Echo 🔆 People have called me crazy my entire life when I told them my ideal sleep time is 10hrs a night 🥲

In light of the death of Nex Benedict, a gender-expansive student in Oklahoma, the Trans Journalists Association has selected articles that fact-check common misinformation and take thoughtful, nuanced approaches to contextualizing the tragedy.

transjournalists.org/roundups-nex-b…

Thousands flocked to San Francisco’s Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year.

The day began with a festival of live music, crafts, food vendors and merchants that stretched down Grant Avenue.

Read more → sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

📷: stephen lam and Michaela Vatcheva

OPINION: Under extremist right-wing leadership, Oklahoma has recently seen myriad attacks on LGBT students, all in the guise of “making schools safer for kids,” writes soleil ho. trib.al/dM28dsr

The bullying and death of an Oklahoma nonbinary student just showed us who really isn’t safe in school

Latest soleil ho column sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

Print subscriptions continue to drop across all newspapers -- Buffalo News apparently lost 32% of its print subscriptions in a year: pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience…

(Best performing paper? SF Chronicle, with only 6% loss year-to-year)

Breaking news: The journalists of the San Antonio San Antonio Express-News and @MySA are unionizing.

For over 150 years, Express-News and MySA have kept the Alamo City informed, and in order to continue our important work, we're forming the San Antonio NewsGuild.

We love to see a fellow Hearst newspaper unionizing! ✊

Chronicle photojournalist Carlos Avila Gonzalez (CarlosAvilaGonzalez) is well known for his dynamic coverage of sporting events.

But during the Super Bowl live broadcast, he drew attention for something more than his photographs.

sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/a…

The photojournalist is the legendary CarlosAvilaGonzalez!!! An icon, a legend, the moment… and also a survivor 😂😂

applications for the AAJA Sacramento internship with The Sacramento Bee are now open! it was a great experience to work with so many talented journalists, and I would highly recommend it. deadline is march 15!

aajasacramento.org/apply-for-the-…

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors from across Texas gathered in Austin for the “Texas United Against Genocide in Palestine Statewide Rally and March” to call for a ceasefire in Palestine on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.
(Photographed for the San Antonio @expressnews)

Attention student journalists! NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists is hosting their virtual 2024 student conference from Feb. 23-24. I'll be speaking on the panel, 'Beyond the Binary: Intersectionality in the Newsroom.'

You can register here: nlgja.org/student2024/

How do y'all feel about the new NPPA Best of Photojournalism rules?

Me: As a freelancer, I have ZERO agency over what, how, or where something gets published. So I find this new language elitest and noninclusive. What I do is still photojournalism tho.

bop.nppa.org/2024/

SF’s Board of Supervisors is voting on an Israel-Hamas ceasefire resolution today. so I wrote about why gestures like this matter sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…

#Transgender candidate for the Ohio House, Vanessa Joy, has been disqualified because she only circulated petitions with her legal name, instead of her former name — and it has put multiple other LGBTQ+ candidates in flux. Learn more: news5cleveland.com/news/politics/… #TransTwitter

‘A big moment for our city’: After months of public pressure, City Council to vote on whether to call for cease-fire in Gaza trib.al/lkxHGXo

Check out the San Antonio Express-News photos of the year!!

👀For early career journos, applications for the Hearst fellowship are open til Jan 7.

It's helped me feel out my place in the industry & given me opportunities I didn't think were possible a few years out of college.

(Plus, look at this cool photo of the cool Salgu Wissmath (they/them))

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK.

Photojournalists are reporters.