First Abbot Elementary, now Marty Baron. At the Power of Narrative conference, Chalkbeat gets a shoutout for being a part of the “signs of promise” in the journalism industry by the former WaPo executive editor.

We love an edu moment 💪

Did you go to Knight Foundation Knight Media Forum in Miami? S. Mitra Kalita and I talked to Gabriel Lerner about the vibes and the future of local news on his new 💫 democracy podcast 💫.

Listen! Tell us if we got it right.
open.spotify.com/episode/3AMb2I…

And thanks to Gabe for having us!

heck yes Chalkbeat Elizabeth Green niemanlab.org/2024/02/nonpro…

the best feeling! we did this together <3

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Chalkbeat 🎉🎉🎉 this is even better than winning a pulitzer

Oh, and if you want to be as cool (a.k.a. in the know on crucial education news that affects your communities) as Quinta Brunson, may we recommend our newsletters: chalkbeat.org/newsletters/

Thanks for the love, Abbott Elementary. Our staff isn't freaking out at all.

Suspending my self-imposed rule of not publicly commenting about Abbott Elementary because Abbott Elementary has decided to make some public comments about me

Be like Quinta Brunson ok?

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Thank you #AbbottElementary for the nod to Chalkbeat!

Did that really just happen? Yes, yes it did.

Thank you Abbott Elementary for the shoutout! We’re excited for potentially more people to “read about that in Chalkbeat.” 🥲🫶 #AbbottElementary

Do YOU read Chalkbeat? We love that the writers of #AbbottElementary do.

🎉We're proud to announce our first set of grants to support pooled and aligned grantmaking for #PressForward !

These grants include funding for infrastructure support and shared services, along with direct support for eight local newsrooms.

Learn more⬇️
macfound.org/press/press-re…

Among the three Memphis finalists, reports Laura D. Testino 〽️, is Marie Feagins, DPSCD's chief of leadership and high schools.

News philanthropy leader Karen Rundlet (Karen Rundlet) will become INN’s next chief executive officer, after years helping to develop sustainable local news ecosystems as a senior director at Knight Foundation. inn.org/news/news-phil…

This week, Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibarguen was awarded the Gwen Ifill @PressFreedom Award. Congratulations, Alberto!

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It’s so important to support the local journalists who are here and will be here when national outlets have parachuted back out.

Support Chalkbeat Tennessee today.
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New: Memphis students who heard from authors of “His Name is George Floyd” weren’t allowed to take the book home.

This is a story about how the fear of violating ambiguous state laws can put local communities at odds and shortchange students:

tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/11/7/2394…

We will miss you Matt Barnum ! Thank you for being a true original and a wonderful colleague who I know will still answer my every tiniest question at any hour of the day, right? :) and congrats to The Wall Street Journal & Chastity on a great hire.

This is my last week at Chalkbeat — it's been a great run. But I'm thrilled to be joining the Wall Street Journal as a K-12 education reporter!