The question has been asked a few times on here this week, but in case anybody missed it: Say there were a group of people trying to make a worker-led local DC newsroom happen. What would you name it?

Honored to share a byline with Justin Pritchard and Helen Wieffering. This is how our team at AP documented 1,000 deaths after police force that isn’t supposed to be fatal:
apnews.com/article/associ…

An agitated man in a parking lot. A grandfather off his schizophrenia medication. A young man having a seizure. AP's Lethal Restraint project found each was among more than 1,000 people who died after police encounters involving less-lethal force apnews.com/projects/inves…

Supply-chain journalism at its best The Associated Press Martha Mendoza documents grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls 'dangerous and abusive' apnews.com/article/india-…

one issue with the news desert framing (which has been valuable!), is that it misses places like DC - which has as many journalists per capita as any place in the world yet whose residents starve for local coverage and civic information. the shuttering of DCist is a crisis

Listeners waking up this morning won’t hear the voices of our colleagues that WAMU 88.5 management unceremoniously laid off on Friday. Readers won’t get to click over to DCist and see their work — or anyone’s work, since the site has been taken away from our community. 🧵

Workers The Washington Post have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months.

But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.

So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.

Last year, three workers jumped from a burning oil ship in Nigeria and lived to tell the tale.

They told us about unpaid wages and a ship that was falling apart - and we dug into other vessels like this around the globe

My latest story w/ Grace Ekpu :
apnews.com/article/oil-ex…

Gas flares and leaking pipelines from Venezuela’s once-booming oil industry, hobbled by U.S. sanctions and mismanagement, are polluting towns and a major lake. nyti.ms/3O4OtgV

So many in DC have waited decades for public housing - even as units in the district sat vacant. The people featured here - many Black, at risk of displacement, still waiting - describe the frustration and limbo of the waitlist:
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Throughout state legislatures, governors’ mansions, and legislative halls in the nation’s capital, elected officials are grappling with the harms caused by gun violence. thetr.ac/qMp2j

Senegal gas deal drives locals to desperation, prostitution.
Watch my latest film for The Associated Press here youtu.be/e9k7B3DUFnQ

Worked with the amazing team of Sam Mednick and Leo Correa (📸)

Read the story here: apnews.com/article/d81ce9…

So many migrants attempt to cross the Atlantic from Africa to Europe each year. Many don't make it, their lives and stories lost to the ocean - but The Associated Press spent two years tracing the origins of one boat that went adrift. A true don't-miss story:
apnews.com/article/adrift…

“I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There’s something normal to me about it. I come from regular stock.”

Fabulous investigative reporting here, from Josh Kaplan locha ndoch Alex Mierjeski

propublica.org/article/claren…

In many parts of the world, overfishing threatens not just a food supply, but the culture - the way people cook and eat and gather.

Patrick Whittle Grace Ekpu Serginho Roosblad visited communities in the Bahamas, Senegal and the Philippines for this story:
apnews.com/article/conch-…

A graphic video circulating on social media in Burkina Faso shows men in military uniforms killing 7 boys, a potential war crime. The country's ruling junta denied involvement, but The Associated Press determined government troops were responsible. Here's how we did it. 🧵 apnews.com/article/burkin…

Videos circulating of young boys killed in Burkina Faso were filmed at a military compound, AP found.

“No one can escape death, but it is the way you die that makes a difference. This way of dying is so horrible.' via Sam Mednick and Michael Biesecker
apnews.com/article/burkin…