The State of The Times: Heartless. Red banner with NYT Tech Guild logo
Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.
Trump wants more data centers to generate their own power.
But living next to tech industry gas turbines has made this VA neighborhood "unbearable" due to noise. One resident is taking sleeping pills, another can't walk his dog.
My latest for @eenews.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/one...
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
“If this can happen here, what’s to stop data centers like this happening outside the gates of Gettysburg or the entrance to Yellowstone?”
My latest data center piece for @eenews.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/it-...
Readers deserve journalism that lives up to our ethical standards regardless of how it is created. And journalists deserve to have a say in how new technology impacts our work.
NEW: After years of bargaining, unionized editorial staff at Fortune have won their first contract for both digital and print employees with @nyguild.bsky.social!
The deal lifts wages 11% for the life of the deal, provides job security protections and more.
newsguild.org/staff-at-for...
But RFKjr *has* expressed support for a new Executive Order this week ensuring adequate supplies of the herbicide glycosphate, which has been linked to cancers and which he previously sued the manufacturer over
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that contaminates people when air pollution settles on rivers and streams and gets into the fish we eat. Current Health Secretary RFK jr once had mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna, but has been silent these rollbacks
www.eenews.net/articles/rfk...
I wrote about deregulation in the name of AI a few months ago. At the time, the new coal loophole was just a proposal, now it's final.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
This rollback is especially notable as more coal plants are staying online past previous retirement dates to power data centers and AI.
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
When FBI agents raided the home of Post journalist Hannah Natanson last month, they seized her devices and refused to return them.
To help journalists protect themselves, we are sponsoring a digital security training with @freedom.press. Join us Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. ET
newsguild.org/newsguild-ho...
Please tell all journalism professors that The Plain Dealer was the best outlet its size in the world until Chris Quinn showed up to dismantle it and ran us all off, and attribute it to a former assistant managing editor thx
Oh god no it is not
Your local journalists mostly have 2nd and 3rd jobs
No joke - you give up a lot to love journalism
An amazing, deeply-reported story from @arielwittenberg.bsky.social on how data centers are subverting local democracy and upending entire communities. Really calls into question the whole "Abundance Liberal" movement. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
EXCLUSIVE: ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before the Minneapolis shootings.
Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership didn't see it as a concern to be addressed.
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
The Trump administration pushes for more AI--but what does that mean for communities on the ground?
For @politico.com Magazine, I tell the story of one VA county where local politics is struggling to reign in data center impacts on residents' health/peace of mind
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
"When civilians ask large language models questions about their health, the technology often gets it wrong."
"The advancements could inadvertently expose more people to medical misinformation." h/t POLITICO Pulse
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
Environmental health reporter in me seeing Bad Bunny's linemen and thinking of all the Puerto Ricans who died due to lack of power following Hurricane Maria (and the political controversy over the death count that followed)
apnews.com/article/a705...
We have launched a new fundraiser to support The Washington Post's courageous international employees and local staff who were laid off, who are not eligible for Guild protections, and who face additional logistical challenges and security risks.
Please give & share widely:
gofund.me/e765aab9f
another year of us not running a super bowl ad
Today's rally at The Post building was a powerful show of solidarity from fellow unions, community members, longtime Post readers, past and current Post journalists, international press, city council members, and everyone else who knows that we must #SaveThePost
Thank you for your solidarity. ✊
![Hand-made signs with cut-out letters. One says "We [heart] Post Reporters". The other uses the print newspaper section heds to write: "METRO, SPORTS, STYLE, THE WORLD PROTECT THE WASHINGTON POST"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cdv2pqnwpgqvwp7i4h6qqm3m/bafkreibt5xze7sty3i2mulq2oh6alsktwcgbtzptvcitmctt67pd3rpkbe)
Hand-made signs with cut-out letters. One says "We [heart] Post Reporters". The other uses the print newspaper section heds to write: "METRO, SPORTS, STYLE, THE WORLD PROTECT THE WASHINGTON POST"
A large crowd rallies in front of a building. A sign reads "Democracy cries in darkness".
Our members joined the #SaveThePost rally in D.C. today to protest the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. We stand in solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Support laid off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... + www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... ✊
I couldn't string sentences together yesterday, Maybe that's a sign that I shouldn't have been spared when all my fantastic colleagues who unfairly lost their jobs pushed through their grief to write beautiful notes about their careers and the situation at The Washington Post. The health team lost 8 out of 13 reporters yesterday despite health listed as part of The Post's new pared down focus. Just six months after becoming an editor and having the honor to lead an all-star team covering federal health agencies and public health, I have to go back to reporting because there are barely any health reporters left to edit. I'll say more about the reporters we lost later today, but as a team, we did everything we were supposed to do under the vision for The Post to be a digital innovator that breaks news, offers hard-hitting accountability and directly address reader concerns. We landed exclusives on the CDC director's firing, plans to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule, projections for steep ACA marketplace rate increases and more. We avoided dutiful iterative stories and covered storylines such as the expiration of enhanced ACA premiums with smart targeted angles that were widely read. We broke the mold of a traditional newspaper with clever formats including a pop-up newsletter and live chats to help readers navigate new restrictions on coronavirus vaccines, a quiz to understand new dietary guidelines and vertical videos to showcase reporter expertise. The Metro section where I started my career (and offers a clear reason for millions of potential subscribers to pay for us instead of or in addition to other national outlets!) is hollowed out. Reporters around the world wiped out after the owner set a vision for international relevance. A sports department home to journalistic legends shuttered. And so much more bleeding across the entire newsroom.
The Washington Post gutted the health team which I helped to lead despite our stories being among the most widely read, impactful and adept at reaching new audiences.
NEW: A look at how Jeffrey Epstein’s tremendous wealth and connections opened doors at a prestigious New York City hospital — from a 24/7 hotline for the "board and donor community" to house calls.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
I was told today my Washington Post job is being eliminated
It's just a job, but it's one that I was proud to do for 8+ yrs alongside the best in the business
I'm here for opportunities to tell stories about the natural world and how we impact it
dino.grandoni@gmail.com
This is an image of a poster promoting the rally that will run from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, at 1301 K St. NW to save The Washington Post newsroom from rumored mass layoffs.
Join us Thursday for a rally to #SaveThePost!! The rally will run from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at 1301 K St. NW!!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
