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After 65 years covering the world, from the San Francisco Bay to Iraq, the Chronicle's legendary "Native Son" Carl Nolte bids farewell in his final column "I looked around and saw a battered and messy newsroom full of life. I thought it was magic." sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nati…

Official today: Capital Weather is independent once again. Twenty-two years after launching Capital Weather as an independent weather website for the DC area — and 18 years after first partnering with The Washington Post and becoming the Capital Weather Gang — we are independent again. Today, we’re officially launching a new chapter at capitalweather.com and on our new mobile app. We are committed to making our core forecasts and updates free and accessible to everyone. Your support will make this possible. Here is what we’ve built and how you can support us. What we’ve built: ☀️ Around-the-clock forecasts and live updates 📧 Expanded newsletters 📱 A new Capital Weather app 🌦️ Interactive weather and climate tools 💬 A stronger community experience 🎙️ We will continue to provide forecasts on WAMU 88.5 How you can boost and sustain our independent launch: • Support our work at capitalweather.com/support-u… • Download the Capital Weather app on iOS or Android • Make Capital Weather your everyday weather source • Share this post with friends and family across the DMV Some of you have already joined our community and we could not be more grateful. Since pioneering digital local weather coverage in 2004, we’ve believed weather is something we all experience together. Your questions, storm reports, photos, and conversations have helped shape Capital Weather into one of the nation’s leading regional weather communities. Our mission remains the same as always: to be the most trusted everyday source for DC-area weather forecasts, breaking updates, and in-depth weather and climate news. From sunny days to stormy days — and from Snowmageddon (2010) to Snowcrete (2026) — it’s been an incredible ride. Thank you for being part of this community. We’re incredibly excited for what’s ahead.

Are you a freelance journalist who has faced digital or physical threats because of your work? The IWMF and @UNESCO want to hear from you. Join a virtual focus group and help shape stronger safety support for freelancers worldwide. Apply by June 11: 🔗 bit.ly/Freelance-Focus-Group…

NEW: The CEO of one of San Francisco's biggest supportive housing providers is stepping down amid a city probe prompted by a @sfchronicle/@UCBerkeleyIRP investigation By @susieneilson and Matt Mitchell sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…

Three UC Berkeley Journalism alumni were named 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners. Another eight Berkeley Journalism alumni were honored as part of award-winning or finalist teams. journalism.berkeley.edu/2026…

Nearly 1 in 3 journalists in the U.S. face violence while working. This is the reality behind the headlines. @IWMF’s Safe Together report breaks down the physical, digital, and legal threats journalists face, and what can be done. Read more ↓ bit.ly/IWMF_SafeTogether

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Disappearing before our eyes: One photographer's passion project of capturing local newsrooms apnews.com/article/newspaper…

🎙️”Working alone today means being vulnerable, especially in environments where threats are organised, transnational and often backed by state power.” @laurentrichard0, founder of Forbidden Stories, today in the @guardian 📰 theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The Daily Cal, the independent student newspaper serving the Berkeley community, will be honoring some of its distinguished alumni during an event tonight at the Berkeley School of Journalism. Please help support independent student journalism. givebutter.com/2026DCHallOfF…

Thrilled to have @SND, the Society for News Design, on campus this week hosting its #SND47 competition and workshops for @ucbsoj students.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Someone broke into a Northern California falconry education and conservation center early Friday and intentionally released all of its birds, several of which are still missing and at risk, according to West Coast Falconry. Staff at the falconry — located about 40 miles north of Sacramento in Marysville — found the premises vandalized and all 11 birds set free. The intruder or intruders destroyed equipment and merchandise, and released the birds by cutting gear from their legs and removing them from their enclosures, “leaving them to fend for themselves,” the organization said. “These birds are not wild — they are trained and rely on human care,” West Coast Falconry said in a Facebook post. “Releasing them in this condition puts them at serious risk of injury or death.” Four birds were still missing as of midday Sunday: Walter, a great horned owl; Cubbie, a peregrine falcon; Amadon, a barn owl; and Cora, a dark-morph red-tailed hawk who is blind in one eye. The center said it was actively working to locate and recover the missing raptors, and asked for help from nearby residents to look out for birds who are “unusually comfortable around people.” People should not approach the raptors, but instead should report any sightings to West Coast Falconry. 📸: Courtesy of West Coast Falconry

50 Years of Loss: How San Francisco’s long Black exodus has changed the city and its neighborhoods, block by block Story: @alyce_mcf Visuals: Yalonda M. James Data/graphics: @HarshaReports Design: @kwonjs_ @alexkfong GIFT LINK: sfchronicle.com/projects/202…

Excerpt: The papers expose what critics have called the weakness at the heart of the shadow docket: an absence of the kind of rigorous debate that the justices devote to their normal cases. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/po…

NEWS: NPR receives $113M toward digital transformation and to offer stations greater services as the loss of federal funds takes a big bite out of budgets. $80M from philanthropist Connie Ballmer $33M from anonymous donor My initial story: npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-578… More to come

NEW: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will continue publishing! It has been acquired by the nonprofit Venetoulis Institute, which runs the Baltimore Banner. My story here: nytimes.com/2026/04/14/busin…

Live Updates: Artemis II Astronauts Splash Down, Concluding Historic Journey Around the Moon nytimes.com/live/2026/04/10/… via @NYTimes