Grain markets journo for @business. Ex @WSJ @BostonGlobe @latimes. Disaster magnet. Latina. Taco snob. Native Californian. Newbie New Yorker. Chicago-based soon
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Thank you for all your insights! Here's a gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Nice article on Bloomberg today by @ailworth on the onion demonstration last week at the CME. Not sure if this link is paywalled or not: urldefense.com/v3/__https://…
Thanks for chatting with me about it all! What fun commodity will we take on next?
Thanks to Erin @ailworth for the opportunity to go on record to help peel back the layers of this pungent story.
‘Free the Onions’ Rally Sparks Debate on 68-Year-Old Trading Ban
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Erin Ailworth retweeted
Outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week, a small group of university students staged an irreverent rally that sparked a serious debate among some of America’s financial elite about what can and can’t be traded (from the great @ailworth) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
New from @gersonjr and me: Tariffs starting to squeeze profits for farmers bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I’ve missed seeing bylines from @aacaldwellLA. Sad topic, good coverage: ncronline.org/news/least-its…
Disasters are my reporting jam, but they aren't for everyone. So when I noticed @TalalNAnsari had volunteered to help cover the aftermath of the shooting in Uvalde, I cheered him on. It takes a special kind of person to be willing to run toward the things other people run from
Same goes for @cmaiduc, who called to pick my brain before deploying to the Maui wildfires. She just won a @NYpressclub award for that work. Who was also on that coverage? Why @acaldwellwsj and @SuryatapaB. Special people all around. Hire each and every one of them.
I also got to recruit @ShannonNajma, who hit the ground running the minute we hired her. When a shooting broke out at the Kansas City Super Bowl rally, she hustled to the scene, delivering witness account after witness account while I worked the phones from NYC
I've known @acaldwellwsj my entire career. We were co-cops reporters at the Orlando Sentinel, where we covered the usual Florida weirdness, like sinkholes swallowing houses in Volusia County
I knew I wanted @aflores as a colleague when, despite working for different outlets, we teamed up for safety to cover the protests roiling Minneapolis just days after George Floyd's death. He's rock solid in the middle of chaos and I'm so glad I got to recruit him to the WSJ
The great @ForsythJenn teamed me up with @SuryatapaB and a few other lady journos for an investigation into how Covid was spread by cruise ships. Key to the series: Surya's work gaining inside access to the Diamond Princess and chronicling the spread of the virus on the ship
I met @bkesling in the middle of Hurricane Harvey, when he saved my Subaru's battery from dying. Fast-forward to early March 2020, when we turned to each other in the Chicago bureau and said, oh crap, we better gear up for a pandemic
Today marks a week since my layoff from the WSJ, which has been my professional home for a decade. I already miss working with my colleagues. Many are like family, including the ones cut with me: @acaldwellwsj @bkesling @SuryatapaB @aflores @ShannonNajma @TalalNAnsari @cmaiduc 🧵
I try :) Thanks for the kind words and the solid editing.
It's a Sunday in November. @_willparker_ and I are scrambling on a story about some young Palestinians shot in Vermont. Who shows up out of the blue with sources? That would be @ailworth. That's how she rolls.
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