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A must read. Governor Gavin Newsom budget will spend $132,860 to incarcerate someone in prison for a year. That money should be spent on housing, jobs & education. Opinion: California has a $38-billion deficit. So why are we still paying for prisons we don't need? latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Worth checking out in advance of the IALJS annual conference in Sydney this May 😎

Join us for an informative discussion about the First Amendment in prisons. Former editor in chief Jesse Vasquez will be a part of this important conversation along with Eastern State Penitentiary easternstate.org/visit/events/j…

Big things are happening at Pollen Initiative. Last month, we launched a media center at the Central California Women’s Facility. More new newsrooms and news publications are on the horizon! For this and more, I am so excited to come on board as their new editorial director ✨✨

My first piece with Traveler Magazine...thx to Condé Nast and Lale and Prison Journalism Project cntraveler.com/story/after-pr…

Prisons are almost always in rural areas. That's why prison media can be crucial part of fighting our news desert problem in the US—including Pollen Initiative's own CCWF Paper Trail! Thanks to The Daily Yonder for highlighting our work in this great piece. dailyyonder.com/a-prison-newsp…

Congratulations, Kate McQueen! She is the winner of the second annual Henry Fuhrmann Mentor Award. McQueen won for her work with new and aspiring journalists and nonfiction writers who are incarcerated. Read more about her work at bit.ly/3AndSQc

Thsnk you ACES and AAJA-LA fir this amazing honor!

I'm so proud of this new paper! You can read CCWF Paper Trail online ccwfpapertrail.org or the PDF of the print version here ccwfpapertrail.org/pdfs/

If you are bored and waiting in line to vote today, may I suggest this! It will give you the chance to be mad about something other than the election (in case you somehow needed help with that). latimes.com/california/sto…

Journalists were among the first people imprisoned when the Nazis came in power in 1933. For The Atavist Magazine, I followed one journalist’s ordeal through early concentration camps and his friend’s wild efforts to save him. Hope you enjoy! magazine.atavist.com/the-good-trait…

If you like nerding out over archives and the challenges of writing historical reportage, then check out the latest episode of Creative Nonfiction podcast— with me 🫣 😁 talking about the latest in the The Atavist Magazine brendanomeara.com/how-to-be-a-tr…

Getting settled in to my new office at the University of Leipzig, thanks to #Fulbright US Scholar program and my wonderful host Niklas Venema and IfKMW Leipzig Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig 😎 Excited to be here!

So honored to have my article in the Atavist selected by Longform profiles 😍

Don't miss this week's newsletter featuring guest editor Kim Cross and her picks by Brett Popplewell, James Robenalt, Christopher Goffard, John Branch, Sophie Gilbert, Kate McQueen, Aliya Bashir + others mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…

From The Atavist Magazine: The Good Traitor: The Journalist Who the Nazis Could Not Silence by Kate McQueen The Nazis feared Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life? #Longreads #Longform magazine.atavist.com/the-good-trait…

“'I’m not surrendering,' he said." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer Kate McQueen and The Atavist Magazine! Subscribe to Damn History: buff.ly/3CqxZ0z magazine.atavist.com/the-good-trait…

Excited to share CCWF Paper Trail's first co-published story—Megan Hogg's piece about the first-ever farmer's market inside a California prison—with The Daily Yonder. You will never think about grocery shopping the same after reading! dailyyonder.com/first-ever-far…

My partner at Pollen Initiative, Jesse Vasquez, wrote this moving commentary about starting a media center at CCWF. You'll love it maybe as much as I do 🫶 Waiting in silence: How California's first media center inside a women's prison came to life calmatters.org/commentary/202…