A Report for America corps member has made this list nearly every year since we launched, and one has now made it three times for her reporting while at The Maine Monitor — Samantha Hogan! 🎉

NEW: In an overwhelming vote Friday afternoon, the faculty senate for Emory University’s College of Arts and Sciences decided to hold a college-wide no-confidence vote in President Gregory Fenves. ajc.com/news/faculty-s…

🧵: Hearing is taking place for protesters arrested yesterday at Emory University. There were at least 23 people booked into the DeKalb County Jail. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Congratulations to the 2024 Livingston Award finalists for local reporting!

Find out who they are and see their outstanding work 👉 loom.ly/UI6ajKg

#uofm #livingstonawards #journalismmatters

The last series I wrote with The Maine Monitor is a finalist for the Livingston Award.

Maine’s probate courts oversee guardianships and estates of the state’s most vulnerable people - and sometimes fall short of protecting them.

themainemonitor.org/maines-part-ti…

The Tortured Journalists Department:

-Election Night
-My Editor Only Cuts His Favorite Lines
-Who’s Afraid of My Little Old FOIA request?
-I Can Do It With a Broken Dataset
-I Can Make This Deadline (No Really I Can)
-I Hate It Here
-I Look in Public Records
-The Google Doc

New investigation, with Stephanie Lamm:

The AJC reviewed data representing millions of calls across Atlanta and the metro area and found, time and again, that an alarmingly high number of callers were left waiting for a 911 operator.

Part 1: ajc.com/news/investiga…

This is great news! ProPublica Announces 50 State Initiative propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

Three reporting projects published by The Maine Monitor have been honored by the New England Newspaper & Press Association.

themainemonitor.org/three-nenpa-aw…

Maine’s tidal wetlands are at risk of disappearing as they are being threatened by rising seas and development.

To discuss these issues, grantee Kate Cough will join experts Jeremy Gabrielson, Jacob Aman, and Susan Adamowicz.

Join the conversation! 👉 bit.ly/4ct30OG

Maine to open two public defender offices in rural counties, but access to counsel remains a major problem for many poor defendants, reports ⁦The Maine Monitor⁩ themainemonitor.org/two-more-maine…

I was part of Report for America corps for 4 years at a small nonprofit newsroom that quadrupled in size because of RFA’s support for local journalism.

RFA announced it will no longer partner with hedge fund and private equity-owned news outlets.

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More than 100 Mainers are in jail awaiting lawyers. The fix remains elusive, ⁦Emily Allen⁩ continues to report. pressherald.com/2024/02/25/mor…

The city of Atlanta is on the verge of a major new effort to clear out homeless people living under bridges, a move that officials tie to public safety after a string of fires but that raises questions about where people without homes will end up. ajc.com/news/atlanta-p…

The Fulton County Board of Ethics will hear two complaints against DA Fani Willis that question her conduct in the election interference case.

Via David Wickert

ajc.com/politics/fulto…

Georgia's high maternal mortality rate has devastating consequences for women and their families.

Expanding Medicaid would help prevent some of these tragedies, but Georgia has yet to do so.

We shouldn't wait another minute to expand Medicaid.

Greetings from the Fulton County Courthouse. We’re awaiting a 9:30 hearing before Judge Scott McAfee about whether DA Fani Willis’ relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade is a disqualifying conflict

Very cool to be a semifinalists for the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for a second year in a row. This time for my series about Maine’s troubled part-time probate courts, ⁦The Maine Monitor⁩ ⁦Investigative Editing Corps⁩ shorensteincenter.org/semifinalists-…

If any journalists are interested in taking over my old job, here’s the posting.

Maine is a beautiful place to live and the The Maine Monitor is a great nonprofit to work for: themainemonitor.org/careers/?utm_c…

Former President Donald Trump spent $50,000 in campaign contributions on legal fees to the firm representing a codefendant in Fulton County’s election interference case who later pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. ajc.com/politics/trump…