Mel Buer is a multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, CA, covering breaking news and national and international grassroots movements, including the Yellow Vests movement in France in 2019, and the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Omaha, Nebraska. Since 2021, her coverage has mostly focused on the labor movement in the United States.
She previously worked as a reporter at The Real News Network covering the US labor movement, progressive politics, and national and international activist movements, and co-hosted The Working People Podcast, a radio-syndicated show about the lives and struggles of the working class.
She also specializes in live-reporting directly to social media, where she provides minute-to-minute breaking updates at protests and labor actions on platforms like Bluesky, where she uploads regular video, audio, and still images to supplement her written updates. She also writes this newsletter, Words About Work, that features regular digests of US labor headlines and original reporting from the US labor movement.
Mel is comfortable working in front of and behind the camera, with regular appearances on The Real News Network and other platforms, as well as reporting live from the field on other networks, including Sky News and Democracy Now!, and she is a talented writer who can deftly distill large amounts of complex information into easily understandable pieces for her audience.
Her work has previously been featured in CalMatters, LA Public Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and the Guardian US, among others.
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