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Erin Ailworth @ailworth

Grain markets journo for @business. Ex @WSJ @BostonGlobe @latimes. Disaster magnet. Latina. Taco snob. Native Californian. Newbie New Yorker. Chicago-based soon

Joined November 2008
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Erin Ailworth retweeted
Isis Almeida@isiscarol14
21 Aug 2025
For American farmers traveling through the Heartland scouting #corn and #soybean fields, it feels like 2019 all over again. Via ⁦@ailworth⁩ ⁦@gersonjr⁩ ⁦@elwasson⁩ ⁦@mhirtz⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

US Farmers Facing Double Whammy of Trade War and Bumper Crops

For American farmers traveling through the Heartland scouting corn and soybean fields, it feels like 2019 all over again.

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New from @gersonjr and me: Tariffs starting to squeeze profits for farmers bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tariffs Are Starting to Squeeze Profits for Trump-Loving Farmers

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he loves farmers. His actions, though, are rippling across the agriculture industry as tariffs raise the cost of everything from tractors to fertilizers and...

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Erin Ailworth retweeted
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@FDNY
13 Nov 2024
The brush fire in Inwood Hill Park is now a 2-alarm fire. The FDNY is utilizing multiple units, including drones, Marine Units, and Brush Fire Units.
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Crazy. Fingers crossed they get a handle on it quickly.
Mark D. Levine
@MarkLevineNYC
13 Nov 2024
Brush fire burning in Inwood Hill Park. FDNY now on scene. Please use caution if you are in area.
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Hire Alicia quick, y’all. We’ve been colleagues twice and I can vouch for how great she is :)
Alicia A. Caldwell@aacaldwellLA
22 Oct 2024
Replying to @ailworth
Thanks!! Me too. So, for anyone still in the market for a versatile, dogged and occasionally mouthy reporter with tons of experience, I’m still on the market!
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I’ve missed seeing bylines from @aacaldwellLA. Sad topic, good coverage: ncronline.org/news/least-its…

'At least it's acknowledgement': Abuse survivors welcome LA settlement

Two plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Los Angeles Archdiocese told NCR they are hopeful the settlement will spur changes to protect children. But neither is done speaking out, despite how...

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Same to you. It’s an awful situation and we just need to keep positive and hustle like we normally do.
Kevin Opsahl@KevJourno
7 Aug 2024
Replying to @ailworth @bkesling @SuryatapaB @aflores @ShannonNajma @TalalNAnsari @cmaiduc
Erin, I was laid off from my reporting job in Oregon. I hope you are able to find work quickly.
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Evan is free! wsj.com/world/russia/evan-ge…

WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free

Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of a major prisoner swap. The reporter and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for...

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Disasters are my reporting jam, but they aren't for everyone. So when I noticed @TalalNAnsari had volunteered to help cover the aftermath of the shooting in Uvalde, I cheered him on. It takes a special kind of person to be willing to run toward the things other people run from
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Same goes for @cmaiduc, who called to pick my brain before deploying to the Maui wildfires. She just won a @NYpressclub award for that work. Who was also on that coverage? Why @acaldwellwsj and @SuryatapaB. Special people all around. Hire each and every one of them.
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I also got to recruit @ShannonNajma, who hit the ground running the minute we hired her. When a shooting broke out at the Kansas City Super Bowl rally, she hustled to the scene, delivering witness account after witness account while I worked the phones from NYC
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I've known @acaldwellwsj my entire career. We were co-cops reporters at the Orlando Sentinel, where we covered the usual Florida weirdness, like sinkholes swallowing houses in Volusia County
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I knew I wanted @aflores as a colleague when, despite working for different outlets, we teamed up for safety to cover the protests roiling Minneapolis just days after George Floyd's death. He's rock solid in the middle of chaos and I'm so glad I got to recruit him to the WSJ
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The great @ForsythJenn teamed me up with @SuryatapaB and a few other lady journos for an investigation into how Covid was spread by cruise ships. Key to the series: Surya's work gaining inside access to the Diamond Princess and chronicling the spread of the virus on the ship
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I met @bkesling in the middle of Hurricane Harvey, when he saved my Subaru's battery from dying. Fast-forward to early March 2020, when we turned to each other in the Chicago bureau and said, oh crap, we better gear up for a pandemic
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Today marks a week since my layoff from the WSJ, which has been my professional home for a decade. I already miss working with my colleagues. Many are like family, including the ones cut with me: @acaldwellwsj @bkesling @SuryatapaB @aflores @ShannonNajma @TalalNAnsari @cmaiduc 🧵
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I try :) Thanks for the kind words and the solid editing.
Robert Barba@Barbawire
31 May 2024
Replying to @aflores @bkesling @cmaiduc @ShannonNajma @SuryatapaB @TalalNAnsari
It's a Sunday in November. @_willparker_ and I are scrambling on a story about some young Palestinians shot in Vermont. Who shows up out of the blue with sources? That would be @ailworth. That's how she rolls. wsj.com/us-news/three-men-sh…
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Nelly, your kindness always shines. Folks, let me remind you that she was hit during earlier layoffs at the WSJ. You'd be lucky to have Nelly on your team.
Nelly Ontiveros Cervantes@OntiverosNelly
31 May 2024
I first met @ailworth when she visited one of my journalism classes in college. We were told to learn from her and be like her. When we became colleagues, my respect and admiration only grew. Her top-notch reporting doesn’t go unnoticed, not to us. Hire her now!!!🗣️
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Let me second Alicia, Liz. Thanks for your compassion and right back at you.
Alicia A. Caldwell@aacaldwellLA
31 May 2024
Replying to @LizSzabo @bkesling @cmaiduc @TalalNAnsari @SuryatapaB @ailworth @ShannonNajma @aflores
Thanks, Liz. I’m so sorry you had to go through this too. It utterly sucks.
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Erin Ailworth retweeted
Talking Biz News@talkingbiznews
31 May 2024
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@ailworth among the @WSJ layoffs: talkingbiznews.com/media-new…

Ailworth among WSJ layoffs - Talking Biz News

Erin Ailworth, known for her disaster coverage at The Wall Street Journal, was among the layoffs Thursday as the company disbanded its U.S. News coverage team and its regional bureaus. She would have...

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