Dan Golden
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ProPublica senior editor & reporter. Author, The Price of Admission and Spy Schools; co-author, The Ransomware Hunting Team. Religion: Red Sox-ism
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The Trump admin's spurious attacks on Voice of America mirror Joe McCarthy's in nationally-televised hearings in 1953. I trace the parallels and explain why VOA has been a perennial target:
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A largely forgotten campaign of harassment and persecution from the 1950s that still echoes today.
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RT @HansenLouis: Ecstatic to have our investigative series, Uprooted, honored by #Columbia Journalism with the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award….
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File under Long Overdue! It took a compelling ProPublica/VCIJ series to prod Newport News VA and Christopher Newport University to re-examine the school's location and expansion, which eradicated a thriving Black neighborhood. Are reparations next?
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Spurred by our “Uprooted” series, a task force created by the city of Newport News and Christopher Newport University will reexamine decades of city and university records shedding light on a Black...
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So many scammers were laundering gift cards at Walmart that they often ran into each other at self-checkout counters! Check out (pardon the pun) this absorbing look at how the retailer's lax oversight fostered a boom in fraud:
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Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on...
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Former Christopher Newport president Paul Trible, now a distinguished professor, isn't teaching this year and has no university responsibilities. But he's making $524,000, more than anyone else at the state school.
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Black enrollment at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University fell by more than half under longtime president Paul Trible, a former Republican senator who wanted to “offer a private school experien...
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At least Paul Trible was consistent. As president of Christopher Newport University for 26 years, the ex-senator's policies drove out nearby Black residents, and reduced the numbers of Black students and faculty. Read the latest in our "Uprooted" series:
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Black enrollment at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University fell by more than half under longtime president Paul Trible, a former Republican senator who wanted to “offer a private school experien...
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RT @propublica: ProPublica Event: Next week, join us for a discussion led by @brandkells, @HansenLouis and @DanLGolden. In partnership wit….
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Richard Dyke, a folksy Maine turnaround artist, helped popularize the AR-15. Now his home state is grieving. Read James Bandler's compelling account of the businessman behind the mainstreaming of assault-style rifles.
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Neither a gun enthusiast nor a right-wing ideologue, Richard Dyke used political connections and lobster giveaways to build Bushmaster, the company that popularized assault-style rifles.
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Should universities that have uprooted Black communities pay reparations, or give scholarships to descendants? Virginia officials discuss remedies in light of our reporting.
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In response to our reporting, state Delegate Delores McQuinn said a task force could shed light on the impact of college expansion in Virginia. Officials are also calling for displaced families to...
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Now that local newspapers are vanishing, we remember them as the bedrock of democracy. But the reality was more complex. As a young reporter for a long-defunct paper, I learned a lot of important lessons, and some that I had to unlearn.
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As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.
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The first floor of the newspaper building in Springfield, Mass., where I learned to be a reporter, is now a marijuana dispensary. Here's what I found when I returned to my old haunts after more than 40 years:
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As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.
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In their heyday, local papers covered their towns as closely as the London media cover a coronation. But they also could be cozy with power-brokers. My look at the mixed legacy of now-departed papers:
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As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.
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A provision in Virginia law makes it harder for the public to know the inside story of how Christopher Newport University has uprooted a Black community. And that's how the higher ed lobby wants it.
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A provision in state law exempts college presidents’ “working papers and correspondence” from disclosure even after they step down — as we found out when we asked about one ex-president’s role in...
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wants to deploy the National Guard at shelters to help with a housing crisis. Here's another idea: how about filling the 2,300 empty state-subsidized apartments?
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Families are stuck in shelters or sleeping in their cars while a flawed state selection process and meager funding for renovations leave apartments empty for years.
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Ex-residents of Lamberts Point in Norfolk, Va, return for reunions, but the area where they grew up is gone, demolished to build a college. Read the next article in our series about how Virginia universities have expanded by dislodging Black communities:
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Schools including Old Dominion and the flagship University of Virginia have expanded by dislodging Black families, sometimes by the threat or use of eminent domain.
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RT @VCIJ_Tweet: The story, by @brandkells and @HansenLouis, edited by @DanLGolden, follows a family in Newport News, Virginia, that has see….
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A thriving Black community in Newport News, Virginia, was about to develop more land and attract more residents. Then city leaders seized the core of the neighborhood by eminent domain to build a college. Why? They wanted to erase a "Black spot."
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Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
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Brandi Kellam spent more than a year digging into the destruction of a Black neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia. She explains why this history means so much to her:
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As a teenager, I competed in track meets at Christopher Newport University. As a reporter, I unearthed the painful history behind the campus’s location.
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Newport News leaders established a college in the middle of a growing Black community because they wanted to erase a "Black spot" close to an all-white country club. Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen tell this disturbing story:
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Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
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At a time when some politicians want to restrict how the history of race relations is taught, Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen document how universities have expanded by eradicating thriving Black communities. Read their compelling account:
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Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
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