We are the reporters, hosts, producers, engineers, and content creators who power @wamu885 and @DCist. Union strong with @sagaftra. #WeMakeWAMU
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23 Feb 2024
This morning, @wamu885 management informed us they are laying off 15 vital people from our organization. These individuals are the lifeblood of our journalism. Our hearts are broken. We can’t believe we are losing our colleagues and friends.
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19 Dec 2025
Our union #WeMakeWAMU has a new collective bargaining agreement!
Earlier this week, SAG-AFTRA ratified its second three-year contract with WAMU and American University.
The contract covers Sept. 1, 2025 - Aug. 31, 2028.
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Some wins include:
-continued annual pay increases, including a 2.5% increase in the contract's third year
-stipends for workers filling in for hosts
-increased notice or pay in the event of layoffs
-protections for reporters covering civil unrest
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19 Dec 2025
Thank you to everyone in our unit who makes WAMU and to all of our listeners who’ve supported us along the way. In the new year, we'll need your support to continue the work of serving this community. Wishing everyone a warm holiday season and a happy 2026. Solidarity!
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16 Jul 2024
soo hey sharks, a team of former WAMU and DCist staffers are here today asking YOU for $250,000 to sustain our worker-led, community-based local news outlet @51stnews!!! it's really happening!! you can learn more about our efforts and donate here! givebutter.com/The51st
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16 Jul 2024
🚨If you think D.C. needs more local journalism, here’s an amazing chance to help create some! A group of former @dcist and @wamu885 staffers are creating @51stnews, a non-profit worker-led news outlet on all things D.C. And they need your financial help: givebutter.com/The51st
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29 Apr 2024
This week, you’ll hear some union members on-air asking you to support WAMU & our work. If you choose to donate, we encourage you to send a note in solidarity with remaining local news staff to Erika Pulley-Hayes (epulleyhayes@wamu.org) & Sarah Baldassaro (sarahgb@american.edu).
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29 Apr 2024
If you are also feeling the loss of a WAMU transportation reporter, an education reporter, a Maryland reporter, a criminal justice reporter, an immigrant communities reporter, and a housing reporter, we encourage you to share this with our leadership team.
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29 Apr 2024
This is a hard time at WAMU and in journalism overall. Your support means the world. It pushes us to keep bringing you the local news we all need and love. Thank you.
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When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad," per one staffer.
@abeaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19…
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19 Apr 2024
folks at the DC public library were begging me and others to help get WAMU to respond to their offer to help archive DCist. After I finally got the provost to bully WAMU into responding, WAMU leadership claimed to journalism faculty that they had brokered the meeting themselves
19 Apr 2024
public radio legend Diane Rehm tried to ask WAMU leadership about the shuttering of DCist and their confusing, inconsistent messaging around it. They muted her microphone during an all staff call and then, when asked about it, pretended not to know what the reporter was talking about washingtonian.com/2024/04/19…
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19 Apr 2024
When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad," per one staffer.
@abeaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19…
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15 Apr 2024
With the gutting of the Post’s local newsroom, shuttering of DCist, and majority of quality substantive stories behind paywalls, crime feels like it’s just about the only beat left for the public en masse to consume. It’s awful not just for individual readers but for society.
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12 Apr 2024
So extremely glad to hear @hectoraarzate back on the radio 💜
12 Apr 2024
For many, the deaths of 6 men in the collapse of Scott Key Bridge is a reminder of the dangers that immigrant workers face every day. So I recently spent time with construction workers in Baltimore to hear about the hard but necessary jobs they do. @NPR
npr.org/2024/04/12/124426564…
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8 Apr 2024
“The most worrisome thing about the @DCist shutdown, however, is the possibility of D.C. becoming a news desert.”
D.C. is home to many national news organizations but most don’t focus coverage on the city itself, writes @alanaparker23 for @TheEagleOnline:
theeagleonline.com/article/2…
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5 Apr 2024
@DCist was shut down by @wamu885 in February, an NPR-affiliate station owned by @AmericanU. My newest opinion piece looks at how the shutdown of vital, local journalism puts DC at risk of becoming a news desert & ends with a tweet from @WeMakeWAMU. theeagleonline.com/article/2…
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