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Robert Lopez

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Independent Investigative Journalist and fellow at the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at @newmarkjplus.bsky.social, City University of New York Priors: @latimes.com lajourno.com

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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 5h
Proud to be among those honored—congratulations to all the winners and thank you @freedom.press for recognizing our work!
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 13/10/2026
“Virtually all the new news sources are in urban areas, while rural America is increasingly arid news and information territory.” buff.ly/NWAaDX3
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From bad to worse: 2026 is shaping up to be “a super El Niño year for local news”
If you thought last year was bleak, Medill's annual State of Local News Report is here to ring the alarm bell louder. What was a "creeping erosion" has now "mushroomed into a full-blown super El…
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Been to this seaside city many times — finally made it to this spot
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thanks, Stuart !
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Scrapping offshore wind: The Trump administration says it will pay two more energy companies, including one developing a wind project off Morro Bay, to abandon their projects. The federal government will pay $885 million to end the leases. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Trump administration pays wind developer to walk away from California offshore lease
In the second such highly unusual move, the Trump administration is paying to make wind power go away
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Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A disinfo campaign has lead to violent online threats against ISOC, long considered the mother mosque of SoCal Muslims. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
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Islamic Society of Orange County under heightened security after online threats
Violent threats against the mosque and community center in Garden Grove followed claims that an expansion plan sought to create a Muslim "parallel society" in Orange County.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
First I hear of this! Great news and thanks to @sleavenworth.bsky.social for helping edit this important project.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Thank you Ian and congratulations on your SEJ win!
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Very pleased to win this award. Thank you @sleavenworth.bsky.social for editing that made it better.
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Earth Island Journal @earthislandjournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In the sprawling agricultural fields of California lies a harsh reality: Children toil away in punishing heat and dangerous conditions to pick the fresh produce that feeds America. Robert J Lopez (@lajourno.bsky.social) reports in this investigation by @capitalandmain.bsky.social and partners.
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Toiling in Toxic Fields
California is failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of child farmworkers.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Sunset in the islands
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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz began telling his family that he wasn’t feeling well weeks before he died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in ICE custody less than three weeks into 2026. capitalandmain.com/honduran-gra...
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Honduran Grandfather Who Died in ICE Custody Told Family He’d Felt Ill For Weeks
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody less than three weeks into 2026.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Indeed 👇🏽
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thank you @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for recognizing our work. The project was a model of collaboration by all involved 👊🏽
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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🎙️ON AIR: We’re talking to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist @lajourno.bsky.social, who interviewed 61 child farmworkers in California, about his reporting and the state’s response. ❓How do you want the state to address this? 📻 Listen:
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Investigation: Lax State Oversight Endangers California’s Child Farmworkers | KQED
We talk to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Robert J. Lopez, who interviewed 61 child farmworkers in California, about his reporting and the state’s response.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Very pleased with the layout of my investigation in today’s print edition Read the story here www.latimes.com/california/s...
Front page of Sunday L.A. Times
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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This investigation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert J. Lopez is based on interviews with 100+ underage and adult farmworkers, experts, labor and agricultural industry advocates and state and local officials. Read the investigation here. capitalandmain.com/californias-...
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California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Here's the sidebar to my investigation of child labor in California's $61-billion Ag industry. More than two dozen minors and parents told me they worked in fields that reeked of chemicals. Enforcement records showed statewide breakdowns. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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Melissa Gomez @melissagomez.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
What an incredible piece of reporting from my former colleague @lajourno.bsky.social, who spent months reporting how the state has under-investigated children working in harsh conditions in fields across California. Spend the time to read and hear from the children. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Package also includes a sidebar on pesticide enforcement www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My latest investigation—a collaboration 2 years in the making www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 02/11/2025
"It feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
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Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This didn’t take long—first glossy mailer for California redistricting battle came yesterday.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The Basque chorizos and other dishes at Ansots in Boise are insane. #jaialdi2025
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I love the paella at the Basque Market in Boise. #jaialdi2025
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Bar Gernika going off #jaialdi #boise
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Attacks against the media in L.A—disturbing and powerful
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Being a journalist in LA is a “dangerous profession,” alleges a lawsuit by @lapressclub.bsky.social against LAPD in response to attacks against media in recent protests. #journalism
Federal lawsuit filed against LAPD by LA press club
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Downtown LA #NoKings
Protest signs on No Kings DayProtest signs on No Kings Day
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11/06/2025
The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police. We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...
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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pass it on
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Point of view
Paddle board on a bay
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Dog Town indeed
Dog Town mural at Venice Beach California
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 16/02/2025
🎙️ "Good journalism often emerges from the convergence of disagreement and befuddlement." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weeke…
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An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a philosopher teach me about his ideas?
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How you doing, by the way?
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Amen to that 👊🏽
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
There is no objectivity in journalism. We’re all shaped by our lived experiences. What you need to do is follow facts and be smart enough to know that things aren’t always as they seem.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Predictions?
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
As Hector Tobar wrote in today’s NYT, L.A.’s “fleckless mayor.”
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hey @washingtonpost.com, I wanted to support you but enough is enough. I just canceled my subscription.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Legacy media is just that. #journalism
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Before and after #tamales
Tamales being madeTamales Tamale
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
@carlivelocci.com Hello, I just joined this platform. Can you add me to the journalism feed?
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is a fitting tribute to one of the best L.A. City Hall reporters I’ve seen in my many years covering local politics. capitalandmain.com/remembering-...
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Remembering the Sage of Los Angeles City Hall
Journalist Marc Haefele was one of the keenest analysts of Los Angeles politics. Capital & Main columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan knew him as a colleague who could write authoritatively on practically every...
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The owner of the L.A. Times kills another editorial www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...
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Los Angeles Times Owner Wades Deeper Into Opinion Section
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s public comments and actions, including recently blocking an editorial weighing in on President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks, have concerned many staff members.
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sun sets over the Santa Monica Bay
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Malibu burns in the distance, seen from the Venice Pier
Malibu fire
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Josh Hinkle @hinklej.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
ONE WEEK AWAY: If you’re a journalist in the Austin area (or anywhere around Texas), join us next Friday, Dec. 13 at 6p CST for our IRE/ATX Holiday Meetup! You don’t have to be a member of @ire-nicar.bsky.social to attend. More details: bit.ly/3AuUWz9
ONE WEEK AWAY: If you’re a journalist in the Austin area (or anywhere around Texas), join us next Friday, Dec. 13 at 6p CST for our IRE/ATX Holiday Meetup! You don’t have to be a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors to attend. More details: bit.ly/3AuUWz9
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The turmoil unleashed at the LAT after the spiked editorial and resignation of Mariel Garza continues
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thanks Any tips for organizing a large number of different files, eg interview transcripts with different sources vs reports. I ask because I’m working a major project on Big Ag that involves multiple topics
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