Zack Newman
@zacknewsman.bsky.social
Freelance investigative data journalist | Emmy & Murrow winner. Alum: BusinessDesk, 9News, SkyBlossomFilm, MSNBC, Mizzou.
Encrypted email: zacknewsman at proton dot me. He/His.
https://www.zacknewman.com/
Encrypted email: zacknewsman at proton dot me. He/His.
https://www.zacknewman.com/
An apparent ICE officer threw a Colorado woman to the ground and put her in a chokehold after she asked him if "he's a good Christian."
Now CBI is investigating.
coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...
Now CBI is investigating.
coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...
Colorado Bureau of Investigation launches probe into use of force at Durango ICE protest
State investigators will look to see if the federal agent, who threw a woman to the ground, violated state criminal law
coloradosun.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
An apparent ICE officer threw a Colorado woman to the ground and put her in a chokehold after she asked him if "he's a good Christian."
Now CBI is investigating.
coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...
Now CBI is investigating.
coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...
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"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."
CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
www.independent.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."
Trees can do a lot for Denverites, but I found disparities in where they're planted. I dug into five years of data for The Local Colorado. A third of new tress went to low canopy areas.
youtu.be/IkBUsMmqXQU?...
youtu.be/IkBUsMmqXQU?...
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trees can do a lot for Denverites, but I found disparities in where they're planted. I dug into five years of data for The Local Colorado. A third of new tress went to low canopy areas.
youtu.be/IkBUsMmqXQU?...
youtu.be/IkBUsMmqXQU?...
Congrats! I think at least a thousand were from me?
The freedom-of-information hotline, provided at no cost to the public and journalists, is the signature program of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition. Today, CFOIC's executive director responded to the 7,000th hotline inquiry.
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Congrats! I think at least a thousand were from me?
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ICYMI: Our look at how the “deportation machine,” as one lawyer called it, is working as designed in Colorado: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/22/i...
Stuck in Aurora ICE facility, more detainees are agreeing to leave the U.S. voluntarily
The government’s goal, lawyers argue, is to create conditions inside ICE facilities that push immigrants to voluntarily leave or to accept a deportation order.
www.denverpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ICYMI: Our look at how the “deportation machine,” as one lawyer called it, is working as designed in Colorado: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/22/i...
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surely just a coincidence.
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
surely just a coincidence.
This is so incredibly short-sighted and a bad move. These verticals built trust and credibility for a major news org.
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is so incredibly short-sighted and a bad move. These verticals built trust and credibility for a major news org.
Journalism is not a crime! I'm proud of the news organizations standing up to this.
Pentagon reporters could be seen leaving the sprawling U.S. military headquarters with boxes after at least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less coverage of the world's most powerful military.
October 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Journalism is not a crime! I'm proud of the news organizations standing up to this.
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ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.
🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!
Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
This records denial has maddened me for years and I'm eager for the state Supreme Court to make the logical ruling.
I was part of the team that filed this request. There is no way that getting the number of calls at a facility would somehow identify children.
coloradosun.com/2025/09/23/c...
I was part of the team that filed this request. There is no way that getting the number of calls at a facility would somehow identify children.
coloradosun.com/2025/09/23/c...
Colorado Sun, 9News were denied child abuse hotline data four years ago. The case is now at the state’s highest court.
The news agencies wanted to know the number of times child residential treatment centers had called the child abuse hotline but were denied by state human services officials
coloradosun.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This records denial has maddened me for years and I'm eager for the state Supreme Court to make the logical ruling.
I was part of the team that filed this request. There is no way that getting the number of calls at a facility would somehow identify children.
coloradosun.com/2025/09/23/c...
I was part of the team that filed this request. There is no way that getting the number of calls at a facility would somehow identify children.
coloradosun.com/2025/09/23/c...
Pulling Kimmel off the air in response to pressure from the FCC is pure authoritarianism and alarming
ABC's decision reeks of Orbanism. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán consolidated control of the media in his country using autocratic carrots and sticks, and President Trump appears to be following the same playbook. I laid it out on CNN TV and in this column: www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/m...
September 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Pulling Kimmel off the air in response to pressure from the FCC is pure authoritarianism and alarming
I never thought that taping the sole of your boot could lead to being stranded for a week in the backcountry but here we are.
Listen to your gut - whenever I'm doing something possibly sketchy in nature and I hear my mom's voice in my head, I back off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
Listen to your gut - whenever I'm doing something possibly sketchy in nature and I hear my mom's voice in my head, I back off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
No Food, No Water, a Broken Leg: How a Hiker Survived a Harrowing Week in the Wild
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I never thought that taping the sole of your boot could lead to being stranded for a week in the backcountry but here we are.
Listen to your gut - whenever I'm doing something possibly sketchy in nature and I hear my mom's voice in my head, I back off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
Listen to your gut - whenever I'm doing something possibly sketchy in nature and I hear my mom's voice in my head, I back off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
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It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid
“It's just a way of cutting people off of coverage and then blaming them for it.”
www.motherjones.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Definitely going to pull inspiration from these names for some DND characters
I thought this spreadsheet was organized in last/first order until I got like a third of the way through it and hit a hyphenated last name which is how you know they really got their guys
Don’t want my Bluesky pals to miss out so here it is, the OLE MISS SIGMA NU PLEDGE LIST. Choose your fighter. I am Willingham Ratterman.
August 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Definitely going to pull inspiration from these names for some DND characters
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A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...
www.wired.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
I love that the reporter tried to refuse even when they thought it was just a bag of chips
"Honan, thinking it was an offer of a light snack, told Greco more than once she could not accept the chips, but Greco insisted that she keep them."
"Honan, thinking it was an offer of a light snack, told Greco more than once she could not accept the chips, but Greco insisted that she keep them."
August 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I love that the reporter tried to refuse even when they thought it was just a bag of chips
"Honan, thinking it was an offer of a light snack, told Greco more than once she could not accept the chips, but Greco insisted that she keep them."
"Honan, thinking it was an offer of a light snack, told Greco more than once she could not accept the chips, but Greco insisted that she keep them."
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Days after several sick and injured children arrived in the U.S. from Gaza for medical treatment, the State Department halted a program that grants visitor visas to people from Gaza.
State Department halts humanitarian health visas for sick Gaza children
Days after several sick and injured children arrived in the U.S. from Gaza for medical treatment, the State Department halted a program that grants visitor visas to people from Gaza.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Days after several sick and injured children arrived in the U.S. from Gaza for medical treatment, the State Department halted a program that grants visitor visas to people from Gaza.
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Kratom products are sold at gas stations across the country. But they can be highly addictive — and getting hooked can have devastating consequences. bit.ly/47oMpvk
August 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Kratom products are sold at gas stations across the country. But they can be highly addictive — and getting hooked can have devastating consequences. bit.ly/47oMpvk
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New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false).
Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false).
Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."
www.motherjones.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false).
Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false).
Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
incredible marketing: “I just feel like everyone needs sandwiches,” he said, adding, “sandwiches will save us all.”
www.denverpost.com/2025/07/23/t...
www.denverpost.com/2025/07/23/t...
East Colfax sandwich connoisseur opening second shop in Edgewater
Tessa Delicatessen joins Saigon Noodle Club as newest tenants at Edgewater Public Market.
www.denverpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
incredible marketing: “I just feel like everyone needs sandwiches,” he said, adding, “sandwiches will save us all.”
www.denverpost.com/2025/07/23/t...
www.denverpost.com/2025/07/23/t...
July 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Hearing from UFW spokesperson just now that this man has died.
Man on life support from injury during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says
A man is on life support after he was injured during an immigration raid at an agricultural area of Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.
abc7.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hearing from UFW spokesperson just now that this man has died.