Bethany Barnes

Not here anymore! Find me on Bluesky! Deputy investigative editor @TB_Times. Contributor @LMattersNews. Past: @Oregonian, Vegas papers. [email protected].

[Bethany Barnes @BetsBarnes]

NEW: After hundreds of manatees died, we wanted to understand how a tragedy like this happened.

We found a crisis across Florida. Hundreds of waterways have become dangerously polluted.

w/ @ZackSampson @shreyavut

https://t.co/bOK05jZ9vy

cc: @Longreads @sundaylongread

[Bethany Barnes @BetsBarnes]

@StephenKing I know you followed the Piney Point disaster closely.

A team of us investigated Florida's water quality and found a slow-motion horror story: over and over, Florida leaders have sided with business at the expense of nature:
https://t.co/xzq6RuzIJT

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New records obtained by @TheFloridaTrib show Florida officials burned more than $1.2 million per day on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ - sometimes substantially more - and originally sought $1.4 billion from the feds.

✍️ @hellokatepayne

https://t.co/v9d33b0GRH

[Lisa Gartner @lisagartner]

If you are looking for a smart, kind and organized editor with investigative experience, you need to talk to @rwoolington. Working with Rebecca these past few months has been a dream. I am heartbroken that our partnership was cut short

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

Picked up my notebook this morning — full of notes from a recent reporting trip — and got hit with another wave of grief over all the stories that now won't be told. I'm looking for work, preferably in Kyiv, should anyone need a dogged, empathetic reporter. DM/email.

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[Rebecca Woolington @rwoolington]

Some personal news: After less than three months @washingtonpost, I was among those laid off today. Devastated for all my colleagues who were affected. Thank you to those who have reached out. I appreciate you so much. Please keep me in mind for any openings ❤️

[Sidney Hillman Foundation @SidneyHillman]

Regulators have been trying to tackle Florida's water pollution crisis since the 1970s, but the same problems of agricultural runoff and unchecked development continue to poison ecosystems and kill manatees.

[Sidney Hillman Foundation @SidneyHillman]

Congratulations to Zachary Sampson, Shreya Vuttaluru, Bethany Barnes and the whole team at the @TB_Times on winning this month's Sidney for their sweeping investigation of manatee deaths in Florida and the state's declining water quality.

[Sidney Hillman Foundation @SidneyHillman]

The @TB_Times wins the May Sidney for their first-of-its-kind investigation into the water quality crisis that is killing the state’s manatees: https://t.co/a6tMoPufIT

[Tampa Bay Times @TB_Times]

🎉 We’re honored to have our journalists’ work recognized by @SidneyHillman. Read their investigation into Florida’s polluted waterways: https://t.co/g5JYz6Qxt3

[Eric Conrad @EricConradFL]

The images in this piece will stay with me for a long time. It's so incredibly sad to read about what decades of environmental mismanagement have resulted in https://t.co/xdCc8leGfd

[Tampa Bay Times @TB_Times]

Manatees starved after poor water quality killed the seagrass they depended on. A Times investigation traced the tragedy to its roots and found it’s a dire example of a runaway pollution crisis in Florida.

This project was supported by @pulitzercenter

https://t.co/g5JYz6R5iB

[Bethany Barnes @BetsBarnes]

NEW: After a @TB_Times investigation found rising contamination, congressional leaders sound alarm https://t.co/nEtR0Bbdb4 w/ @ZackSampson @shreyavut

[Longreads @Longreads]

"When researchers cut into her remains, they discovered much of her fat had wasted away. . . .She should have weighed at least 1,000 pounds but was just 650. She’d starved." —Z. Sampson @shreyavut @BetsBarnes @TB_Times
https://t.co/mytAe1C1ek

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

Using faulty algorithms and flawed processes, California's biggest insurance companies routinely underestimate what their clients will need to rebuild. For wildfire survivors, it's a gut punch at the worst possible time.

Read ➡️ https://t.co/W0RdRHRwkj

🎥: @BronteWittpenn

[shreya vuttaluru @shreyavut]

We spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to track water quality statewide. Read about our data analysis here:

https://t.co/ZQ6cKa1WXK

[Bethany Barnes @BetsBarnes]

You can read more about the analysis and how we did the story here.

"Reporters analyzed millions of water sampling results that spanned more than two decades."

https://t.co/ynl0ybq7NM

[Bethany Barnes @BetsBarnes]

NEW: After hundreds of manatees died, we wanted to understand how a tragedy like this happened.

We found a crisis across Florida. Hundreds of waterways have become dangerously polluted.

w/ @ZackSampson @shreyavut

https://t.co/bOK05jZ9vy

cc: @Longreads @sundaylongread

[Bethany Barnes @BetsBarnes]

The story provides a never-before-seen look at the horrors of the manatee die off. There are photos taken by people who were on the ground, responding to the overwhelming crisis.

We read 7,000+ emails to capture what scientists faced in real time "We have a 5-alarm fire here"

[Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter]

@shreyavut @ZackSampson @BetsBarnes @TB_Times To understand the crisis manatees face, @shreyavut, @ZackSampson, & @BetsBarnes spoke with over 100 scientists, politicians, & environmentalists.

Here’s how they revealed that decades of pollution pushed Florida’s waterways to the brink. https://t.co/iFK0C30Whq