Raghu Vadarevu
@raghuwrites.bsky.social
Journalist. Senior editor, The Marshall Project - Pulitzer-winning nonprofit news org investigating the criminal justice system. Ex-AP, etc. Interests: sci-fi, drawing, NY Mets. Journalism @ UMass/Columbia.
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Many federal prison workers voted for Trump three times. Now he wants to gut their union.
“We were voting on the fact that he was going to back law enforcement”
@journo-beth.bsky.social & Christie Thompson @themarshallproject.org
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/31/t...
“We were voting on the fact that he was going to back law enforcement”
@journo-beth.bsky.social & Christie Thompson @themarshallproject.org
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/31/t...
Trump’s Union Order Endangers Federal Prison Officers, Labor Leaders Say
Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Many federal prison workers voted for Trump three times. Now he wants to gut their union.
“We were voting on the fact that he was going to back law enforcement”
@journo-beth.bsky.social & Christie Thompson @themarshallproject.org
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/31/t...
“We were voting on the fact that he was going to back law enforcement”
@journo-beth.bsky.social & Christie Thompson @themarshallproject.org
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/31/t...
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Great journalism resource that I wish we didn't need from The Marshall Project.
Covering incarcerated populations is hard and will become even harder as the privatization of prisons increases under the Trump Administration.
Covering incarcerated populations is hard and will become even harder as the privatization of prisons increases under the Trump Administration.
How Journalists Can Investigate Deaths in Prisons and Jails
When you get a tip about a death or multiple deaths in your local jail or prison, there are concrete steps you can take to start investigating.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great journalism resource that I wish we didn't need from The Marshall Project.
Covering incarcerated populations is hard and will become even harder as the privatization of prisons increases under the Trump Administration.
Covering incarcerated populations is hard and will become even harder as the privatization of prisons increases under the Trump Administration.
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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for the @inquirer.com, I wrote about the importance of a free press to democracy and how it's not just investigation, scandals, & poll-driven predicting. Authoritarians don't care about scandals. We need to focus on bearing witness, humanizing, and contextualizing.
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Malka Older: In these fraught times, the press must continue, and intensify, its role of bearing witness
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Improving democracy by improving how we cover it | Opinion
Saying the free press is a pillar of democracy is an understatement, writes Malka Older, the director of Global Voices. But the latest U.S. election has left the press shaken.
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November 17, 2024 at 11:29 AM
for the @inquirer.com, I wrote about the importance of a free press to democracy and how it's not just investigation, scandals, & poll-driven predicting. Authoritarians don't care about scandals. We need to focus on bearing witness, humanizing, and contextualizing.
Now with gift link ⬇️
Now with gift link ⬇️