Emily Schwing
Journalist w/ lots of bylines. I really like skis and dogs. I don't really like hot weather or spiders. Go bag packed. AK-based & Arctic focused.
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- Gross on so many levels. Journalists are human beings who do very hard work for a greater good.
- We also need a healthier culture and community. The othering, makes this a lonely business. And it’s generally unsustainable. Surviving journalism does not equal success and workaholism shouldn’t be a requirement.
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- I also have lots of feelings about working in journalism right now, and the bad certainly out number the good. For me, loneliness is also one of them.
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- Reposted by Emily SchwingVideo shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
- Reposted by Emily SchwingFinally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
- Reposted by Emily SchwingI've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
- Reposted by Emily SchwingMy report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- Reposted by Emily SchwingI wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
- Reposted by Emily Schwing👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Emily SchwingHere's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- “As journalists, we must remember that our responsibility is not to present both sides evenly; it is to make a determination about the facts that helps audiences understand a chaotic world.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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- Reposted by Emily SchwingThe 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
- Americans will only ever witness violence at the hands of their own government thanks to journalists who work constantly to protect our 1st amendment rights . Were it not for us, I feel strongly this would be far worse. Democracy isn't the only thing that dies in darkness. So does our humanity.
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- This wasn’t on my news bingo card today, but I’m here for it: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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- BREAKING: 2 school districts sue Alaska for failing to meet its constitutional obligation to provide public education to all children of the state. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
- Idea: buy all the phones in the vending machine. What other footage is available?
- Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
- I don't have a job right now not for any other reason than the Trump Admin's rescission package that cut $$$ for public broadcasting & grocery prices in AK have always been high, but, anecdotally, they've been higher in recent months than I've experienced in the 2 decades I've lived here. Carry on.
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- I spent more than a year and half crawling through, under, over and around rural public school buildings in Alaska's rural communities. I found a serious public health and safety crisis that's heavily impacting Alaska's Indigenous students. Check out my series: www.propublica.org/people/emily...
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- Filing this under "Things that tell us a lot about legacy media organizations."
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- To those hiring in journalism - stop saying "we really want to work with you" if you're not going to hire that person. It's disingenuous and ours is an industry built entirely on trust.
- AK's Education Department is a "hands-off landlord." The agency owns nearly half of about 120 rural schools statewide. Inside, I've found failing fire alarms, faulty foundations, toxic leaks & raw sewage. Now the state wants rural districts to own those buildings. www.propublica.org/article/alas...
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- Here's what I am reading today. Why? Because subsistence foods play a huge role in the lives of Alaskans, and their value, which is particularly outsized in rural communities, is often underestimated.
- What I'm reading: www.adn.com/alaska-news/... Questions I have: 1. is this Individual or Public Assistance? There's a big difference. 2. This didn't come quickly. Why the delay? 3. Is this an Emergency or Major Disaster Declaration? the difference is key & directly impacts response capabilities
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- Breaking: Now I am reading this: www.kyuk.org/alaska-state... Declaration request approved.
- here's what i am reading today: www.adn.com/alaska-news/... Indefinite displacement of hundreds of Americans and yet no federal disaster declaration. It's a piece of paper on someones desk in DC. In Alaska, this is a humanitarian crisis.
- Here's what I am reading today: www.kyuk.org/arts-culture... ... and I'm wondering about that request for a federal disaster declaration.
- If you're a news organization using footage from storm ravaged communities in Alaska, maybe throw some cash at the creators. Footage should not be free. And the people you're soliciting it from have been displaced indefinitely with not much other than the clothes they were wearing.
- Here's what I am reading today: www.adn.com/alaska-news/... The two questions everyone in Alaska is asking right now is 1. what happens next? and 2. Why hasn't the Trump Administration signed a federal disaster declaration yet?
- I have questions: 1. Why did it take nearly a week? 2. Do AK's tribal leaders know they can make a govt-to-govt requests for their communities? 3. Gov. Dunleavy said the damage surpasses the state’s ability & capacity to respond w/o fed support. What is AK lacking? www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
- HEre's what I am reading today: theconversation.com/typhoon-leav... Why? Because: Yes. This is potentially worse than Katrina.
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- What does Typhoon Halong reveal about housing conditions in Western Alaska? Here's a thread...👇
- Well, this is unexpected, but also quite welcome.
- Journalism, he said, is how we know what's happening in troubled lands. "These extraordinary eyewitness accounts are the culmination of the daily efforts of countless people who work to ensure that information isn't manipulated for ends contrary to truth and human dignity“ apnews.com/article/pope...
- here's what I am reading today: www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n... Why? Because who doesn't love science, polar exploration and a break from all the relentless bad news these days.
- it's a little more nuanced than that... but yes, this is what I am reading today.
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- journalists always love being thanked. It rarely happens. Have you thanked one of us for protecting your first amendment rights today?
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- Reposted by Emily SchwingI was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
- if i had a dollar for every time someone in journalism over 20+ years told me about "getting my foot in the door," well, I would not have as many dollars as Taylor Swift, who owns the door and what's behind it, but I'd still expect to be paid and supported for my time, skills and creative effort.
- I have also been wondering this. Where are all the movie stars and Hollywood socialites willing to write letters and make donations large enough to allow America's small and essential rural public radio stations to continue to provide the vital public service that we do?
- here's what i am reading today. Why? Because these are overlooked and potentially devastating natural disasters that deserve attention before they happen, not after.
- Applying for journalism jobs has hit a new low. An AI generated relevancy score is unlikely to highlight my skills in data gathering & analysis, filing records requests or my subject matter expertise in infrastructure development & disaster management. And my resume says Alaska, so I'm too far away.
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- By contrast, my high school economics teacher was the football coach. Half the team was in that class. I was the only woman. My investment strategies won a national award while the football team blew their money on the WWF, the NFL & cage fighting. My econ teacher also taught me how to smirk.
- Long-form is an art and essential for context and understanding. The journalism blows just keep coming.
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- My interpretation of this: The dream of a happy-go-lucky, fun, fabulously coifed and well-informed career in journalism is fully dead. very timely. I'll be fully unemployed in 9 days. (but who's counting?!)
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- Here's what i am reading today. Why? Because even in Alaska, we seem to all forget that America is an Arctic Nation: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/arcti...
- this story says nothing about the people who actually work at these stations and for us, it's been radio silence about what happens to us. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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- i am reading today. Why? Specifically because of what @scotthorton.bsky.social points out: "This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage."
- here's what i am reading today: northernjournal.com/alaskas-top-conservative-writer-explains-why-she-left-the-website-she-founded/?ref=northern-journal-newsletter&attribution_id=68c1f5c2c8b0170001fc5191&attribution_type=post
