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Congratulations to all the journalists who won #PulitzerPrizes today. They all did great work. But besides awards for breaking news reporting and photography, I think awards should be given for other categories as well. Things like: (1/5)

The murder rate is down 19% in 2024 thus far, per data collected directly from 236 cities across the US.

(Some major cities — like San Francisco, Baltimore, and Philidelphia — have seen much larger decreases.)

Washington Post wins three Pulitzer Prizes : washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

NEW: The Conservative Partnership Institute— a cash-flush nonprofit that serves as a nerve center for Trump’s allies — has paid millions to companies run by insiders, documents show.
nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/…

Confused about plastic recycling?

Here’s 12 plastic items we can recycle in DC (and for most of these, the vast majority of American communities) 🧵

adios to RFK washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

Axios Local is one of the most interesting experiments in local news and this interview has some great tidbits of info on it.

'How Far Trump Would Go.' Eric Cortellessa scores two interviews with Donald Trump for TIME, asking him to explain what he'd do in a second term. Read here: time.com/6972021/donald…

A synopsis:

Popular right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit, a prolific promoter of election fraud conspiracy theories, is filing for bankruptcy. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

Hey now

We're mere weeks away from our 2024 #ShadidAward ceremony in Washington, DC. Join us as we honor this year's winners and hear from special guest Manu Raju, in convo w/ Katie Harbath. It's always a warm, energizing and thoughtful night! Join us: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2024-shadid-aw…

Incredible
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Tim Sheehy builds his Senate campaign in Montana on once-secret Navy exploits washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… w/Beth Reinhard Liz Goodwin

Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

Insurance may be *the* under-reported inflation story of all.

What we've heard:

Cars: more wrecks, more expensive repairs (all that fancy technology is costly .. small fender benders can cost thousands. EVs are being written off after mid level wrecks)

Home: larger claims…

This seems like a story worth watching... nytimes.com/2024/04/05/nyr…

Man, it was fun talking to ⁦Jonathan O'Connell⁩ about Trump’s complicated financial situation. washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-…

And notice how each year it's made more money it has become so much worse, to the point that instagram is a pretty awful app. Constant interruptions, same with Facebook. It's remarkable how awful the web has been made

We’re thrilled to open the conference with keynote speaker Julia Angwin. Julia is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author and a contributing New York Times opinion writer.

Tune in to the 2024 conference here: youtube.com/watch?v=jgPDgq…