Nadia Lathan

political reporter @calmatters / @voiceofsandiego. formerly @AP. california girl, through and through. reach me: [email protected]

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

four seasons at my desk

[CalMatters @CalMatters]

The governor signed a bill Wednesday to give local newsrooms $20,000 in tax credits for up to five journalists and an additional $15,000 for every additional reporter, with no cap. https://t.co/A1C636leJJ

📸 Alisha Jucevic

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

What do you call this bit of display copy the NYT has added that’s like a souped-up byline+dateline. Whatever it is, great way to communicate to readers the work that goes into reporting. This one from @michaelkruse is a particularly good example of showing your work.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Nikole Hannah Jones will be interviewed by her daughter for an episode of “This American Life” airing on September 27 at 7pm CT https://t.co/MMDyqFxs8s

[Nadia Lathan @nlathanjourno]

California sheriff broke election law by seizing ballots, state Supreme Court rules @frombenc and @nigelduara
https://t.co/78EFKwdHd2

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

An amicus brief defending our colleagues at CNN, MS NOW + Politico, signed by:

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, WHCA, Advance Publications, ABC, AP, the Atlantic, Axios, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, CBS, Center for Investigative Reporting, Chicago Public Media ...

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Just off the briefing room in the press workspace at the White House:

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Journalists are annoying. Officials get tired of our questions; readers may wish we asked different ones.

(Frankly, we annoy each other as we compete for scoops.)

But being annoying — pushing our government for answers — is part of the press freedom that makes America great.

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

Although Katie Porter has indicated she's leaving politics, her leftover campaign contributions are sticking around a little bit longer as she opens up a committee for state Treasurer in 2034 so that they aren't forfeited to the state.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage. https://t.co/bUt4s3Dp9l

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: https://t.co/crffXvPqH4

[Nadia Lathan @nlathanjourno]

Child marriage is legal in CA. I got to the bottom of why Democrats have kept the antiquated practice legal for so long, even as Republican-controlled states moved to tighten marriage laws over the past decade. My latest for @CalMatters #caleg
https://t.co/2iGMXV3InY

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Heartbroken for NBC's Los Angeles station as the journalists cover the deadly crash of NewsChopper 4. The city's TV news community is tight-knit. The news chopper pilots "look out for one another," as one reporter said on air. "Tremendous camaraderie." Tonight, a terrible loss.

[Kate Wolffe @katewolffe]

CA's High Speed Rail Authority paid nearly $600k in unallowable travel expenses over a two-year period, according to the inspector that oversees the agency. From @JWilliamsJourno & Yue Stella Yu

https://t.co/2chRG3NZdu

[Nadia Lathan @nlathanjourno]

@TylerGillly Sending well wishes to your beautiful orange boy.

[Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler @ggreschler]

Big @sfstandard scoop this AM: The feds are running a criminal investigation into Newsom’s international travel.

The records sought include communications with Becca Prowda, Newsom's chief protocol officer — and the wife of SF Mayor Daniel Lurie.

https://t.co/xCHf4hnBqB

[CalMatters @CalMatters]

The two commissioners were let go following their decisions to release men convicted of sex crimes against children. https://t.co/DxL3CX5crU

📷️ Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

[Carol Marbin Miller @MarbinMiller]

The Herald reporter who broke that story is no longer here. Her replacement in the Capital is no longer here. The job likely will be eliminated. Of what significance is government in the sunshine when there are no watchdogs to look in all those otherwise dark places? (7)

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

The process for applying for a push alert at the New York ‘Times’ takes place in a Slack channel called “Notifications,” where desk editors lobby for stories they think warrant a boost. A standing message from the push-alert team offers some guidance: “Accuracy, quality and speed, in that order.” Extensive chains of replies tend to follow each proposed alert, in which editors tweak the language to perfection before lighting up the home screens of the millions of people who have the ‘Times’ app. “It’s like when you launch a nuclear missile,” says one ‘Times’ journalist. “You want redundancy.”

If it feels like a lot is riding on the humble push alert, writes Charlotte Klein, it’s because there is. Amid a traffic apocalypse brought on by the death of search and social media, notifications have become an indispensable, if often high-wire, way for major news outlets to connect directly with readers.

“They’re really important, but the phone is such a chaotic scene with a blizzard of push alerts now that it’s really hard to break through,” says ‘Times’ deputy managing editor Sam Dolnick. “I wouldn’t say that it’s a silver bullet by any means. But it’s a really useful way to tap somebody on the shoulder and say ‘Hey, check this out.’”

Read more from Klein on how newsrooms are competing in an age of traffic scarcity: https://t.co/x6Hmceue5y

[Natalie Andrews @natalieandrews]

A reporting tip I got from @siobhanehughes when I started covering Capitol Hill -- reach out to enough people to get rejected 10 times every day.

(and when we'd both hit 10 nos, we'd go get doughnuts)