Murphy Woodhouse
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Reporter, #MtnWestNews / @KBSX915 . Looking to tell important stories in the West. Know something the public ought to hear? Hit me up:
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My latest for
@KBSX915
and the
#MtWestNews
Bureau. Prescribed fire is going to be an essential part of confronting the wildfire crisis. But we simply don't have the workforce to do the scale of work needed. Here's one way to get more folks on the line.
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Marijuana use irresponsible say organizers of mass, global sporting event amid pandemic.
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If journalism is really an essential foundation of democracy (it is), then its continued existence should not depend on a collapsing business model or the "generosity" of billionaires. Every community has a right to quality reporting, and it's time to ensure that as a society.
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I wish more folks outside journalism understood how seriously reporters (everyone I know at least) take trying to get things right, and how bad we feel when we get things wrong. Just had to do a pretty dumb correction today and will be thinking about it for weeks.
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Apparently the most shared
@NPR
podcast on Spotify last year WAS IN SPANISH. If your newsroom hasn’t gotten the memo about how important Spanish is, here is that memo again.
🚨Oigan: El episodio más compartido de
@NPR
del
#SpotifyWrapped
fue producido por
@radioambulante
! Es Lord Alejandro. ¡Sí, en español! Gran trabajo,
@davidtru08
@camilasegura
@LuisVarvega
@DanielGAlarcon
! Si no lo han oído, es este
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I left Sonora on Saturday. I'll surely be back, but leaving the place that's been my home for nearly 5 years without an imminent return planned was gutting. Getting to know Sonora has been a wondrous privilege, and I'd like to leave my AZ followers w/ this unsolicited advice:
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This is Teresa Cuen, a resident of
#guaymas
. She says her husband Martin Antonio and another man were kidnapped by Mexican marines yesterday. She and dozens of others have shut down the federal highway near where the incident occurred to demand their safe return.
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Thank you for your service
@hasanminhaj
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Reporter
@AlisaReznick
has been charged with trespassing. She was arrested doing her job covering a newsworthy protest. I demand that this charge be dropped immediately, and I’d ask my fellow reporters and those who value press freedom to publicly do the same.
After clearing protesters from blocking UA Tech/Raytheon's entrance road, Pima County Sheriffs also insisted on also arresting
@kjzzphoenix
journalist
@AlisaReznick
despite Reznick clearly carrying media equipment and repeatedly identifying herself as press.
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Such a clear and compelling recounting of the extraordinary recent developments in the
#ayotzinapa
case & their implications, as well as an excellent summary of this signal national tragedy. Thanks for this
@anayansi_dc
,
@doylekate
&
@reveal
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I think one function of migrant demonization is to distract from a very basic truth: these are people who have made extraordinary sacrifices and endured untold hardships to take care of the people they love, i.e. one of the most relatable and honorable things imaginable.
What we know about the six construction workers who fell to their death from Francis Scott Key Bridge:
They were "hard-working, humble" men, dedicated to their spouses, children and families in their homelands in Latin America.
For
@BaltimoreBanner
:
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@samsanders
There should be an emergency 'this is starting to feel like high school' button in every office.
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Alrighty
@AlisaReznick
’s arrest occurred with the full knowledge that she was press. Totally unacceptable
@PimaSheriff
. Journalism is not a crime.
After clearing protesters from blocking UA Tech/Raytheon's entrance road, Pima County Sheriffs also insisted on also arresting
@kjzzphoenix
journalist
@AlisaReznick
despite Reznick clearly carrying media equipment and repeatedly identifying herself as press.
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Folks, some news:
Award-winning reporter
@MurphyWoodhouse
is joining Boise State Public Radio to work with the Mountain West News Bureau, a regional collaboration of NPR affiliates.
He officially joins us in early April! Please give him a warm welcome to our team 🙌
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Incredible. This is the procession of bikes that followed the body of Isaac Salomón to the graveyard in
#ciudadobregon
#sonora
. QEPD.
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Choferes de
#Hermosillo
: tenemos que hablar. Uno de uds atropelló a mi novia
@elsaleti
esta mañana. Por suerte - y por su casco - está bien. Pero la situación para las y los ciclistas hermosillenses no está bien para nada. Es completamente inaceptable.
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I am so sad for my colleagues, I am so sad for journalism, I am scared about what all this means for my country. Critical information isn’t free, it is freed. Journalists aren’t the only ones who do that, but there r few who do it out of a sincere desire to inform the public.
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Allow me to proudly present the most relatable content on the internet right now.
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Sonora, whether or not you're conscious of it, is a part of your life. Sonorans are your neighbors, and neighbors should know each other, spend time with each other, feel a sense of shared fates and interests. Do what you can to build neighborly love.
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I love the US-Mexico borderlands, and find it profoundly tragic that many people's sense of them comes from their regular, cynical conversion into a theater of self-serving catastrophizing. The borderlands are a rich, fascinating and complex home to millions, not anybody's stage.
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I strongly suspect I'm not the only reporter who has found themselves in a prolonged funk in recent months. Would love to hear what has worked for you (or what hasn't!) to get back to healthy, sustainable levels of motivation.
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A common journalist stereotype is the hyper-competitive, scoop-at-any-cost, in-it-for-me psycho. But most of the many reporters I know are decent people committed to the profession's core functions of informing the public and holding power to account. Here's what that looks like.
NEW In Arizona, journalism can be a team sport. GOP State Rep. Jake Hoffman refused to answer 12News photojournalist's question (which I provided) re why he signed phony declaration in 2020 that Arizona electors voted for Trump. Watch as AZRepublic's
@ruelaswritings
folos up...
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I have no illusion about the political terrain, but it’s time to start making the case for a massive expansion of publicly supported media. The alternative is a few good newspapers behind paywalls for the comfortable, and pretty much nothing for everybody else. To the barricades!
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Just after six and the line is already huge in
#nogales
. Just spoke to a couple trying to beat the madness at midnight, and they’ll likely cross in three hours total.
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If you haven't been, go. If you've only been to the beach, go to the sierra. Buy hooch in unmarked bottles. Dance drunk through the street with strangers and leave with friends. Eat abominably well.
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Ask yourself why the 4-hour drive from Tucson to Hermosillo feels longer than the 4-hour drive to Flagstaff. Do what you can to make them feel equally plausible, unexceptional. Find a reason to go. Go for no reason.
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It's tax season, which means it's time to remind everyone making less than $72,000 TO NOT PAY ONLINE TAX PREPARATION COMPANIES A DIME!!!! THEY'LL JUST BUY SUPER BOWL ADS WITH YOUR MONEY!!!!!
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This place and its people changed me, for the better I think. And it's right there - IT'S RIGHT THERE. As always, I'm happy to help folks with their Sonoran plans. But make the plan! Go! GO! And then go again!
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Sonora is full of wonders, history, secrets and weirdos. A lifetime of wandering there would be a rich blessing.
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Omg trying to reach people for interviews this week pray for me.
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Sometime in the last week or so, the
@kjzzphoenix
#HermosilloBureau
crossed a cool threshold: 1,000 stories broadcast and published. I think
#Sonora
is a place that Arizonans should know about, and I'm proud to be a part of something that makes that easier. To 1,000 more!
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Los baches entre Hermosillo y Mazatan son tan mal que hicieron que se dispararon mis bolsas de aire. Peligrosisimo ese tramo, y también la única manera para llegar a muchas comunidades en la sierra. Urge reparación y mantenimiento adecuado.
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And now, a word from Death.
Forget all the complaining I’ve done about Florida. This was worth it.
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I'm very excited about my
@kjzzphoenix
#HermosilloBureau
feature airing tomorrow, and grateful to this wonderful crew of adventurers for letting me tag along.
#CruzDelDiablo
#Huasabas
#Sonora
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I'm coming up on my first month on an antidepressant (lexapro). I know experiences can vary widely, but this is probably my longest sustained period of feeling basically OK in about two years. I am OK with OK!
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I took several significant steps to deal with my depression, and they’re bearing fruit.
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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And oh the adventures. The exploding trail culture, the trails that fade to periodic cairns, the trails you have to punch yourself. Getting lost within reason, feeling small and humble, hurting deliciously.
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We have toyed with powerful forces, and unleashed profound and destructive weirdness.
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Folks, they said it couldn’t be done, but I found affordable housing in Boise
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Still thinking about how the Mexican Marines were wandering around the Cocula dump doing god knows what before it was ID'd as the site of the 43 students' incineration, and the public didn't know about it until this week.
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“This is one of the key moral issues of our time,” said Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California. “To deny other countries the opportunity to make their own vaccines is just cruel.”
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Now that all the Pulitzer excitement has subsided a bit, I am excited to share that the
@kjzzphoenix
/
@fronterasdesk
#HermosilloBureau
has won the first-ever and no-doubt-soon-to-be-extremely-prestigious Last Foreign Desk Agendies Award from the fine folks at the
#ArizonaAgenda
!
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WHAT A QUOTE.
“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union”
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Would love to see a politician visit the border and do an hour-long port of entry wait.
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This year I started a new job, & did some work I’m proud of, but mostly just treaded water & didn’t get much joy out of it. I hope that improves, but @ the end of 2023 I’m not thinking about work much. Here are some of the achievements & memories I’ll cherish most from the year:
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Well, moose sighting on my first full day back in Idaho. Calling this a good omen.
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Oh you know just reporting the news here while my industry implodes.
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Great thread on a shameful episode in Arizona labor history. The Bisbee Deportation was 105 years ago today.
This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. Mine owners in Bisbee, Arizona rounded up anyone they suspected of being in the IWW, put them on rail cars, and dropped them in the New Mexico desert. Let's talk about the Bisbee Deportation, one of the worst moments in American history!
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For my final
#HermosilloBureau
feature, I wanted to do a love letter to this city. If you know me, it will be entirely unsurprising that it’s about my favorite bar on earth: Club Obregón. Tune into
@kjzzphoenix
later this month to listen, and for now here are some photos
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Lucky I knew him a bit, wish I had known him better, glad he’s still here like this
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And it's also time to share
@propublica
's excellent reporting on these companies have worked extremely hard to make sure millions of people continue to needlessly fork over their hard-earned dollars.
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Wow. Vaccine lines in
#nogales
. People enduring 5+ hour waits. Meanwhile in America: ‘hmmmmmm, throw in a lottery ticket to sweeten the deal?’
Cinco horas de espera para vacunarse contra COVID-19 en unos de los 4 puntos instalados hoy en Nogales. Es en el periférico y la calle Tecnológico.
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I’ve been really enjoying the
#catchandkill
podcast. Great story behind the story.
Today’s
#CatchAndKill
Podcast looks at Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of dangling career opportunities that quickly turned into traps—and lets you hear him doing it through astonishing new tape from a police sting operation. Subscribe here:
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Idahoans out in force at the Canyon County Pride Festival 🌈
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Arizona at the top of a very shameful list: largest year to year jump in pedestrian deaths. Pedestrians and other vulnerable road users pay a heavy price for the state’s car-centric and wide, high-speed arterial business as usual
“Pedestrian deaths in the United States climbed once again in 2022, reaching their highest point in 41 years & continuing a bloody trend that shows no signs of stopping.”
We know how to stop it and save those lives.
They won’t do it.
Via
@StreetsblogUSA
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People keep demanding the media report on things in apparent ignorance of the fact that the media is actively collapsing and will continue to do so until we as a society decide to collectively and robustly support it.
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The Aconchi hot springs are just over four hours from Tucson, and if you haven’t gone, I just can’t recommend them enough. Happy to walk you through a weekend trip if you’re interested but feel a bit unsure about all the necessary steps.
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Tuve la suerte de ser testigo hoy de este bonito momento en el campus de
@SoyUnison
en
#Hermosillo
#Sonora
: después de recibir su
#vacuna
, esta señora tomó la mano de la professional médica y así pasaron varios segundos. No sé que se dijo, pero yo sentí un gran alivio por ellos.
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I'm about 30 pages into this report on the pandemic in
#Mexico
, and it's just an excellent resource on the poor handling of
#coronavirus
here and its enormous human toll
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Wow it just occurred to me that earlier this month marked 10 years in the Sonoran Desert. Been a SOLID decade.
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Got some decent shots of the Perseids and Milky Way over Diamond Peak and the rest of the Lemhi Range
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Mexico is suing five Arizona gun shops
📄Gobierno de México presenta una segunda demanda para combatir el tráfico ilícito de armas.
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Maybe I'm misreading, but these heat record tweets seem to have an almost celebratory tone. If so, that's super bizarre. I saw earlier today that there have been several hundred confirmed or suspected heat-related deaths in Maricopa County so far this year.
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Big news! The
#HermosilloBureau
’s
@ktblust
just won the 2021
@AZPressClub
Nina Mason Pulliam Environmental Journalism Award!!!
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This is a sentiment I'm seeing all over, and it's one I share. Mexico would be a very different place if its own people received the same swift response that this horrific case rightly did. Tens of thousands are mourning disappeared loved ones whose fates will never be known.
My heart goes out to the families of the two Americans murdered in Matamoros.
Thanks to pressure from both governments, the two others are alive.
Tragically, this violence happens every day in parts of Mexico, and few Mexican citizens get this pressure to save their lives.
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Not much lovelier than waking up in Álamos with nothing to do
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In the past couple weeks I’ve watched a pair of newsrooms that were critical to my career path get hit by big layoffs. It’s like I’m watching the ladder I’ve taken to where I’m at burn up behind me. How will the next generation of reporters get going if there’s nowhere to learn?
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A storm in Sonora of approximately Sonoran proportions
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I see a lot of East Coast folks are freaking out about smoke. In a shameless act of self-promotion, here's a recent story of mine about what's known (not much!) about the long-term health implications of those who breath more wildfire smoke than anyone.
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Just a guy doing his part to address the global deficit of silhouetted saguaro photos.
#tucson
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@nicolesantacruz
Other folks are saying good stuff here. One thing I'd add is that these conversations are going to affect you, some quite intensely. I think it's good to remain fairly composed while listening to someone else's trauma, but it's also good to bawl your eyes out after if you need to
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