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As an investigative journalist, my professional interests have a tendency to be niche. I’ve pursued stories about the United Nations’ staff pension fund, the treatment of Cambodian asylum seekers by the American judicial system and the offshore wealth of government officials. As a freelancer, I accept as an occupational hazard that not every publication will...
It started with a Band-Aid. A $629 Band-Aid. A medical bill emailed to Vox senior policy correspondent Sarah Kliff got her interested in emergency room facility fees—a widely applied, highly variable, and little understood cost in the healthcare system. The fees, set between hospitals and insurers, are the charge from the hospital for coming in...
An “intersection,” we all know, is where two streets cross, or “intersect.” We usually think of an “intersection” as a meeting of two roads, though the original Latin word “intersect” means “to cut asunder” or “divide into parts.” Add the suffix “al,” and you have the adjective “intersectional,” existing between sections or relating to an...
There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume carries the weight of the place where it was raised, the way it was cultivated, the history of its breeding. And as climate change alters the very nature of our planetary ecology—threatening certain staples and delicacies and modifying how...
As far back as I can remember, I have known exactly what I wanted my job to be. I worked at my grade school newspaper (shout-out to The Bobcat Chat), then my high school paper, then my college one. My...
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It was 1933, and the Great Depression was pummeling the newspaper industry. The New York World, once owned by Joseph Pulitzer and the city’s largest paper, had closed two years earlier, throwing 3,000 people out of work. In many cities,...
Dodai Stewart, founding editor of Jezebel and former editor-in-chief of Splinter, is joining the New York Times as deputy editor of Metro (The New York Times Company)https://t.co/aAtX3sA74Jhttps://t.co/yWDBgq6oK4
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) October 23, 2018
FB recruiting @nick_clegg as Head of Global Affairs and Communication "will be as much of a surprise to the British political establishment as it will be to Silicon Valley, where few European politicians enjoy a high profile in the insular tech industry." https://t.co/Y6SuajcoU4
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) October 19, 2018
The US government continues its crackdown on leakers to media.
— 𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔓𝔞𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔶 (@Jose_Pagliery) October 17, 2018
The FBI has arrested Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards for giving a news reporter copies of US Treasury “suspicious activity reports” about Trump’s inner circle and Russians.
Advertisers allege Facebook failed to disclose key metric error for more than a year and claim scale of the miscalculation was far worse than understood. https://t.co/lq9CSqvh43 via @WSJ
— VranicaWSJ (@VranicaWSJ) October 16, 2018
Facebook is banning misinformation on voting in the U.S. midterms
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) October 16, 2018
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