Thread by @francescamari, Heartbreaking news during a deranged week: @CalSunday is folding. Highlighting just a [...]

Francesca Mari

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Heartbreaking news during a deranged week: @CalSunday is folding. Highlighting just a few of the many unforgettable stories that CS published over the last 5 years, all of them with groundbreaking design and cinematic photography or innovative illustration (1/...)

Starting with a riveting story by @DanielGAlarcon that ran in the first issue: https://story.californiasunday.com/the-contestant

The Contestant

The disappearance of Ruth Thalía Sayas Sánchez

https://story.californiasunday.com/the-contestant

https://story.californiasunday.com/below-deck stunning reporting and storytelling by @lizziepresser

Below Deck

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.

https://story.californiasunday.com/below-deck

https://story.californiasunday.com/las-vegas-shooting by @amandafortini

What Happened in Vegas

The days, weeks, and months after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

https://story.californiasunday.com/las-vegas-shooting

https://story.californiasunday.com/darien-gap-migration by @nadjadrost (taught this last week to my narrative nonfiction students at Brown)

Traversing the Darien Gap, the Longest Walk to America

Migrants from Africa, South Asia, and Haiti are traversing the Darien Gap to reach the U.S. It's one of the most dangerous regions in the world.

https://story.californiasunday.com/darien-gap-migration

https://story.californiasunday.com/covid-life-care-center-kirkland-washington critical story on the corporatization of nursing homes and covid by @katieengelhart

Inside the first COVID hot spot in America

Why nursing homes were so ill-prepared for the pandemic.

https://story.californiasunday.com/covid-life-care-center-kirkland-washington

https://story.californiasunday.com/cost-of-college powerful story about college students on the edge of experiencing homelessness and the Cal State system by @ashleypowers

The College Try

Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?

https://story.californiasunday.com/cost-of-college

https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust by Mark Arax and masterfully overseen by peerless editor @kitrachlis (hire him!)

A Kingdom from Dust

A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand.

https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust

to be continued after the debate...

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