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This morning, @wamu885 management informed us they are laying off 15 vital people from our organization. These individuals are the lifeblood of our journalism. Our hearts are broken. We can’t believe we are losing our colleagues and friends.
soo hey sharks, a team of former WAMU and DCist staffers are here today asking YOU for $250,000 to sustain our worker-led, community-based local news outlet @51stnews!!! it's really happening!! you can learn more about our efforts and donate here! givebutter.com/The51st
🚨If you think D.C. needs more local journalism, here’s an amazing chance to help create some! A group of former @dcist and @wamu885 staffers are creating @51stnews, a non-profit worker-led news outlet on all things D.C. And they need your financial help: givebutter.com/The51st
When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad," per one staffer. @abeaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…
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When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad," per one staffer. @abeaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…
With the gutting of the Post’s local newsroom, shuttering of DCist, and majority of quality substantive stories behind paywalls, crime feels like it’s just about the only beat left for the public en masse to consume. It’s awful not just for individual readers but for society.
So extremely glad to hear @hectoraarzate back on the radio 💜
For many, the deaths of 6 men in the collapse of Scott Key Bridge is a reminder of the dangers that immigrant workers face every day. So I recently spent time with construction workers in Baltimore to hear about the hard but necessary jobs they do. @NPR npr.org/2024/04/12/124…
“With a reduced local press….stories like this rarely see the light of day.” We see this across the nation. Studies have shown that each dollar spent on local journalism saves more in better-functioning government than is spent.
DC is full of stories like this: contracts, appointments, waived fines… There are almost always political donations behind it. DC residents pay the price with poorly-run programs and wasted public funds. But with a reduced local press, most stories never see the light of day.
@DCist was shut down by @wamu885 in February, an NPR-affiliate station owned by @AmericanU My newest opinion piece looks at how the shutdown of vital, local journalism puts DC at risk of becoming a news desert & ends with a tweet from @WeMakeWAMU theeagleonline.com/article/2024/0…
“It’s a problem if you believe that DC needs to play fair. It’s a problem if you believe that the lowest possible cost doesn’t necessarily mean the best possible thing for DC." Credit to @JacobFenston who flagged the issue. WAMU is worse without him. wamu.org/story/24/04/05…
Another way to look at this is: D.C. is being cited as an example before SCOTUS of how not to treat people experiencing homelessness. Too bad DCist doesn't exist anymore and WAMU won't hire another housing reporter!
Sometimes your former employer lays off the entire social issues desk, claiming its work was minimally impactful. Then, sometimes, the work you did for it is cited in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in a case that could criminalize homelessness lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/upl…
Desperately need a DC beat reporter to dig into the trivia cheating scandal currently rocking Red Bear Brewing — where it was heavily implied that reigning champions (who have won four straight weeks) were caught cheating, including by using a Shazam-enabled Apple Watch.
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