covering the American South for @nytimes | Florida woman, recovering Hill reporter, now in Nashville | emilyscochrane.08 on Signal | emily.cochrane@nytimes.com
now that I'm settled in Nashville (!) and in my new job, here's a cool thing -- an open question about what people want to read about from the South, so it can inform what I'm writing about and how I'm thinking about our coverage.
send me your thoughts!
nytimes.com/2023/05/02/us/us…
Elections administrators in Clark County, Wash. just sent these images of ballots burned in Vancouver's ballot box arson. Officials are drying out the ballots, then sorting through them to identify voters who have yet to seek a replacement ballot.
Speechless. We are at the entrance to our Tampa Bay Times office in downtown St. Petersburg.
A crane is blocking the road, and several stories up, smoke billows out of the building from where it appears the crane fell
Smell of gas in the air and you can hear alarms #MILTON
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@TB_Times made a resource list to help Tampa Bay residents find up-to-date-info on everything from road closures to outages.
Plus, where to get food, WiFi & more after #Milton .
We'll keep updating. No paywall.
DM me links we've missed.
tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/…
in North Carolina — how people responded to the warnings they got, in areas that either don’t normally get flooding or don’t get flooding like this, w/ @edjsandoval and @jrusstimesnytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/hu…
Three Memphis cops found guilty of witness tampering in the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was killed in Jan 2023.
But all officers were acquitted of the most serious civil rights charge in the case.
@ESCochrane@benstanleynz report: nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/ty…
2/ The story went viral and drew national attention. Florida’s chief financial officer ordered an investigation.
Meet the students who chased the story:
poynter.org/reporting-editin…
This is a public appreciation post for the congressional press galleries staff that have done SO MUCH WORK advocating for the reporters from all over the country covering this convention for their home audiences this week.
In his 17-month stint as UF president, Ben Sasse more than tripled his office’s spending, directing millions in university funds into secretive consulting contracts and high-paying positions for his GOP allies.
alligator.org/article/2024/0…