Adriana Chavira
@adrianachavira.bsky.social
80s🎶, The Smiths & Ⓜ️. Hiker, runner & journalism teacher
13.1 x 19 & 26.2 X 2
#52HikeChallenge2017 & 2018
#SixPackOfPeaks 2016-17, 2019 & 2021-22
Ex-reporter but still a news junkie
13.1 x 19 & 26.2 X 2
#52HikeChallenge2017 & 2018
#SixPackOfPeaks 2016-17, 2019 & 2021-22
Ex-reporter but still a news junkie
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Happy Monday! I'm Adriana, a Chicana born & raised in Los Angeles. I love 80s music, especially The Smiths & Morrissey. I'm a former newspaper reporter & am now teaching journalism to the next generation. I'm also a runner & hiker. Please give me a follow if these are topics that interest you, too.
Excited to attend my first AEJMC conference. I'll be presenting with other educators from the California Press Foundation's board of directors on Saturday from 9:45 to 11 a.m. "JOUR•Ed Collaborative: Leading the Way for the Next Generation of Journalists."
AEJMC president, Teresa Mastin, and AEJMC president-elect, Bey-Ling Sha, welcome #AEJMC25 conference participants to San Francisco!
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Excited to attend my first AEJMC conference. I'll be presenting with other educators from the California Press Foundation's board of directors on Saturday from 9:45 to 11 a.m. "JOUR•Ed Collaborative: Leading the Way for the Next Generation of Journalists."
“No one asked me if I had the mental strength or not before they sued California over me or before they sent hundreds of students to protest against me all day, I just figured everything out on the go.”
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Photo Essay: A transgender high school athlete navigates a fight she never asked for
This 17-year-old transgender athlete has faced challenges on the track and in the national spotlight. We follow her through her tumultuous final semester of high school.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“No one asked me if I had the mental strength or not before they sued California over me or before they sent hundreds of students to protest against me all day, I just figured everything out on the go.”
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"The back of the barbershop he manages features a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a cactus plant and a Mexican flag. Sneakers hang by their laces from barbed wire, dangling above two motorbikes."
May 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"The back of the barbershop he manages features a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a cactus plant and a Mexican flag. Sneakers hang by their laces from barbed wire, dangling above two motorbikes."
The deadline is this week, so journalism advisers, have your students apply!
High schoolers, if you're passionate about journalism and want to make a difference, apply to the New Voices Student Leaders Institute! This free, online program will help you develop your leadership and advocacy skills in a fun, safe environment. loom.ly/Hk44D8g
May 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The deadline is this week, so journalism advisers, have your students apply!
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From @dailybruinan.bsky.social: College media across the country face serious budget crises. loom.ly/TPm_tqU
“It’s a real barrier to being able to do this work and being able to include a diversity of student perspectives in our reporting staff because we can’t afford to pay them for their labor."
“It’s a real barrier to being able to do this work and being able to include a diversity of student perspectives in our reporting staff because we can’t afford to pay them for their labor."
'Fight to keep these papers alive': Student journalists react to print budget cuts - Daily Bruin
Stefano Fendrich had only been editor in chief of the Daily Trojan for a few weeks when he received bad news. The University of Southern California’s Student Life office told him the paper had a budge...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
From @dailybruinan.bsky.social: College media across the country face serious budget crises. loom.ly/TPm_tqU
“It’s a real barrier to being able to do this work and being able to include a diversity of student perspectives in our reporting staff because we can’t afford to pay them for their labor."
“It’s a real barrier to being able to do this work and being able to include a diversity of student perspectives in our reporting staff because we can’t afford to pay them for their labor."
“People really did believe these mass protests, these big, multicultural protests,” were going to be “transformative” in the fight for racial justice, said Hakeem Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. They were just not the way people expected
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Much of the ‘racial reckoning’ efforts after Floyd’s murder never emerged
Hours into his second term, President Donald Trump started a campaign to dismantle DEI efforts, including those launched in response to George Floyd’s death.
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May 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“People really did believe these mass protests, these big, multicultural protests,” were going to be “transformative” in the fight for racial justice, said Hakeem Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. They were just not the way people expected
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📚 Before you dive into your #SummerReading, make sure that book you’ve heard about actually exists!
📰 A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch to find out how it happened & what it means for #MediaLiteracy 👇🏾
📰 A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch to find out how it happened & what it means for #MediaLiteracy 👇🏾
📚Before you dive into your #SummerReading, make sure that book you’ve heard about actually exists! A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch ...
TikTok video by News Literacy Project
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May 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
📚 Before you dive into your #SummerReading, make sure that book you’ve heard about actually exists!
📰 A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch to find out how it happened & what it means for #MediaLiteracy 👇🏾
📰 A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch to find out how it happened & what it means for #MediaLiteracy 👇🏾
If you were at Cruel World, who was your favorite performance? Mine was Garbage followed by The Go-Go's.
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10 performances we saw at Cruel World, ranked
The Goldenvoice celebration of all things postpunk, new wave and alternative landed at Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, led by New Order and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Here's a list of the pe...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If you were at Cruel World, who was your favorite performance? Mine was Garbage followed by The Go-Go's.
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Get moving!
"Researchers found that “huff-and-puff” movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-term memory."
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"Researchers found that “huff-and-puff” movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-term memory."
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Just 5 minutes a day of these exercises can sharpen your brain as you age
A recent study found that ‘huff-and-puff’ movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-ter...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Get moving!
"Researchers found that “huff-and-puff” movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-term memory."
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"Researchers found that “huff-and-puff” movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-term memory."
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I'm excited to see one of my favorite bands at Cruel World on Saturday.
“Good music is good music, isn’t it? It always floats to the top,” he says. “Buy a New Order record, it’s a good investment for the rest of your life.”
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“Good music is good music, isn’t it? It always floats to the top,” he says. “Buy a New Order record, it’s a good investment for the rest of your life.”
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45 years later, New Order's music is ‘more successful’ than ever — but why? 'It's got soul'
New Order headlines the Cruel World festival on May 17 alongside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It’s an unexpected ’80s revival that has maintained steady enough attendance to point toward becoming a st...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm excited to see one of my favorite bands at Cruel World on Saturday.
“Good music is good music, isn’t it? It always floats to the top,” he says. “Buy a New Order record, it’s a good investment for the rest of your life.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“Good music is good music, isn’t it? It always floats to the top,” he says. “Buy a New Order record, it’s a good investment for the rest of your life.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“We’re telling students: Don’t exercise your voice, don’t exercise your power of the press in any sort of meaningful way, because we don’t feel comfortable with it. It just seems like a lousy lesson to teach, especially right now.”
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Their school can censor the student press. They are trying to change that.
Student journalists at Alexandria City High School want the school system to change a policy allowing their principal to review stories before publication.
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May 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“We’re telling students: Don’t exercise your voice, don’t exercise your power of the press in any sort of meaningful way, because we don’t feel comfortable with it. It just seems like a lousy lesson to teach, especially right now.”
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"...these reporters have been grappling with tough questions over source and author anonymity, journalist safety, online harassment and the role of student journalism in Trump’s America. Their age belies the significance of their work, multiple of them said."
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Under Trump, student journalism is ‘trial by fire,’ reporters say - Poynter
The country’s youngest journalists are on the front lines of one of the biggest news stories
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May 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"...these reporters have been grappling with tough questions over source and author anonymity, journalist safety, online harassment and the role of student journalism in Trump’s America. Their age belies the significance of their work, multiple of them said."
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"Research I’ve conducted with colleagues shows, for example, that states requiring permits to purchase firearms have significantly fewer public mass shootings and those that maintain limits on magazine size have fewer casualties when there is such an incident."
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Opinion | This year there have been zero public deadly mass shootings
The first third of the year saw the fewest mass fatalities involving firearms since at least 2006.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Research I’ve conducted with colleagues shows, for example, that states requiring permits to purchase firearms have significantly fewer public mass shootings and those that maintain limits on magazine size have fewer casualties when there is such an incident."
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"President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14224, making English “the official language of the United States,” is the polar opposite of what our society, one of the most linguistically diverse in history, is and has always been about."
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Opinion | Telling Americans what and how to speak is not American
After 250 years, we don’t need an “official language.” Trump’s executive order sends a bad message.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14224, making English “the official language of the United States,” is the polar opposite of what our society, one of the most linguistically diverse in history, is and has always been about."
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Great news! But now her immigration case needs to be dropped.
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Judge releases the Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by ICE to continue her studies
U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a final decision on her claim that she’s been illegally detained.
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May 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Great news! But now her immigration case needs to be dropped.
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If I asked teachers this week what would make them feel appreciated, I expect many would share what one teacher messaged: “I love teaching, but I do not love how our educational system is designed or how professionals are disrespected and underfunded...." wapo.st/4daJVSm
Column | Teacher appreciation starts with better pay, not gifts
Teacher appreciation starts with better pay, not gifts.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
If I asked teachers this week what would make them feel appreciated, I expect many would share what one teacher messaged: “I love teaching, but I do not love how our educational system is designed or how professionals are disrespected and underfunded...." wapo.st/4daJVSm
“But this is also Southern California. Everyone knows a little bit of English, but a lot of people also know a little bit of Spanish, too.”
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Commentary: Trump is wrong. My dad was a trucker, and he didn't need much English to do his job
For Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy to huff that his department “will always put America’s truck drivers first” — as if people like my dad somehow don’t belong to that group — is hateful and ig...
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May 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“But this is also Southern California. Everyone knows a little bit of English, but a lot of people also know a little bit of Spanish, too.”
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“The convention really helped me get to know my classmates better & feel more comfortable opening up to them & building an overall connection with them. After only 5 days at the convention, I learned to not be afraid to join conversations & share my opinions.”
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DPMHS Student Media take a fun, memorable trip to the National High School Journalism Convention
I went to the National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle knowing only two things. First, Seattle had good chocolate. Second, I knew about the people I was going with just as little as I kne...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“The convention really helped me get to know my classmates better & feel more comfortable opening up to them & building an overall connection with them. After only 5 days at the convention, I learned to not be afraid to join conversations & share my opinions.”
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to my educator friends!
Proud teacher moment from last week: Former student, now at Savannah College of Art & Design, said she probably would not have pursued art if I had not told her about a free animation summer workshop she attended.
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Proud teacher moment from last week: Former student, now at Savannah College of Art & Design, said she probably would not have pursued art if I had not told her about a free animation summer workshop she attended.
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What Teachers Make
Ever heard the phrase "Those who can't do, teach"? At the Bowery Poetry Club, slam poet Taylor Mali begs to differ, and delivers a powerful, 3-minute response on behalf of educators everywhere.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to my educator friends!
Proud teacher moment from last week: Former student, now at Savannah College of Art & Design, said she probably would not have pursued art if I had not told her about a free animation summer workshop she attended.
ed.ted.com/best_of_web/...
Proud teacher moment from last week: Former student, now at Savannah College of Art & Design, said she probably would not have pursued art if I had not told her about a free animation summer workshop she attended.
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Congratulations to @gustavoarellano.bsky.social on being a Puliter prize finalist for commentary!
May 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Congratulations to @gustavoarellano.bsky.social on being a Puliter prize finalist for commentary!
"...he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting." He just comes after media who either fact-check him or are critical of him. SMH
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Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.
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May 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"...he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting." He just comes after media who either fact-check him or are critical of him. SMH
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“Just with what they’ve been going through, I just kept in touch with them,” Roberts said. “And then the bobblehead night comes up, and I was like, ‘I want to do something. I want to make this a special night for them.’”
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Dave Roberts adopts Palisades High baseball team coping with fire's destruction
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has offered steady support to the Palisades Charter High baseball team ever since wildfires burned some of their homes.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“Just with what they’ve been going through, I just kept in touch with them,” Roberts said. “And then the bobblehead night comes up, and I was like, ‘I want to do something. I want to make this a special night for them.’”
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"Trump and his team are pressing a theory of the “unitary executive,” that constitutional power is concentrated in a single man, allowing the White House to move more aggressively and with greater speed facing fewer guardrails." www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
News Analysis: 'Disrupt, break, defund': Trump's imperial first 100 days
President Trump's first 100 days in his second term have been a blitz of executive orders, job and spending cuts, and global tariffs, in pursuit of expanded presidential power.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"Trump and his team are pressing a theory of the “unitary executive,” that constitutional power is concentrated in a single man, allowing the White House to move more aggressively and with greater speed facing fewer guardrails." www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
April 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain