Recently, Tim Grieve, VP of News @ McClatchy launched a bi-monthly internal newsletter to share extraordinary work from the 30 newsrooms that make up McClatchy. He sends this every other weekend to the 4,000+ people in the enterprise in hopes they will have time to enjoy some of the stories and videos our colleagues are producing. In the last two newsletters (aggregated below), he closes with an expression of gratitude, “please accept our thanks for all you do to make this kind of journalism possible.”
Kansas chemistry instructor arrested by ICE while taking his daughter to school
By Rick Montgomery
Kansas City Star
‘I’m here for them’
The highs and lows of life as a backup Olympic athlete
By William Douglas
McClatchyDC
How drug lords make billions smuggling gold to Miami for your jewelry and phones
By Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas and Kyra Gurney
Miami Herald
He ‘would be honored’ to be her first kiss. How coach ‘groomed’ his player for sex.
By Cynthia Hubert
The Sacramento Bee
Then I knew
Sharing the first moments people realized they were being defined by something other than their actions
By Cara Anthony and Julia Lim
Belleville News-Democrat
A homeless man died Monday morning near a downtown Columbus bench…
By Chuck Williams
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Titletown, TX.
Season 2: “Hail Mary”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Your moment of Zen
Drone video of a North Carolina winter
By Travis Long
The Raleigh News & Observer
How the teachers and students became first responders — and heroes — in school shooting
By Kyra Gurney, Martin Vassolo, Monique O. Madan and David Smiley
Photo by Al Diaz
Miami Herald
‘School shooter in the making’: All the times authorities were warned about Nikolas Cruz
By Nicholas Nehamas
Miami Herald
Students lead march in Raleigh against gun violence
Video by Julia Wall and Travis Long
The News & Observer
Where’s the Republican who will take on the NRA? Spoiler alert: Not in Kansas or Missouri
By The Editorial Board
The Kansas City Star
At age 69 and needing to pay her bills, she blew her Social Security check on meth
Story by Jeff Caplan
Photo by Max Faulkner
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
She went for a workout, and she got the surprise of a lifetime
Story by Sara Schilling
Video by Noelle Haro-Gomez
Tri-City Herald
One hour after his wife died, he took his own life. ‘Talk about true love.’
Story by Alex Kincaid
Island Packet
