Kate Berryan

TBI Advocate, Buracracy Ninja, and the wrong mom to mess with!

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pope Leo is right: "How can we ensure that the development of artificial intelligence truly serves the common good, and is not just used to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few?”

We must demand that the benefits of this technology work for all, not just the rich.

[John T. McDonald III - Member of NYS Assembly @johnmcdonald108]

I commend the Rensselaer Fire Department and School District for their efforts to encourage future generations of firefighters and commend these young men and women for making an excellent choice! 3/3

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Union workers fought and died to help create a decent standard of living for all Americans.

I recently visited the Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, West Virginia. I learned a lot.  
If you’re ever in the area, check it out:

https://t.co/5iXA7kxT7g

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

https://t.co/Laf0R1RTkw

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

After two and a half years Hannah is back in NYS 💪✊❤️

[Habitat Seattle-King County @habitatskc]

Liz, one of our incredible #AmeriCorps members, reflects on the empowerment she finds in teaching new volunteers, and watching them grow.

#AmeriCorpsWeek #EmpowermentInAction

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

Please support this GoFundMe by donating or sharing—every bit of help makes a difference. It is with overwhelming JOY that Team Hannah announces HANNAH IS COMING HOME TO NYS Please help Kate & Hannah reunite.Oklahoma has been too far for too long!

https://t.co/P33G5mko92

[Mid-Hudson News @MidHudsonNews]

Ulster Comptroller @marchgallagher seeks re-election

https://t.co/JwklRTxyWm

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@everyone

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

https://t.co/CEUTSlKTRA What IS happening in NYS to brain injury survivors and their families is wrong and I will never stop advocating for the medically necessary treatments needed to thrive after a brain injury 💪 @wrongmomtomesswith #NeverGiveUpNeverGiveIn 💚

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@johnmcdonald108 @SenatorHinchey
Thank you for your support, dedication and commitment to Hannah and all brain injury survivors and their families 💪💚✊

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

New York to review traumatic brain injury care under new law. What IS happening in NYS to brain injury survivors & their families is wrong. I will never stop advocating for the medically necessary treatments needed to thrive after a brain injury 💪
https://t.co/yrwpa6Ccjw

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@wrongmomtomesswith #NeverGiveUpNeverGiveIn

[John T. McDonald III - Member of NYS Assembly @johnmcdonald108]

Proud to have sponsored this bill in the Assembly that mandates the TBI Services Coordinating Council to gather data and make recommendations to improve care, particularly in underserved rural areas

https://t.co/eUIDIu2lYZ

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@johnmcdonald108 What IS happening in NYS to brain injury survivors and their families is wrong and I will never stop advocating for the medically necessary treatments needed to thrive after a brain injury 💪 @wrongmomtomesswith #NeverGiveUpNeverGiveIn
Thank you @johnmcdonald108

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

Mother's dedication to helping daughter inspires traumatic brain injury legislation in N.Y. https://t.co/he9hOdOrfm

💪💚✊

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@NYDisabilityAdv 💪💚✊ @wrongmomtomesswith

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@NYDisabilityAdv https://t.co/67kZ2qTNeA

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

I know many of you will roll your eyes at this, but that's OK; I wouldn't be in this field if I was afraid of being dunked on every now and then.

When I first came to The Washington Post in 2017, I was extremely wary it would be too establishment for me. Too corporate. Too deferential to power.

What I have instead found over the last seven years is that the paper has consistently given me a unique, awesome platform to fulfill the highest calling of journalism -- to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. 

The Post has spared no resource in allowing me to pursue this mission. It flew me to Puerto Rico to interview hurricane victims cut off from federal food stamp aid. To Maine to cover the long-term care crisis facing the nation's elderly. To Kentucky to document the closure of a steel plant. To Las Vegas to cover the housing crisis. To Wisconsin for farmers caught in the crosshairs of a trade war. To Detroit for a story on the nation's unraveling safety net. To the Bronx to chronicle appalling public housing conditions. (OK, I took the train there.) To Ukraine to cover a war. To Indonesia for meetings of the world's most powerful financial leaders. 

Since the beginning of the year, the Post has devoted thousands of manpower hours to a series -- six parts published thus far -- on the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions. This effort included paying me and a team to travel to northeast Guatemala to chronicle an economic calamity almost 2,000 miles away from my desk, in one of the poorest parts of the world. At least 20 people have worked on this series alone. The Post did not greenlight this series because it thought there would be huge pageviews in U.S. sanctions policy; it did so because it's important for the public to understand how the surging use of the tool is affecting the world and the nation's foreign policy. It did so because the story matters.

I fully understand the misgivings people have expressed about billionaire control over our journalism. (I published a story today -- pitched by an editor, put by editors on today's front page -- about billionaires threatened by Trump who are now hedging their bets.) But these are stories that require more than just substantial resources; they require a devotion to journalism that seeks to document how machinations in Washington affect the lives outside it.

I could try a Substack where I spout off whatever happens to be in my head that day. I could work for a publication that only caters to lobbyists and elite insiders. But there are precious few publications still doing the coverage -- however incomplete; however still in need of improvement -- aimed at serving the broader public at large. I believe The Washington Post is one of them.

I am not here to tell anyone what to do. We are imperfect. My work can suffer from negativity bias, recency bias, imperfect data, faulty assumptions, motivated sources. I get things wrong. My journalism can be flawed and you should yell at me on twitter when it is. I want to be more transparent about the decisions I make and the stories I publish.

But I promise you: I and many, many other journalists throughout this newsroom would quit The Washington Post if we ever felt our work was not in service of the public at large. That is the point of the job. That is why I hope we get to do it for as long as possible.

[Kate Berryan @kjb0768]

@TBI_MS @marchgallagher 👀