Lila Harron Battis

Lila Harron Battis

@lilabattis.bsky.social

writer, editor, gal about town

62 Followers 121 Following 2 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 month ago

I do wish it hadn’t taken quite so many horrors for us to get Shakespearean monologues on late-night shows but I suppose I’ll take the silver linings where they come

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Marissa J. Lang
@Marissa Jae
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I was laid off today by The Washington
Post.
I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community.
Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com
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Marissa J. Lang
Washington, D.C.
Enterprise reporter
Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

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with his $253.2 billion, Jeff Bezos could afford to pay 100 sportswriters $100,000 a year for the next 25,000 years

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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

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It’s unrealistic for readers to pay hundreds a year to get a wide range of reporting. And everyone thinks they can do without the machinery of big media—Fact checkers! Copy editors! Editors who challenge ideas and don’t let writers just hit “send” on a first draft!—but…most of us really shouldn’t.

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"This is a political attack" well yeah man if your politics are like "we should be able to murder everyone and also pedophiles are cool" people are going to attack that political stance

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