O. Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social
disability reporting fellow @statnews
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email: rose[dot]broderick[at]statnews[dot]com
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How Trans Journalists Can Stay Safe and Well While Changing Their Bylines - The Open Notebook
Changing a name is a very personal decision. Unfortunately for trans journalists, it’s a decision that has to occur in public. Changing a byline can mitigate the abuse and harassment that trans journa...
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Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists.
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It's been a year since Kennedy became health secretary. What has he accomplished? We updated our tracker: www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/r...
Tracking RFK Jr.’s promises to remake health in America
STAT introduces a goals and promises tracker for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement — successes, incompletes, and fails.
www.statnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
It's been a year since Kennedy became health secretary. What has he accomplished? We updated our tracker: www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/r...
I'm all the way in on curling
February 14, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I'm all the way in on curling
Why was Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine rejected?
@lizzylawrence.bsky.social has learned that top Food and Drug Administration official Vinay Prasad overruled agency officials who wanted to review it
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
@lizzylawrence.bsky.social has learned that top Food and Drug Administration official Vinay Prasad overruled agency officials who wanted to review it
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Why was Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine rejected?
@lizzylawrence.bsky.social has learned that top Food and Drug Administration official Vinay Prasad overruled agency officials who wanted to review it
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
@lizzylawrence.bsky.social has learned that top Food and Drug Administration official Vinay Prasad overruled agency officials who wanted to review it
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers
February 9, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers
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So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
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NEW: Trump's FDA recently approved Nexplanon for five years of use, but it quietly added extra regulations that leave some providers worried about access. The agency imposed a REMS program that only exists for 73 other drugs—including medication abortion.
@garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co:
@garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co:
The FDA Quietly Slapped More Restrictions on the Birth Control Implant
The agency recently approved Nexplanon for up to five years of use—but it also imposed extra regulations that leave some providers worried.
www.autonomynews.co
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
NEW: Trump's FDA recently approved Nexplanon for five years of use, but it quietly added extra regulations that leave some providers worried about access. The agency imposed a REMS program that only exists for 73 other drugs—including medication abortion.
@garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co:
@garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co:
More and more hospitals and health systems are ending gender-affirming care for trans kids. Important reporting from @theresagaff.bsky.social!
www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...
www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...
Amid federal pressure, more hospitals stop gender-affirming care for minors
A STAT analysis found more than 40 hospitals have paused or ceased to offer some gender-affirming care to young people since President Trump took office
www.statnews.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
More and more hospitals and health systems are ending gender-affirming care for trans kids. Important reporting from @theresagaff.bsky.social!
www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...
www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...
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applying for an journalism job is a lost cause because 500 people all equally or more so talented than you are your direct competitors. every journalism job application may as well be playing the lottery.
As a Texas journalist, I cannot say enough how absolutely stupid it is to lay of PATRICK SVITEK during an election year. What idiocy. Also harrowing: An already impossible job market being flooded with the most talented reporters of my generation. God help us all.
Patrick Svitek was one of the best in the biz when he was working in Texas. Laying off someone of his caliber is like trading Shohei in his prime. Actually unbelievable.
February 4, 2026 at 6:32 PM
applying for an journalism job is a lost cause because 500 people all equally or more so talented than you are your direct competitors. every journalism job application may as well be playing the lottery.
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A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
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sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop
WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop
did I miss the story that laid out which Democrats worked for this behind closed doors?
Update: the spending bill passed. No anti-trans riders were included.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
did I miss the story that laid out which Democrats worked for this behind closed doors?
Immigrants are avoiding treatment due to fears of being picked up by ICE
www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...
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Fearing ICE crackdown, immigrants nationally are avoiding treatment, sometimes with dire consequences
Doctors nationally are describing harrowing consequences for patients who put off medical care because of fears of ICE.
www.statnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Immigrants are avoiding treatment due to fears of being picked up by ICE
www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...
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The kicker on the NYT coverage of the new IACC is embarrassingly bad.
“The chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than ASAN or Autism Society” is just brain worms. How is that the last word on a panel filled with kooks and quacks?
“The chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than ASAN or Autism Society” is just brain worms. How is that the last word on a panel filled with kooks and quacks?
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The kicker on the NYT coverage of the new IACC is embarrassingly bad.
“The chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than ASAN or Autism Society” is just brain worms. How is that the last word on a panel filled with kooks and quacks?
“The chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than ASAN or Autism Society” is just brain worms. How is that the last word on a panel filled with kooks and quacks?
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After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being."
https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled Woman Out of Her Car. What Happened Next Was Just As Chilling.
“They laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Aliya Rahman tells The Nation.
bit.ly
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being."
https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
The lawsuit that never ends:
States are suing the federal govt to try and end the integration mandate in Section 504, which ensures ppl with disabilities receive care in their homes and communities.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/s...
States are suing the federal govt to try and end the integration mandate in Section 504, which ensures ppl with disabilities receive care in their homes and communities.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/s...
Nine states challenge federal mandate that disabled people receive care in community
A lawsuit from nine states seeks to undercut a federal mandate that people with disabilities receive care in their communities.
www.statnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The lawsuit that never ends:
States are suing the federal govt to try and end the integration mandate in Section 504, which ensures ppl with disabilities receive care in their homes and communities.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/s...
States are suing the federal govt to try and end the integration mandate in Section 504, which ensures ppl with disabilities receive care in their homes and communities.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/s...
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Please reshare! Here's the first in a series of science writing resources I'm posting to my website: A list of science writing/communication internships & fellowships.
brittanytrang.com/science-jour...
#sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journojobs #sciencewriting #sciwri #stem
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#sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journojobs #sciencewriting #sciwri #stem
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Please reshare! Here's the first in a series of science writing resources I'm posting to my website: A list of science writing/communication internships & fellowships.
brittanytrang.com/science-jour...
#sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journojobs #sciencewriting #sciwri #stem
brittanytrang.com/science-jour...
#sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journojobs #sciencewriting #sciwri #stem
The main thing that these 21 (not 19, sorry typo) new members have in common? Most of them have publicly expressed or belong to groups that have publicly expressed a belief in the debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/k...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The main thing that these 21 (not 19, sorry typo) new members have in common? Most of them have publicly expressed or belong to groups that have publicly expressed a belief in the debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/k...
www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/k...
HHS just added 19 members to the committee that advises Kennedy on autism. As I reported last week, it's heavy on MAHA allies. (Link to new members below.)
www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...
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Key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy's vaccine agenda, researchers and advocates fear
Researchers and advocates fear a key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy's vaccine agenda.
www.statnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:58 PM
HHS just added 19 members to the committee that advises Kennedy on autism. As I reported last week, it's heavy on MAHA allies. (Link to new members below.)
www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...
www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...
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An explainer by @alexhogan.bsky.social of why there’s a wide array of gray market products alongside motor oil and snacks www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/h...
How 'gas station drugs' remain legal
How did gas stations became the perfect marketplace for quasi-legal drugs? STAT's Alex Hogan explains on STATus Report.
www.statnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
An explainer by @alexhogan.bsky.social of why there’s a wide array of gray market products alongside motor oil and snacks www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/h...
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Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad:
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
For ‘Love and Knowledge’: On the Frontlines of Trans Cyberspace — Assigned
The moderators of trans forums, many of them volunteers, have demonstrated remarkable resilience and resourcefulness over four decades and multiple digital eras.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad:
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...