Emily Cochrane

now that I'm settled in Nashville (!) and in my new job, here's a cool thing -- an open question about what people want to read about from the South, so it can inform what I'm writing about and how I'm thinking about our coverage. send me your thoughts! nytimes.com/2023/05/02/us/…

@seungminkim @RichardRubinDC things I miss: the people things I don’t: the bad sports metaphors

@RichardRubinDC cc @ESCochrane

LaLota says the SALT cap tax talks are on the 25-yard-line. Not that one - the one with 75 yards to go, he says.

tbt to the neverending hot infrastructure summer cc: @TonyRomm

it might be the start of infrastructure week in Nashville, and yes I did write about it: nytimes.com/2024/11/04/us/…

Elections administrators in Clark County, Wash. just sent these images of ballots burned in Vancouver's ballot box arson. Officials are drying out the ballots, then sorting through them to identify voters who have yet to seek a replacement ballot.

Speechless. We are at the entrance to our Tampa Bay Times office in downtown St. Petersburg. A crane is blocking the road, and several stories up, smoke billows out of the building from where it appears the crane fell Smell of gas in the air and you can hear alarms #MILTON

Update: FDA approved imports of IV fluids from China, UK, Ireland and Canada. Deets on products here: fda.gov/drugs/updates-… Story updated here: nytimes.com/2024/10/09/hea… #MedTwitter

BOOKMARK/SHARE: @TB_Times made a resource list to help Tampa Bay residents find up-to-date-info on everything from road closures to outages. Plus, where to get food, WiFi & more after #Milton . We'll keep updating. No paywall. DM me links we've missed. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

@benstanleynz in North Carolina — how people responded to the warnings they got, in areas that either don’t normally get flooding or don’t get flooding like this, w/ @edjsandoval and @jrusstimes nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/…

in Memphis — a mixed verdict for three former officers charged in connection with the beating and death of Tyre Nichols, w/ @benstanleynz nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/…

two stories from the South on A1. grateful to @benstanleynz / the Memphis press corps and @jrusstimes @edjsandoval @MarkBarrettACT and more all in NC

Three Memphis cops found guilty of witness tampering in the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was killed in Jan 2023. But all officers were acquitted of the most serious civil rights charge in the case. @ESCochrane @benstanleynz report: nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/…

Cruso, NC —

More good news. All 54 people stranded on the Unicoi hospital roof in East Tennessee have been rescued. knoxnews.com/story/news/loc…

2/ The story went viral and drew national attention. Florida’s chief financial officer ordered an investigation. Meet the students who chased the story: poynter.org/reporting-edit…

This is a public appreciation post for the congressional press galleries staff that have done SO MUCH WORK advocating for the reporters from all over the country covering this convention for their home audiences this week.

if you get a voicemail from me and there’s squeaking noise in the background….you know who to blame. 🫡

Great reporting from the student-run Independent Florida Alligator @TheAlligator about the short and expensive tenure of former Sen Ben Sasse

some counterprogramming from me and @NYTStyles 🤠 nytimes.com/2024/08/06/sty…

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva are reunited with their families and loved ones at Joint Base Andrews. @nytimes