Caroline O'Donovan
@ceodonovan.bsky.social
Biz reporter @ProPublica, ex-WaPo, née BuzzFeed. Labor & the human condition. caroline.odonovan@propublica.org. @ceodonovan.66 on Signal.
We’ve formed a business investigative team! @ceodonovan.bsky.social, @benfoldy.bsky.social & @kendalltaggart.bsky.social now work for us! www.propublica.org/atpropublica... Yeah too bad nothing’s going on but if you got tips abt billionaire & corp abuses, send them our way! Signal: 718-496-5233
ProPublica Hires Caroline O’Donovan, Ben Foldy and Kendall Taggart to Expand Business Coverage
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Exciting personal news — today is my first day as a business reporter at ProPublica! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
ProPublica Hires Caroline O’Donovan, Ben Foldy and Kendall Taggart to Expand Business Coverage
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We hired three stone-cold killers @benfoldy.bsky.social @kendalltaggart.bsky.social & @ceodonovan.bsky.social for the biz desk at @propublica.org and I could not be more excited to get started with em www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
ProPublica Hires Caroline O’Donovan, Ben Foldy and Kendall Taggart to Expand Business Coverage
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Travis Kalanick moved to Texas. So why is he hosting launch parties in San Francisco? sfstandard.com/2026/04/29/t...
Travis Kalanick returns to SF to launch his new company
He may have moved to Texas last December, but when it comes to launch parties, there’s nowhere like San Francisco.
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I talked with OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane about the violence last week and his plan to make you stop hating AI sfstandard.com/2026/04/15/o...
‘This is really serious shit’: OpenAI policy czar thinks ‘doomers’ are playing with fire
OpenAI’s global policy chief Chris Lehane sounds off on the AI backlash.
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endorse!!!!
Erin Cunningham@erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 4mo agoCaroline was The Washington Post’s Amazon reporter when the paper laid her off (along with hundreds of others) in February. Now she’s a senior tech reporter at @sfstandard.com, with a scoop right out of the gate on a discrimination lawsuit against… you guessed it, Amazon! Follow her work.
My first story for @sfstandard.com, out today, is a SCOOP about a One Medical doctor who claims in a new lawsuit that the Amazon-owned primary care clinic illegally fired her for raising concerns about patient safety and harassment: sfstandard.com/2026/04/09/a...
Amazon’s One Medical fired a doctor who raised safety concerns, lawsuit says
Palo Alto doc says she reported harassment and patient safety issues. Weeks later, she was out of a job.
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This is so bad. The AP was the safety net left after basically every newspaper that wasn’t The New York Times shuttered their bureaus.
Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4mo agoPeople should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...
WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:
Staff Editor
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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If you think my new job is cool (and it is) and you think local news is so hot right now (and it is) you can actually apply to come work with me! jobs.sfstandard.com/p/73543436bf...
Technology Reporter at The San Francisco Standard
The San Francisco Standard is the Bay Area’s fastest growing source for news and information.
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Exciting job news! I'm hella stoked to be part of what the @sfstandard.com is building, to help strengthen the local news ecosystem, and to have a broader remit to cover this baffling era of Silicon Valley!
New: marc benioff told international employees who traveled to a major salesforce meeting in Vegas that ICE is watching them. Cool joke. "employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was" Read the Slacks: www.404media.co/marc-benioff...
Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
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Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6mo agoWill Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff
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Great piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc
Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
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nitasha tiku@nitasha.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w
Exclusive: To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.
Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
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I got a surprise bag from Whole Foods for $6.99 and it’s all great except for … well, you guess
lot going on atm but i have to say — insane to write this entire article and not call these people by their true title: sauntrepreneurs www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why We’re All Trading Happy Hours for the Bathhouse
The sauna industry is hot and only getting hotter — but the boom reveals more about happiness than it does about health.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
