We at the Institute for Nonprofit News support the release of Emmy-winning journalist Mario Guevara, who has been detained for more than 100 days for livestreaming law enforcement. #FreeMario freedomformario.com

California has recently relocated beavers from spots where they were causing problems, like flooding, to tribal lands in Northern and Southern California. Experts caution that while beavers can help with fire resilience and improve water quality, they are only part of broader solutions.

Why does this office look like a Wes Anderson set in the worst possible way.

I learned how to be a strong interviewer in the years I spent as a facilitator for StoryCorps. A few takeaways: stop interrupting and allow for silence. Ask (plenty of) follow-up questions. Edit in your head as you listen.

The past year underscored the urgency of @fi2w.org's work. As immigrants in the U.S. face escalating political attacks and disinformation campaigns, the news industry itself is undergoing profound change.

🚇 Immigrant workers risked their lives cleaning NYC subways during the height of COVID. Now, after years of underpayment + exploitation, they’ve won a $3M settlement. A story of sacrifice, survival, and overdue justice. a 🧵1/7

ICE has stopped reporting number of transgender people in custody, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports. Advocates say the lack of data hampers efforts to ensure people’s safety as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detentions.

What economic challenges are immigrants facing right now? And what solutions are immigrant communities proposing or enacting?

Ms. Rachel has a message for children in Gaza and around the world.

We're especially interested in an inclusive understanding of economy. Beyond stock and inflation numbers, what are the specific ways we distribute goods and services — formally and informally — for the needs of our communities? How do immigrants provide those for themselves and others in the US?

Where is mainstream media missing the mark when it comes to immigration and the economy? At @fi2w.org, we're looking for our next reporting fellow to cover the intersection of these issues with curiosity, tenacity, and creativity. Applications due Friday, August 29th.

In the last episode of The Hustle's season, host Shaka Tafari speaks with three women who work at the intersection of labor and immigration. They discuss the most pressing threats to immigrant workers, as well as the ways immigrants can resist these threats and support one another.

This week's ep of The Hustle from @fi2w.org is a historical deep dive into the immigrant communities that populated the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago — and how they collectively shaped the city around them. As Sophia Ramirez writes, "The labor movement binds immigrants together."

This week's episode of The Hustle from @fi2w.org revisits a dark moment in U.S. history: the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre, in which white miners brutally murdered Chinese miners over labor disputes.

For many low-income and immigrant New Yorkers, an unregulated underground unit is all they can afford. While the city has made efforts to legalize basement and cellar apartments, tenants and homeowners still feel left behind. bit.ly/4kgqoSF

Our newest story focuses on the bizarre NY law that allows 24-hour work around the clock, and how Chinese immigrant women are pushing back against working conditions they say are exploitative. Listen to the latest episode of The Hustle from @fi2w.org:

While NY has celebrated the growth of its newest legal economy, many feel left out—no one more so than non-citizen immigrants. This story comes to us from @fi2w.org, an independent media outlet and journalism training program: bit.ly/44xjynr

The newest ep of The Hustle from @fi2w.org is about NY's weed legalization, which was designed with equity in mind but has experienced many stumbling blocks in its implementation. Reporter Iggy Monda asks: where do immigrants fit into this burgeoning industry?

Juan y María, una pareja venezolana, viven una realidad diferente a la que esperaban. Tras llegar a Denver en busca de seguridad, se enfrentan a la incertidumbre y el miedo. Lea más aquí: www.palabranahj.org/archive/denv...

@fi2w.org's latest story collaboration with @palabranahj.bsky.social is about Venezuelan newcomers to Denver. Read more:

In 1938, Mexican American pecan shellers — many of them immigrant women and children — took a stand against American industry, demanding better pay. They fought back with a song, "No Nos Moverán," as producer Avery Thompson chronicles in this week's episode of The Hustle from @fi2w.org. 🎶

@fi2w.org's new podcast series kicks off with an episode about recent Venezuelan newcomers to Denver. Take a listen. 🎧

Mohsen Mahdawi is Columbia University's latest sacrifice to the Trump administration.

Just when I think it can’t be possible, this administration finds new and unfathomable ways to be intensely fucked up. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

This really made my week better amidst the horrible headlines, gracias Benito!

At @fi2w.org, we've been hard at work to bring you a new series about how immigrant workers have fought for better working conditions, how U.S. capital has shaped and benefitted from immigrant labor, and how immigrants are working and simultaneously navigating detentions and deportations today.

To be a teen in NYC right now, especially an immigrant teen, is to face a series of threats from the federal government and a mayor that isn't only capitulating to the Trump administration, but engaging in his own form of diminishment. These teens have had enough. hellgatenyc.com/teens-agains...

On the almost-anniversary of my 10 years in NYC, I'm livid that a dude next to me in Tompkins Square Bagel ordered one scooped out. Truly, wtf.

We are hiring an intern at @fi2w.org! Come work with me and my team and learn how to produce journalism that centers immigrant voices and stories: www.fi2w.org/apply-to-be-...

The Guardian interviews Black Panther Cubs. The children of the activists the U.S. government declared an internal war on. This whole interactive package is worth engaging

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

@hellgatenyc.com's new $20 Dinner Map 👀😋 hellgatenyc.com/20-dinner-ma...

I just found out about Theoretical Puppets from @michaelsignin.bsky.social. This is the kind of kids' content we need. Foucault and Walter Benjamin meeting and chatting about Baudelaire, Kant, and the importance of changing the present.

Political scientist Corey Robin had resisted applying the word "fascism" to Trump and the MAGA movement. On our show this week he discussed why he changed his mind: “They have set off multiple conflagrations. And I have been shaken out of my skepticism.” Listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Less than a week ago, Trump said he "brought back free speech." Tell that to Mahmoud Khalil, currently in ICE detention. Read more: interc.pt/3Dvhxgk ✍️ @natashalennard.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

Adnan Syed, whose case received international attention in 2014 with the release of the podcast “Serial,” will not have to return to prison, a judge ruled this week.

Immigrant news leaders: sign up to be part of our LION 2025 peer learning group, led by yours truly! 💓 The deadline to apply is March 21st, 2025. lionpublishers.com/sign-up-to-j...

A day after Mayor Eric Adams faced a phalanx of questions in Washington about the city’s sanctuary city policies, his immigrant affairs commissioner faced a barrage of his own, this time from city councilmembers.

Democrats, and not even just those from New York, used the hearing to grill the mayor over the (likely) dropping of his federal charges over a quid pro quo with the Trump administration, which he steadfastly refused to talk about. hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-...

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

"In the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, you can learn that the first animals with backbones evolved during the early Cambrian Period, 525 million years ago. Outside of that museum, few backbones can be found in Washington, DC." —Hamilton Nolan's latest Substack, giving me life.

2023 was "the deadliest year for construction workers in New York since NYCOSH began tracking the data in 2013." More from @thecity.bsky.social:

The city will end an initiative that provides short-term hotel room stays to migrant families with children in need of shelter—the latest as City Hall scales back its response efforts for new immigrant arrivals, as numbers decline. bit.ly/3FcYEPy

I appreciated the opportunity to speak about how immigrant journalists are uniquely under attack right now — for their identities as immigrants, and also for their chosen line of work.

At the airport this morning, I was hearing every TSA worker discussing how to respond — or not to respond — to Musk's email. Wild.

Just saw the house from "Anora" in Mill Basin on the way to JFK. Whoa.

NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I'm wrapping up my week at the #KnightMediaForum in Miami, where @fi2w.org alumni and collaborators @martinaguzman.bsky.social , @valeriafernandez.bsky.social, @maritzafelix.bsky.social, and Alfredo Corchado were showing up for immigrant journalism.