I write & teach journalism. editorial director @Pollen2024; editor @WallcityMagazin; Cowell fellow @UCSC, @FulbrightPrgrm scholar '24-'25
California, USA
Joined August 2016
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My partner at @Pollen2024, Jesse Vasquez, wrote this moving commentary about starting a media center at CCWF. You'll love it maybe as much as I do 🫶
Waiting in silence: How California's first media center inside a women's prison came to life calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Excited to share CCWF Paper Trail's first co-published story—Megan Hogg's piece about the first-ever farmer's market inside a California prison—with @dailyyonder. You will never think about grocery shopping the same after reading!
dailyyonder.com/first-ever-f…
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Don't miss this week's newsletter featuring guest editor @KimhCross and her picks by @b_popps, @jimrobenalt, @LATChrisGoffard, @JohnBranchNYT, @sophieGG, @katejoymcqueen, @AliyaBashir + others mailchi.mp/sundaylongread.co…
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“'I’m not surrendering,' he said."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @katejoymcqueen and @atavist!
Subscribe to Damn History: buff.ly/3CqxZ0z
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From @atavist: The Good Traitor: The Journalist Who the Nazis Could Not Silence
by @katejoymcqueen
The Nazis feared Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life?
#Longreads #Longform
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So honored to have my article in the Atavist selected by Longform profiles 😍
Edition #50 features amazing longform reads from:
@sarahjeong @missbarton @PAPPADEMAS @HyltonAnne @bborrell @susandominus @AmyDMarcus @alexcuadros @katejoymcqueen @zachsdorfman
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Getting settled in to my new office at the University of Leipzig, thanks to #Fulbright US Scholar program and my wonderful host @niklas_venema and @ifkmw Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig 😎 Excited to be here!
If you like nerding out over archives and the challenges of writing historical reportage, then check out the latest episode of Creative Nonfiction podcast— with me 🫣 😁 talking about the latest in the @atavist brendanomeara.com/how-to-be-…
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Food for thought for all journalists! A great piece by Pollen Initiative’s editorial director @katejoymcqueen magazine.atavist.com/the-goo…
Journalists were among the first people imprisoned when the Nazis came in power in 1933. For @atavist, I followed one journalist’s ordeal through early concentration camps and his friend’s wild efforts to save him. Hope you enjoy! magazine.atavist.com/the-goo…
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If you are bored and waiting in line to vote today, may I suggest this!
It will give you the chance to be mad about something other than the election (in case you somehow needed help with that). latimes.com/california/story…
I'm so proud of this new paper! You can read CCWF Paper Trail online ccwfpapertrail.org/ or the PDF of the print version here ccwfpapertrail.org/pdfs/
One of our near and dear projects that will provide more voices, nuanced and necessary perspectives to the prison journalism space. Thank you @dailyyonder for highlighting our effort and @katejoymcqueen's pride and joy
Thsnk you ACES and AAJA-LA fir this amazing honor!
Congratulations, Kate McQueen!
She is the winner of the second annual Henry Fuhrmann Mentor Award.
McQueen won for her work with new and aspiring journalists and nonfiction writers who are incarcerated.
Read more about her work at bit.ly/3AndSQc
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Congratulations, Kate McQueen!
She is the winner of the second annual Henry Fuhrmann Mentor Award.
McQueen won for her work with new and aspiring journalists and nonfiction writers who are incarcerated.
Read more about her work at bit.ly/3AndSQc
Prisons are almost always in rural areas. That's why prison media can be crucial part of fighting our news desert problem in the US—including @Pollen2024's own CCWF Paper Trail! Thanks to @dailyyonder for highlighting our work in this great piece. dailyyonder.com/a-prison-new…
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My first piece with Traveler Magazine...thx to @CondeNast and Lale and @prisonjourn cntraveler.com/story/after-p…
Big things are happening at Pollen Initiative. Last month, we launched a media center at the Central California Women’s Facility. More new newsrooms and news publications are on the horizon! For this and more, I am so excited to come on board as their new editorial director ✨✨
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Join us for an informative discussion about the First Amendment in prisons. Former editor in chief Jesse Vasquez will be a part of this important conversation along with @easternstate easternstate.org/visit/event…
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A must read. @CAgovernor budget will spend $132,860 to incarcerate someone in prison for a year. That money should be spent on housing, jobs & education. Opinion: California has a $38-billion deficit. So why are we still paying for prisons we don't need? latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
Worth checking out in advance of the IALJS annual conference in Sydney this May 😎
This Friday 9 February 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the horrific, fatal Hazelwood mine fire in Victoria, Australia.
IALJS member @tomdoig wrote a book of literary journalism about the disaster: HAZELWOOD (@PenguinBooksAus, 2020). ebook here: penguin.com.au/books/hazelwo…
