$5000 travel-writing grant for women journalists anywhere in the world. Got a story based in your hometown? Ori magazine publishes local writers as destination experts. Applications close June 3, 2026. #TravelWriting ori-mag.com/pages/ori-x-...

NEW — Three years into his term, The TRiiBE checks in with Mayor Brandon Johnson on some of the political challenges that he’s facing in his fight for working people. thetriibe.com/2026/05/prog...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Have reporting you want to do looking at how journalism has made good on its 2020 promises around diversity and equity? We want your pitches for our upcoming print and digital magazine: tinyurl.com/since2020pitch

in case it is of interest, @thecurrent.org has a whole 20yrs-ago focused music stream www.thecurrent.org/playlist/cur...

EdSource Guild members have unanimously voted to authorize a strike. We've been negotiating a contract for 16 months, and now management unilaterally changed our health plans without negotiating with us. Please sign to tell EdSource you won't cross our picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Local data reporters/researchers: immigration data that the Guardian had to sue for is publicly available for download here github.com/guardian/I-2... And while you're at it, read @maanvisingh.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social heartbreaking story on family separation using the I-213 data

We sued the govt for these records, and are now releasing them so that others can use the data too

💥THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! Applications for the News Product Management Certification are due by 11:59 p.m. ET TONIGHT (Friday, May 8). Are you ready to level up your tech and product expertise and craft your future as a leader in product development? ⤵️ newsproduct.org/npmc-applica...

wait, ben, you said we need "more funding"???? but how will news organizations ever learn about sustainability if they keep receiving funding!? fundamentally, i just fail to understand why philanthropy+other funding sources are so frequently seen as "either/or" rather than "yes, and"

i had chronic headaches as a kid, and tried everything to treat it. it only just dawned on me recently, after how physically ill being around smoking makes me these days, maybe that ALSO happened as a kid and no one considered it since you could smoke basically everywhere!

It's a great day at PCGVR! Eric is a builder and a connector, someone who understands systems and knows how to bring people together to create durable change. I feel incredibly fortunate be leaving PCGVR in such capable hands.

anyone want my spare ticket to saetia in leeds this friday? (SO EXCITED!!!!!!)

If you registered to come to the event today on how to use the ProPublica Trump disclosures News app, the @propublicaguild.org is asking y’all NOT TO ATTEND in support of our strike today. We hate to do this, but management isn’t offering us a fair deal.

nerdy note, but i only recently realized, there are a bunch more sticker packs on signal. they are so cute! aboutsignal.com/news/signal-...

These are the paths that ICE detainees from the Philly-area traveled over an 18-month period. They are moved around a vast and growing network. “I’m traumatized...Every time I see a cop I’m shaking. I’m not the same guy.” More: www.inquirer.com/news/ice-det...

just the type of nerdery i love. also, learned that non-accountants can be professional tax preparers. very interesting...

also www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... from @tinavasquez.bsky.social about the pain of deportation. trauma upon trauma upon trauma

the recent "rebuilding local news" report had me thinking more about democratizing information sharing _with journalists_ than what foundations should do differently: erikaowens.com/blog/a-corol...

Nuestro artículo fue publicado en español por @documentedny.bsky.social ! Dylan López Contreras fue detenido por ICE en mayo. The Guardian lo invitó a él y a sus compañeros a compartir un poco de sus vidas y sueños...

hi are you a journalist who has just started freelancing, either by choice or necessity? or are you thinking about making the jump because of...well, everything? i am helping to put on this conference next week designed with freelancers in mind and you should check it out! theiij.com/sessions-26

one more day to give feedback on the atrocious set of proposed immigration settlement changes in the UK, many of which are proposed _to be retroactive_

"The difference is in what practically every worker I spoke to mentioned: a workplace that puts its workers over profits." was just today heralding the nonprofit coop accelerator project! so much opportunity to share lessons, show alternate paths are actually possible (even if nothing is perfect).

have rarely read a piece with so much concrete, actionable advice. so great! jacobin.com/2026/01/minn... h/t @tansyhoskins.org

I'm genuinely really inspired by this comic, that shows how a small group of friends got together and had a mutual aid swap in their back yard. www.coyotemedia.org/i-hosted-a-m...

LinkedIn has heard this for a bit, but Bluesky should, too: my books are open for freelance and contract work for spring & summer. But more critically, I'm looking for a place to land to do more research + investigative, data and enterprise reporting full-time! 🔎 gist.github.com/cam-rodrigue...

had to turn off channel 4 evening news after they described ICE killing someone as a part of the "culture wars"

so much terrible crap in the world. here's a super concrete way to help some gazan students with university applications: chuffed.org/project/1641...

ok, y’all. I’M LOOKING FOR WRITERS: who understand 1) global politics, 2) colonialism and 3) liberation struggles across the African/Black Diaspora tag yourselves or others, or DM me

exciting chance to support neighborhood based journalism in philly!

world's tiniest violin, but it's annoying how i set up my email accounts before i knew i would constantly be reading them out to people over the phone.

New @propublica.org: @emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year. www.propublica.org/article/dele...

love this! i feel like class culture shown in this chart continues to influence salaries in the UK to this day.

There’s more attention today on the childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s what you need to know: 19thnews.org/2025/10/chil...

holy craaaaaaaap definitely almost just fell for an email scam. old neighbor who writes in a very _particular_ style, so the wording being weird was actually believable. appeared to come from his email address but reply-to of an address he never used before. asked to buy gift cards (he would!)

Yes, and, ICE is holding more than 60,000 people in detention each day, and more than 20 people have died in ICE custody this year. www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

oh wow, this is even worse than i thought! the _shelf prices_ at these places are often more expensive than at a "regular" store. gotta see if after reading this my mom will finally believe me and stop shopping there!

speaking of 20 years ago. "bowling alone" was all the rage when i was in college. it's so annoying every time it hits the zeitgeist again. people are so fixated on the title: oh no, no one has friends anymore! lonely. how sad. but that's so not the freakin point

just finished laying out my first PRINT publication in about 20 years, whewwwww. i love open source software (scribus) but omg excavating how to do simple tasks in the midst of a million super customizeable options is a JOURNEY.

If you know me, you know I donated a ton of time and energy to building this org from 2023-2024. I’m grateful that led to hiring full-time staff in 2025. I hope we can keep building. Will you help? bit.ly/tja_pride

my work contracts have mostly wrapped for the year, and I'm taking this extra downtime to reset/rethink what I want to be doing professionally next year (which is to say, I'm job-hunting). some combination of: FE engineering, design, data, media, and mission-driven advocacy

platonic is such a satisfying show in so many ways, and i think it is (weirdly!) giving me hope about work too. erikaowens.com/blog/kicking...

for some frivolity, finally published a post i wrote a year ago about taking a boat across the ocean to move to the UK: erikaowens.com/blog/moving-...

NEW — With Border Patrol Cmdr Greg Bovino gone for now, Chicago immigration advocates and community organizers are taking this moment to reflect and strategize for future federal immigration enforcement actions. “The violence is very real and it’s affected all of us.” thetriibe.com/2025/11/chic...

excited about @sheffieldtransformed.org this weekend! i'm volunteering at this event! you can checkout the full schedule: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There was no way to know how many people died in Missouri prisons — until now. Emerging on Bsky to share this latest installment in @themarshallproject.org's death-in-custody coverage + a few thoughts from my reporting on MO's flawed records system 🧵👇🏾 www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/18/s...

the cruel, unsettling, harmful US/UK similarities show up in so many places. grateful for the release of the trans news initiative this week to help make sense of journalism's role in how we got here transnewsinitiative.org

it's hard to put into words the heartbreak of what is happening in regards to immigration in both the US and the UK. the just immense _cruelty_ being unleashed on people, families, communities. the form of it differs, but the underlying heartlessness is the same. the willingness to scapegoat.