Katrina Janco
@katrinajanco.bsky.social
Freelance reporter and fact-checker. AuDHDer. Views my own. Reposts and likes ≠ endorsements. she/her
Email me things: katrinajanco@protonmail.com
https://katrinajanco.com/
Email me things: katrinajanco@protonmail.com
https://katrinajanco.com/
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Join us on Wed, Dec 10 (10am Eastern/7am Pacific) for a live conversation on the science behind and implications of more rapidly intensifying hurricanes. This discussion will feature @stevebowen.bsky.social (Gallagher Re) and me, and is hosted by Reask. See you then!
Hurricane intensification: a changing reality | Reask
Join climate expert Dr. Daniel Swain and Gallagher Re’s Steve Bowen for a deep dive into hurricane intensification, modelling approaches, and (re)insurance risk.
reask.earth
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Join us on Wed, Dec 10 (10am Eastern/7am Pacific) for a live conversation on the science behind and implications of more rapidly intensifying hurricanes. This discussion will feature @stevebowen.bsky.social (Gallagher Re) and me, and is hosted by Reask. See you then!
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👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home
Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I made a graphic.
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I made a graphic.
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Trade data can reveal everything from money trails to illicit networks. 📊
Bellingcat’s Katherine De Tolly will walk us through how to use these databases for investigations in our final Stage Talk of the year. Join live & bring your questions:
discord.gg/D7zDQ5r5?eve...
Bellingcat’s Katherine De Tolly will walk us through how to use these databases for investigations in our final Stage Talk of the year. Join live & bring your questions:
discord.gg/D7zDQ5r5?eve...
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Trade data can reveal everything from money trails to illicit networks. 📊
Bellingcat’s Katherine De Tolly will walk us through how to use these databases for investigations in our final Stage Talk of the year. Join live & bring your questions:
discord.gg/D7zDQ5r5?eve...
Bellingcat’s Katherine De Tolly will walk us through how to use these databases for investigations in our final Stage Talk of the year. Join live & bring your questions:
discord.gg/D7zDQ5r5?eve...
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🎉 Exciting webinars coming up before the end of the year! 🎄 Perfect for all skill levels and all at 6pm CET / 12pm EST.
Dec 10 ➡️ Getting started with Datawrapper
Dec 17 ➡️ Datawrapper maps: Deep dive
You can sign up here 👇
www.datawrapper.de/webinars
Dec 10 ➡️ Getting started with Datawrapper
Dec 17 ➡️ Datawrapper maps: Deep dive
You can sign up here 👇
www.datawrapper.de/webinars
Datawrapper Webinars: Get the most out of our tool
Attend one of our webinars to quickly learn how to create the best charts, maps, and tables with Datawrapper.
www.datawrapper.de
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Exciting webinars coming up before the end of the year! 🎄 Perfect for all skill levels and all at 6pm CET / 12pm EST.
Dec 10 ➡️ Getting started with Datawrapper
Dec 17 ➡️ Datawrapper maps: Deep dive
You can sign up here 👇
www.datawrapper.de/webinars
Dec 10 ➡️ Getting started with Datawrapper
Dec 17 ➡️ Datawrapper maps: Deep dive
You can sign up here 👇
www.datawrapper.de/webinars
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📣 Being a journalist can take a heavy toll. Media Resilience Network is working to lessen the load.
If you're a U.S.-based journalist, fill out their mental health survey to help them shape peer support, trauma-informed care, and community partnerships:
If you're a U.S.-based journalist, fill out their mental health survey to help them shape peer support, trauma-informed care, and community partnerships:
Stay Tuned: a US journalism mental health survey
Being a journalist these days is tough and we know you are going through a lot.
The Media Resilience Network aims to enhance the well-being and capacity of journalists and media organizations through peer support, trauma-informed care, collaborative problem-solving and community partnerships — building resilience from the inside out.
To better help us help you, please fill out the following questionnaire.
Many of the prompts are open for you to share as much, or as little, as you feel comfortable with.
If you need mental help immediately, please contact our team at support@vita-activa.org....
docs.google.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📣 Being a journalist can take a heavy toll. Media Resilience Network is working to lessen the load.
If you're a U.S.-based journalist, fill out their mental health survey to help them shape peer support, trauma-informed care, and community partnerships:
If you're a U.S.-based journalist, fill out their mental health survey to help them shape peer support, trauma-informed care, and community partnerships:
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Our Climate Solutions Reporting Guide, produced in collaboration with @soljourno.bsky.social, offers advice and guidance to journalists covering #ClimateSolutions related to politics, business, economics, technology, culture, and how we, as people, live and work.
Climate Solutions Reporting Guide
A Resource for Journalists on All Beats in the Newsroom
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November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Our Climate Solutions Reporting Guide, produced in collaboration with @soljourno.bsky.social, offers advice and guidance to journalists covering #ClimateSolutions related to politics, business, economics, technology, culture, and how we, as people, live and work.
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publishing your greatest professional and ethical failures in a series of paywalled blog posts is certainly a choice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
publishing your greatest professional and ethical failures in a series of paywalled blog posts is certainly a choice.
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listen, i've seen a lot of bullshit that turned my stomach and sent me to therapy etc but lmao this shit's got every gc buzzing like "sorry what the fuck" LITERALLY ALL OF US THINK THIS IS WEIRD
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
listen, i've seen a lot of bullshit that turned my stomach and sent me to therapy etc but lmao this shit's got every gc buzzing like "sorry what the fuck" LITERALLY ALL OF US THINK THIS IS WEIRD
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I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
Where To Get Vaccinated | Vaccine Information
Our curated list of links to help you locate vaccine centers by state, plus other tools to help you locate a vaccine resource near you.
www.vaccineinformation.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I have just learned that when they found out CDC's search tool was down, The Immunization Action Coalition put together a page with various search tools for vaccines, with different categories - could be useful to people:
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
www.vaccineinformation.org/vaccine-basi...
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Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
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If you want to support our work and/or even pass this along to MacKenzie Scott (hey, you never know!), please consider making a donation. Your gift will be matched! Our goal is to raise $50K by Dec. 31. Help us get there. ⤵️ S/O Bluesky if you make a donation.
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That’s the power of lived-experience journalism
And it’s the reason Prison Journalism Project exists.
On the inside, writers report what they live, what they hear, feel and notice in ways no one else can.
That’s the power of lived-experience journalism
And it’s the reason Prison Journalism Project exists.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you want to support our work and/or even pass this along to MacKenzie Scott (hey, you never know!), please consider making a donation. Your gift will be matched! Our goal is to raise $50K by Dec. 31. Help us get there. ⤵️ S/O Bluesky if you make a donation.
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so many lapsed and former journalists and writers (myself included) would give ANYTHING for the opportunity to do what we love to do in a stable, sustainable way. but if we literally can't afford to do it, we drift away.
watching immoral hacks hoard and despoil these jobs makes me deeply sad/angry.
watching immoral hacks hoard and despoil these jobs makes me deeply sad/angry.
unbelievable behavior from everyone involved here - Nuzzi for doing catch and kill, Lizza for sitting on this shit so he can sell newsletter subscriptions, RFK for existing
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
so many lapsed and former journalists and writers (myself included) would give ANYTHING for the opportunity to do what we love to do in a stable, sustainable way. but if we literally can't afford to do it, we drift away.
watching immoral hacks hoard and despoil these jobs makes me deeply sad/angry.
watching immoral hacks hoard and despoil these jobs makes me deeply sad/angry.
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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
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TODAY: Carrie Frye has some VERY good news about the archives of The Hairpin after a "horrifying zombie afterlife"!!!! flaminghydra.com/women-laughi...
Women Laughing Again On The Internet
Sometime last year the online archives of The Awl—the influential blog that ran from 2009-2018, and former home of many a Flaming Hydra contributor—went out, like a light switching off. Meanwhile, the...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
TODAY: Carrie Frye has some VERY good news about the archives of The Hairpin after a "horrifying zombie afterlife"!!!! flaminghydra.com/women-laughi...
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Finally the neurotypical learn what we all knew.
A growing number of Americans are rolling into the holidays by train with Amtrak reporting an increase in riders after federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and cancellations at major airports nationwide. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda reports.
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Finally the neurotypical learn what we all knew.
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“ur posts have been so good today” thanks im having a psychotic event
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“ur posts have been so good today” thanks im having a psychotic event
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It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
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November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
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Applications are still open for this one :)
Are you a social media manager who is passionate about the culture and lives of Texans?
Our incredible social media manager was recruited for an exciting, glossy new opportunity, which means ...we’re hiring!
Come work with us at @thebarbedwire.com 💕
www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
Our incredible social media manager was recruited for an exciting, glossy new opportunity, which means ...we’re hiring!
Come work with us at @thebarbedwire.com 💕
www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Social Media Manager
JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.
www.journalismjobs.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Applications are still open for this one :)
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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Sunlight Research Center is now part of the Journalism Support Exchange, a free matchmaking tool designed to help local news organizations find the resources and support they need faster and more effectively.
Learn more about JSX:
Learn more about JSX:
Journalism Support Exchange
A central resource hub for journalism support organizations
jsx.news
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sunlight Research Center is now part of the Journalism Support Exchange, a free matchmaking tool designed to help local news organizations find the resources and support they need faster and more effectively.
Learn more about JSX:
Learn more about JSX: