Matthew Lewis Royer (he/him/his)

We ran into Annenberg professor Afua Hirsch before boarding our flight to Munich, Germany!

Next up: Berlin ✈️🇩🇪

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Q&A: LA’s New Principal Union President Says Her Members Are Overworked | LA School Report Maria Nichols, leader of the principals union for the Los Angeles Unified School District, likes to show up for contract negotiations well-prepared.  Less than a year into her role as president of the...

NEW for @the74.bsky.social: LA’s New Principal Union President Says Her Members Are Overworked www.laschoolreport.com/qa-las-new-p...

Feel free to add me on LinkedIn as well! www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-r... (4/4)

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any leads. I am open to all reporting positions, but have the most beat experience covering local government, public safety, labor, and business.

I look forward to hearing from you all. (3/4)

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any leads. I am open to all reporting positions, but have the most beat experience covering local government, public safety, labor, and business.

I look forward to hearing from you all. (3/4)

I have experience in digital, print and radio production as a reporter and editor. I have clips in Rolling Stone, Crosstown LA, Beverly Hills Courier, and National Catholic Reporter, among other publications, including student outlets like Daily Bruin, Annenberg Media and Annenberg Radio News. (2/4)

I'm just two months away from graduating from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism with my master's degree in journalism. That means I am officially entering the job search! 🧵(1/4)

As US activist grandma ends German prison time, Europe sees shift to favor nuclear deterrence With the rise of Eastern Europe’s far right and the war in Ukraine, public approval of nuclear nonproliferation has suffered, said Stephen Herzog from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Stud...

NEW for @ncronline.bsky.social: As US activist grandma ends German prison time, Europe sees shift to favor nuclear deterrence. www.ncronline.org/news/us-acti...

As wildfires burn, arson reports are rising in Los Angeles More than 600 blazes were intentionally set in 2024, and that’s just in Sheriff’s Department areas

In the wake of the local wildfires, a disturbing realization is emerging: Incidents of #arson are rising, with over 600 last year--and that's just in areas patrolled by the @lasdhq.bsky.social. @crosstownla.bsky.social by @thematthewroyer.bsky.social has details and data. xtown.la/2025/02/06/a...

As wildfires burn, arson reports are rising in Los Angeles More than 600 blazes were intentionally set in 2024, and that’s just in Sheriff’s Department areas

NEW for @crosstownla.bsky.social : As wildfires burn, arson reports are rising in Los Angeles xtown.la/2025/02/06/a...

Battling illness, Jordan Chiles records 10th perfect 10 of her UCLA career Olympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles records her second perfect 10 of the season and her 10th as a Bruin to lift No. 6 UCLA over No. 5 Michigan State.

NEW for @latimes.com: “I was like, ‘Oh, Jesus.

What's gonna happen?’”

Jordan Chiles happened. Perfection — for 2nd time in 2025, the 10th time in her career — to write her name into more UCLA lore. Somehow, someway, No. 6 UCLA won:

www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...

Over the next few months, I will report some religious stories, focusing mainly on German communities in Los Angeles.

If you have any leads or tips, I would greatly appreciate them via DM or you can DM for my email/phone.

How to measure the damage from the Palisades and Eaton fires? - Crosstown There is no single way to calculate the impact of a wildfire…

On @crosstownla.bsky.social there are a few different ways to look at the impact of the #wildfires. Story by @thematthewroyer.bsky.social. xtown.la/2025/01/15/d...

Thank you, Paul. Your words mean a lot.

How to measure the damage from the Palisades and Eaton fires? - Crosstown There is no single way to calculate the impact of a wildfire…

How can you measure the impact of the Eaton and Palisades fires? We put together a few charts to help.

How to measure the damage from the Palisades and Eaton fires? - Crosstown There is no single way to calculate the impact of a wildfire…

New for @crosstownla.bsky.social: How do you measure the damage from the Palisades and Eaton fires? There is no single way, but we have a few ways to understand them better: xtown.la/2025/01/15/d...

L.A. fire officials could have put engines in Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn't Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in extra firefighters to the level that they had during some similar weather events in the past, according to internal predeployment memos reviewed by The Times.

As the LAFD faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of engines in advance of the Palisades fire, records show.

i’m an amazing friend

All I want for Hanukkah is a Chiefs loss… is that too much to ask for?

i'm sick (watching the niners fail to clinch the bolts a playoff spot... it's the least they could do since Super Bowl XXIX)

apparently post-surgery me exposed my McDonalds "wrapped" email to my family, but I am proud to say I am NOT ashamed ... I am and will FOREVER be a McChicken fiend.

the recovery of tonsillectomy mixed with a chargers thursday night football game means tonight i will say and do things i will not remember so if anyone has anything they want to tell me tonight would most definitely be that night as tomorrow there will be zero recollection

John and Garvey are both on the Classic Baseball Era ballot and will learn of their HOF fates when the 16-person committee votes at the Winter Meetings.

The results will be revealed at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

HOF experts see John’s case for election as likelier than Garvey’s.

Tommy John hopes his long-awaited call to Cooperstown finally will happen Former Dodger Tommy John, who underwent a pioneering medical procedure that is now ubiquitous in MLB, hopes he and Steve Garvey make the Hall of Fame.

NEW for @latimes.com: Tommy John and Steve Garvey will have their Baseball Hall of Fame cases evaluated again Sunday.

I interviewed John and examined the likelihood of the southpaw, the first to undergo Tommy John Surgery in 1974, receiving the call.

www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

A survey of Athletic readers came back with 90.7% of respondents in opposition to the Golden At-Bat. It’s an internet survey, not a genuine public opinion poll. Nevertheless, in order to impress on you how hard it is to get 91% of people to agree that something is bad, I found a Gallup poll from 2018 in which only 84% of respondents disapproved of Kim Jong Un. This is a weird thing to say about an idea that’s less popular among baseball fans than the Marburg Virus, but I see the appeal of the Golden At-Bat.

Ma, they got me. They made me write about the Golden At-Bat and I ended up praising Rob Manfred
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making our way through the @lataco.bsky.social pastor list… today’s stop.

today is a neutral day, because the raiders lost in humiliation (yay!) but the chiefs won by no fault of their own (boo!)