Kevin TownsendVerified account

@kevinstownsend

Journalist • Words Data Sounds (previously and Investigations)

Washington, DC
Joined October 2010
625 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @kevinstownsend

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @kevinstownsend

  1. 10 hours ago

    To everyone feverishly googling "lodestar" right now, might I also suggest you google "Chevron Deference"

    1 like
    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    This is sharp, irrefutable (at least, I can't refute it) and gets extra bonus points for being written real quick.

    Read on the deepening crisis:
    1 reply 38 retweets 157 likes
    Undo
  3. 10 hours ago

    it's👏a👏four👏day👏week

    3 likes
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    More excited about this book tbh

    2 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
    Undo
  5. Sep 4

    “Donald Trump didn’t start this fire; he’s only spread it to a potentially more dangerous place.” Read 's clarion call for journalists to "start fighting back" against a half-century campaign against them:

    1 reply 21 retweets 37 likes
    Undo
  6. Sep 3

    Happy Labor Day

    This Tweet is unavailable.
    1 like
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    The definitive death toll from last year's Hurricane Maria is now in. Staff writer tells us the nearly three thousand dead in Puerto Rico makes it the worst natural disaster in modern American history:

    49 retweets 46 likes
    Undo
  8. Aug 31

    A year after Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, we finally know: the hurricane season of 2017 was one of the deadliest in North America in a century. and join to discuss what we've learned in the aftermath.

    4 retweets 14 likes
    Undo
  9. Retweeted
    Aug 30

    Facing abuse allegations, archdiocese attempts to exert its influence on, uh, Marty Baron's newspaper. Did they not see the movie?

    This Tweet is unavailable.
    7 replies 182 retweets 618 likes
    Undo
  10. Retweeted
    Aug 27

    I have spent years reporting this story, and I am so grateful to see it out in the world. Please read here about the orphans of St. Joseph's

    1,735 replies 18,739 retweets 32,312 likes
    Undo
  11. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    re: LBJ with long hair. A side view from Sen. McGovern’s visit to the , Aug. 22, 1972.

    10 replies 45 retweets 191 likes
    Undo
  12. Aug 24

    Give me a head with hair Long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer

    Lyndon Johnson, who escalated the war in Vietnam, eventually wore his hair in the fashion of those who criticized him, writes
    1 reply 1 like
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    Fun fact about this fun little story, which I asked to write pretty late in the day. (Okay, it was 5:30 p.m.) He *canceled his own haircut* to write it.

    I wrote about retired LBJ's luscious locks and the fantastic story behind them in our archives:
    1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    Undo
  14. Aug 24

    I wrote about retired LBJ's luscious locks and the fantastic story behind them in our archives:

    8 replies 76 retweets 206 likes
    Undo
  15. Aug 23

    The original tweet with this photo:

    LBJ in retirement on his ranch, last summer of his life, this week 1972:
    1 like
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  16. Aug 23

    A photo of retirement-era LBJ prompted my discovery of this fantastic anecdote in a 1973 story:

    1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  17. Aug 23

    What does the guilt of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen mean for President Trump? and sit down with and .

    8 retweets 15 likes
    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    Aug 22

    A sampling of West Virginia front pages this morning

    100 replies 312 retweets 553 likes
    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    Aug 20

    So I've come to the realization that most problems in audio stories are solved by better writing. Not by hoping the tape and listeners will do the conceptual work for you. Also, I am as bad as anyone else in implementing my own advice. Happy !

    8 replies 23 retweets 194 likes
    Undo
  20. Aug 19

    I grew up nearby in Pittsburgh and, while didn’t spend nearly enough time there, I at least got to know it’s not all rust and coal as some narratives make it out to be.

    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo

@kevinstownsend hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·