Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️
Local enterprise at @washingtonpost.com. Formerly: housing + gentrification; protests + extremism. @PostGuild.bsky.social organizer. Forever NYer. 🍕 Latina bilingüe. 🇪🇨 Happy to be here. 👋🏽
Email: marissa.lang@washpost.com
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️Really superb piece on kids keeping DC’s go-go music alive, by @marissajae.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️These Teens Are Trying to Save Go-Go. Can the Music Save Them, Too? By Marissa J. Lang Gift link! @marissajae.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️So, @marissajae.bsky.social and I knew D.C. was changing up its canopy, but we wanted to explore what which regions of the country would be most represented in the city’s planting strategy. The data pointed to the midwest and gulf coast. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️Imagine screenshotting an opinion section article that’s not part of the editorial newsroom, misleading people and in the same post claim to believe in democracy. Look, a three reporter byline story with a national slideshow leading the homepage.
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️New piece: How the treetop canopy of D.C. is changing due to climate change. Story by @marissajae.bsky.social , tree illos by Tucker Harris, data by @jdharden.bsky.social , and maps by yours truly. wapo.st/48ymmCI
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️OVERNIGHT Federal law enforcement agents dismantled the White House Peace Vigil, the nation’s oldest and longest lasting protest, two weeks after President Trump ordered it taken down. Some sign-wielding volunteers remained @marissajae.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️‘Nowhere to go’: What Happened After Trump Ordered [D.C.] Homeless Encampments Cleared By @marissajae.bsky.social and @kyletalking.bsky.social Gift link!
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️If you snag a copy of today's @washingtonpost.com check out me and @marissajae.bsky.social diving into the results of Trump's push to get the homeless out of DC, on the paper's A1. Spoiler: they're still in DC and homeless.
- Reposted by Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️Not far from Trump’s White House, immigrants grapple with unknowns: wapo.st/4ge5y44 Grateful for colleagues like @marissajae.bsky.social @teoarmus.bsky.social Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff for deftly capturing how deportation operations can fray the social fabric of a community in my hometown and region.