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Portland’s independent journalists team up to cover the front lines
On July 11, Garrison Davis was in downtown Portland, pointing his iPhone camera across a street at a group of roughly thirty law enforcement officers in camouflage. He heard a loud pop. He turned and saw a man who had been hit by an impact munition fall to the ground. Davis, a seventeen-year-old film student,...
My life as a teenage political journalist
I read my first book about politics when I was six years old. See How They Run, by Susan Goodman, was, appropriately, a children’s book: a short, funny, illustrated guide to electioneering published in the heat of the 2008 campaign. My parents had bought me the book, but not because they intended to raise a...
The campaign begins (again)
Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate—a thrillingly historic choice, no matter your politics—has delivered a restart of the 2020 campaign cycle. Since March, election reporters have mostly been sitting on their hands, watching the pandemic subsume their beat. Now their instinct is to pick up where they left off—to wallow in...
How to cover COVID-19 patients sensitively
On March 3, I watched developing coverage of the first confirmed case of community-spread covid-19 in New York City. Ten days later I began to show symptoms of covid-19. I was hospitalized. In the past five months I’ve gone from journalist to patient to interview subject and back again. Along the way, I gained important...
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In November, just before I went to see Jerry Brown at the annual meeting of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, some eleven thousand climate experts signed a statement declaring “clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate...
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