Managing editor digital @NewsHour. Runner, hummus enthusiast, 🎙️ nerd. Plays a mean tuba. @Poynter mentor/#PoynterSister, @Report4America judge, #BadNewsBabes.
Joined September 2008
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The PBS News team, including our foreign affairs and defense team, will not be signing the Defense Department's new press policy. It is a direct violation of our duties as journalists to cover this administration and the Department without fear or favor. 1/2
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"My biggest fear is that no one will remember him," Bill McGinly told me a decade after losing his son Mark in the Sept. 11 attacks. For him, each day, it all comes back.
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18 Jul 2025
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18 Jul 2025
Thank you for the good thoughts for PBS and esp.
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5 Apr 2025
BREAKING here - U.S. team in quake zone told they are fired, per source.
The 3-person disaster assessment team sent to Myanmar for the U.S. received termination notices while staying/sleeping outside — US AID workers were told on an all hands call today, per a source familiar.
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Bill McGinly lost his son Mark in the 9/11 attacks. "My biggest fear is that no one will remember him," he told me a decade later. His hope in sharing Mark's story was that he wouldn't forgotten. patch.com/virginia/vienna/a-…
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28 Jun 2024
Such an honor - working on this over the years with @Josh_Barrage and @LisaDNews has been a true dream!
28 Jun 2024
Congratulations to the team at PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) for winning the 2024 Newsletter Journalism Award! #journalismawards
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28 Jun 2024
Congratulations to the team at PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) for winning the 2024 Newsletter Journalism Award! #journalismawards
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19 Mar 2024
I've been to the Tidal Basin a million times over the years, but I'd never seen the water this high. It really feels like a glimpse of the future. npr.org/2024/03/19/123889637…
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23 Feb 2024
So @wamu885 has a Community Council, which is supposed to represent the listening public. I would love for its members to ask station leadership exactly how they plan to richly cover the D.C. region with far fewer reporters. And then press them on it.
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23 Feb 2024
I have so valued the reporting of these journalists laid off by WAMU today. I know the official word is that this is about focusing on the audio product, but these journalists were GREAT on the RADIO! ...in addition to what they published on DC-ist. Their voices are WAMU too.
23 Feb 2024
There's no crime in DC if nobody reports on it, right?
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23 Feb 2024
I am at an absolute loss of words for what I fear might happen to @wamu885 and @dcist, two places that defined so much of my career in local journalism and which I grew to love. I’m sending all the support I can to all my former colleagues there, who are the best in the business.
22 Feb 2024
Ominous email sent to WAMU staff this afternoon about a “new strategic framework” to be announced Friday morning. Their offices will be closed to have the "time and space" to have these convos-- WAMU won't publish anything online, and they're automating starting 8pm.
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13 Jul 2023
And the #BadNewsBabes tack back the #CWSG trophy with a 15-9 win despite a late rally by #TeamCongress. What a game!! 🥎🥎🥎
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12 Jul 2023
It's the best day of the year: @CWSoftballGame. Taking the field to beat Congress (obviously) but also for my dear friend and breast cancer survivor @caramrich. Get your tickets to support @YoungSurvival and see the #badnewsbabes win 🥎 eventbrite.com/e/2023-congre…
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Hey rookie rookie @RepLCD - I hope orientation included the news that #BadNewsBabes are taking back the @CWSoftballGame crown. See you on the field!
7 Jul 2023
I'm looking forward to playing in my first @CWSoftballGame next week & hope to see you there! 🥎
The game benefits the Young Survival Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to the critical issues unique to young people diagnosed with breast cancer.
More info: eventbrite.com/e/2023-congre…
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27 Apr 2023
I’ll never forget the day a potential @19thnews donor heard my toddler cry in the background on a zoom call and said “sounds like you’ve got more important things to be doing right now than launching a startup.” (He never cut a check.)
27 Apr 2023
🧵: Discrimination against moms is an "open secret" in many workplaces.
Workers are still being laid off while on leave, pushed out of jobs or subjected to comments like, “You probably have your hands full at home."
There is little legal recourse.
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20 Mar 2023
It's Layoffs Week @NPR. How NOT to make it worse on those affected. A thread:
1) Do NOT reTweet or repeat unconfirmed reports and unsourced reports with names of people laid-off;
2) Give these journalists the respect and dignity they deserve. Let them announce if/when they want;
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Come on out for the Congressional Women’s Softball game tomorrow night! Lady lawmakers vs the Press - with generous representation from @newshour! #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZTR5pPqjh/
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