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Wonder why asparagus at your grocery store doesn’t look fresh? It’s probably coming from abroad, like Mexico or Peru. It didn’t used to be this way. Read about how California asparagus is disappearing. Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Timesfood Great photos by Allen J. Schaben latimes.com/food/story/202…

Meanwhile, most reporters and nonfiction writers are gripped by what Maurice Chammah🍹🎻 calls 'the error terrors': staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m. right before a story comes out, agonizing over whether you made the teeniest, tiniest mistake

“We may be a small community,” he said, “but this shows that in journalism and many other spaces, we have the talent and voice to make a real impact.”

Congrats to Lookout Santa Cruz on the The Pulitzer Prizes win!!
Via Susanne Rust
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UCLA taps LAPD, district attorney, FBI in investigation of attack on pro-Palestinian camp latimes.com/california/sto…

Arrest toll of protesters at UCLA UC San Diego is 100+ as campuses ratchet up police presence. Police have not disclosed why they arrested UCLA students, who say they were only gathering for a peaceful protest. w/Grace Toohey angie latimes.com/california/sto…

Humbled to be part of this Pulitzer finalist breaking news team that covered the tragic Lunar New Year mass shooting in 2013.

Everyone included in the package of stories did such vital, diligent work in the aftermath. Congrats to all.

Part of the tremendous coverage of the Monterey Park mass shooting that earned Summer Lin Brittny Mejia Jeong Park 박종찬 et al a The Pulitzer Prizes finalist nod today was this piece from Summer, which is worth considering on a day for honoring journalism.

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Congratulations to Lookout Santa Cruz on this well-deserved honor -- and to my colleagues at the Los Angeles Times, honored as finalists for coverage of the mass shooting at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park. latimes.com/projects/monte…

Care about Pulitzers? Care about this:

An independent journalist & prominent police critics were among dozens detained by police at UCLA amid ongoing protests today — raising objections from legal experts and press orgs (w/ Grace Toohey James Queally):

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So proud and humbled to be a part of the amazing Los Angeles Times team named a The Pulitzer Prizes finalist today for our reporting on last year's mass shooting in Monterey Park. Huge thank you to all the colleagues who worked on and supported this important journalism. What an honor!🎉🎉🎉

Pulitzer is... Pulitzer, but one way or the other, great to see recognition for the work of so many colleagues Los Angeles Times for the coverage of the Monterey Park shooting -> pulitzer.org/finalists/staf…

This was a tremendous piece from Keri Blakinger and is incredibly deserving of being a Pulitzer finalist. It's the type of story most journalists might not give enough space or attention, and its exactly why we need her in this business. themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dun…

When police breached UCLA’s pro-Palestine camp, there weren’t many journalists inside.

Yet two students I met there were covering it for their community college paper. For one, it was her “first big breaking story.”

Talk about jumping in the deep end..

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Central Library today at 3 is showing a new doc, providing 'a rare, insider’s perspective on the challenges facing foster youth.'

Lucky to talk to 2 of the kids (now adults) featured.

“I don’t want people to feel as alone and isolated as I did,” one said
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Big day! Biden expanded the San Gabriel Mountains Monument by nearly a third. That's a lot more protected open space in Angelenos' backyard. Alex Wigglesworth reports: latimes.com/environment/st…

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

'As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.'