As a Jewish Columbia student, it is perfectly safe for Jews on campus—if we are talking about student protesters. As Jewish student protesters learned on Thursday, however, they may not be safe from CU admin calling the NYPD to arrest them.

LA City Council unanimously approved a bailout deal for Chinatown Landlord, Tom Botz, for almost $15M.

The deal, however, does not include canceling the affected tenants’ rent debt, estimated at a little over $1 million.

Read more from Phoenix Tso here bit.ly/449iwLT

folks at the DC public library were begging me and others to help get WAMU to respond to their offer to help archive DCist. After I finally got the provost to bully WAMU into responding, WAMU leadership claimed to journalism faculty that they had brokered the meeting themselves

.@lataco is a pipeline for hundreds of diverse new writers. Many have gone on to do incredible work at Los Angeles Times San Francisco Chronicle Eater LA @laist Los Angeles Public Press and more. Loosing L.A. Taco would be devastating to journalism everywhere. We must #savethetaco lataco.com/join

Joined in 2020 for Lex’s essential LAPD & homelessness reporting that year and stayed for all the other great offerings, like the taco guides & culture stories they’re producing on an indie budget. Help save L.A. TACO🌴🌮 and help LA’s struggling news ecosystem while you’re at it.

This is one of my favorite pieces I've ever had the opportunity to edit. Part of Prism' Right to Write Project for incarcerated writers, William Daniels shared this story about how cooking in his KY prison is a way to feel free: prismreports.org/2024/04/11/coo…

We're looking for stories from around the world of movements / communities that brought people together to fight for their democracies. Here, a non-exhaustive list of examples:

Removing the people who’ve built the organization and do great journalism doesn’t make sense.

There were so many other options. Give them the rights to take over the org, like The Appeal.

Journalism in LA shouldn’t be like this. Support local news.

Final piece in The Objective series on civic media: To address the 'local news crisis,' we need a collaborative and equitable movement that treats journalism as the public good it is and advocates for investing in communities long-ignored by legacy media. objectivejournalism.org/2024/04/its-no…

Someone stole William Woods’ identity. The LAPD arrested him, believing the identity thief over him.

A judge later sent Woods to a mental hospital because he maintained (rightfully so) that he was the real William Woods. I interviewed him here

latimes.com/california/sto…

“The most worrisome thing about the DCist shutdown, however, is the possibility of D.C. becoming a news desert.”

D.C. is home to many national news organizations but most don’t focus coverage on the city itself, writes Alana Parker for The Eagle:
theeagleonline.com/article/2024/0…

.@gannett is trying to hire temporary workers to fill the jobs of striking Austin American-Statesman employees. Please stand in solidarity with Austin Statesman journalists and don’t take these jobs.
You can support us by not clicking on Austin Statesman sites or donating to our strike

I’m not sure they assigned this bit of Walter Lippmann to me in journalism school.

If anyone wants to leak me the confidential report, my secure email is [email protected]

The California Attorney General has recommended no charges against a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man who ran from a traffic stop and yelled that he had a gun.

This is so moving. Thank you for writing Ryanne Mena Los Angeles Public Press

lapublicpress.org/2024/04/the-ch…

NEW: LA County is expected to settle the civil rights case brought by Isaias Cervantes, a deaf and autistic man shot and paralyzed by sheriff's deputies in his own home for $25,000,000.

That's per the LACountyBOS Board agenda: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/0234f496-d2b7-…

The CAL-ACCESS Replacement System is entering year eight of being just two or three years away from completion.

Sources close to the matter tell me a potential CA Dept. of Justice takeover stems from a settlement with the department in a pattern and practices investigation opened by then Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

I will be tuning in!