Francisco Vara-Orta
@fvaraorta
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DBEI Director, @IRE_NICAR Past: @Chalkbeat @educationweek @ExpressNews @MyABJ @LABJnews @latimes 👨🏾🎓: @StMarysU @Mizzou 🇲🇽- 🇺🇸 🌈 he/him/his
San Antonio, TX
Joined March 2009
It was nice while it lasted. Cue Boyz II Men’s “So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday” and Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You”
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RT @IRE_NICAR: With continued layoffs and efforts to ban DEI programs, how can media professionals from marginalized communities balance pe…
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RT @frankshyong: A good way to decide what to post about LA wildfires right now is to imagine the 2,000 plus bereaved families as the prima…
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RT @nicoleMfoy: Bakersfield is my hometown. Footage and posts about these raids has been all over my social media this week. Really good st…
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RT @frankshyong: Josie Huang, tireless chronicler of SoCal's Asian American communities among so many others, lost her home in the Altadena…
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RT @JudiciaryDems: Officer Brian Sicknick. Officer Howard Liebengood. Officer Jeffrey Smith. Officer Gunther Hashida. Officer Kyle DeFreyta…
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RT @NiemanLab: "DBEI work has survived being en vogue, falling out of favor, then welcomed back again — several times," writes @fvaraorta.…
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RT @IRE_NICAR: Our very own @fvaraorta is featured in @NiemanLab’s Predictions for Journalism, 2025! Read his piece:
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RT @JillGeisler: "At our core, journalists are not easily deterred. Now is another era of testing what we are made of. It's time to keep up…
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An absolute honor to contribute to @NiemanLab’s predictions for 2025 annual project. The theme: We’re at our core as humans seeking some form of inclusion and belonging, acronyms aside. DBEI is here to stay. Grateful to @IRE_NICAR for my job. Link:
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RT @NiemanLab: "The time has come to speak up for what you think is right," @webjournalist writes. "Don’t let our communities — especiall…
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RT @NiemanLab: "We tend to believe we should offer a fix, a solution. The truth is that what most people want is to feel seen and heard by…
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RT @NiemanLab: “It’s not enough to just drop something into the laps of local teams and hope they’ll use it exactly as-is,” writes Emma Car…
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RT @zachdespart: Six months ago, we set out to answer a simple question: Where is Texas building its highly touted border wall? It is a (pu…
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JOURNALISTS: PLEASE SHARE from our wonderful partners @IBWellsSociety
Applications to our Investigative Reporting Fellowship! Professional journalists looking to expand their investigative reporting skills under the guidance of some of the top journalists in the industry are encouraged to apply. Share with a journalist:
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RT @IBWellsSociety: Our investigative reporting internship is back and it's the biggest it's ever been! For 2025, we have SIXTEEN internshi…
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Below you will find the link to nominations link for the 2025 Public Media For All @PublicMedia4All Award that will be given at this Day of Action. Please nominate someone as well as pass along to others in your networks. Apply here:
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The @ctzns_schlrs Higher Ed Media Fellowship is now accepting applications! This fellowship supports journalists interested in underreported issues in higher education. Fellows receive $10K in funding and training Applications are due by February 1st.
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RT @stina_huang: Some personal news: This week I started as a high school sports reporter at the @ExpressNews/@sanantoniohss. I’ll be out a…
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