Helen Wieffering (@helenwieffering) 's Twitter Profile
Helen Wieffering

@helenwieffering

I'm a reporter for the Associated Press

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Workers The Washington Post have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months. But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith. So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.

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one issue with the news desert framing (which has been valuable!), is that it misses places like DC - which has as many journalists per capita as any place in the world yet whose residents starve for local coverage and civic information. the shuttering of DCist is a crisis

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Listeners waking up this morning won’t hear the voices of our colleagues that WAMU 88.5 management unceremoniously laid off on Friday. Readers won’t get to click over to DCist and see their work — or anyone’s work, since the site has been taken away from our community. 🧵

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Supply-chain journalism at its best The Associated Press Martha Mendoza documents grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls 'dangerous and abusive' apnews.com/article/india-…

Ryan J. Foley (@rjfoley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An agitated man in a parking lot. A grandfather off his schizophrenia medication. A young man having a seizure. AP's Lethal Restraint project found each was among more than 1,000 people who died after police encounters involving less-lethal force apnews.com/projects/inves…

Taylor Stevens (@tstevensmedia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Honored to share a byline with Justin Pritchard and Helen Wieffering. This is how our team at AP documented 1,000 deaths after police force that isn’t supposed to be fatal: apnews.com/article/associ…

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The question has been asked a few times on here this week, but in case anybody missed it: Say there were a group of people trying to make a worker-led local DC newsroom happen. What would you name it?

Helen Wieffering (@helenwieffering) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Scores of people who died in police custody were injected with sedatives or animal tranquilizers before they stopped breathing -- often at police request. Another important read from Ryan J. Foley Carla K. Johnson Shelby Lum as AP's reporting continues apnews.com/article/invest…

Vicky Nguyen (@vickynguyentv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. nbcnews.com/investigations…

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Oh hey! That’s us. Learn more about what we’re trying to do at The 51st, and what you can do to help strengthen local news in D.C. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

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Thousands of shipping containers have been lost at sea. The mishaps sometimes go unnoticed – until their goods poison fisheries or start washing ashore. apnews.com/article/lost-s…

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What happens to shipping containers that are lost at sea? Christina Larson and I set out to find out how often it happens, and what it means for the ocean and communities that see trash and chemicals wash ashore: apnews.com/article/lost-s…

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Wild Robot made me cry and it all begins with a shipping container carrying a robot falling into the ocean. If you liked it too, you might like our story: apnews.com/article/lost-s…

Wild Robot made me cry and it all begins with a shipping container carrying a robot falling into the ocean. If you liked it too, you might like our story: apnews.com/article/lost-s…