The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump dragged his feet on COVID-19 testing to help his reelection. 
   
• Science reporter Donald McNeil describes the extraordinary steps that China took to beat back COVID-19. (Video) 
   
• Gig economy workers are our new first responders. 
   
• How employers cheat workers through misclassification, the latest from Kim Kelly, alum of Hillman’s Reporting the U.S. Workplace program.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• How Trump is botching the response to the coronavirus epidemic. 
   
• Union nurses say their hospitals are unprepared to defend against coronavirus. 
   
• Public defenders accuse the NYPD of manufacturing a paper “crime wave” to smear bail reform. 
   
• New docs show $157,000 in secret payments from the Secret Service to Trump properties.
   
• A federal judge demands to check Bill Barr’s work because he can’t trust the AG to apply FOIA honestly on the Mueller report. 

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is very proud to announce that Jaime Longoria, a fourth-semester student from the Newmark J-School Class of 2019, is the winner of our 2020 Social Justice Reporting Award.

Jaime grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and graduated from Boston University in 2015 with a B.A. in international relations.

In 2016, he began working as an intern at the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute (since renamed Type), a position he soon leveraged into a full-time role as a data and web editor. Jaime first came to the Newmark J-School in 2017 as a participant in the Knight Diversity program, during which he was assigned to the Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express for his summer internship.

After enrolling at the J-School in the fall of 2018, Jaime was selected for the NBC Media Leadership Program and has since been offered a full-time position at NBC. During his time at the school, Jaime produced stories on displacement in the South Bronx, tenant-landlord disputes in Brooklyn, an interactive project on gunshot victims, and a radio and print piece on the impact on immigrants of marijuana decriminalization.

Jaime will receive the award at the J-school’s annual Awards for Excellence dinner on May 19th.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Workers have to be paid for standing in security lines, California Supreme Court rules. 
   
• No middle name? No visa! The Trump’s new dirty trick to exclude immigrants. 
   
• What happens to workers when two organic grocery stores implode? The latest from Sara DiNatale, participant in Hillman’s Reporting the U.S. Workplace program.
   
• Trump’s budget strips all funding from Stars and Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper of the U.S. military. 
   
• Even short-term foster stays can be brutal for kids.