Ashley White

Officially started today as the education reporter for the @theadvocateaca 🎉 I’m thrilled to be staying in Lafayette and local journalism and to be back on the education beat. DMs are open for tips!

Please read our incredible media writer @dbauder's final piece in his illustrious career at the @AP: A photographer has captured some 50 newsrooms to document places and lives endangered by the industry’s collapse apnews.com/article/newspa…

The Mississippi plant is allowed by law to emit tens of thousands of pounds of paraquat into the air, exposing workers and nearby residents. Hundreds of Waynesboro households, most of them Black, sit within a mile of the plant. thelensnola.org/2026/04/29/par…

Respectfully, my local Louisiana news outlet had a story up hours before the WaPo saying the Louisiana Republicans were considering canceling the elections @daveweigel. lailluminator.com/2026/04/29/fol…

Young journos, if I can give you one piece of advice, let it be this: Do not normalize not having boundaries. Take it from someone who's been there - in the moment, it might feel OK sacrificing your vacation, your after-hours peace, your sanity. But it will catch up with you.

🧵 Statement from Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry: LOUISIANA U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RACES SUSPENDED Early Voting Begins Saturday For All Other Races

Pizza Hut's 'BOOK IT!' Summer Reading Program Returns to Provide Voracious Young Readers with Pizza Parties and More people.com/pizza-huts-boo…

Sending a first draft of my enterprise story to my editor:

There is certainly a lot of chatter about whether we are even having elections for the U.S. House seats on May 16. Presumably a decision has to be made soon because voters start casting ballots Saturday. #lalege

Hiiii! I don’t work here but just saw someone else share: W Magazine is looking for a fulltime news writer. I did this as a day player for a few days last year. Pretty straight forward gig! Nice team, cool stuff. jobs.lever.co/BDG/7fe5aa1f-2…

The EPA's independent science arm did groundbreaking research to save lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change etc etc In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled Of 1500 scientists, only 124 remain nytimes.com/2026/04/27/cli…

How is religion in America changing? USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture is offering $5,000 stipends to 100 journalists & freelance writers, to try to find out. Applications due May 4th: @RNS @interfaithusa @publicroad @shadihamid @faithandmedia dornsife.usc.edu/crcc/journalis…

Federal agents took two high school students from Congo who are living with a host family off what sounds like a school bus with zip ties and put them in a detention center. Their conservative community is angry. nola.com/news/gulf_coas…

There are now 21 open jobs in the @washingtonpost newsroom. washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpost…

It's hard to overstate how much this decision could change the makeup of elected officials in Louisiana and across the country. #lalege

.@HoustonChron just posted openings for two reporting roles !!! Breaking news reporter: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Local politics reporter: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

“I feel like I’m dying of loneliness, nostalgia and sadness. School was my happy place where I spent the majority of my time. I miss my teachers and my friends.” chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2026…

HUGE NEWS for editors: the AP has changed its style guide. It's now "healthcare" (not "health care") and "childcare" (not "child care") apstylebook.com/ap_stylebook/h…

A major US newspaper publisher is rolling out an AI-generated content farm that will use the bylines of real reporters without their consent.

The Legislature is deciding whether to reduce, redefine or abolish the state’s higher education oversight board as multiple state universities struggle through budget crises and the federal government probes minority student completion goals #lalege #lagov lailluminator.com/2026/04/22/law…

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia. Read the full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s… @WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary