Carol Ritchie

Editor @nprnews

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@atrupar Also, if you turn it into a pile of crap, people stop paying for it

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@ReillyRick All the reporters need to stand up for each other, not just the men for the women

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up 4 each other. I once got into a brawl w/ a U Miami ass't coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer. Grow a pair!

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@ron_fournier Could not agree more, Ron

[hazel☀️ @sodiumPen]

it's that time of year! dc water is flushing the pipes with chlorine

for some reason they made a really bad music video about it "chlorinate me one more time" featuring their horrifying water droplet mascot

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@Milbank noooooooooooooooooooooooooo dang

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.

Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.

Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.

The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.

Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at https://t.co/MQvByA4atR and https://t.co/v6ghw99u1K — it takes two minutes and it matters.

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@dcsportsbog Incredible

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@byaaroncdavis @jennygathright 😢

[Aaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis]

I often refrain from saying anything here that I’ve already seen posted or reposted by someone else. So while I was tempted yesterday to say it was the worst day of my nearly 18 years at The Post, it had already been said - and said well by many others. But today, for the record, since there is not one mention of it in the print edition delivered to my home in the nation’s capital: leaders at The Washington Post yesterday laid off 300 journalists. They closed bureaus around the globe, leaving fewer eyes on vital power centers and hostile regimes. They vastly shrunk our ability to cover the District of Columbia and the surrounding area. They abandoned the coverage of sports teams central to the region’s identity and at a time when upheaval and online sports gambling has become pervasive. They fired a stunning number of talented colleagues who make sense of the world around us in technology, business, education, climate, health and more. They fired journalists who take and select photos, edit video, produce audio, sketch graphics and who conceive and create other forms of digital story telling. They fired Pulitzer winning investigative reporters who spent the last year writing about the growing political influence of billionaires and dedicated editors and unsung heroes who every day save our copy from errors. It was, by any metric, a Washington Post-worthy news story, a story of gross corporate fiscal mismanagement, of a loss of independent media - of the buckling, critics would say; “restructuring,”  Post leaders would say - of an American institution.
In the newsroom, there are goodbyes to come for so many journalists I’ve been proud to call colleagues. Sadly, it was not a one-day story, readers will soon see.

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@barrysvrluga 😠

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

Former WaPost Executive Editor Marty Baron on paper's decision not to endorse in WH race:

"This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty. "

MORE BELOW:

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Fox News anchor @BretBaier, who is about to interview Kamala Harris, is all too keenly aware that Fox's viewers want him to affirm what they already feel – namely, extreme disdain for Harris and overwhelming distrust of the media. His X feed says it all... 🧵

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@animolfrens @contextdogs O

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

This is excellent news

[The 51st @51stnews]

🧵 When DCist was shut down, we watched as so many of you mourned the loss of a vital local news source. A team of us got to thinking: What if we could create an outlet controlled by us (the journalists) and you (our community)? No executives involved.

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@BenVernia @WNYC @scifri too?

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

@CharlieSlowes chills

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

Hey, @onthemedia !

[mstdn.party/@BenVernia @BenVernia]

Hey, @WNYC: Your podcasts’ audio branding hurts my ears!
Here’s a clip from the opening of On the Media this week. It covers the time shortly before and shortly after the 1:00 (1 minute) mark.

[Carol Ritchie @LCarolRitchie]

Bad day for trees