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When your news org that is less than 3 years old wins a Pulitzer Prize! thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

📍 The The Pulitzer Prizes winning* The Baltimore Banner Jessica Gallagher & Alissa Zhu 🏆 📰

Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d be here today, three years in, winning a Pulitzer. My heart is full today. I am so proud of Alissa Zhu Jessica Gallagher Nick Thieme, the newsroom and everyone at this very special organization. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

Exciting news for the The Baltimore Banner — Jessica Calefati Julie Scharper and Justin Fenton have received a Dart Award for their investigation of sexual abuse allegations at Greater Grace dartcenter.org/resources/2025…

💪 Tonight is Gunz of Steel, an arm-wrestling competition for women and non-binary people where you could get hit by a flying slice of American cheese or a crocheted placenta. Amazing 📸 by Jessica Gallagher. thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/lifest…

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JOURNALISM

NBC's MikeTirico with all the right words at the end of the Preakness: "After being defeated" at the Derby, Journalism prevails, "resilient, undeterred – and eventually rewarded."

Meet the youngest Marylander competing in this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee! And check out the incredible photos taken by Jessica Gallagher!

For Anne Arundel’s top teacher, immigrant students are assets, not burdens, Jessica Calefati reports: tinyurl.com/3c2wu35z (via The Baltimore Banner)

“Often, there’s a belief that a lack of language means a lack of intelligence, and that’s definitely not the case,” said Jacqueline Sanderson. I shadowed the Anne Arundel County Teacher of the Year at Belle Grove Elementary for The Baltimore Banner thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

Alarming.

Baltimore committed $3 million to revamp its unwieldy building permit system. The new system is even worse, so much so that permits are down by half this year, badly slowing major projects, including rehabs of vacants. Definitely not Abundance! Great The Baltimore Banner reporting:

This nuanced local investigation begins with a simple, alarming fact: DCPS truancy rates for middle schoolers soared over the last decade. And the climb started *before* the pandemic. City leaders had so much time and so many chances to reverse this trend. And yet …

NEW w/ Giacomo Bologna: State Sen. Cory McCray helped controversial developer Ronald Lipscomb secure state money for a development and helped broker the sale of land for the project at far below its appraised value. Read for more details thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/growth…