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Ryan Pitts

@ryanpitts.bsky.social
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Journalist, coder, community developer. Managing director, Big Local News at Stanford. “I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, … who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.”

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dataindex.us @dataindex.us · 16/09/2026
Trying to understand the many unprecedented proposed changes to the decennial census? 👀 We broke down what’s in the proposal, why these seemingly arcane process changes matter, and why they would be catastrophic for all Americans. Read our new piece 👇
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Why Seemingly Arcane Process Changes to the Decennial Census Would be Catastrophic for All Americans | dataindex.us
by Meeta Anand, Beth Jarosz, and Chris Dick On September 10, 2026 the Census Bureau posted a notice in the Federal Register titled “ Decennial Census of the…
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 02/10/2026
How Rob Curley’s plan to make the Spokesman-Review ‘The People’s Paper’ ended in a newsroom revolt: Newsroom staffers tell @investigatewest.bsky.social and RANGE concerns about Curley’s leadership festered until his August suspension — weeks before the paper was set to transfer to his nonprofit.
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How Rob Curley’s plan to make the Spokesman-Review ‘The People’s Paper’ ended in a newsroom revolt
Newsroom staffers tell InvestigateWest and RANGE that concerns about Curley’s leadership festered until his August suspension — weeks before the paper was set to transfer to his nonprofit
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did you see this?!
A promo for the Deltron 3030 show on December 31 in San Francisco
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When you have Mozilla on your resume, it opens doors
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
❤️
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
what about load—bearing
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
big fan of Klaxon since way back in the Meagher days. So cool to see how you all have kept developing it as a reporting tool. This update looks awesome!
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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 29/07/2026
Level up your journalism career 📈 Apply for Level Up stipends (up to $1,000) to attend conferences, trainings, or leadership programs. Applications close September 1 (9AM PT) 
Open to journalists eligible for TJA membership. Apply HERE: bit.ly/TJA-LU
Text reads: Fund your professional development! Level Up. Apply now! transjournalists.org/level-up. Application cycle closes September 1, 2026, at 9AM PT / 7 AM CT / 6 AM ET. Trans Journalists Association logo below.
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
your vertical video series about Diamond Eyes would have been very influential though
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Really excited that my friends at @biglocalnews.bsky.social have released DataTalk, a federal campaign finance agent that turns your questions about FEC data into data-backed answers. I helped a bit with this, and am very interested in feedback (as are the BLN folks). datatalk.biglocalnews.org
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DataTalk
A campaign finance agent by Big Local News. Asks the FEC bulk data in plain English, shows its work.
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
That Lost finale is looking pretty good in comparison isn’t it
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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📊 College students and recent grads: Come intern at NPR this fall/winter! Apply by June 21. ➡️ Editorial Graphics & Education Internship (with my graphics team + NPR's Education team): grnh.se/j2sbuy5f5us (remote-friendly/US-based) ➡️ All internships and more details: www.npr.org/about-npr/18...
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Editorial Graphics & Education Internship - Fall 2026
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
That’s awesome, congratulations Tyler!
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Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How many collective news nerd hours are being spent hunting rapidly-changing district boundaries, making base maps, preparing them to join to election results data for live maps? Thrilled to share the AP Elections Map Files 🇺🇸 primed and ready for your results page. developer.ap.org/ap-elections...
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AP Elections Map Files
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Real ones know how beautiful this hug is, and how good that pizza was around the corner
Two brilliant and beautiful people hug after a small journalism event in London in 2015, surround by additional beautiful and brilliant people
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ah! Duck with a beret. A rare treat
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Peter. The frowny face at the end was totally a lie, you were smiling
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wouldn’t it be great to sit down with the pope and talk about The Sparrow
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 24/05/2026
Memorial Day weekend: the unofficial start of summer — and a perfect moment to go land the best job you've ever had. RANGE is hiring its first Membership & Marketing Manager. We're a worker-owned local newsroom in Spokane. $60–68k. You're gonna love it. Apply by June 12 → rangehiring.n...
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Membership & Marketing Manager
Priority deadline: June 12, 2026
Spokane, WA · Full-time
$60,000–$68,000 DOE
Apply now
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Also this bandcamp article on ambient country a few years ago introduced me to some artists I didn’t know about — it name checks that Chuck Johnson record so maybe would be interesting to you too? daily.bandcamp.com/lists/ambien...
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Ambient Country for Beginners
Eight releases that capture the grandeur and loneliness of the great wide open.
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Allan this is so fun! I love randomly discovering that people I know are doing cool D&D things
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Big Local News @biglocalnews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Vocational programs can help struggling high school boys improve attendance, test scores, and graduation rates. But how accessible are they in your community? We have data from dozens of states and a reporting recipe to help you investigate local enrollment trends. biglocalnews.org/content/news...
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How you can use Common Core data to report on vocational and career & technical education opportunities in your state
Research shows that Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs can help struggling high school boys improve attendance rates, test scores, and graduation rates. But these schools aren’t available e...
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
~how might we~ clean up our toys together
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@jacobharr.is getting phone reports this morning of the first boatcar sighting of the year
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
this is truly the testimonial that makes me mostly likely to check out Zed, they should put it on the website!
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
nobody can take my TextMate away from me
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“everything happens so much” just keeps getting deeper
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
OMG Leah, I had the exact same experience the first time I saw them. And now it’s like 8 years later and it’s a thing my youngest daughter and I do together.
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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@npr.org recently updated its guide to U.S. voter registration deadlines to reflect online/in person/mail deadlines for the 2026 primaries. Cheers to @hansilowang.bsky.social, Brent Jones and Ben Swasey for wrangling this. apps.npr.org/voter-regist...
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
If you are a journalism instructor and want to get started teaching digital security for your students, we'd love to show you how. Sign up for our training for journalism educators. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Registration: FPF's J-school digital security training program
Register here for Freedom of the Press Foundation’s free, virtual training program designed to help you directly deliver critical content from our U.S. J-school digital security curriculum. Led by FPF...
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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 05/02/2026
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Hey congratulations! I know you’ve been building toward this for a while
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
None of this was necessary. None of it _had to happen_. Every single bit is a choice made by people who don't have to suffer the consequences. Up to us to help the people paying the price so that others can prosper, and to never ever ever forget who's making the choices.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register
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Public Inspection: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“HB 2641 prohibits all Washington state law enforcement agencies from hiring anyone who was hired as a sworn officer of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on or after January 20, 2025.” housedemocrats.wa.gov/simmons/2026...
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Rep. Simmons introduces ICE Out Act of 2026 prohibiting hiring of ICE officers – Tarra Simmons
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
yiiiiikes
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Peter
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
No it’s true, we keep the good ones for ourselves
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Rollo forever
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed 'good enough.'" www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
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"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
So say we all
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Islay whiskies are the best! I fell in love with Caol Ila but they’re all so good.
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Earlier this year I got to drive two great friends to their citizenship ceremony, and a whole group of us celebrated with them after. It was so joyful! They’re from one of the countries on this list. Relieved and grateful we got to be there with them then, and just sickened to read this now.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The problem with computer jobs is that it's all in your head. You can't touch or eat the code you write, it's too abstract. You need to find something to make with your hands if you want to stay okay
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K Petrin @petrinkae.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If you know me, you know I donated a ton of time and energy to building this org from 2023-2024. I’m grateful that led to hiring full-time staff in 2025. I hope we can keep building. Will you help? bit.ly/tja_pride
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 02/12/2025
This Giving Tuesday, considering tossing some cash to OpenNews, the journalism org I founded in 2011. OpenNews has evolved a lot since back in the day, with new & amazing leaders, but remains a crucial connector among people doing vital work in newsrooms. opennews.networkforgood.com
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 26/11/2025
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
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Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
cool economy we’ve got, can’t stop spending wages on personal devices or else productivity gains will stop rolling up to owners and investors
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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I feel like we haven’t even scratched the surface of how bad it can get
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