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Coverage of maternal health threats overlooks black expertise
In August, ProPublica investigative reporter Nina Martin shared a Washington Post story about Beyoncé and Serena Williams’ serious pregnancy-related health complications, along with a challenge to her journalism colleagues via Twitter: https://twitter.com/ByNinaMartin/status/1026911120878170112 In response, Twitter users suggested dozens of black individuals and organizations who could help flesh out future maternal health coverage. ICYMI: The Guardian publishes...
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Does Palestine pay $350 million a year to terrorists and their families? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested as much in a speech he gave in the US last March, but it’s a murky and complex claim to confirm or rebut. Glenn Kessler, the editor of the Fact Checker blog at The Washington Post, spent...
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In August, an image of a painting by the British artist Ben Taylor called The Host went viral. It was a self-portrait of sorts, though an unconventional one: a striking close-up of an eyeball with a pale, translucent worm slithering on and beneath its surface. Taylor completed the painting after he discovered that an inch-long...
Alarmist reporting turns immigrants away from social services, officials say
Since early 2017, English-language news outlets in the US have published numerous stories about a series of leaked draft regulations that would limit immigration to the US in profound ways, based on prospective immigrants’ supposed “likelihood of requiring public assistance.” The rules sought to potentially deport legal immigrants for using social services and to incorporate...
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