Shivani Patel
@shivaaanip
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insufferable angeleno | previous: @vcstar via @report4america; fellow for @lapressclub; @comatbu | she/her
southern california
Joined September 2011
Last fall, my now 100-year-old great aunt mailed me an envelope that sent me on a journey through the life of my cousin, Jeffrey Bomser, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989 six months after the death of his brother Larry and two days after I was born.
esquire.com
When I inherited a box of papers about a mysterious relative, I went in search of his life—and discovered a courageous man who found his purpose fighting the disease that killed him.
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To the professional journos I've engaged with the past few days: I'm a journalist, not a source. I have lots of DMs from journos asking what I saw at CCNY yesterday but few replies from editors who want to pay for my work.
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Looking to hire a great journalist? Looking to find a great media job? Check out this initiative from @meerapattni over at @semafor. https://t.co/ZWeeumDwy6
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What gets me f*cked up is that fact that these "nontraditional media forms" are not new kinds of media! TikTok news anchors literally make our stories their video backgrounds Social media's profit model is using our work and not to paying us for it. It's a rip-off engine.
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W/ the end of COVID child care funding near, we thought hard about how we wanted to tell this story. We settled on showing the fallout of a closure on 1 center, 1 community, 1 group of parents. The projections are 70,000 closures in the next few months. https://t.co/fXkh3HptII
19thnews.org
As many as 70,000 child care centers are projected to close in the next several months as pandemic-era federal funding ends, pushing an industry already in crisis to a breaking point.
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third culture this, child of immigrants that, identity through food this, cultural preservation that……wrote about a new era of night markets for @eaterla so happy I got to work with @ViraliDave on this https://t.co/HYwdSot6UT
la.eater.com
Inspired by immigrant-run street markets, a younger generation of Angelenos is organizing events to encourage entrepreneurship and community preservation
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Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much https://t.co/CVQZJnTVp0
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'RRR's' 'Naatu Naatu' made Oscars history. But South Asian dancers feel betrayed
latimes.com
The failure to showcase more South Asian talent in the performance of 'RRR's' 'Naatu Naatu' was a misstep, dancers and choreographers told The Times.
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This is why we MUST support our local news outlets!!! Riveting story with so many twists and details. And photos! Perfect headline, perfect length (LONG) — just a phenomenal job all around:
mlive.com
“It was a strike like a snake. It wasn’t in slow motion at all. It happened so fast I didn’t even realize it happened."
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New by me —> Alden Global Capital makes for a better Hollywood villain — but the scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is simply astonishing. Staff size is down 59% in 4 years. At its biggest local papers, paid readers are down 77%. https://t.co/XgnYdMTa3h
niemanlab.org
It might not be as mustache-twirling a villain as Alden Global Capital, but its enormous scale has meant enormous losses for local journalism.
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The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way. https://t.co/5IlCNTjGdh
nytimes.com
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
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✨So, SO excited for this one: I got to profile the queen of romcoms, the queen of YA, one of my favorite authors of all time: The legend @MegCabot, for @Convo_ist
https://t.co/Hbx3IAhvGA
conversationalist.org
Over 20 years after the first “Princess Diaries,” the writer is still sticking up for romance.
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I wrote about why people are obsessed with being seen as a "good person" even if they buy Hogwarts Legacy
vox.com
Hogwarts Legacy is one of the most anticipated video games of all time. Whether or not you play it is a question of morality.
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A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.”
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New from me: I spoke to @gofetchgretch, the owner of Octavia's Bookshelf, about how she planned her dream bookstore and what it means to contribute to the growing legacy of Octavia Butler's mark on Pasadena. It opens this Saturday.
latimes.com
Nikki High's family was nervous about her starting a new business, but she was determined to honor Butler's legacy. Octavia Bookshelf opens Feb. 18
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