Mara Corbett

🚨Exciting news from @MarshallProj Our nonprofit newsroom is unionizing! We have united to form Marshall Project Guild, part of nyguild.org Together, we're committed to preserving the best of our newsroom and securing a future for our staff, work, and readership.

“You are sending them out into the world with more problems than they came in,” our reporter @schwartzapfel says. Our premiere of Inside Story with @VICENews looks at juvenile justice in Louisiana. Watch the full episode: trib.al/coP5bOb

Our new series examines the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system — made by the people who've lived it. 🗓️ Premiering Thursday:

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what books are banned in your state's prison system? After a YEAR of records request, today we @MarshallProj published a searchable database of all the banned books list we could get our hands on - more than 54,000 titles. themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/pri…

🧵 JOBS THREAD 🧵 If your newsroom (or adjacent media company) is hiring, please reply to this tweet. We’re collecting opportunities for an online job board for folks who were caught up in #GannettLayoffs. Include city/ state and links pls. RT to spread the word!

A thread about the Bratenahl story. Some details didn't make the story. I called the mayor to request ticket data. He demanded to know who provided info about a problem. He said the village had no issues; the ACLU of Ohio cleared it in 2019. themarshallproject.org/2022/11/21/ohi…

Torn Apart was the toughest project I've ever been a part of. Grateful to the the brave parents and kids who spoke to us and proud to help make FL's foster kids a little safer. @MichaelBraga2 @suzsaysNJ @Beall1 @JoshSalman @Jennart @maracorbett @dak_le usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

@telkinsjr Thank you, Tony! I couldn’t have been luckier to end up on your team right out of college. There are so many lessons learned from those days I still think about.

@RachelSB @Gannett Thank you, Rachel! I’ll miss working with you.

@maracorbett @Gannett I'm sorry to read this. I enjoyed working with you. Thank you for the ways you improved our journalism.

After five years at @gannett, today is my last day. I’m so grateful for my time here and the many talented journalists I’ve worked with. I’ve learned so much from my kind and dedicated colleagues.

It feels especially fitting that my final project was alongside my local paper, the @statesman. This story is worth your time (and a subscription)! statesman.com/in-depth/news/…

It seems unbelievable - kids under 10 being arrested for basically acting like kids. Throwing tantrums. Having fights. Breaking things. What happens to small kids in the years after their arrests? We tell the story of 3 kids who lived through it. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

Twelve years ago, Neal Jacobson killed his wife and twin sons. He blamed it on psychotropic medications. He’s not the first to do so. Our new investigation dives into his case: The family. The meds. The diagnosis. And the penalty. pbpo.st/jacobson

Champlain Towers South served as a vertical neighborhood for 40 years. It took only 10 seconds for it to become a tomb. Walk with us floor by floor to meet residents of the collapsed Florida condo and learn about their rich and varied lives: usatoday.com/in-depth/graph…

EXCLUSIVE: See how a rich Texas millionaire tried to get $100 million in Arizona tax dollars with help from Gov. @dougducey and his top lieutenants: @KirkAdams, @azchamber CEO @dbseiden, federal judge Mike Liburdi and Deputy Chief of Staff @AZGretchen azcentral.com/in-depth/money…

55 years before George Floyd’s name was heard nationwide, Jimmie Lee Jackson’s death became a turning point in the Voting Rights Movement. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

Some important things in Texas that journalists (and therefore the public) weren't given in-person access to today: - the first execution in 10 months - the signing of a law that restricts abortion access - the full text of SB 7, which restricts voting in the state

The Peace Corps is failing to manage the threat of sexual assault against its volunteers, at times placing them in dangerous situations and inflicting further trauma. New investigation from @DonovanSlack and me. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

How it started...how it’s going. 🤯 #txwx

Fourth morning without power and Scout has learned the command “snuggle.”