Holly J. McDede

Reporting for: KQED and ProPublica's Local Reporting Network.

[KQED News @KQEDnews]

‘Our School Felt Sick’: Former Staff Allege Turmoil at Berkley Maynard Academy https://t.co/YCbgq32DHw

[Holly J. McDede @HollyMcDede]

Let's get to work!! What an honor to be working with @TracyJan and @propublica

[Tracy Jan @TracyJan]

Welcome to @propublica latest Local Reporting Network partners!

So excited to continue working with @RichardAWebster at @veritenewsnola and to collab with @HollyMcDede at @KQED, my hometown public radio station!

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Records I obtained show San Ramon Valley Unified reprimanded the teacher after finding condoms in his classroom, then promised not to say anything negative about him when he resigned.

https://t.co/MvCyRmMjm9

[First Amendment Coalition (follow us on Bluesky) @FACoalition]

Great overview by @mariana_dale @laist about @LASchools' spotty public records response history, including FAC's reply to the district's demand for $8,000 to search for records requested by @hollymcdede: https://t.co/gQmPLOvg6K

[First Amendment Coalition (follow us on Bluesky) @FACoalition]

Unbelievable. @LASchools made @HollyMcDede wait 11 months after she requested records only to assess $8,000 in fees just to search for them. FAC tells LAUSD why this is unlawful. https://t.co/tXlfVlmKy9

[Holly J. McDede @HollyMcDede]

@loveluvsya Sorry to be messaging you about this now, but I'm just seeing this post and am interested in learning more. Could you email me at [email protected] to discuss?

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I present...the greatest radio story I've ever produced. Or at least definitely in the Top 5 of most joyful and life-affirming, and the only one about aliens, funk music, and an entire Universal Funk Opera.

Give it a listen!

https://t.co/qIoFnjIo24

[Scott Morris ☀️ @OakMorr]

.@HollyMcDede has been working for months on this story and went to court with the @FACoalition to compel the release of these records.

They finally answer the question of how a teacher charged with molesting students was allowed back in a classroom. https://t.co/X5HLafnosK

[The Vallejo Sun ☀️ @thevallejosun]

Transparency victory! Following up on her stories for the Vallejo Sun about a Benicia teacher accused of sexual misconduct, reporter @HollyMcDede teamed up with the @FACoalition to compel the district to release records about the case. https://t.co/0lrm3ET42z

[Holly J. McDede @HollyMcDede]

"Like many others, I feared this might reflect what epidemiologists call a depletion of susceptibles, a grim term that can describe the waning of an epidemic because the most vulnerable people have perished."

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This press has introduced me to writing like 'Incubation: A Space for Monsters': "I had never heard the word Oregon before. Like the distance of Scotland from London, it seemed impossibly far. A beautiful hazard: to go and keep going."

[Holly J. McDede @HollyMcDede]

Thank you to @berkeleyside for letting me spend some time with Kelsey Street Press, a publisher founded in the 1970s. The women's movement seemed to "turn the air into one of possibility" and experimental, feminist poets carved space for themselves.

https://t.co/tZMQeITUjP

[Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio]

@FogCityBlues @KALW @SPJ_NorCal Check out @HollyMcDede's award-winning Roving Philosophical Report (edited by @ang_johnston) here: https://t.co/ND4xeDoi1a #righteousrage

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The questions of Nottingham:

At 75, am I supposed to make a citizen's arrest to stop all the weed smokers?

https://t.co/7lJPPhjWnd

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@FogCityBlues Please sign me up to the next philosophy talk segment on baseball and heartbreak and where fandom goes when teams leaaaaaave

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"But you know, there is no next season in Oakland. And it kills me."

(Luckily, I sat by an A's fan who says Vegas will fall through and they'll be back, so I'll opt to believe that for the next few days at least)

https://t.co/JqOGWQG3hd

[Holly J. McDede @HollyMcDede]

A very sweet piece on the music of the last A’s game:

https://t.co/OCy6XmnX1R

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Photos: The raucous, rebellious, tearful last stand of the Oakland A’s https://t.co/Ds0St3alKg via @sfchronicle

[Ben Ross @BenRossTweets]

Imagine losing this