New: 2 CVS pharmacies in Rhode Island file to unionize. This comes just weeks after workers at CVS Omnicare Las Vegas, where professionals fill prescriptions in nursing homes, announced it was seeking to unionize.

More, via The Boston Globe/ Boston Globe Rhode Island

bostonglobe.com/2024/04/16/met…

happy marathon day everyone!

as you’re cheering on this year’s runners, you should read this story about 26.TRUE. this marathon brings runners through the city’s different, diverse neighborhoods.

w/ Laura Crimaldi for The Boston Globe + Report for America:

bostonglobe.com/2024/04/14/spo…

'Going forward, I don’t think anybody will have their ear to the ground the way Fred did.' bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/bus… via The Boston Globe

Fun things I get to do at work:

The Boston University grad students, who have been on strike since late March, are also university employees, which not only adds to their workload but complicates their relationship with the school. trib.al/Xq00ZrP

Illinois has some of the strongest laws around hospitals, rape kits, and SA victims in the country — but a yearlong Kate Martin investigation found 23 hospitals in the past 6 years weren’t following the rules, failing hundreds of victims, with no fines.
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🎉Elated to share that We Found Love was nominated by The Webby Awards !!

This podcast miniseries with Jesse Remedios & Love Letters was truly a labor of love. I’m so proud to see it named among the best of the internet🎉

Vote for the project here!👇🏾
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

Boston bus lanes & bus stops meant to make transit faster than driving and boarding seamless for riders are constantly blocked by cars.

Bus mounted cameras are tackling this in other cities, but remain outlawed here. The Legislature may soon change that. bostonglobe.com/2024/03/26/met…

New: The story of the poor indigenous Peruvians working —sometimes even for free— helping the world’s richest person sell $9,000 vicuña sweaters

It is the finest wool in the world, but in the Andes, they see none of the wealth bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

oh that’s me! 🌟

here is the story (and the fun calculator that Christina Prignano Deering + her team created to alongside it): apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/busine…

Ayo, here's a bit of news to brighten the dark media landscape: Boston Globe Spotlight Team is hiring an editor and 2 (!) reporters. Come work with me and my amazing colleagues.

Deputy editor: …stonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/obvMfD4K…
Reporters: …stonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/31EeGitL…

Holler at me if you have any Qs.

I talked to influencers who changed their minds and took their kids offline after building a platform around them ('I just woke up in a cold sweat and I was like, ‘We’re done. We’re never doing this again.’')

for Cosmopolitan:
cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a600…

The story that never ever, ever ends — North End restaurants go another round in their bout with Wu over outdoor dining 🪑

New this time: Complaints about financial losses from the upcoming season + issues with the Task Force
bostonglobe.com/2024/03/08/bus…

one of my favorite local reporter is now a local reporter at another (wonderful) place ✨

“The greatest lie country music ever told was convincing the world that it is white.”

for my ⁦TIME⁩ debut, I wrote about Beyoncé and how the release of Texas Hold ‘Em and 16 Carriages challenges America’s last great white genre. time.com/6694806/beyonc…

A lil update... I'm thrilled to share news of my new role as Spotlight Editor at the The Boston Globe. It's an immense honor - and privilege - to lead this unit, one of the most storied, vital investigative teams around. I'm excited about what's ahead. bostonglobe.com/metro/investig…

A fiery exchange between a Boston restaurant owner and a would-be customer over a canceled reservation has sparked debate over online civility, steep cancellation fees, and how businesses talk to customers. trib.al/3MubaWR

Widespread shock, anger, confusion throughout AL after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people, a decision that could upend women’s reproductive health care in a state that already has one of the nation’s strictest abortion laws.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02…

The polls close in 20 minutes in Milton, where turnout has been strong in a referendum on the town's state-mandated zoning plan and results could reverberate across Eastern Mass... bostonglobe.com/2024/02/14/met…

It's an open secret that some local leaders, particularly in wealthy suburbs, avoid housing reform because of the volatile politics surrounding it. A Newton city councilor tried it anyway, and lost her job.

bostonglobe.com/2024/02/08/bus…