PEOPLE, JOBS, AWARDS
Nikole Hannah-Jones at Radio City Music Hall as part of this week’s Pod Save America segment. Click here to watch clip.
🔥 “Children who score lower on tests aren’t scoring lower because they don’t care,” explained Nikole Hannah-Jones in a recent Radio City Music Hall appearance on Pod Save America. “They clearly don’t get the same education as those of us who have privilege can ensure that our children get.”
🔥 “I think humor is vital to painting a 360-degree portrait of someone,” said WBEZ’s Linda Lutton on how she reported and produced her piece “The View From Room 205.” “I included a lot of humor.”
🔥 Currently the engagement editor for The Seattle Times Education Lab, Dahlia Bazzaz will be the paper’s K-12 reporter starting this summer, covering schools throughout Seattle and the Puget Sound region. The ST is looking to replace her (and also to replace editor Linda Shaw, now at the Solutions Journalism Network).
🔥 NJ Governor Phil Murphy backed out of a public radio event at the last minute because he disapproved of the inclusion of Politico reporter Linh Tat on a segment focused on school funding, according to WNYC’s Nancy Solomon. The governor’s office says the dispute was over the use of time, not the reporter or the topic.
🔥 Kudos to NPR’s Chris Arnold and Cory Turner for their work reporting on the problematic USDE teacher grants turned into loans. As you may have seen, the program is now getting a full review.
🔥 In just-released emails, a story written by the NYT’s Kate Taylor was the subject of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ire. Via Alex Zimmerman.
🔥 The sole former education journalist running for office (that I know of) has been defeated. But I think we can all agree that former Slate education columnist Laura Moser had a good run.
🔥 Silvia Foster-Frau is leaving the education beat at the San Antonio Express-News to cover immigration, according to a tweet from Francisco Vara-Orta, but the beat is “in great hands” with Alia Malik, Lauren Caruba, and Krista M. Torralva.
🔥 The Kojo Nnamdi show is hiring a senior producer. The daily talk show onWAMU, DC’s NPR station, covers local politics, culture, history, transit, food, schools, urban planning, sports, crime, health, housing, and more.
🔥 Mallory Falk is a 2018 Report For America corps member. She’ll be joining KRWG as a multimedia reporter, covering education, healthcare, economic development and sustainability in Southern New Mexico and Far West Texas.
🔥 It was great to meet Chalkbeat Chicago’s Adeshina Emmanuel last week. It was even more fun to read some of his backstory here, including how transferring schools helped him and how he thinks schools need to be covered.
🔥 “We haven’t saved the world but it’s only midday on Friday,” said Dallas Morning News reporter (and new EWA board member) Eva-Marie Ayala. “So we still have time.” |