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Yanqi Xu

@yanqixu_

Reporter @flatwaterfreep | Got tips and thoughts to share? say hi📮[email protected] | DMs open | “yen-chee” | Mizzou grad

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Journalists can often find themselves reporting on communities outside their own experiences. At #AccessFest24, we’ll explore effective strategies and tools for approaching unfamiliar communities, uncovering untold stories and building trust with sources. This all-star panel

Journalists can often find themselves reporting on communities outside their own experiences.

At #AccessFest24, we’ll explore effective strategies and tools for approaching unfamiliar communities, uncovering untold stories and building trust with sources. 

This all-star panel
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🧵an under-discussed item that will be on Nebraska ballots in November: judicial retention elections! though judges in Nebraska are not elected, they go up for a retention vote three years after appointment and every six years after that. omaha.com/news/local/gov…

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Thanks for joining us today! Sarah Conway, Ariel Hart, Katie Licari, Yanqi Xu and I compiled this tip sheet on how to report on communities that aren’t your own. Please take a look and share it with anyone who might find it helpful: tinyurl.com/2bf4ztxv

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Nebraska’s abortion ballot measures can be confusing. Here are FFP’s quick guides on Initiative 434, which would keep in place the current stricter 12-week limit, and Initiative 439, which would allow abortion for longer. 434: buff.ly/3Cfpghm 439: buff.ly/4hho7WK

Nebraska’s abortion ballot measures can be confusing. Here are FFP’s quick guides on Initiative 434, which would keep in place the current stricter 12-week limit, and Initiative 439, which would allow abortion for longer.

434: buff.ly/3Cfpghm
439: buff.ly/4hho7WK
Flatwater Free Press (@flatwaterfreep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Registered voters in 11 rural Nebraska counties vote by mail. Voter participation spiked in those counties in 2020 after transitioning to all-mail. 79% of the voters — most of whom cast a ballot by mail — went for Trump, who attacked the voting method. buff.ly/4fumNhs

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Need a little help as you enter the voting booth? FFP has you covered. Use the just-the-facts FFP Voter Guide to help you pick candidates, decide on judges and understand those confusing ballot measures. 👇 buff.ly/48zBqhx.

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Half of all the citizen-led ballot measures in Nebraska since 2000 have come in the last four years. It reflects a growing disconnect between lawmakers and the people they represent, according to former officials. Read the full story 👇 buff.ly/3Urwc1u

Flatwater Free Press (@flatwaterfreep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New @ FFP: Today, at 50, he will vote for the first time.The road here has been winding — felonies, shame, redemption, a legal fight — but now the path is clear for him & thousands of other Nebraskans. Today is Election Day for Jason Kotas, too. Read more👇buff.ly/3NVeHTj

New @ FFP: Today, at 50, he will vote for the first time.The road here has been winding — felonies, shame, redemption, a legal fight — but now the path is clear for him & thousands of other Nebraskans. Today is Election Day for Jason Kotas, too. Read more👇buff.ly/3NVeHTj
Elizabeth Rembert (@ekrembert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Initiative 434, which would put NE's current 12-week ban in the constitution, has officially tipped over 50% approval, with 50.4%. Initiative 439, which would guarantee access til fetal viability, is at 53.9%. At the 439 watch party they're saying it's still too close to tell.

Ethan Corey (@ethanscorey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wow, Harris lost a lot of ground with the under 25 vote: 65% voted for Biden in 2020 down to only 55% for Harris. Conversely, she gained 3 percentage points with the over 65-crowd. cnn.com/election/2024/…

Wow, Harris lost a lot of ground with the under 25 vote: 65% voted for Biden in 2020 down to only 55% for Harris. Conversely, she gained 3 percentage points with the over 65-crowd. cnn.com/election/2024/…
Will Doran (@will_doran) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Donald Trump wins North Carolina. NBC News and the Associated Press are calling it. Trump leads Kamala Harris by about 3% with a large majority of votes counted #ncpol wral.com/story/the-late…

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It’s right there in the name: Flatwater. Flatwater echoes our state’s name in the Omaha & Oto languages. This Giving Tuesday, support a grassroots Nebraska nonprofit newsroom telling stories by and for Nebraskans, made freely available to all. Donate: buff.ly/3xPWyl8

It’s right there in the name: Flatwater.
Flatwater echoes our state’s name in the Omaha & Oto languages. This Giving Tuesday, support a grassroots Nebraska nonprofit newsroom telling stories by and for Nebraskans, made freely available to all. Donate: buff.ly/3xPWyl8
Natalia Alamdari (@nataliaalamdari) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In an FFP story from about two years ago, there's a nugget of information: At Schuyler Center HS, a swath of students juggle full-time overnight shifts on top of school. This is the story that came of that. Meet Marco, who was kind enough to let me tag along for a few days.

Yanqi Xu (@yanqixu_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My work email got hacked so if you got an email about a newsletter from me, DON’T click on anything. That wasn’t me 🫠Help and advice appreciated.

Yanqi Xu (@yanqixu_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Incredibly well-researched and riveting story by Viola Zhou about the different facets of the clashes surrounding a Chinese EV battery company’s move into this Michigan small town.

Kavahn Mansouri (@kavahnmansouri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Last week, we published our story on Carol Mayorga, an immigrant mother of three from a rural Missouri town called Kennett. As Carol heads into her second month in ICE custody, her story is spreading across the country. #bringcarolhome stlpr.org/law-order/2025…