Sarah de Crescenzo

🚨NEWS: We are hiring another reporter to cover economic policy at Punchbowl News. Come work with me and on the best congressional reporting team in the business. My DMs are open for any and all questions, and link is below >>>>

@EdLudlow Honestly how

How is it only Wednesday

Feels like people are putting a lot of faith in the fact that pandemics are rare events, often — though not always — with multiple decades between them. Nature doesn't work on a schedule. We assume it does at our peril. nytimes.com/2025/03/26/hea…

llumina cracked the DNA code. Now the company, and firms led by ex-Illumina employees, are steering into the buzzy multiomics field. Via @endpts endpts.com/illuminas-ceo-…

If anyone is a former health journalist and looking to freelance, I’d love some help with Second Opinion. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. Huge bonus if you have a background in business/financial journalism.

We @FT are #hiring 2 foreign & defense policy reporters in #DC - 1 for US-Europe & 1 for Mid East. Instead of covering an agency, reporters will cover all agencies for their region - same way I cover US-China/IndoPacific. If interested, contact DC bureau chief @JamesPoliti (1/2)

scoop: Drugmakers Mallinckrodt and Endo are in talks to combine in a potential $7 billion deal, sources say. The deal, set to be announced in the coming days, would mark the first classic pharma-to-pharma merger in years. Story w/ @DNair5 on @TheTerminal & web link coming shortly

Think we need to revisit what "candidly" means. politico.com/news/2025/03/1…

Southwest Airlines just did that thing where people use them over all of the other airlines for two reasons. Then they hired management consultants who recommended they eliminate two things to maximize profits

Nant chair, billionaire medical innovator and LAT owner Dr Patrick Soon Shiong publicly calling for confirmation of RFK Jr

As @DrPaulOffit explained recently to me: It’s not as if anti-vaxxers like RFK are ever going to see vaccine safety/efficacy data and say, ‘Ah yes, this is the data we wanted.’ It’s a ruse.

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🧵 Here are all the ways you can follow election results tonight with the @washingtonpost. Some fantastic new things this year.

Exciting! 404 Media is partnering with our friends at WIRED. Two of our stories a month will run on WIRED.com (and on 404 Media). We remain fully journalist-owned, this is just a dream sitch where we can show our work to WIRED's readers 404media.co/404-media-is-p…

I know many of you will roll your eyes at this, but that's OK; I wouldn't be in this field if I was afraid of being dunked on every now and then. When I first came to The Washington Post in 2017, I was extremely wary it would be too establishment for me. Too corporate. Too deferential to power. What I have instead found over the last seven years is that the paper has consistently given me a unique, awesome platform to fulfill the highest calling of journalism -- to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable.  The Post has spared no resource in allowing me to pursue this mission. It flew me to Puerto Rico to interview hurricane victims cut off from federal food stamp aid. To Maine to cover the long-term care crisis facing the nation's elderly. To Kentucky to document the closure of a steel plant. To Las Vegas to cover the housing crisis. To Wisconsin for farmers caught in the crosshairs of a trade war. To Detroit for a story on the nation's unraveling safety net. To the Bronx to chronicle appalling public housing conditions. (OK, I took the train there.) To Ukraine to cover a war. To Indonesia for meetings of the world's most powerful financial leaders.  Since the beginning of the year, the Post has devoted thousands of manpower hours to a series -- six parts published thus far -- on the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions. This effort included paying me and a team to travel to northeast Guatemala to chronicle an economic calamity almost 2,000 miles away from my desk, in one of the poorest parts of the world. At least 20 people have worked on this series alone. The Post did not greenlight this series because it thought there would be huge pageviews in U.S. sanctions policy; it did so because it's important for the public to understand how the surging use of the tool is affecting the world and the nation's foreign policy. It did so because the story matters. I fully understand the misgivings people have expressed about billionaire control over our journalism. (I published a story today -- pitched by an editor, put by editors on today's front page -- about billionaires threatened by Trump who are now hedging their bets.) But these are stories that require more than just substantial resources; they require a devotion to journalism that seeks to document how machinations in Washington affect the lives outside it. I could try a Substack where I spout off whatever happens to be in my head that day. I could work for a publication that only caters to lobbyists and elite insiders. But there are precious few publications still doing the coverage -- however incomplete; however still in need of improvement -- aimed at serving the broader public at large. I believe The Washington Post is one of them. I am not here to tell anyone what to do. We are imperfect. My work can suffer from negativity bias, recency bias, imperfect data, faulty assumptions, motivated sources. I get things wrong. My journalism can be flawed and you should yell at me on twitter when it is. I want to be more transparent about the decisions I make and the stories I publish. But I promise you: I and many, many other journalists throughout this newsroom would quit The Washington Post if we ever felt our work was not in service of the public at large. That is the point of the job. That is why I hope we get to do it for as long as possible.

TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife trib.al/c6XdKvH

Insane stat from the Wall Street Journal that there are like 12 million full-time influencers in the US right now. That’s 7% of the American workforce No way a bubble like that is at all sustainable

My friend Mariel Garza just resigned as editorials editor of @latimes after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris for president. cjr.org/business_of_ne…