Rachel C. Abrams
@RachelAbramsNY
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co-host of The Daily / co-author of “Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and The Redstone Family Legacy” with James B. Stewart
New York City
Joined January 2011
Thrilled to join The Daily team.
We are thrilled to announce that @Nataliekitro and @RachelAbramsNY will be joining @mikiebarb as co-hosts of “The Daily.”
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The Committee to Protect Journalists honors NYT newsroom’s top lawyer David McCraw, one of the fiercest defenders of the 1st Amendment. “The only thing anticipatory obedience does is teach those in power what they can get away with .. Independent fact driven journalism still
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How Sudan's gold rush is stoking a brutal civil war — I spoke with @RachelAbramsNY for today's episode of The Daily https://t.co/xzlU6LhMIj
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Conflict has shattered Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming.
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ICYMI: My interview with an Israeli journalist about why the Israeli media doesn’t want to show the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and why many Israelis would not want to look.
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In the face of global outrage over starvation in Gaza, how is Israeli society responding?
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2017: The Daily (@nytimes) 💜 Listening to The Daily is how millions of people start their day. Hosts and journalists @mikiebarb, @RachelAbramsNY, and @Nataliekitro deftly guide listeners through one timely story.
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Today, on the Daily, the @nytimes premier podcast, I talk to @RachelAbramsNY about the longterm implications of the strikes on Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, and whether it’s possible to bomb a country into giving up its nuclear ambitions. https://t.co/x24pLSXsPH
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The president’s decision to strike Iran is a high-stakes gamble — one that turns in part on whether Iran’s nuclear program has actually been destroyed.
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We’re proud to see UNSCRIPTED by @JamesStewartNYT and @RachelAbramsNY and AMERICANA by @bhu_srinivasan included on @WarrenBuffett's list of 27 Books on Business and Life!
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Berkshire Hathaway’s 2025 shareholder meeting offered a limited edition anniversary book and a new reading list from Buffett.
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At his recent annual shareholder meeting, Warren Buffett recommended 27 books about business and life. Included on the list: "Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy," by Jim Stewart and me
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Berkshire Hathaway’s 2025 shareholder meeting offered a limited edition anniversary book and a new reading list from Buffett.
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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.
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Setting off these discussions was the episode of the HBO drama Succession “where the patriarch of the family dies, leaving his family and business in chaos.” https://t.co/8dzck0qaZQ via @NYTimes @jimrutenberg @jonathanmahler
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A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.
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https://t.co/Pd2FLrlyFu via @NYTimes “when he was told the sale price, he began to cry. ‘I am a poor man,’ Mr. Alam, 74, said, his voice breaking. ‘I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.’”
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A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.
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“Florida’s wasn’t the only state AG to decide against taking up the Trump University matter. Trump also donated to Kamala Harris while she was attorney general of California, and after reviewing the matter, her office also did not pursue.” https://t.co/AWJpjmSGzP via @NYTimes
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While Ms. Bondi, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, served as attorney general of Florida, her office declined to investigate allegations of fraud against his for-profit...
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Trump to name Brendan Carr--a massive champion for Elon Musk and his Starlink system--as chairman of the F.C.C. which controls orbital access by space communications companies in the US.
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"A&W, a competing fast food brand, tried taking on the Quarter Pounder in the 1980s and learned that their one-third-pound patty was less popular because Americans believed a quarter was bigger."
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After an E. coli outbreak, McDonald’s stopped selling the Quarter Pounder in 12 states. The burger might take a hit for now, but its hold on customers will prevail, experts say.
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Our story about the little-known health harms that can stem from cannabis use is being featured on The Daily podcast today at @nytimes. Listen to @mega2e and @RachelAbramsNY talk about marijuana, addiction, psychosis, and severe nausea and vomiting:
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Podcast Episode · The Daily · 10/22/2024 · Subscribers Only · 36m
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“The entire country has turned into a graveyard for women’s dreams.” The Taliban’s new crackdown on women has begun - they can’t raise their voices in public or look at men who aren’t their family
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Afghan religious police wield new power to enforce a ban on women raising their voices in public and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives.
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Handed him a chance to reverse course on 2020 fraud claims and he was like absolutely NOT
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