Kristen Chick

Journalist. Usually writing about gender, sexual violence, and migration. Former Egypt/Middle East correspondent. She/her.

[Bethany Bruner @bethany_bruner]

I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned.

This confirms that the case exists.

https://t.co/eWvtBMxqZW

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

@kemettler @PostGuild This is so generous, Katie. Thank you!

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

The @PostGuild's new report on pay, diversity, and retention shows The Washington Post is struggling to retain Black employees. I wrote about it for @CJR https://t.co/7k6oXpSYBw

[Washington Post Guild @PostGuild]

Today, we’re publishing comprehensive reports that detail pay, retention and diversity at The Washington Post.

We hope their release will lead to transformation within our company, and help the push for progress in the industry at large. https://t.co/aKuLxBbGsf

[Columbia Journalism Review @CJR]

New: The @PostGuild released a new report on pay, diversity, and retention. It shows that the Washington Post is struggling to retain Black employees, @kristenchick reports.

https://t.co/mPdpDFDAn3

[Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv]

If you don't recognise these tactics, then you haven't been paying attention. From Kharkiv's frontline, #Ukraine @dcinfocus and Feras. With thanks to our local team. @BBCNews @BBCWorld Graphic content warning.

[Albert Samaha @AlbertSamaha]

UN peacekeepers fathered—then abandoned—dozens of children while stationed in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Now, those kids are trying to track down their fathers, and their mothers are seeking child support. A powerful story by @karlazabs: https://t.co/WdMkzoxQC2

[Marcus Yam 文火 @yamphoto]

“No one asks about us,” the brother of the man who died in the blast said. “All the newspapers and all the magazines spoke about the American troops that were killed. It’s frustrating, because Afghan murder, Afghan dead, Afghan blood — it’s not important.”
https://t.co/JUbcJGDfdD

[Maria Abi-Habib @Abihabib]

After making millions of dollars off the afghanistan war, Erik Prince is back at it, exploiting people’s desperation for cash. Prince is charging $6,500 a person to get people out of afghanistan while planes organized by NGOs leave Kabul empty https://t.co/8Lbo66YkgE

[Ruth Michaelson @msrmichaelson]

““The fear just sits inside your chest like a black bird. It opens its wings and you can’t breathe,” Muska Dastageer, a political science professor at the American University of Afghanistan, wrote on Twitter early on Monday morning.” https://t.co/JgRqvh1let

[Azmat Khan @AzmatZahra]

Are you an American journalist who's worked in Afghanistan?

Then there's a 100% chance you hired Afghan nationals to help you with your work.

Here's how you might be able to help them right now...

(a thread)

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

Brian Stelter, a so-called media reporter, is straight-up doing damage control for his employer. “Stelter would only say that it’s “really complicated,” adding that there is “no page for this” situation in the “journalism ethics book.”” https://t.co/558nuxKFaO

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

@wudanyan Depends on the story. My stories usually involve months of work and usually I contact people at least 3x over the course of at least several weeks.

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

The text of @feliciasonmez's discrimination lawsuit against The Washington Post for barring her from covering stories involving sexual assault after she disclosed her own includes jaw-dropping passage after jaw-dropping passage.
https://t.co/cb2PxHmRrX

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

I'm a week late to this, but you must make time for this gripping, devastatingly powerful personal account of the Uyghur genocide by poet @HamutTahir. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I finished.
https://t.co/VyREIp1eLp

[Rania Abouzeid @Raniaab]

This kind of abusive editor dynamic re #freelancers is sadly too common in #journalism & not just on photo desks. So too is knowledge of higher-ups who tolerate such bad behavior, as @kristenchick pointed out in her expose. Respect & thanks to colleagues who shared their stories

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

Read @DanielEtterFoto's account of how David Furst treated him after (and before) Daniel's work won the paper a Pulitzer Prize. https://t.co/6Ekwlbtoet

[Columbia Journalism Review @CJR]

What’s the difference between freelance writers and gig workers?

https://t.co/z91ci7WEtJ

[Kristen Chick @kristenchick]

A thread in which @arrejuan describes his own experiences with David Furst, similar to some described in the story.

[Juan Arredondo @arrejuan]

1/ I applaud those who shared their experiences with the former NYT editor David Furst. Yesterday in ⁦@CJR⁩ @kristenchick⁩ published the testimonies of several collegues who were berated, due to this editor’s toxic and belligerent actions. https://t.co/uEzRDWIilu