I’ve been on Knock LA’s admin team since 2022. I’ve coordinated skills building workshops w/ journalism orgs, overseen award winning reporting & secured major funders. Last night Ground Game LA maliciously deleted all of my @knockdotLA accounts. Pls read our newsroom’s open letter

Wondering how you can support Vocalo right now to save our station? We're collecting letters from ya'll imploring the board to reverse this deplorable decision to shut down our beloved and necessary cultural institution. DM me for more details! #SAVEVOCALO

Chicago, Morgan Farley has been missing for a week. If anyone has seen her, please get in touch with her family. You can find details on this flyer.

let’s go girls

had a FUN ONE for Fast Company: i interviewed THE delia of Deez Links and her newest passion project 'Hate Read' that is testing the internet's boundaries between hate and criticism fastcompany.com/91089952/deez-…

This story was so good, I read it months ago and still keep thinking about it and talking about it. It goes in a lot of ways you don't expect it to jewishcurrents.org/after-the-hit-…

The Data Institute is back for 2024! Two weeks of FREE data journalism training at Howard University in DC on July 8-19 — co-sponsored with Center for Journalism & Democracy.

Applications are due by April 25, no data experience required! cjddatainstitute.org

When @thetriibe contextualized this tragedy by adding a report showing that the 11th district has the highest # of traffic stops in Chicago, ppl said that info was irrelevant. Now COPA is questioning the validity the traffic stop and whether CPD lied. chicago.suntimes.com/police-reform/…

The FBI used an undercover cop to spy on housing & racial justice groups, dropping an investigation into a neo-Nazi to do so. That Nazi later killed 4, wounded 25 in mass shooting at Q Club
Trevor Aaronson The Intercept

theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi…

bookforum facilitating the most savage white-on-white violence

Shout out to Patrick Smith for starting a GoFundMe to help the full-time WBEZ and Vocalo folks cut by CPM. Please contribute if you can, and spread the word. Now, more than ever, it takes a village: gofund.me/b99d2397

We run into a lot of barriers supporting incarcerated journalists, but this is a first.

Guardian US -- a publication that extensively covers the U.S. prison system -- has a new editorial policy banning its editors from commissioning stories from incarcerated reporters.

NEW: A new policy that would allow mass arrests of protestors during the Democratic National Convention violates the 1st Amendment and should be reversed, a coalition of reform groups told the federal judge overseeing efforts to reform CPD WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2024/04/08/ref…

Join me and the Chicago Reader crew at Lincoln Park Zoo on Thursday April 25 for a celebration of the Best of Chicago! 21 and over, food, drink, music, and recognition for our winners chicagoreader.com/boc-party/

Hamza, the man who gave his $17.74 paycheck for 136 hours of prison labor to relief efforts in Gaza, has been freed:

I’m at a point in my life where I’m ready to stare directly into the sun

for The Daily Beast i wrote about getting laid off and doing an inventory of expenses and spiraling over whether a new phone/computer/more cloud/email storage were a worthy expense (yes) but woof is it a trip to be investing in so much invisible real estate thedailybeast.com/why-you-desper…

Daniel Kay Hertz (Charlotte is the most soulless major city in America, bulldozed everything in the 50s/60s to build a thirty-mile office park.)

Exciting news! Our first incarcerated lead organizer for Look2Justice, Anthony Covert, is coming home through clemency! Please consider donating to his GoFundMe. He's trying to raise $4k to help ease his transition home.
gofundme.com/f/anthonys-ree…

a lot of you are not into fashion, you are into skinny bodies, athletic bodies, young people, the idea of wealth, and images of new york city