NEWS: a group of former WAMU/DCist staffers are launching a 'worker-led, community-based, local outlet.' They want help naming it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🔥 from alex sujong laughlin: 'The post-recession moment was one of hyper-capitalist credulity in legacy media. When Facebook shifted priorities, companies that invested in social video were like Wile E. Coyote discovering too late he’d already run off a cliff.'
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Abortion pills are overwhelmingly safe — but taking them alone can still be scary. When they are banned, women have few places to turn for guidance and reassurance.

Read Caroline Kitchener on this complicated, harrowing reality of our new abortion landscape:
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“I don’t think that people who are making the [policy] decisions understand the nuance. It’s not right or wrong; it’s not alive or not.'

Read Justine McDaniel's empathetic story about the families affected by Alabama's IVF ruling:
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“Unlike shooting or bombing, if killing stops, the dying won’t stop. It’ll still continue for some time,” de Waal said. “Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.”
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Today's The Wall Street Journal front page.

Evan should be back home, doing what he loves: writing incisive and smart journalism. #IStandWithEvan

Looking for a solar eclipse cloud forecast? Look no further than our Capital Weather Gang Post Graphics analysis!

Check back daily as we approach April 8 and Ian Livingston reports the latest updates:

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'Markets where news outlets shut down are often called news deserts. The Standard has created something of a news mirage: Stories are told — but with an agenda. Facts displeasing to Chevron are omitted; hard truths softened.'
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In one year, Maritza Guzman has seen 12 workers die in Baltimore — most of them immigrants and one of them her husband.

The latest deaths, she said, underscore how immigrants are some of the most vulnerable, least-protected workers in the US. W/ Scott Dance shorturl.at/jrzRY

🌎🏔️@WashingtonPost is DC Environmental Film Festival's presenting media sponsor, hosting 'Arctic Ascent' in conversation with film subject and climber Alex Honnold, Dr. Dr. Heïdi Sevestre and Post Climate reporter Sarah Kaplan.

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This is so exciting! Three cheers for worker-owned media!

We're proud to present the 2024 Golden Picket Award to Washington-Baltimore News Guild. This award honors the union that turned out the most members to actions for better hours, pay and working conditions. #EveningWithLabor

'Ninety journalists and other media workers in Gaza have been killed in just over five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists — the deadliest period for the profession since the group began collecting data in 1992.'
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This story is the first in a series about law enforcement and child sexual abuse that will publish throughout the year.

You can read more about our reporting, with the dream team of Jenn Abelson, @jdharden, Carolyn Van Houten, Hayden Godfrey & team here:

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Abusive officers regularly use their jobs to find children to exploit. The kids they target most often are 13 to 15 year old girls.

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Our investigation identified more than 1,800 law enforcement officers who were arrested for crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.

That’s an average of 2x/week, every week, for 18 years.

Americans have been forced to reckon with sexual misconduct by teachers, clergy and coaches.

But there is little awareness of child sex crimes perpetrated by members of another profession that many kids are taught to revere & obey:

Law enforcement.

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How can you sum up nearly two decades of DCist? It’s impossible.

But I tried and learned so much while interviewing former staffers about DCist’s humble beginnings and many ups & downs over the years.

Read here (audio airing WAMU 88.5 at 5:50p/ 7:50p):
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“If we want to keep more people, we have to make more energy,” said Toku Oshima, a community leader in Greenland’s northernmost town. “It’s our culture. We’re trying to keep our culture.”

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“Children are supposed to grow up,” said a security guard at Relisha's old school. “They’re not supposed to get killed, and they’re not supposed to disappear.”

Heartbreaking, essential reporting from Ellie Silverman
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