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Sarahbeth Maney

@sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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Purpose-driven storyteller, independent photog ✨ BAY AREA ☁️ FAA drone certified Former staff: ProPublica, Freep, NYT 📨 Reach me: sbmaneyphoto@gmail.com

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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
You may have seen the stories of Cherise Doyley and Brianna Bennett recently across your TL. Florida judges forced them to undergo C-Sections, despite them refusing. Their right to decide their medical care was stripped when they were made to testify during a court hearing while actively in labor.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 15/12/2025
"Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did so anyway." And then they celebrated with cake. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Dear fellow media covering mass shootings in the U.S.: I have a few thoughts on how to minimize harm. First of all, this is not a media-bashing post. Because we are not a monolith, change within our industry can take a long time. Second, as evidenced by the stories reported that there are...
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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“What necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black journalists are among the first to be seen as disposable on a masthead?”
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Where Have All The Black Journalists Gone?
In the wake of the Teen Vogue layoffs and the rollback of DEI initiatives in media, we have to ask: what necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black jou...
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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was working at a construction site in coastal Alabama when ICE agents tried to take him to the ground as he yelled, “I’m a citizen!” They held him handcuffed for more than an hour and dismissed his REAL ID as fake. Two weeks later, he wrongfully held by ICE agents again.
Leo stands at the front porch of a newly built home, with his hands in his pockets of his jeans, while looking toward the camera. There is bright orange soil on the ground to prepare for grass to be laid around the new development. Leo has a serious expression on his face. Leo sits inside a newly built home. He has a reflective expression on his face while glancing out of a window. Fresh green grass and bright orange dirt is seen outside of the window with new homes in the background. Leo holds his brown leather wallet containing his gov. issued real ID. His ID photograph is visible, in which he has a smile on his face, but the wallet is folded to conceal the portion of his personal information. Leo sits on wooden steps of his home’s front porch in rural Alabama surrounded by lush green trees and grass. He looks off into the distance with a serious expression and wears slip on shoes with a pair of work shoes on the step in front of him before leaving for work in the morning.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2025
NEW: A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to “fall in line” with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team. Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired. By @jlussenhop.bsky.social, photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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A Doctor Challenged the Opinion of a Powerful Child Abuse Specialist. Then He Lost His Job.
A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to “fall in line” with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team. Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"As many as 15 people a month typically became too weak to work in May and June." Because it's 100 degrees. And there's no air conditioning. @robwdavis.bsky.social on a factory that makes Nike clothing, with photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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Decades After Nike Promised Sweatshop Reforms, Workers in This Factory Were Still Fainting
Workers have been fainting for years in Cambodia’s garment factories, where more than 57,000 people now produce Nike goods. A former medical worker at one of the company’s suppliers blamed overtime ho...
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Grateful to The @oregonian.com for featuring our reporting on Nike in Cambodia so prominently today. Story: www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nike claims they pay workers 1.9 times the local livable wage. Workers’ pay stubs tell a different story. Spend time with this investigation by @robwdavis.bsky.social and the stories of women I photographed in Cambodia, who worked grueling hours — still not earning enough to make ends meet.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NEW: Nike says most of the 1.1M people making its products earn 1.9X their local minimum wage. We obtained a payroll ledger for a Cambodian factory that supplied Nike for two years. 1% of the workforce earned that much. Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.
Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one ...
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Not only have vaccination rates for measles, mumps and rubella fallen, but federal data shows that so have those for pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B and polio." by @deldeib.bsky.social + @sheinvestigates.bsky.social / @lucaswaldron.bsky.social + @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline
While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...
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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
How the reality crime show “The First48” painted “a wholly inaccurate picture” that led to a wrongful conviction. Read the full @propublica.org investigation by @jlussenhop.bsky.social 📸 by me ~ www.propublica.org/article/firs...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/01/2025
ProPublica's @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social moved back to her native California on Jan. 4. Three days later, the LA wildfires began. As an investigative newsroom, ProPublica doesn't usually cover breaking news, but SB knew she had to document what was going on. Her first stop was Altadena.
Text: Kim and Wendell Hood’s home in Altadena, California, was destroyed by the fires. Kim lived in the home for 30 years, and it was passed down to her by her parents. Image: Kim and Wendell Hood embrace against the backdrop of their burned down home.Text: “Fire comes in and it sweeps through, then nothing — you have to pick up the pieces of your life.” -Kim Hood. Image: The remains of the Hood family home. Broken, burned debris litters the ground. One charred support structure is still standing.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Featured images include these, from our photo-rich story on the long tail of the Flint water crisis: www.propublica.org/article/flin... 📸: @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
Still wary of the quality of the water, Pastor Robert McCathern uses a filtration system to fill a tub for baptisms at Joy Tabernacle Church in Flint, Michigan. Following the water crisis and coronavirus pandemic, he said, fewer people are getting baptized.Jacquinne Reynolds, 73, prepares for her care routine, which involves washing, brushing and moisturizing her scalp multiple times per week.Expired water bottles are scattered throughout the abandoned Northwestern High School in Flint.
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David Calvert @calvertphoto.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
After a two-week break, the NPPA newsletter is back. I penned this week’s reading list. There are photos from Election Day, Ukraine, data from Women Photograph on freelance editorial rates, a wonderful essay by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social, and more. 🔗: nppa.org/news/730
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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My job is to make photographs, but a big part of the fulfillment I get is from making connections 💙 read the full story I wrote for @propublica that goes behind the scenes into the why & how of telling visual stories. www.propublica.org/article/tips...
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Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone
Photography is a powerful journalistic tool, providing visual evidence and evoking emotions that urge us to understand the experiences of others. Here, ProPublica’s Sarahbeth Maney offers suggestions ...
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