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visual journalist @wnpr not a bot. yet.
New Haven, CT
Joined March 2014
Our documentary, "Climate Change Along CT's Coast" explores warming temps & rising sea levels in the Long Island Sound. Visuals journalist @ryancaronking takes us to Groton, where scientists see a shift in the Sound's species. Stream it YouTube or here: https://t.co/kKwqn1jeUM
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Poll workers in New Haven open and verify that absentee ballots were signed and placed in their envelopes correctly, and processed by a tabulation machine in the city’s hall of records. 📸 @ryancaronking
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As trooper that killed Mubarak Soulemane pleads not guilty, Soulemane family attorney says Soulemane was 'executed' (ft. photos by @ryancaronking) https://t.co/s3IQyZ5FrE
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Connecticut state trooper Brian North pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge Thursday. A state investigator says his 2020 use of deadly force on Mubarak Soulemane was not justified.
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The business model, the ethical framework, the priorities and no-go zones. They were all created for a very specific and privileged portion of the population — NOT the entire population
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“A new report found that Connecticut outpaced its goals to hire more teachers of color by 10% since 2017, but more work needs to be done.” 📻 @catshenwnpr & 📸 @ryancaronking visited Stamford Public Schools to see how students are benefitting so far: https://t.co/zx6NSc5bJ4
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A new report found that Connecticut outpaced its goals to hire more teachers of color by 10% since 2017, but more work needs to be done. Seventy percent of the 16,500 students in Stamford Public...
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Once-maligned salt marshes could play a key part in coping with climate change: “I think people see: Well, you know, that’s someone’s lawn that hasn’t been kept up...But what [they] don’t understand is all of the intricacies” 📝@ptskahill📸@ryancaronking
https://t.co/OGJkUtGblH
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A $4 million project aims to restore flows in a once-maligned Connecticut salt marsh.
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📸 Iconic photographer Adgar Cowans sat down with Visual Journalist @ryancaronking at his studio in Bridgeport to talk about his expansive career in the photography industry. Here’s what he had to say about his life’s work. https://t.co/fDnSLTsAbv
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Bridgeport-based Adger Cowans says he faced a lot of racism working in photojournalism over the years. “I took all of that racism and rejection and put it in my work... to take negative energy and turn it into positive power" 📽️@ryancaronking 📻@wnpr
https://t.co/JHARedcUX6
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Adger Cowans, 85, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, talks about his career as a photographer and visual artist, the racism he faced and what has motivated him to make art.
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Black and Latino studies in CT will become a course requirement next year where students can choose the elective. I went back to HS to report from a classroom piloting the course. Take a listen!
Brandon Rodriguez, a high school senior, is getting ready for Black and Latino history class. He said, "it’s nice to learn a little bit more about your Hispanic side and the impacts or benefits they’ve done in this country.”📝@bleonesx 📸 @ryancaronking
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"It is in the blue states where affordable housing is often hardest to find, there are some of the most acute disparities in education funding and economic inequality is increasing most quickly."
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On a day like today, Hurricane María changed the lives of Puerto Ricans in ways unimaginable. Here are some of the memories and stories of people who were not only impacted but displaced. Los de María: Four Years After The Hurricane. 🧵
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Come work with me. We’re hiring!
#JobAlert @wnpr is hiring an Investigative Reporter who will work within a 3-person team to produce short-term and long-term investigative narratives. https://t.co/PF8OCwuxy5
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After weeks of watching George Floyd die over and over again from multiple angles, the nation now watches Daunte Wright, 20, be shot after being stopped for an expired license tag. Just devastating.
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3a/ This is inextricably linked to harassment and sexualized violence against Asian women. Women of Asian descent have reported 2.3 times more incidents of violence than AAPI men, according to a new Stop AAPI Hate report of nearly 3,800 hate incidents reported since March 2020.
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Our guidance to newsrooms in the wake of the Atlanta shootings: 1/ Take caution with language in coverage that could fuel hypersexualization of Asian women. In describing the businesses affected by the shootings, avoid terminology & connotations of prostitution or sexualization
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The events of the last year or two have led management at a LOT of diff't newsrooms/audio shops to make much-needed change in how they do business. But it's important to remember that memories linger, & you can't write a new chapter until you erase the old one, and atone for it.
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