As of November 7: - 39 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 34 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 1 Lebanese. - 8 journalists were reported injured. - 3 journalists were reported missing. - 9 journalists were reported arrested. cpj.org/2023/11/journa…

A few months ago, Dania Maxwell and I traveled to Salinas to see firsthand a groundbreaking program: A clinic was bringing in Mexican doctors to serve farmworkers. We quickly learned the program was life changing — for patients and the doctors. latimes.com/california/sto…

ICYMI: Lauren Hepler's year-long investigation on California's EDD fiasco is out. Honored I was able to work on the illustrations for it. 🤍 Read the series here: calmatters.org/economy/2023/1…

“I keep hearing over & over stories of people who have put off healthcare because they felt that no one was listening, that doctors were making fun of them because they couldn’t speak the language, or doctors were insulting them." Melissa Gomez's latest latimes.com/california/sto…

i had the massive honor of writing Lily Gladstone’s first profile post-actors strike for the cover of @variety. on KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, and grief, and community: variety.com/2023/film/news…

.Robert Gauthier and I traveled to Jacumba Hot Springs, where migrants are forced to live in open-air camps. Local volunteers have stepped into that survival gap, providing food, tents, clothing, aid. Migrants come from China, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras latimes.com/california/sto…

My latest for Los Angeles Times — California vs. Florida: Why are people moving from one state to the other? Such moves between blue CA and red FL have taken an outsize role in rivalry between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom, who will debate Thursday on Fox News latimes.com/california/sto…

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With its new contract in place, the median salary for reporters and correspondents at The New York Times is now $161,000, per a new email from the NYT Guild. That's an increase of $15,000 due to the new contract. Just saying...

This is a great story on links between cannabis giant Stiiizy and the illegal weed market in CA, complete with the hallmark of any good investigative piece -- someone sent Matthew Ormseth a cease-and-desist. latimes.com/california/sto…

Some fantastic reporting by Keegan Hamilton and Jackeline Luna on a militia group monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border. You can watch the behind the scenes of the Los Angeles Times x Scripps News documentary here: youtube.com/watch?v=XiHfh8…

New story out Los Angeles Times in collaboration with Scripps News on how militias and civilian border patrol groups have helped take vigilantism mainstream latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Decades of excessive groundwater pumping by farming operations have sent the land into a slow-motion collapse. But farm barons have defied calls to cut pumping. Susanne Rust jessica garrison and I examined the state’s push to put the Tulare Lake Basin on probation: latimes.com/environment/st…

My video on Mahjong Mistress aired live on Spectrum News 1 SoCal last week and it's on Los Angeles Times! You can watch it here: latimes.com/lifestyle/mahj… Thank you to Andy Schlachtenhaufen who helped me film this and to Christina Veta for convincing me to film a mini doc to follow up to my written story.

The LA Times has laid me off. I'm in a daze. My mind keeps going back to this piece I filmed. The tripod weighing me down, but hungry for more. This is my Los Angeles. And this is my love letter to you. youtu.be/Bt82EZ0XCDc?fe…

For my final series for Los Angeles Times, I led a project on a topic important to me: sustainability. From ripping out your thirsty lawn to proper recycling, this series covers how to live a more sustainable lifestyle, and why. New episodes each week: bit.ly/3VClQwW

Public agencies are funding private security guards in homeless shelters and on the street, opening a new front in the state’s housing crisis — one ripe for violence and civil rights issues, but thin on oversight. ➡️ cal.news/4aqLj16 Story by Lauren Hepler.

Huge thanks and congrats to everyone who worked on this project, especially Jesse Seidman Zach Toombs Jia Li🎥 Jackeline Luna Jake Godin Avery Schmitz Jennifer Smart ♠️ and Maria La Ganga! Watch the, ahem, award-winning video here: youtu.be/voVUrtDuJDM?fe…

Tristan Ahtone grist Audrey Cerdan France Télévisions Rachel Ramirez CNN Sammy Roth, Robert Gauthier, Jessica Q. Chen 陳琨, Maggie Beidelman, Jackeline Luna & Paul Duginski examine how big shifts enabled by Inflation Reduction Act funds are playing out in western states. For Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/environment/st…

Great example of community and service journalism. Our Boyle Heights Beat post has been shared more than 3K times on IG since it published yesterday. Now, the @southcoastaqmd is coming to our community meeting Saturday to help people sign up. I love this work 🙌🏼