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Correspondent at APM Reports, Sold a Story team. Alum: @NBCNews @thenewstribune @goskagit. Pulling back the curtain on ██████████.

North Carolina
Joined March 2010
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This is just to say I have received the records that were sent to my email and which you probably thought would satisfy me. Forgive me I now must ask for more records and no redactions
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I'm really glad the shortest USB-C I could find came with cable ties. I really wasn't sure what we were going to do about cable management
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Kate Martin retweeted
Episode 5 of Sold a Story, Season 2 is out now. apmreports.org/episode/2026/…
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One of the things I loved as a local news reporter was the flexibility to do offbeat assignments. I wrote about the marching band as often as I could. State marching band championships? Yes. Fundraising for new uniforms? Also yes. Editors don't turn down stories like these.
Imagine putting together an entire halftime show based off of one woman doing a cover of Thunderstruck on xylophone……and having it KICK TOTAL ASS!
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I also covered a local cheerleading competition, and the county commissioner (a judge for the competition) was confused as heck. Always keep them on their toes!
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Kate Martin retweeted
Episode 1 of Sold a Story, Season 2: apmreports.org/episode/2026/… It's Not Just Reading
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We've been working on this for more than a year. Will you give it a listen? Coming 2 weeks from today.
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After firing 90% of IES staff, the @usedgov has reopened the same roles. Source: "There are a lot of upset former staff talking about it. ... Those look like the same jobs" they were fired from.
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Multiple complaints from faculty, administration, staff and students. Why was nothing done again? apnews.com/article/kohberger…
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Kate Martin retweeted
We have a new episode of Sold a Story coming next week. We're looking at the Trump administration's cuts to education research - and what they mean for the science of reading. You can follow the show and sign up for alerts at our website. features.apmreports.org/sold…
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Source: "I saw another snake in my garage and thought of you"
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Happy #FOIAFriday and good morning. Let's talk about records and what they are called. By way of example, let's talk about the Epstein List. If you FOIA for "The Epstein List" I'd be surprised if you get a response, especially if government officials don't want you to have it.
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Every now and then you get a government official who calls or writes back saying "Hey we don't have that, but we have this other thing that has the information you want" but never count on that.
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It's sometimes impossible to know what docs a government has. So when I ask for records, I sometimes say "I'd like the documents or records that contain this information" and then describe the information in detail. That can get you somewhere!
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