John Woodrow Cox

On today's front page, the story of a farmer, a migrant and what it means to make a commitment. Part of our examination into how President Trump’s policies are reshaping the lives of Americans, with reporting from @Blaskey_S and photos from Matt McClain.

This is the most wrenching account I have seen yet from Camp Mystic: a 19-year-old counselor's account of how she saved 16 girls in her cabin near the river, while others didn't make it. Great reporting by @JohnWoodrowCox.

This heartbreaking story by @JohnWoodrowCox is gorgeously, empathetically written. The details could only have come from extraordinary reporting. This piece will be taught in journalism schools. wapo.st/44pck4q

My latest, from Camp Mystic: The story of one teenage counselor's extraordinary courage amid so much loss. Deeply grateful to Ainslie Bashara for sharing. wapo.st/44pck4q

.@JohnWoodrowCox tells @CapehartJ, "It's a societal failure that we continue to allow children, in the places that they go to learn and grow, to live in a state of fear, all the time, that someone can show up with a gun and kill them."

After threats against schools exploded last year, frustrated police arrested hundreds of students. This is the story of what happened in one Florida county where the sheriff perp walked, and publicly shamed, children as young as 11. w/ @hannah_natanson: washingtonpost.com/investigations…

There are a lot of scared families tonight following the aviation disaster over the Potomac River. Soon, many will be grieving. Be gentle, everyone.

IT'S GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR!!!

Chico’s byline is one of the very few I click on, always, regardless of the headline. He now writes about the planet’s biggest, most complex climate problems. His stories are never not interesting.

The nation’s freshmen reckon with a mass school shooting by one of their own A gutting dispatch from @JohnWoodrowCox & @hannah_natanson wapo.st/4e6ysBZ

The news came just as millions of freshmen began perhaps the most formative year of their young lives: One of them had become the youngest mass school shooter in a quarter-century. W/ @hannah_natanson on the profound effect of a faraway massacre: washingtonpost.com/investigations…

Four-reporter @washingtonpost story on our owner Jeff Bezos, whose other companies have worked to build relationship with Trump and compete for billions in government contracts. “With Jeff, it’s always only about business,” a former employee said.

Thank you for this, Brian — and thanks to all of our friends at the @nytimes for their meaningful support. #WhyISubscribe

I have not canceled my WaPost subscription. The journalism is too valuable to all of us.

Journalism. That’s what will suffer most because of these losses. If you care about journalism — and many people have made clear that they don’t, as they celebrate in our mentions and inboxes — I hope you’ll consider, or reconsider, reading and supporting the Post.

I understand why so many people are canceling their subscriptions, but nobody is more dismayed by what’s happened today than the Post’s reporters, who are being inundated with messages like these, from sources, friends, even family.

Read this haunting, infuriating account of how a neglected child became a school shooter—and of all the people and systems who could have stopped it. Great reporting & writing by @Blaskey_S, @JohnWoodrowCox, @hannah_natanson, @laurameckler, @ShawnBoburg: washingtonpost.com/investigations…

The Apalachee High school shooting will be remembered as one of the most preventable in American history. Today we published the story of how it happened — and all that could have stopped it. w/ @Blaskey_S, @hannah_natanson, @laurameckler, @ShawnBoburg: washingtonpost.com/investigations…

The best news. Can't wait to get to work. washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/09/17/…