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May 12
Thank you @Poynter for this story about the reporting we did @chicagotribune last fall
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
May 1
One thing I would love to communicate to rich progressive donors is you have to fund ACTUAL JOURNALISM. All the progressive "content creators" rely on actual journalism done by journalists who are all getting laid off. Please fund journalism not just "our own kind of propaganda."
May 1
NEWS: The Democracy Alliance, the progressive donor network that's spent $2bn on causes/think tanks/campaigns, is directing "tens of millions" of dollars into new progressive media. semafor.com/article/05/01/20…
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Southwest suburban school district faces controversy over multiyear attempt to add Arabic language curriculum. Story by @angie_leventis and @addisonwreports chicagotribune.com/2026/05/0…
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
May 2
my mentor told me good reporters are hard to manage because they’re not good at listening to authority.
and she’s right. to expect a reporter not to be defiant is like expecting to get records back immediately after requesting them.
it ain’t going to happen.
May 2
I so enjoy executives who choose to run a journalism thing and then are shocked (defiant??? journalists??? nooooo) by the type of people who tend to do this job
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
May 1
I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.
New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out nytimes.com/2026/05/01/busin…
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Apr 22
The FBI looked into investigating a journalist for stalking because she reported on Kash Patel’s use of taxpayer resources in support of his girlfriend. The free press won’t be intimidated by such crude inquiries but it is another disturbing overreach.
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
POETS! @poetrymagazine is putting together a special folio dedicated to Chicago (America's greatest city). If you were born/raised here, or lived here for at least 7 years, submit your work that engages with some aspect of Chicago. Deadline is May 15: poetry.submittable.com/submi…
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Apr 6
Statement from on #AP buyouts today from the union's executive committee. @NewsMediaGuild
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
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It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive.
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My job @DMRegister is up for grabs btw! It’s been up for a bit and a vital beat for those who care about communities and finding stories often overlooked. If you have any questions, I encourage you to reach out!
DMs open. Email in link.
Mar 16
— woo lord, I updated my website and am now back on the job hunt.
what can I cover?
lots!
what have I done in the last 3.5 years in Iowa?
lots!
send me things pls 🤙🏽
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Mar 23
Mayor Johnson says 75 ICE agents are being sent to O'Hare starting today to perform non-screening functions. That includes monitoring exit lanes, making announcements, helping with lines and other activities to allow TSA officers to stay focused on screening. @WBBMNewsradio
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“A lot of things need to be held tightly and secure. But openness and transparency allows members of the public to know what their government is doing in times of peace and, more important, in times of war and upheaval.” nytimes.com/2026/03/20/busin…
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“In the end, they said that the story of Chavez’s movement was their story, too — of the women who marched beside the men, worked in the fields, took care of the children. The movement, they said, was more than one man.” nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/ce…
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is expected retire at the end of this month, after being pulled away from a high-profile role leading immigration raids in major U.S. cities.
He oversaw controversial operations in LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and Minneapolis.
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Mar 16
— woo lord, I updated my website and am now back on the job hunt.
what can I cover?
lots!
what have I done in the last 3.5 years in Iowa?
lots!
send me things pls 🤙🏽
authory.com/famandatugade
Feb 20
Some personal news — last Friday was my last day @DMRegister. It’s been an honor to cover Iowa’s social justice, community and faith issues for 3.5 years.
I’m not entirely sure where my next stop is, but I’ll be looking for any opportunities to join the next newsroom.
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Mar 12
white people be like this song was on tony hawk's pro skater
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F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Mar 11
A Skokie woman claimed Homeland Security detained her for nearly 2 days before she ended up in Wisconsin — an extraordinary story disputed by Feds, two sheriff’s departments and her purported employer. A big big big yikes here chicagotribune.com/2026/03/1…
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Mar 11
“… you can only be undermined so many times on an adaptation of your own life before you start to question whether you even know who you are.”
"Shrill" creator Lindy West says that her colleagues made her feel “weird and invisible” during the three years she spent making the show:
“I got an identity crisis. It’s extremely corrosive to an already weak mind to be making a show about the most vulnerable and embarrassing parts of your own life, sitting in writers’ rooms listening to skinny white guys from Harvard debating, ‘So what season should we have the dad die?’ Your actual dad, who’s actually dead. Only for it to be decided that he shouldn’t die at all, because it isn’t funny when dads die.”
“My real personality wasn’t in the room and didn’t often make it onto the screen, and while I loved my coworkers, I didn’t become close with people in a way that made me feel at home or might have gotten me more TV jobs after ‘Shrill’ was canceled. I was given the illusion of power while the real deciders had private calls without me, and you can only be undermined so many times on an adaptation of your own life before you start to question whether you even know who you are.”
variety.com/2026/tv/global/s…
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