Leah Varjacques

Producer @vicenews. Formerly @nytimes.and @TheAtlantic

[Leah Varjacques @leahvarjacques]

Beyond proud of you and can’t wait to read/hear all your stories!!! 🤗❤️👏🏼

[Ishan Thakore @ithakore]

Thrilled to annouce I'll be joining Colorado Public Radio (@CPRNews) as a Climate and Environment journalist, starting in a few weeks. Excited to dig into a beat I truly care about with some amazing colleagues 🌎 💪 🎧

[VICE Union @viceunion]

It has been almost 3 months since most of our post-petition colleagues—people who were officially let go after VICE declared bankruptcy on May 15—stopped getting paychecks.

Many haven't received a single dollar in the severance they are owed. Here are some of their experiences.

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

Today, VICE staff were informed that the sale to Fortress et al. is complete. Our @viceunion members call on the new owners to recognize their union contracts we’ve worked hard to secure, and to pay the remaining severance to laid off staff.

#WGAstrong

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

Congratulations to the VICE News Tonight team! Shame on management, who are dampening this celebration by withholding many laid off employees’ severance pay. Shame.

[VICE Union @viceunion]

A HUGE congratulations to everyone who worked on VICE News Tonight and its epic 28 Emmy nominations. An equally huge WTF to management, which gutted VNT with mass layoffs months ago and still hasn’t paid the majority their severance.

[VICE Union @viceunion]

To the VICE executives: We see you.

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

Today at VICE I was unable to pull a court record, which costs 10 cents, because the company isn't paying bills

Meanwhile so many execs, some which led VICE to bankruptcy, make $700-900k, including bonuses at the time VICE laid off much cheaper workers. It's worse than I thought

[Leah Varjacques @leahvarjacques]

Our latest about the drag bans popping up all over the country. Featuring brilliant interviewing by @Vegastenold beautiful cinematography by @mariamdwedar edited by the great Pat Mannion, and seniored by the one and only @joshuahersh

[VICE News @VICENews]

A network of Christian nationalist groups are behind a slew of bills banning drag across the country. VICE News' @Vegastenold met the leaders of this movement in Idaho and the drag performers who are impacted.

Watch more:
https://t.co/uQ1KkqLIbG

[Emily Green @emilytgreen]

Inspired and guided by the NRA, Brazil's pro-gun movement has become unstoppable. President Bolsonaro will likely lose the upcoming election, but he’s unleashed a force that will shape the country's politics for yrs to come. W/ the great @leahvarjacques
https://t.co/Qi1TNgJItH

[VICE News @VICENews]

Thousands of people got sick after a leak at a Navy fuel facility poisoned Hawaii's water. Now families are dealing with unexplainable health problems.
https://t.co/kAYa00ny3n

[Leah Varjacques @leahvarjacques]

Co-reported with @meenasaurus shot with @CassGiraldo edited by Rachel Win & Anne Garrett, with help from @TomasJNavia and @ArmstrongJego

[Leah Varjacques @leahvarjacques]

Almost 100k people in #hawaii had their water poisoned by #Navy jet fuel from #redhill in November. We met families with potentially life-long health consequences and dig into the #DOD’s toxic legacy at its bases and host communities. https://t.co/SwAUOybJk3

[Ishan Thakore @ithakore]

For @THECITYNY and @IRE_NICAR , I spent months interviewing tenants and diving into housing court files. Here’s what I found, a 🧵

[Leah Varjacques @leahvarjacques]

@ithakore spent a year investigating this story and I’m in awe. Please read this incredibly important piece on the failures of the NYPD and housing court system to protect tenant rights in a city with some of the country’s best tenant protection laws

[The City Reporter @THECITYNY]

While thousands of tenants have filed cases claiming their landlords locked them out to defy the eviction moratorium, just a handful of landlords have been charged for illegal evictions.

https://t.co/Lf5k31DdZo

[Leah Varjacques @leahvarjacques]

Very excited for this!!

[Tomas Navia @TomasJNavia]

We spent months investigating the largest privately held nursing home chain in the US. The nursing home industry is a labyrinth of money and secrecy, mostly funded by taxpayers. Our doc pulls back the curtain. Tonight on tv; online in the coming days. Please give it a watch.

[VICE Union @viceunion]

Thanks so much for your support @desusnice, @THEKIDMERO, @lilly_wachowski, and all of the 40+ WGAE members at Showtime! We're fighting HARD to get a fair and equitable deal for everyone before our contract expires. https://t.co/4duSTxang6

[Tomas Navia @TomasJNavia]

@AOC At @VICENews we reported on this a few months back in our documentary, Disinfodemic/Desinfodemia (released in English and Spanish) to serve as a resource and hold platforms accountable. English: https://t.co/ikB4cGI31F Spanish: https://t.co/MJ813tEvUq

[Emily Green @emilytgreen]

El uso de dióxido de cloro para tratar el COVID ha ganado legitimidad en América Latina - nuestra nota en español.

Con @leahvarjacques, traducido por Laura Castro, editado por @mexicoreporter.

https://t.co/oSNn3RzxnA

[VICE News @VICENews]

Doctors in Bolivia are injecting people with bleach to prevent and treat COVID, and combat the “toxic effects” of vaccines. The country’s government legalized the production and sale of chlorine dioxide last year as an alternative treatment for COVID. https://t.co/Rn2zvspvoU

[Emily Green @emilytgreen]

The story of why Bolivian lawmakers legalized the use of chlorine dioxide (e.g. bleach) to treat COVID involves a German charlatan, misinformation on the internet, a political power struggle & even a decades old birth control campaign.

Please read/watch: https://t.co/56QK8TUzi2