'Don’t get thrown off by the smoke and mirrors. Instead, when someone says they’re “just asking questions,” think long and hard about whether those questions ever needed answering to begin with.'

Go (((Leah Donnella)))!!!!

About 1 in 10 Asian Americans live in poverty. Many work to achieve their American dream but face challenges, from Asian immigrants grappling with language barriers to U.S.-born Asians navigating pathways to success.

Explore our interactive report: pewrsr.ch/4aylcEP

Israeli forces killed three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank between Monday and Tuesday, officials and eyewitnesses said, the latest escalation in violence as tensions rise ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, set to begin next week. wapo.st/3T6XW9R

today's election day in TX. 4 years ago, hervis rogers was called a hero when he waited in line 6 hours to vote.

but TX prosecuted him for casting that ballot. and while he still urges others to do their civic duty, he's decided he'll never vote again:

houstonchronicle.com/politics/elect…

More than 70 news organizations and journalist associations - including NPR @nahj Asian American Journalists Association est. 1981 Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism Politiken - have now signed a letter in solidarity with Palestinian journalists.
The letter is still open for signatories. 🖊️cpj.org/2024/02/news-o…

yep… execs at LA Times, Associated Press, Washington Post are among those that punished or otherwise forced journalists to retract their names from a
similar letter

protect-journalists.com

This is good. But several of these executives’ news organizations punished or censored their own journalists who were saying this months ago.

“A vigorous “uncommitted” campaign organized by activists disillusioned with Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza was making headway. It had already far surpassed the 10,000-vote margin by which Trump won Michigan in 2016…” apnews.com/article/6e0b9f…

The fact that every single one of my journalist friends who is a person of color has lost their job / thinks they’re going to lose their job should tell you everything you need to know about this industry

one issue with the news desert framing (which has been valuable!), is that it misses places like DC - which has as many journalists per capita as any place in the world yet whose residents starve for local coverage and civic information. the shuttering of DCist is a crisis

Horrible news. DCist and its brilliant reporters produced some of the best coverage of workers and their stories in the country. This is a tremendous loss for our region and the people who work every day to keep it running.

Journalists in Gaza are fighting for their lives. Every day they are reporting the news (the same news mainstream outlets can’t without them because of the dangerous conditions) while on the brink of starvation. Our colleagues need loud & clear support — that is the bare minimum.

Look I’m not prepared to say this is true but I’m also not prepared to say this is untrue.

A two-year investigation by The Associated Press investigative reporters Margie Mason and robin mcdowell links products made by U.S. prison labor to some of the largest companies in the world. bit.ly/3SCbxXZ

media layoffs in 2024

LA Times (20% of staff)
TIME (15% of staff)
Pitchfork (all of it, pretty much)
Sports Illustrated (all of it)
National Geographic
Business Insider (8%)
NBC News

it's still January

Our deputy director abbyik shared with NPR's Deepa Shivaram what our research says about young people's focus on gun violence prevention, and the need for more information and outreach to engage young voters in 2024. npr.org/2024/01/19/122…

NEW: my first piece for NOTUS — a look inside private meetings with Black women who demanded the campaign hire senior- level Black women (as of now there are none!) and shared concerns for 2024

notus.org/newsletter/000…

The pod where Nina Totenberg Deepa Shivaram and I mull whether Donald Trump and Supreme Court justices need to play by the same rules as anyone else npr.org/2023/11/21/119…

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed two journalists who were reporting on military activity along the border with Israel.
to.pbs.org/3MTcxn3