumble for the Post) - @yjtorbati.bsky.social is everything a journalist should be. So thrilled to keep reading her work www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...
thanks for the note lizzie! one of the most meaningful projects i’ve ever worked on. @martinepowers.bsky.social
I want to give a special shoutout to Post Reports, which I loved listening to. And especially their project “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop,” which was one of my favorite podcasts in years. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/the...
The Washington Post is my local newspaper and I depend on the hundreds of journalists and other workers busting their butts there every single day to bring us the news. #SaveThePost
Cutting the reporters, photographers, researchers and editors who bring you vital information amid a sea of slop, propaganda and lies is not a winning strategy. #SaveThePost
My @washingtonpost.com
colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
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Emerging from mat leave to say that serving as a foreign correspondent for the @washingtonpost was the honor of a lifetime.
Our reporters worldwide put their lives on the line to dig up what would otherwise stay buried.
It's not a product. It's a public service. #SaveThePost
We're not perfect, but hundreds of us at The
@washingtonpost.com bust our butts daily to bring you facts, expertise and context about your government & other powerful institutions, incredibly important foreign reporting and journalism you AREN'T GETTING ANYWHERE ELSE #SaveThePost
People ask me what my favorite part of working at The Post is and I often tell them my granddad. A native Washingtonian, he’s an avid sports fan. When I was hired in 2021, it was a full-circle moment for my family.
Serving local readers like him is a privilege. #SaveThePost
It has never been more important to understand what is happening in our world, and @washingtonpost.com's foreign reporters regularly sacrifice their own wellbeing and safety to bring us those vital stories. I'm so proud to share a newsroom with them. We need them more than ever. #SavethePost
If nothing else, I’ve always hoped our work in the Washington Post’s sports section could give readers a meaningful connection to (and understanding of) something bigger than themselves.
I’ve seen today: It has. Forever grateful to be a part of this team. #SaveThePost
I was a part of @postsports.bsky.social for nearly five years. I’ve been a reader and an admirer for much longer than that.
My former colleagues there do work that’s important to DC, the country and the whole sports world. They deserve so much better than what’s being reported. #SaveThePost
As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Photo by Ethan Wong. Me at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)
Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":
"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
Across the Sahel, juntas are limiting freedom of speech. Journalists, activists & politicians have been arrested, disappeared and even sent to fight
Finding examples wasn’t hard but finding people who still dared speak was
Mohamed Attaher was clear—he wanted his story told…
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
Personal liberties:
* Women making their own health care decisions
* Children reading the books they want in school
* Freedom of identity
* Freedom of opinion
Map of the U.S. titled “ProPublica’s ‘50 States Initiative’ Eligibility.” The 40 states in blue are eligible to submit a project for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. The ten states in the cross-hatched pattern—Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Tennessee, Georgia, New York, Connecticut, Maine and North Dakota—have already been selected and are not eligible.
📢 ProPublica is looking for 5 newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network!
These newsrooms will be part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 40 states (in blue) are eligible to apply: https://propub.li/41270AQ
Here's what this would mean for your newsroom 👇
A mother and her children fleeing paramilitary violence. A gay man who had received death threats from an armed group.
Samantha Schmidt spoke to a few of the hundreds of asylum seekers deported under Trump. Officials said none had been charged of a crime.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Reminder number 56,239 of how gobsmackingly good my colleagues are at exposing the truth.
Even in the midst of tough times for the paper, Post journalists like @davidnakamura.bsky.social, Lisa Rein and Matt Viser are relentless and essential.
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"This is about trying to take away some of the last places that people can feel safe.“ www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... @laurameckler.bsky.social @bellwak.bsky.social @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
