Audio Editor @CalMatters | Used to produce/report @KQED | Call me by my name (Mary Franklin) or MF | [email protected] | she/her
San Francisco/Nevada City, CA
Joined February 2017
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It's been a while since I had a first day!
Feeling grateful for the butterflies, flood of welcome Slacks from my new @CalMatters colleagues, and chance to build out this new dimension of coverage with an org I so deeply respect 🦋💙.
Next up: I am THRILLED to share that I'm going to be @CalMatters first-ever Audio Editor!
I could not be more excited to channel the clarity & humanity of CalMatters' reporting into audio via the California Newsroom + other future collaborations!
Let's GOOOO📻‼️
Welcome, @kristenrgo 💙!
Please join us in welcoming @kristenrgo as CalMatters’ next editor in chief. Learn more about her groundbreaking career, extensive experience in high-quality journalism and Central Valley roots cal.news/42lDIwQ
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Lots of opportunities right now at CalMatters for journalists of all experience levels!
Got to join neighbors across Nevada & Yuba Counties for @CalMatters Pizza & Politics last night. Thanks to @YubaNet + the Miner's Foundry for creating this invaluable forum!
20+ pizzas served 50+ voters' minds nourished!
Here's Charles Durrett with his pizza plate cheat sheet⤵️
Civics! Pizza! Civil discourse!
Over 1,000 Californians have hosted parties all over the state using @CalMatters' non-partisan voter guide. (Breakdown of pizza ideologies below.)
And there's still time to host your own party! Here's how: calmatters.org/inside-calmat…
💙 feel so lucky to get to collaborate with journalists as great and as GAME as @ByrhondaLyons — luv y’all, CalMatters fam💙
When @EmEffHarvin needs a quality audio recording and your closet is the quietest place in the house…🤣
S/O to my yoga mat for functioning as a sound booth. 😂 📻
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🥳 Happy Birthday to my #FOIAFriday @TikToks. It's a little over a year, but who's counting? Anyway, prepare to be sick of me because here's a recap!
My first one!
teapawt.net/ByrhondaLyons/status/1…
Had the privilege of meeting Willie Chambers earlier this week. 84 yrs young with a voice like silk still. We talked about his flight anxiety (he took the train from LA to the Bay). And his late brother, George, who he said taught him how to stop at a stop sign with finesse.
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Newsom announces he's signed a bill requiring EDD to record demographics on who uses the state's disability + paid family leave programs.
What he hasn't signed is another bill to boost those programs' payments, particularly for the lowest-earning workers
calmatters.org/explainers/ca…
Hey, all! Welcoming feedback on the CA housing issues that are most important to you to help guide us on which experts we should be featuring on Gimme Shelter 🏘️📻.
this episode is especially short and sweet thanks to the amazing @EmEffHarvin, our new audio editor at @CalMatters! if you have feedback on the format, or on making the pod even more accessible to the non-housing nerds, please share! calmatters.org/housing/2022/…
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So much climate legislation happened in #caleg yesterday. @n_llopez was up late tracking bills for @CalMatters.
Here's the roundup ⤵️
calmatters.org/environment/2…
Please spend some time with this meaningful reporting from @lil_kalish & @AlejandroLazo⤵️
calmatters.org/california-di…
And if you've seen recent coverage about wage theft and want the larger context ⤵️
calmatters.org/explainers/wh…
Thanks very much to @janaya for having @lil_kalish and I on the show to discuss our reporting on the car wash industry. And thanks to @CalMatters' @EmEffHarvin & @kcrw's @ChristianBordal for helping us to present that reporting for a radio audience. Very grateful.
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BREAKING: California will revolutionize the car market by ending sales of new gas cars within 12 years, forcing car buyers to switch to electric cars. bit.ly/3wzxDyL
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We’re thrilled to welcome CalMatters’ newest employees, who help advance our work internally and across the state. This advancement is, as always, made possible by support from our institutional donors and individual members. bit.ly/3R5xUkK
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We’re hiring an investigative reporter, starting salary is $100,000, “higher compensation may be available.”
You’re good enough, you’re smart enough and doggone it, people like you. Apply! calmatters.org/about/jobs/in… – at Los Angeles, CA
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“There would have been a very high probability that Grizzly Flats would not have burned in the Caldor Fire” if the Forest Service completed the Trestle Project, said former Eldorado National Forest District Ranger Duane Nelson. “It could’ve meant survival.”
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"Several concerning steps taken by EDD...suggest that ensuring eligible workers get benefits is not among its top priorities:" @LAO_CA. Report estimates agency delayed UI payments for 5 million Californians during pandemic. EDD reviewing recommendations lao.ca.gov/Publications/Repo…
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One of the report's findings: @CA_EDD mischaracterized how many people were getting denied/disqualified in its reports to the legislature.
"People should get fired for this" said one lawmaker.
I've been updating the story throughout the day ⤵️
NEW from me: The state agency that handles unemployment benefits pursued holding down costs and hindering fraud over making it easy for workers to access benefits, a new state report found.
calmatters.org/economy/2022/…
In 2020 a gov-backed taskforce wrote this about #EDD:"There has developed at EDD a culture of allowing fear for fraud to trump all other considerations."
A new report from @LAO_CA doubles down on these concerns, but it's not just an EDD issue.
@GraceGedye has crucial analysis⤵️
NEW from me: The state agency that handles unemployment benefits pursued holding down costs and hindering fraud over making it easy for workers to access benefits, a new state report found.
calmatters.org/economy/2022/…
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👋 @CalMatters is holding a fundraising drive to celebrate our 7th anniversary as a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state policy and politics 🎉🪅
If you find our work essential, please consider donating to help us expand our reach 🙏 Thank you! checkout.fundjournalism.org/…
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Good question about going from print ➡️ radio. Any tips? cc: @LaurenDake @dirquez @e_baldi @annargriff @TroyWB @suevlee