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Veteran journo, now PR manager for NJ hospital system. Still have ink in my blood. Smitten abuela. George Polk Awards board member, past winner. Univ. of Missouri J-School alum and 2004 keynote commencement speaker. Columbia Univ. Career Achievement Award
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“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?” So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2

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Opinion: The importance of safeguarding against media surveillance, especially in countries with a tradition of press freedom.

Impressive reporting from Texas Tribune's @Steve55Simpson on how quickly the state's suicide hotline was overwhelmed by calls, with 18,500 calls abandoned (caller hung up before reaching a crisis counselor) in a seven-month period www.texastribune.org/2025/01/06/t...

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a new advisory on alcohol and cancer risk, outlining the link between the two

The infant-toddler child care crisis is estimated to cost the U.S. economy $122 billion every year in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue.

A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...

Early intervention tries to rein in psychotic disorders before they can ruin young lives. For Kevin Lopez, everything is on the line.

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New York City has agreed to pay up to $92.5 million in damages after being accused of unlawfully holding immigrants beyond their scheduled release dates between 1997 and 2012 to comply with ICE detainer requests.

Love this. Something to add to the wishlist my kids and husband asked me to give them.

This is what my pup Ella does nearly without fail every evening when she wants me to stop working and play with her. If the LOOK doesn’t work, she puts her paws on the keyboard.

NEW: The Biden administration has separated around 300 children from their parents or legal guardians — most at the southwestern border — in the past year, according to government sources. propub.li/3ZPTwsT By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Urgent care clinics for mental health? There are now dozens around the US, with many more planned.

“a number of schools, including Harvard, U.S.C. and Cornell, are warning their international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated … Colleges are also warning all students to prepare for possible delays at the border and in the processing of paperwork.”

Assad had barely settled into his new quarters in Russia before the argument broke out over who can take the credit for ousting him, David Sanger writes. Biden and Netanyahu each make their case. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/u...

"If and when [audiences] switch from reading news to having stories created for them by AI on the fly, it’ll herald a seismic change in the news industry — upending how we work, what we create, and how we make money," @ginaskchua.bsky.social predicts. https://buff.ly/3ZKN8Ty

“According to a former Biden Administration official with knowledge of current talks, the State Department supports expanding T.P.S. for Nicaraguans, based on a straightforward analysis of what’s happening in the country, but Mayorkas, at D.H.S., is opposed.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Heading to #NICAR25? Early-career journalists, full-time freelancers and those who are currently unemployed can register now for $199. But act fast because that rate is only available through Sunday, Dec. 15. www.ire.org/nicar25-regi...

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"Writers are driven by a compulsion . . . to deploy each of our senses, our entire instrument, in the service of meaning-making. It is the work of my life to attempt, each day, to stay in this sacred place of following the line of words." 💗 --Dani Shapiro, "Save Nothing," in the Sewanee Review

Narges Mohammadi is a hero. Her courage, and that of so many Iranian women, in standing up to the Iranian regime is an inspiration. These women hold up way more than half the sky.

MORGAN STANLEY: “.. the Fed is unlikely to react to tariffs and new immigration policy until after their effects become evident in the data — and [we] expect these two drivers to inflect sharply in 2H25.”