Bridget Brown
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digital editor @ap
London, England
Joined December 2011
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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NEW: @AP readies record level of staffing (5k ppl!) for 2024 election —Will cover vote counts across 7k state, local, federal election races (& ballot measures) —21,000 race updates per hour —Race updates in 18 dif languages More from my intv w @JuliePace:
axios.com
Ahead of 2024, the not-for-profit news cooperative faces new challenges related to trust and misinformation.
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🤍 Who else is gonna know me? 🤍 ✍️: @mariasherm / @AP
Music Review: Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' is great sad pop, meditative theater
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Contract talks between @AP and @APNewsGuild have paused. The company refuses to raise an insulting 2% wage offer to anything over an equally insulting 2.5%. We can't accept that. An overwhelming majority of union-covered AP journalists have signed petitions demanding fair wages.
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what are we doing here?
It turns out Taylor Swift’s rumored new beau and Kansas City Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce has something in common with a Long Island Sound stingray. https://t.co/AbY6OcaVwj
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We're stronger through solidarity! At our biggest bureaus across the U.S. today, our Guild members are coming together for T-shirt Tuesday group photos. Check out our guild members showing their support in Phoenix, Seattle, Atlanta and San Francisco!
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Wearing my @APNewsGuild shirt today because AP thinks it’s fine to do 2% wage increases in this inflationary environment and make top scale pay $75k. Applause to our bargainers trying to make this less insulting ✨
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BREAKING: Coco Gauff wins her first Grand Slam title at age 19, coming back to defeat Aryna Sabalenka in the U.S. Open final.
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Coco Gauff has won her first Grand Slam title at age 19 by coming back to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the U.S. Open final.
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Follow my @AP colleagues in Morocco, including @metzsam, who just moved there from being a statehouse reporter in Utah and is jumping on this critical and devastating coverage
BREAKING: The death toll for the earthquake near Marrakech has reached 1,037, with more than 1,200 injured, the Moroccan government says.
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BREAKING: The sheriff's office in Georgia has released a booking photo of Donald Trump. He is the first former president to get a mug shot taken. https://t.co/gOj7AepBKb
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Our team @AP is following Trump's movements ahead of his expected surrender at the Fulton County jail in Georgia. Tune into our livestream here. 👇 https://t.co/eVRaS9VDnj
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Today is #InternationalCatDay. In this April 17, 1967 photo, a cat named Tiger plays on a toy piano in Savannah, Ga.
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In Opinion "An obvious lesson from the gargantuan success of both 'Barbie' and the Eras Tour is that there is a huge, underserved market for entertainment that takes the feelings of girls and women seriously," Michelle Goldberg writes.
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Women are longing for communal joy and catharsis.
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Which of your state’s senators is seeing the Barbie and which is seeing Oppenheimer? (you have to choose)
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