So proud of the team @thebaltimorebanner.com for their work covering the bridge's collapse!

Super proud of the @thebaltimorebanner.com newsroom for winning an IRE award for our Key Bridge collapse coverage. At the time, we didn't even have a live blog, but we did have great journalists who know this community and what the bridge meant to it.

Prince George's County was 80% white when the federal workforce was integrated. Today, PG and Charles County are America's most affluent majority-Black counties with~20% of Black workers there being federal employees. Trump's cuts now threaten generations of progress. story👇🏾

New: Named after a turn of phrase from the governor, the Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong Key Bridge Relief Fund raised $16 million. None of it went to help the victims’ families despite the Baltimore Community Foundation initially saying it would. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

My first deep dive story for NYT: Are You Smarter Than A.I.? Some experts predict that A.I. will surpass human intelligence within the next few years. Play this puzzle to see how far the machines have to go. 🟦🟩🟪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why are Baltimore students underperforming on the math test? One major reason is it’s impossible to get to school on time every day www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

The Key Bridge was 30 times more susceptible to ship strike than it should have been, the NTSB said Thursday, and the risk of a similar disaster at the Bay Bridge is still unknown because it has never been studied. w/ @jasminevaughnhall.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...

NTSB slams MDTA: "The Maryland Transportation Authority never ran the calculation on the Key Bridge, and as of October 2024, they still haven’t on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge."

Baltimore's 10-year population loss streak is over, according to Census data. The city grew (veeeery slightly) for the first time since 2014. @abbyzimmardi.bsky.social & I spoke to experts about what this means for the city, its residents and its future. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/ba...

Reporting by @lizbowie.bsky.social & I was cited yesterday in a Baltimore City Council hearing on the root causes of chronic absenteeism. Proud that we were able to shed some light on a challenge that thousands of students. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

Baltimore City Council is ready to talk about kids’ struggles to get to school Read it in @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

On Friday morning at #NICAR25, @thetrace.org will be previewing our brand new Gun Violence Data Hub — the project I've been working on for the last several months. Come check out our session! Very excited for this one. schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i...

Excited to share @thebaltimorebanner.com Data Team's most ambitious project yet. For months, @invisibae.bsky.social logged live bus data every 5 seconds, parsing millions of rows to map every school route and gauge their reliability. The result? Our most interactive experience ever.

Come see me at NICAR: I'm doing a session about Data Viz with Illustrator and another about using the DataWrapper API in R. And, friends, let's grab coffee! @ire-nicar.bsky.social

NEW INVESTIGATION 🚍: Baltimore City is the only district in the state that doesn't offer most students a yellow bus ride after elementary school. When that policy collided with school choice, it turned getting to class on time into a nightmare. Read ⬇️ www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

Sometimes it feels like all roads eventually lead to Maryland: Mysterious leader of the violent Zizian group arrested in Western Maryland, @leeosanderlin.bsky.social reports. The cultlike group has been tied to several killings across the country. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

It is an extraordinary honor to receive a George Polk Award in Local Reporting for our coverage of Baltimore's overdose crisis, published by @thebaltimorebanner.com and @nytimes.com Local Investigations Fellowship. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

If you're not aware of the Baltimore Banner you absolutely should be: a brand new (founded in 2022) nonprofit news org that already has 100+ staff and (I believe) a sustainable business model! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bal...

Congratulations to @alissazhu.bsky.social, @jessicagallagher.bsky.social and Nick Thieme for winning a Polk for their reporting on Baltimore's overdose crisis. Nick's data reporting creating a one-of-a-kind dataset was incredible. Go Banner Data Team! www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Three more partners published their stories on this one generation of Black men plagued by overdose deaths: @bostonglobe.com, @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social and Mirror Indy. This is a trend @thebaltimorebanner.com found in Baltimore first, then elsewhere. Threading stories...

Let's face it, QGIS is the Excel of geospatial analysis...

Ravens kicker Justin Tucker's behavior was so egregious, two massage therapists say they ended his sessions early. Two spas say they banned him. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/raven...

Local news partnership: Drug overdose deaths plague one generation of Black men in Baltimore and in cities across the country. @thebaltimorebanner.com partnered with @nytimes.com and @biglocalnews.bsky.social plus 9 local newsrooms to tell a story we found first in Baltimore. Threading links below.

The most detailed look yet at election results in Maryland is live on @thebaltimorebanner.com How did your neighborhood vote? Great team effort from @ryanlittle.bsky.social, Katrina Ventura and I. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

Finally, you can see precinct-level election results in Maryland. State officials don't have a statewide precinct map. It took The Banner reaching out to 24 county boards of elections and approximating precincts for the 11 we didn't get maps from. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

NEW: Precinct-level election results gives us our first look at the coalition of voters who rejected a David Smith-backed proposal to shrink city council. I wrote about who killed Question H and why the folks who voted for it deserve your attention. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

NEW: Come work with us! The @thebaltimorebanner.com's award-winning data team is hiring a data reporter and a data visualization reporter! Come produce amazing journalism for some of the best readers in the country! Have questions? Reach out! boards.greenhouse.io/thebaltimore...

Anyone have my next excuse for not posting stories from The Baltimore Banner? Now that Bluesky feels like old school Twitter, I'm not sure Kimi will buy my excuse that the algorithm hated my tweets on Z or whatever it's called

Whoops -- here's the link to the journalism starter pack: go.bsky.app/9GK4FZ5!

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