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It’s quite possible that Caitlin Dewey owes her career in journalism to The Buffalo News. She grew up in the suburban town of Wheatfield, just outside Buffalo, and first honed her writing chops in high school, when she served as a regular contributor to NeXt, the now-defunct News section aimed at teenagers. “I reviewed emo...
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My adventures in non-profit news began in the late '70s, when I became a regular contributor to Morning Edition and a co-host of the weekly NPR foreign affairs show Communique. I flew to New York once a week to read foreign affairs commentary for a local WNET news show, at $100 a piece, plus shuttle...
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I first met Francis Auma, a rapid response officer for the Kenyan NGO Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), in February in one of Kenya’s ubiquitous Java House cafés in Nyali, a few kilometers up the beach from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean coast. He was trailed by a skinny man in his mid-20s who had...
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A modified video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that started circulating recently—with the vocal track slowed down to make her appear drunk—raised a number of questions, including why YouTube removed it but Facebook did not. (Instead, Facebook down-ranked the clip in its News Feed and added a link to more reporting on the topic.) Another...
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On the 4th day of Pride month, it's finally official: YouTube policy explicitly allows homophobic abuse and harassment.
— Tech Workers Coalition (@techworkersco) June 5, 2019
YouTube and Google workers: We see you. We hear and share your pain and your anger. And we are behind you.https://t.co/bAQG5SsCAsWe are excited to welcome Daniel Dale @ddale8 to @CNN’s Washington bureau, where he will join as a reporter on the fact-checking beat!
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) June 5, 2019In an email to staff, @katiedrumm says Vice EIC Jonathan Smith and managing editor Rachel Schallom are out
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