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skeptical, hopeful | newslady @SpotlightPA | union lady @PhillyNewsGuild | forever @capgaznews | remember to tip your journalists dohl @spotlightpa .org
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On July 13, a shooter clambered atop a building in Butler, took aim, and fired, hitting former president Donald Trump and besting the Secret Service.
But the difference that day wasn't the agency's process. The difference was a man who chose to test it.
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me, on the phone just now: "hi, uh, my name is danielle, i work for the paper and i'm calling about the cows."
man, yelling to someone out of earshot: "oh my god, its the paper, they're asking about the cows"
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Let a local news reporter moderate a debate. I'm talking like, cynicism-poisoned, sits in 7-hour City Council meetings, makes $35,000 before taxes newspaper reporter.
Me, let me moderate a debate.
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Hello twitter, I want to talk today about the state of the press relations in the United States. You may or may not know, but it is increasingly rare for your local journalist to be able to simply call an official to ask questions.
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journalists will be like "i know a place," but they can't show you because the website won't load because they have 42 tabs open in seven different browser windows, including three that are the exact same 291-page pdf outlining the city's 5-year plan to redevelop downtown 🥴
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For those reaching out with support, I thank you.
For those seeking information, I’m not in a position to speak right now.
I will say this: The Capital is not a big newsroom. There are about 20 news staffers, a few more advertising. We are close. We are family. I am devastated.
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@rachsyme
She’s a salad, she’s a dip, she’s perfect:
-can of corn
-can of black beans
-small red onion chopped
-one red bell pepper chopped
-one green bell pepper chopped
-as much minced garlic as you like
-splash of red wine vin
-glug of olive oil
-spritz of lime
-salt, pep
gorgeous
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Thank you all for your assistance, I present to you: A Cow Story.
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Actually, here:
I am one of the few journalists in the U.S. who is also the victim of an attack on her newsroom.
If yr covering this shooting & yr not asking people who have been in power for decades why they’ve decided it’s OK for children to die, you should leave our field.
I don’t even know what to say anymore. I don’t know how to get people to care.
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So if you're a press spox or a public servant & you also hate this (which I know you do) pressure your bosses to let you freakin talk. I promise it will be way better than this bullshit, which makes you look way worse than any flubbed interview ever could.
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I don't have many details right now. My colleagues Phil Davis, Chase Cook, Anthony Messenger, Rick Hutzell and Selene San Felice are ok. Rachael Pacella is in the hospital with an injury.
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This back and forth, which often takes weeks (and leaves both parties exasperated), could alternately be handled by a one hour or so interview with an actual official, which would be so much easier and produce way better results for everyone.
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Instead, we are made to go through a spokesperson who often will not answer the phone when called. This person often asks for written questions and provides written responses. These responses, as you can imagine, often inspire further follow up questions.
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1/ This is a "failure to pay rent” complaint filed against Chermire Gladden. It says she owed the Annapolis Housing Authority $604 plus late fees.
But she owed $0 — and it took her 7 court appearances to prove it.
She’s one of hundreds sued for rent they may never have owed.
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This whole thing is incredibly convoluted, frustrating, and disheartening. It makes journalism harder and above all, makes the quality of information reaching the public worse.
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I do feel it is my journalistic duty to report that as people left the Zach Bryan concert in Philly last night, there was an attempt to start a "f*ck Joe Biden" chant, but when it didn't catch on, the leader switched to "f*ck the Yankees" and that was heartily successful.
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Next month, the trial of the man charged with actually murdering my friends — journalists — begins. The man charged didn’t like our coverage of him.
Dozens of people have actually been massacred in churches in this country.
This is not funny. For too many of us, it’s reality.
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hiya. just a note. journalists are people. we don't want to put you in danger. we're trying the best we can. if you see a journo at a grocery store or something, & you don't like it, just walk away. don't be mean. we're just doing our jobs. we are also tired. we are also scared.
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Let me give you an example. I have been going back and forth via email with the press secretary of a Pennsylvania state agency for three weeks trying to set up an interview. He has twice indicated an interview would be possible only to then say they can't make anyone available.
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So. An angry man did show up to our newsroom. He murdered half of us. It goes without saying that’s very difficult to live with.
Simultaneously, I stand in solidarity w/
@TaylorLorenz
& others who face daily online abuse.
Compassionate people can care about both, you ghoul.
Imagine if these kids had to be cub reporters back when people would call the newsroom or show up in person, livid and threatening violence against you for posting their DUI arrest in the police scanner section of the local paper.
Instead they just have to see mean tweets.
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And so, over the last three weeks, I have sent questions. He sends responses that don't really answer the questions, or need clarification or follow up. Today, after telling me last week he would be able to set up an interview, he told me he can't.
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this cow thing is going to be more widely read than any investigation i've done, but that's ok. if you were moo-ved by this local journalism, please subscribe to The Capital! Right now you can get a month for $0.99!
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Today is the day, I woke up thinking my life would be ordinary. It’s the day I went to bed knowing my life would always be broken.
Today is the day, two years later, I know brokenness makes me stronger.
I will miss you forever, my friends. I will never stop fighting for you.
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I’m heartbroken, but catching up on emails this morning has given me so much solace. The first people to contact me — before all the national outlets — were my sources. In Annapolis, the paper is part of the community.
That’s the legacy Rob, Wendi, Gerald, John and Rebecca left.
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So. Today is my last day with
@capgaznews
.
The last four years were some of the best I've ever had and honestly, among the best I will ever have.
The Capital is a special place and I'm honored to have been a part of it. But every reporter needs to know when to end a story.
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BREAKING: Senate GOP will seek the personal information — name, address and partial social security number — of every Pennsylvania voter registered as of Nov. 2020 in a sweeping subpoena aimed at "auditing" the 2020 election, according to draft shared with
@SpotlightPA
. More tk.
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I'm so unbelievably thrilled and humbled to announce I'll spend the next year working with
@propublica
as a part of the Local Reporting Network.
I'm not leaving my
@capgaznews
family — rather, ProPublica is giving us an assist to dig into issues that affect our community.
Super excited to welcome these six great newsrooms and reporters to the Local Reporting Network on July 1!!
ProPublica Names 6 More Newsrooms to Its Local Reporting Network
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So, today is hard. It's been four years since a gunman broke into my old newsroom and killed five of my colleagues. It's also the first year I'm not in Maryland, so I'm separated from the people who worked with me back in 2018.
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When I was editor of the college paper, we had an opinion column come through that argued for eugenics. And me and a bunch of 19-21 year olds got together and said, “hey, you know what? Let’s not run the eugenics column.”
I bring this up for no reason at all.
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There is no both sides here. There is death and death and death and death and death until we decide to have the courage to call it what the fuck it is.
I’m done with those of you who can’t. Your malpractice is not wanted. Your cowardice is not wanted.
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Hi
@LinkedIn
. So nice to see you have a Twitter account. Weird that what you don't have is a customer service account.
I cancelled a premium subscription on Dec. 17, only to find today I've been charged $1,199.40. For those that don't know, LinkedIn has a strict no-refund policy
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Well. Now I’m crying. Thank you from
@capgaznews
to our media family across the country and the world.
There are too many newspapers, radio stations and broadcast bureaus to tag here, but to all of you, your cards, cookies and full-blown lunches have been more than appreciated.
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🥳So thrilled to announce: I'm headed home!🥳
I start Aug. 16 as
@SpotlightPA
's capitol reporter covering the Pennsylvania legislature. I'm excited to be back in my home state (and closer to PA Dutch baking).
Tell me what I need to know (and where to get the best pies)!
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in other news, Jesus Christ is suing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in federal court
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me as a young reporter: is it ok for me to accept a water bottle during this protest I’ve been covering for three hours in the July heat?
Nina: it is ok for me to be friends with a Supreme Court justice and not disclose my knowledge about her health until it makes me money
Is it stepping too far for a journalist to become friends with a source? NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg tests a basic tenet through her relationships with justices, including the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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people are tweeting about the layoffs like, wow, the la times just won two pulitzers, gimlet just won a pulitzer and a peabody, how could this be?
it's because the prizes don't matter, the quality of the work doesn't matter when journalism is being done forrrr prrrooofffiitt
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Last thing for now: We’re going to keep putting out a damn paper.
We’re not going away.
Nothing can stop us.
But gosh, is it getting harder.
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I am OK. I am on vacation in the Outer Banks. I will try to post as I get more information. Please, just pray.
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Journalists. Give yourself a gift this holiday season. Delete your emails. I've been doing it, and I've never felt more free. You don't need the press release from the CBD ice cream start-up. You're never actually going to follow up on the tip about the dying tree. Go. Be free.
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And this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write for
@capgaznews
. It was also the easiest.
Annapolis, I love you. Thank you.
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Can I add, this is the first time I *ran* two miles home to break news? I am not a runner. I do not run. My shins hurt.
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Thank you to everyone for your kind messages. I’ll answer when I can.
Just like three years ago when the shooting happened, your support for us and our paper means more than you could ever know.
We’ve been waiting three years for this day.
Thank God this is finally over.
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I'm just a:
⚪️ girl
⚪️ boy
🔘 reporter
looking for a:
⚪️ boy
⚪️ girl
🔘 former HUD official with experience working with public housing authorities
waiting for them to:
⚪️ love me
⚪️ call me
🔘 email me at dohl
@capgaznews
.com if they're interested in speaking about policy
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I would really love for journalism professors to interrogate why they feel it’s laughable to share salary information with the generation of journalists they’re educating. Our job is to give people information. Why should this be any different?
Recently, one of my college students asked me what my salary was. I laughed. She was serious.
She said many younger people are sharing their salary w/ colleagues. Transparency = pay equality.
So would you share your salary with a co-worker? Have you?
*BTW, I didn't tell her.
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We’d often say: Rob is a poet. Rob cared about words & feelings. He’d send me messages with nothing but a stupid word I’d used in a sentence & a way to make it better. He loved music & red wine. He was getting into George Saunders.
He cared, deeply & thoughtfully, about people.
Capital editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen confirmed to be among the dead in today’s newsroom shooting.
@Jean_Marbella
’s profile:
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Folks! LinkedIn canceled the subscription and issued a full refund. Thank you for you help!
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logging in to ask why after such a terrifying year this is the vibe we went with for the halftime show
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My colleagues and I won a Pulitzer Prize for continuing to do our jobs after a man literally murdered half of us.
We got atta boys abound. The company sold t-shirts proclaiming journalism matters. But I cannot pay my rent with awards or T-shirts.
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I've been able to confirm that this was in fact! an internal test from
@tribpub
. If you click the links, you get a message from the company's training contractor saying you clicked on a simulated phishing test.
The level of cruelty is actually stunning, even for this company.
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I love Baltimore with my whole heart. This is hard to process.
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There is a lot more to this story. To report this article, we reviewed thousands of documents and interviewed more than 100 people. Read the full piece here 👇
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Hello,
@taylorswift13
. In the song Gold Rush, you sing “with my Eagles t-shirt hanging from the door.”
In honor of the Philadelphia Eagles making the Super Bowl, could you please clear up once and for all the greatest mystery of our time: Do you mean the NFL team or the band?
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When every good hockey writer in the country is in the replies saying something is wrong here, something is wrong here.
On Jan. 28, I was fired by The Seattle Times without warning. I’m shocked and disappointed and wish I had more answers. I have much more to say and hopefully will be back writing soon.
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I will tell anyone who will listen that Pennsylvania is the absolute pinnacle of homemade election sign culture. I’ll post any notable ones I see throughout the day.
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I want one.
I am a JOURNALIST
I have very poor NUTRITION
I KEEP losing my NOTEBOOK and
I never have PENS
I enjoy the MARYLAND PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT
And if you think something is wrong,
PLEASE let me KNOW so we can issue a CORRECTION
i will never get tired of these shirts. "so why'd you guys move?" "well, there was this drywaller who liked freedom and boobs..."
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I really do hope leadership at Baltimore Sun Media stops to reflect on what's happening: why their veterans are leaving; why they can't retain young, talented, journalists of color; why I left; why my colleagues left; and confront those answers with openness.
It predates Alden.
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my timeline is just 75 different journalists dunking on Medill for the dumb editorial, so congratulations to 18-year-old me sobbing over a Northwestern rejection letter our day of retribution has come!!!
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"From that moment on June 28, 2018, in a shattered Annapolis newsroom to the hearing Monday afternoon in the Anne Arundel County courthouse, he was innocent until proven guilty. Today, in the eyes of the law, he is a murderer."
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i'm just a
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 journalist
waiting for:
⚪️ a man
⚪️ a woman
🔘 a government agency
to:
⚪️ answer my FOIA
⚪️ stop ignoring my emails
⚪️ put employee contact information in a clear, easily accessible part of the website
🔘 all of the gosh darn above
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wait you're telling me the story about "drug dealers" extorting a Hollywood production company for $50,000 in scaaarry Baltimore was not true? wow I, for one, am very shocked the police department that is under federal control for unconstitutional policing would lie about that
UPDATE: Police are now saying the threats of violence and extortion do not appear accurate
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I have a FOIA joke, but it’s ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️
I have a journalism joke but someone already broke it
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Ok, it's emotional thread time!
So, a story I spent a whole year working toward came out today. It won't be the last story of the investigation, but I want to take the time to point out this story was not just me. It took a whole-ass village.
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I love this. My ProPublica investigation cost thousands of dollars as well. I have a box of documents that itself was ~$2,500. I joke sometimes that it’s the most expensive thing I own, but good journalism takes investment.
This is good. Local investigative journalism is important and expensive.
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my least favorite sport is finding out impressive journalism/writer twitter people are, in fact, my age 🥴
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It's true. The journalists of
@SpotlightPA
were deeply concerned about our work being used to break the strike at the Post-Gazette. We care about the people of Pittsburgh, & we want them to have access to quality journalism, but not at the expense of our colleagues at the PG.
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It has come to my attention the country is in need of an Italian-American hero. May I offer my grandmother Josephine? Survived the war. Fled Sicily so she didn’t have to marry this lame guy. Made flags for the White House. Never committed genocide. Makes killer ravioli.
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I’ve struggled today to figure out what to say.
It’s the worst day.
But I got to spend it with my friends, sitting in a front yard, drinking soda, talking about who we lost.
We spoke frankly about the complicated lives they lived and how much we miss them.
I’m grateful.
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I am an investigative journalist covering the PA justice system. Very rarely do I need to interview a high-up elected official.
But not being able to talk to, say, a court administrator or a public defender or the director of state substance abuse services? Not great, Bob!
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Here's the story
@selenecapgaz
and Josh worked to report. This kind of stuff isn't going to bring down an administration or expose corruption, but it's just as important as any of the other work we do.
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Taking a cue from
@saragregory
, I'm not going to let this latest buyout news derail my life. I am going on vacation starting tomorrow. I am working on a good, somewhat uplifting story today.
I am good at my job and I love my community and that's what I'm going to focus on.
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Hey, remember when Tribune implied buyouts were due in part to expenses related to my colleagues’ murders?
NEWS: NPR reports Tribune Publishing is paying a former LAT publisher more than $2.5M to avert a lawsuit that would have disclosed an anti-Semitic slur made by then controlling owner Michael Ferro, per three pple knowledgeable about the deal.
LINK:
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My colleagues were murdered four years ago and I have poured the pain of their loss into my work every day since. I do this for them. So if you would like to try to stop us, I am here to tell you: It will not work.
Sending love to the
@reviewjournal
on behalf of
@capgaznews
.
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Physical, in-person abuse against journalists should be taken seriously.
Online, repeated abuse against journalists should be taken seriously.
Like, Jesus Christ, it’s not a competition. Suffering is suffering.
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I can’t tell you what it felt like to hear a judge read each count against our attacker and find him guilty of every one. I’m still trying to figure it out.
But I want to thank everyone who texted me and called me, and everyone who held me up over the last 18 months.
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Thread on reporting mass shootings.
So. If I’ve learned anything from the last year of covering a mass shooting, it’s that words matter.
It does matter if you name the perpetrator before the victims.
It does matter if you call it a “lone wolf attack” by a “quiet recluse.”
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Tronc executives, including CEO Justin Dearborn, attended our memorial for Rob, Wendi, John, Gerald and Rebecca.
Justin said to let them know if there’s anything tronc can do for us.
I told him not to forget about us. I meant all of us.
#SupportLocalJournalism
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But there's a reason the Daily News is known as "New York's Hometown Newspaper."
Here are just a few examples why we believe local journalism is so important.
#SupportLocalJournalism
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Thank you for four years of trust.
Thank you for four years of stories.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support after June 28, 2018.
Thank you. I love you. It's not goodbye, it's see you soon, Annapolis.
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☀️Good morning, Pennsylvania! A little breaking news regarding, uh, me!
Starting next week, I'll be taking over the justice system beat here at
@SpotlightPA
! I'm thrilled to be continuing the excellent work my colleague
@GaryHarki
has started.
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