Omaha, Nebraska may have just seen one of the strongest tornadoes in US history based on radar data. Wow.

The Tortured Journalists Department:

-Election Night
-My Editor Only Cuts His Favorite Lines
-Who’s Afraid of My Little Old FOIA request?
-I Can Do It With a Broken Dataset
-I Can Make This Deadline (No Really I Can)
-I Hate It Here
-I Look in Public Records
-The Google Doc

So glad I got the chance to bring up lizzie johnson while chatting with America Ferrera at the #Oscars ! ❤️

Like Ryan Sabalow, we're big fans of lizzie johnson too! This is ridiculously awesome news.

it has been so bad in journalism for so long, and while i genuinely first-hand understand the despair of being laid off and of watching opportunities to freelance disintegrate, I do genuinely believe that journalism and writing are worth fighting for.

So excited about the mega-talented team adapting lizzie johnson's epic book PARADISE:
Matthew McConaughey To Star In ‘The Lost Bus’ With Paul Greengrass Directing And Jamie Lee Curtis And Jason Blum Producing; Apple In Talks To Acquire deadline.com/2024/01/matthe… Crown Publishing

I'm super stoked to see Matthew McConaughey, one of my favorite actors, in talks to be in a movie based on a book from one of my favorite reporters, lizzie johnson. Lizzie's hella cool and a helluva writer. Very happy for her!

deadline.com/2024/01/matthe…

The epitome of doom scrolling is checking to see which of my favorite reporters lost their jobs today. We take local news for granted. It’s disappearing before our eyes.

Really sad, disturbing day for all of Los Angeles.

🇺🇸 She Just Turned 16. The War In Ukraine Wrecked Her City & Her Childhood

▫Newly 16, she likes to walk alone, hands shoved in pockets, music loud in her ears, mile after mile
▫lizzie johnson Каміла Грабчук
▫tinyurl.com/yvhrprqo 🇺🇸

#frontpagestoday #USA The Washington Post

She’s 16. The war in Ukraine wrecked her city — and her childhood. wapo.st/3S8crLj Very moving article by lizzie johnson and Каміла Грабчук in The Washington Post about a Ukrainian girl Kate Krobets and everything that she has had to endure because of Russia's war on Ukraine and its…

Out:
girlbossing

In:
girlmossing - we're resting on trees and rocks with ferns and liverworts which are also abundant on moist the forest floors

In Kharkiv, ambulance crews await shelling — and a new year of war, via lizzie johnson w/ powerful photos by Kamila Hrabchuk wapo.st/48GEY0h

'What will we be left with after this war?' A beautiful rendering of what Ukraine has lost among its fallen artists, via lizzie johnson Serhii Korolchuk Serhiy Morgunov Ed Ram washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/…

Finally got it! lizzie johnson is a unique and gifted journalist who makes it incredibly hard to put down her stories. I can’t wait to open this long awaited book.

Spent Christmas on the front lines of the war in Ukraine, where soldiers in one battery were preparing a traditional 12-dish meal — 3 varieties of fish, 3 types of bread.

“War is war, but I don’t want to feel like [I’m] not at home,' one soldier told me.

washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/…

My email inbox is flooded with announcements of dozens of The Washington Post staffers leaving this month after a buyout. The passionate, diverse and exquisite work of these people could fill many many volumes. What a legacy. What a shame.

Nebraska's legislature said 'hell no' to a $15 an hour min wage, a ban on payday lending, medicaid expansion and mandatory paid sick leave.
Turns out Nebraska voters really like that stuff.
My story: wapo.st/49yZbpV

I am proud to work for a newsroom that takes so much time and care with big journalistic decisions. Read this note from Sally Buzbee that explains why we are publishing graphic images from AR-15 shootings today: washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11…

Today is the 5th anniversary of the Camp fire in Paradise, the deadliest wildfire in California history. Has the state done enough to ensure it never happens again?

My story with Alex Wigglesworth here:

latimes.com/environment/st…

Five years after the Camp Fire, I wrote about what it was like covering the story of a lifetime. Here's a link from my local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise-Record: chicoer.com/2023/11/08/mem…