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Reporter-for-hire, formerly @nytimes | Fulbright Journalist 2019-2020

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On a seemingly perfect getaway with friends, Cassie, a startup founder, is keeping something from everyone, including her best friend Lena, a filmmaker with her own secret. Everything comes to a head when a violent moment between Cassie and her fiance shocks the group. #PitchToDA.
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RT @VALERIEinNYT: One year since Evan was cynically detained on a reporting trip. He is not a spy. Journalism is not a crime. He does not b….
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RT @maxseddon: The Tucker Carlson cargo cult in Moscow is really quite something. Just frothing at the mouth the minute any famous American….
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RT @maxseddon: An unbelievably draconian step even by Russia’s standards. Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled the global gay rights movement….
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Supreme Court ruling places gay and transgender rights campaigns on legal par with al-Qaeda and Isis
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RT @RajaAbdulrahim: So many children are brought into the morgue that burial shrouds are cut into child-size pieces. “Every day we cry whi….
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RT @RajaAbdulrahim: Gaza Has Become a ‘Graveyard’ for Children. Far more children have been killed in Gaza in the past six weeks than in al….
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Thousands of children have been killed in the enclave since the Israeli assault began, officials in Gaza say. The Israeli military says it takes “all feasible precautions” to avoid civilian deaths.
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RT @standardnews: ✍️ @paulwsj: "Consider the opposite of that frequently bemoaned condition of the perpetual news cycle: What if you could….
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RT @PjotrSauer: Huge scoop from my colleagues. A leading western journalist who has long been considered one of Germany’s top independent e….
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Influential author and broadcaster Hubert Seipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to Russian president
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RT @ProfKFranke: Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the su….
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This letter has now been published here: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSxEIf0j1H6v3R4549yxfetSBy1ioc6VHyJa3vKfvgyVFX9TAluk_1laTuSBKAyzqjF3hJT9EVw0P7a/pub. Please follow this link...
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A fellowship where journalists working in countries with limited press freedoms can REST and RECOVER:
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RT @BBCWillVernon: Happy 32nd Birthday to our friend and colleague Evan Gershkovich, who is still in jail in Russia awaiting trial on espio….
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RT @eliotwb: Happy 32nd birthday to @evangershkovich . Evan, a WSJ reporter and friend, has been an unjust prisoner in Russia for 211 days….
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RT @glcarlstrom: "Gaza's religious affairs ministry has authorised burials in mass graves. some families have begun to wear identificatio….
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Families of those killed in Israeli strikes are denied traditional funerals as the authorities resort to using mass graves
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.@feeldCo has acquired a reputation for fostering something rare in the dating-app world: directness. Ana Kirova, its CEO since 2021, has had a strong hand in that development. Gift link here:
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RT @RashaAlAqeedi: 🧵.As someone from a city that was for years, and is still in some circles, guilty by association for falling under the c….
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RT @MonicaLMarks: I just contacted two well-connected friends in Tunisia’s small Jewish community to inquire whether this tweet, about a sy….
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RT @glcarlstrom: An analysis of satellite imagery suggests that, after less than two weeks of war, 11,000 buildings in Gaza have been destr….
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At least 4.3% of the enclave’s buildings appear to have been destroyed
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“Continuing to give Israel what he described as carte blanche to kill a generation of enemies, only to create a new one, does not ultimately serve the United States’ interests, Mr. Paul said.”
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nytimes.com
Josh Paul spent more than 11 years as the director of congressional and public affairs at the bureau that oversees arms transfers to foreign nations.
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