Leah Worthington

co-host of #theedge pod / words all over the place / formerly @rwcpulse @californiamag / she/her / hablo español

[EM News Guild @EMNewsGuild]

🚨 Exciting news 🚨

We’ve won voluntary recognition from Embarcadero Media management with 90% support of eligible staff at @almanacnews, @danvillesanramo, @LVineNews, @mvvoice, @paloaltoonline, Peninsula Foodist, @PleasantonNews, @rwcpulse and @sixfifty_says publications.

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

what a huge loss for radio

[julia longoria @hooliwho]

The incredibly talented team @MorePerfect lost our jobs today. I’m feeling so grateful for the time we spent telling vital, heartbreaking, damn good stories about the high court. And now, we plot the next move 👀

[San Francisco Chronicle Guild @SFCGuild]

We love to see more news outlets unionizing, especially local ones! Solidarity with @EMNewsGuild ✊

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

hot girl summer is out

hot labor fall is in 🍁🍁🍁

[Julia Brown @juliabrown514]

#Hotlaborfall is a thing right? Proud to be part of Embarcadero Community News Guild and to join my newsroom colleagues in working to make Embarcadero Media better for our employees and readers.

[EM News Guild @EMNewsGuild]

We’ve got some big news! We, the newsroom at Embarcadero Media, are unionizing with 90% support among reporters, visual journalists, designers and editors. Here’s our mission statement.

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

So proud of my former coworkers for taking this brave and important step. Behind you 1000%. #UnionStrong ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

[EM News Guild @EMNewsGuild]

We’ve got some big news! We, the newsroom at Embarcadero Media, are unionizing with 90% support among reporters, visual journalists, designers and editors. Here’s our mission statement.

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

Yikes 😅😅😅

'We regret this bike lane:' SF cyclist adds new signs on Valencia St. https://t.co/oiIafwGY2i via @MLNow

[angelaswartz @angelaswartz]

🧵I spent 4 months digging into why students have missed so much school after noticing nearly 52% of #Ravenswood City School District students missed at least 10% or more of the school year during the 2021-22 school year

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

Big shoutout to @starstrickenSF for explaining really confusing—but really cool—things about the nature of the universe in a way that actually makes sense ✨

[California Magazine @californiamag]

Roughly every second, a star explodes.

Berkeley astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance joins us on the 23rd episode of #TheEdge to talk about exploding stars and our universe as a pancake.
https://t.co/bzT615v9f3

[Susan Gonzalez (@susangonzalez.bsky.social) @TheNewsan]

I do not want to be a journalist today I want to be a cat in a bath eating macarons

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

the particular glee of sending a follow-up on a PRA request and citing "Per Government Code §7922.535"

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

really wanted to love this center bike lane because how could ANYTHING be worse than the existing situation, but no apparently it is now somehow worse.

at what point do we just close Valencia to car traffic??!!

[Luke Bornheimer (Streets Forward) @LukeBornheimer]

The Valencia center cycle is flawed; SFMTA should replace it ASAP.

“It is an abomination. It is the worst infrastructure I have ever seen anywhere in the world. You save lives, you keep people safe, by using tried and tested techniques.” –@ColvilleAndersn https://t.co/7tIDIzkVTa

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

Really diving into the deep end with this next podcast episode for @californiamag

[Gimlet Union @GimletUnion]

Yesterday @Spotify announced that Gimlet and Parcast no longer exist. Here is our joint statement with @ParcastUnion. Full text threaded below: 🧵

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

@papio_anubis @NSF @UasoNgiro @museumsofkenya I want to come!!!

[Leah Worthington @leahptw]

First award for our lil news baby the @rwcpulse!

Honored to be part of the mighty team that brought this story to life.

[Palo Alto Weekly @paloaltoweekly]

Staff writers @zoemuirmorgan, @angelaswartz (@almanacnews) and @leahptw (@rwcpulse) won first place in coverage of youth and education. Here's their story on the controversial zero period: https://t.co/aLud4z6Vup

[Alastair Boone @alastairboone]

It’s hard for me to express how deeply devastated I am by this news. After 28 years of uplifting the voices and stories of unhoused people in the East Bay, Street Spit will halt publication starting July 1. My hope is that this is temporary. Info below ⬇️

[Ben Christopher @FromBenC]

SB423 gets out of committee with some major amendments: A skilled and trained workforce requirement is back in BUT with some major exceptions:
- Only applies to mixed-income projects > 85ft
- Is waived if a project can't get bids from at least 3 qualified subcontractors

[Chiara Eisner 🎤 @ChiaraEisner]

Right after @npr aired execution tapes I found at a library, the Virginia Dept of Corrections asked for the tapes — and 100s more #execution files — back.

Today, we’re publishing a collection of those now off limits docs to keep them publicly accessible: https://t.co/AXs0J3MP76