just fyi that @latimes mgmt has so far chosen to:

- dock pay for those of us participating in today's walkout
-block our access to Slack
-keep secret how many layoffs in total are planned A refresher:

6/2018: Billionaire @ShiongSoon purchases @latimes and @sdut in a historic deal, promising to rebuild the organizations and usher in an era of stability. According to Soon Shiong, the sale averted plans by then-owner, TRONC, to lay off as much as 20% of staff.

the thing i find deeply disturbing throughout all of this is how much more people fear being socially shamed for engaging in leisure travel and other pandemic no-nos than the actual virus itself or the actual potential harm they could be wreaking on those around them i've had several friends (some close, some acquaintances) in the past weeks engage in leisure travel, directly disregarding specific federal and local mandates. the decision-making process always centrally hinges on whether they will get sick; not what could happen to others

my new year's resolution is for @CAPublicHealth to answer my emailed questions with actual answers and not just parrot my own words back to me and pass it off as a response.

and yes, i know things are really dire in CA right now but the agency has been this way since March there are so many ways i can keep responding to the same email thread asking the same question(s) i have been asking for like 3 weeks. yet there appear to be infinite ways for @CAPublicHealth to not give me an actual answer.

a paradox fitting for 2021.

saw a new cookbook for asian dumplings and noodles, looked up the author and then...🙃 reminds me a lot of a piece i read a few weeks ago (but was published a few years ago) on who gets to be a culinary authority intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional…

If journalism is overwhelmingly white, then investigative journalism is blindingly white.

It wasn't until I joined the @latimes 3 mos ago that I reported to an investigative editor who isn't white. I've been working in jrn for nearly a decade. I got into jrn specifically to hold institutions accountable. It was always a bizarre experience sitting in IRE luncheons amid a sea of white pple honoring reporting that revealed systemic abuses w/o any acknowledgment that the makeup of that very room itself was a systemic issue

I spent yrs working in a newsroom where I was one of a handful of folks speaking out about diversity, pay equity & coverage gaps, only to be treated hostilely or indifferently by mgmt & other co-workers.

Workplaces can be supportive to some, while being toxic to JOCs. What continually irked me during my time there was how much this newsroom prided itself publicly on holding institutions accountable and 'following the money.'

But when myself and others tried to do with the newsroom itself through the right internal channels, we were gaslit.

Coronavirus is the “great equalizer” the same way that climate change is the “great equalizer,” which is to say: not at all.

Communities of color, lower income households and vulnerable populations are bearing the brunt of covid 19 Whether that’s in the Bronx, New York

Via @THECITYNY thecity.nyc/2020/04/bronx-…

My latest for @PublicIntegrity is a collaboration with @WNYC/@Gothamist and @voxdotcom on the changing National Flood Insurance Program and what that means for housing inequality (hint: not good)

Read: publicintegrity.org/environment/fl…

Some things I learned👇🏼 Climate risk is increasing flood risk; not just for those who live on the coast or near water.

Yes, rising seas 🌊
But also, heavier rains ⛈️
Development also drives ⬆️ flood risk.
More cement, concrete; less places for water to go. 🏢