Morgan Watkins
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Health reporter @LouPubMedia and @WFPLNews. Formerly @courierjournal and @GainesvilleSun. She/her.
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Joe Sonka 😐
I cover Kentucky state government for Kentucky Public Radio including @LouPublicMedia @wkupublicradio @wkms @889WEKU. I’m over @ other apps now see pinned tweet
Governor Andy Beshear
The official account of the 63rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Tweets from Andy are signed ^AB. #TeamKentucky #TogetherKy
Tessa Duvall 📰
Politics & Public Affairs Editor for the @HeraldLeader/@BGPolitics.
Sarah Ladd
health reporter @KYLantern • teaching faculty @WKCTC • board member @SPJlouisville • ‘21 pulitzer finalist • first gen: AA, BA, MFA • you matter
Joe Gerth
Native Louisvillian. Columnist for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier-Journal. Was once trolled by a preschool.
I'm gonna climb up on the soap box for a second to talk about the value of local journalism. It's been a rough year in a decade of decline for the industry. People are tuning out for myriad reasons. But local news like 89.3 WFPL News and has so much to offer. I'll show you🧵
LPM has been chosen by the @ap and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism to present at Democracy Demo Day, a forum with the goal to make news and information more accessible for the 2024 elections.
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A new Kentucky website makes it easier to find the overdose reversal medication naloxone throughout the state. Morgan Watkins has details. lpm.org/news/2024-04-0…
I'm proud to see our story on the flood cleanup win an IRE and NICAR award. I'm especially proud and grateful for the people in eastern Kentucky who saw something wrong, raised alarms and told their story. ire.org/announcing-the…
Congratulations Jared Bennett, Justin Hicks, Ryland Barton, Laura Ellis, Hilary Niles and everyone at KyCIR 89.3 WFPL News who supported this IRE and NICAR award-winning reporting!
Hip, hip, hooray!
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Lawmakers will publicly meet about the Safer Kentucky Act later today. Read this first from Sylvia Goodman, about how a list of sources supposedly supporting the proposed law's policies appears copied from a Georgia-based policy paper: lpm.org/news/2024-03-1…
📣I'm a freelance reporter #lookingforwork if you know anyone hiring for 2024! Currently based in Louisville, w/ extensive experience in food, SEO work & business reporting.
📨email [email protected] to chat!
I've been so impressed with this series from Connor Giffin & Eleanor McCrary. Really excellent reporting.
'Not a level playing field': Why some Louisville areas are at a higher risk of lead poisoning courier-journal.com/story/news/inv… via Courier Journal
The turnout rate among registered Republicans was slightly higher than that of Democrats, but Gov. Andy Beshear strode to victory by getting a large number of GOP voters to break party ranks. Joe Sonka 😐 reports
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Thousands of #Louisville children have tested with elevated levels of lead in their blood since 2005.
Today, Eleanor McCrary and I published our five-part investigation on the crisis--and how real estate groups tried to weaken regulations to address it.🧵
courier-journal.com/story/news/inv…
Baptist Health will go out-of-network with two more Medicare Advantage insurers starting next month. Morgan Watkins explains how it will affect patients. lpm.org/news/2023-11-3…