Denver Pratt

Criminal justice journalist || Available for work || VP @PacNWGuild || @WANewsGuild forever || Prev: @BhamHerald @the_daily_news @RTDNEWS || MT --》WA || DM open

[WA Emergency Management @waEMD]

The @NWS_NTWC has now issued a #tsunami ADVISORY for Washington state. If you are on the coast, stay OUT OF THE WATER & AWAY FROM THE SHORE, which includes HARBORS and MARINAS due to strong currents & dangerous waves.

Details here: https://t.co/R8nA0uQmXq #wawx

[Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild @PacNWGuild]

Let’s tell Cascade PBS we want a fair contract now!!

[Denver Pratt @DenverPratt]

Carpenter Media Group is a threat to PNW journalism.

These journalists deserve better. Their local communities deserve better.

Please show your support for @EverettGuild & @CentraloregonNG. Write letters to Carpenter here:

-https://t.co/Nq1SuKsJvQ

-https://t.co/EIxEZAB70G

[Denver Pratt @DenverPratt]

The same company that gutted the Everett Herald earlier this year & is now proposing journalists' pay be tied to ridiculous story quotas is also proposing substantial layoffs in Bend, roughly 30 days after taking over as new owners & false promises that there would be no layoffs.

[Everett NewsGuild ✊ @EverettGuild]

FOR RELEASE: Everett Herald journalists push back against low pay, grueling story quotas

[Everett NewsGuild ✊ @EverettGuild]

FOR RELEASE: Everett Herald journalists push back against low pay, grueling story quotas

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

We’ll be at the Ballard farmer’s market today until 1, gathering signatures for our petition! If you’re in the area drop by and see us https://t.co/w6J8ARQJRV

[Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild @PacNWGuild]

Carpenter Media Group is at it again: Taking a newly purchased publication and pushing for cuts and reductions just weeks later.

We and @CentraloregonNG look forward to bargaining with the company next week and fighting against proposed layoffs.

https://t.co/YGZiRDuicu

[Rachel Alexander @rachelwalexande]

don't even own the paper yet and they're already censoring the news

[Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social @JMShumway]

And in a bad practice reminiscent of Carpenter trying to censor an Everett Herald article about layoffs this summer, a Bulletin article about the sale that included info about upcoming layoffs of mailroom employees has been replaced by a press release.

https://t.co/tqju88lXXC

[Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social @JMShumway]

Carpenter Media, which bought Pamplin and promptly laid off Oregon journalists, is set to take over EO Media next month. Oregonians deserve better than this.

[Andrea Ball @andreeball]

Ok, storytellers. Let's talk about the hardest story I have done in years: Anatomy of a Crash. It's about a high-speed chase in which four teens ran from police until the kids crashed.

One teen died & another charged with murder. 3 people injured. Two cops punished 1/

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

We canvassed tonight outside a podcast live-taping event @CascadePBS co-hosted, asking community members to send an email to our CEO (who makes nearly 7X the average unit member’s salary) voicing their support for a #FairContractNow. https://t.co/Dy51zSY9L3 (1/3)

[Kelcie Pegher @klcpegher]

Begging people asking for where the news is on any situation to google the local newspaper for the area.
@asheville is Asheville
@theobserver is Charlotte
@newsobserver is Raleigh
@knoxnews is Knoxville

Support local news

[FEMA @fema]

People who need help reconnecting with loved ones missing after #Helene can call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Be prepared to provide as much detail available to assist operators in potentially locating missing loved ones.

Info from @RedCross: https://t.co/NiDcOHzSWq

[Blue Ridge Public Radio @BlueRidgePublic]

The full picture of devastation is emerging from Hurricane Helene’s disastrous path through Western North Carolina.

To assist the public in looking for ways to contribute, volunteer, or donate, BPR has compiled the list of resources below.
https://t.co/XgIwobdYrb

[AnchorageNewsGuild @ancnewsguild]

We will continue to ask for voluntary recognition. How can you help? Please sign our petition to urge Ryan Binkley to grant us that recognition. https://t.co/3ljQSu640n

[AnchorageNewsGuild @ancnewsguild]

Today, the Anchorage News Guild learned ADN owner Ryan Binkley has declined our request for voluntary recognition of our union. ADN management has also hired an attorney from Littler Mendelson, a notoriously anti-union law firm.

[Denver Pratt @DenverPratt]

Young's defense attorneys are not disputing that he shot Rathbun & Thompson, but are instead arguing that Young did not act with intent and premeditation.

Young's jury trial is expected to last a few weeks. You can read @BhamHerald's initial story here: https://t.co/Z0paCF208k

[Denver Pratt @DenverPratt]

The attempted 1st-degree murder trial of Joel Berck Young started this week in Whatcom County Superior Court. Young is accused of shooting @whatcomsheriff deputies Ryan Rathbun & Jason Thompson in their faces w/birdshot 2.5 years ago while they responded to a neighborhood dispute

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

When I interviewed David Ford in 2018, he was in prison & had no teeth - but TDCJ wouldn't give him dentures. Then my story came out & they did.

I promised him that when he got out I'd take him to lunch so he could use them.

Last week, that finally happened.