Thrilled to be named a finalist in #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈’s Salute to Excellence Awards for my From Birth to Death series in the National-Special Project category. This project would not have happened without the amazing work of Wong Maye-E, Noreen Nasir and Annie Ma. nabjonline.org/blog/nabj24ste…

So, so proud and grateful to have been a part of this work with some of the most talented women in journalism!! Kat Stafford Noreen Nasir Wong Maye-E projects.apnews.com/features/2023/…

"It took so much patience and empathy and putting aside any urgent energy you have as a reporter to… let her reveal her situation to us on her own terms." - AP's BiancaVázquezToness in a new interview. kappanonline.org/thompson-lurye…

Bianca "has an amazing ability to write with great empathy and to build trust and rapport with sources...Our journalism, no matter what, it's always extremely person-centered." - Sharon Lurye on BiancaVázquezToness mailchi.mp/374cafe25916/p…

This is such a classic CQ story and I am here for every word of it.

COOL NEWS: Senator Katie Boyd Britt, Senator Patty Murray and Lisa Hamilton will join Trisha Powell Crain and Daniel Beekman of AL.com and The Seattle Times next week to discuss our country's child care crisis (And how to fix it) Stay tuned for the livestream! al.com/educationlab/2…

Last week, The Associated Press marked the 70th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, a landmark Supreme Court ruling that aimed to end segregation in schools across the U.S. I welcome you to take a look at our coverage... starting with some history. A thread (1/6)🧵

The Newtown class that lost 20 kids to a massacre when they were in first grade is graduating high school tomorrow. For the survivors, there’s anxiety over leaving the Sandy Hook ‘bubble.’ But also, excitement. Poignant story Dave Collins. apnews.com/article/newtow…

So excited about this new initiative The Associated Press, as we look to deepen our longstanding commitment to state and local news in the United States.

.The Associated Press launches pop-up Olympics newsletter, "Postcards from Paris." Sign up now: apne.ws/0Lh0oGM

Couldn't be more thrilled to be working again with Alia, in a truly perfect role for her. She'll help us collaborate more widely and deeply with researchers and local + nonprofit newsrooms.

Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/23a2bd…

In light of all the X chatter, re-posting my The Associated Press story from Sunday. #KamalaHarris constantly being told by others she is Black/not Black enough/Indian American/not Indian enough is something just about every multiracial person has to put up with. apnews.com/article/kamala…

Thank you #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 for this incredible honor for my From Birth to Death project, which examined how health inequities have impacted generations of Black Americans. This award is so special because NABJ honors work that centers Black communities. That was my goal & dream of this.

Hyphenate back-to-school as a compound modifier: back-to-school supplies, back-to-school clothes, back-to-school time. But no hyphen is needed when it's used as a freestanding phrase: She went back to school.

1 out of every 4 students is chronically absent. The serious challenges of pandemic academic recovery are very much with us. New data and reporting from my The Associated Press collaboration.👇 apnews.com/article/school…

Really exciting new report, out today from CESR and USC Rossier, with Amie Rapaport, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, and Dan Silver. We're focusing on the UnderstandingAmerica data we have on children's mental health and its relationship with school outcomes. (PDF: cesr.usc.edu/documents/A_Na…) A thread:

This week The Associated Press launched its latest package on chronic absenteeism, documenting how and why the problem has persisted -- and what's working to improve the numbers apnews.com/article/school… 1/

Deeply honored! Thank you ⁦WABJ - Washington Association of Black Journalists⁩. Ron Nixon to Receive Dorothy Butler Gilliam Trailblazer Award. wabjdc.org/ron-nixon-to-r…

What fabulous news! Sarah Garland is among the best in the business, and one of my favorite people on the beat