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Melinda Grenier retweeted
The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –
I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
Melinda Grenier retweeted
A Navajo girl from Monument Valley has won a prestigious drawing contest with Google. The sixth-grade student used her Indigenous roots to inspire her award-winning drawing.
navajotimes.com/edu/tsebiind…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
After Katrina, alt-weekly papers across the U.S. raised money to help Gambit (which flooded & shut down for 9 weeks) keep paying its staff. Now we’re helping the Maui Times survive the fires & protect its community during recovery. Please join us & donate. nola.com/gambit/news/the_lat…
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🚨Job opportunity! The Nieman Foundation at @Harvard is seeking a deputy curator to help guide our journalism fellowships, publications and programming. The right candidate will work with Nieman staff and accomplished journalists from around the world. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
The journey with @oglethorpe_echo has been a wild and unexpected ride — but one of the best of my professional career — here’s where I tell you about what we’ve figured out so far : niemanlab.org/2023/07/what-o…
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Columbia Journalism Review did a deep dive on this dark money operation and it's many layers of foundations and cut out organizations to hide the money tied to "Metric Media." It's insane how big this operation is. Read the two stories here. cjr.org/tow_center_reports/m…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
Here is Thomas Jefferson's “Original Rough Draught" of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions added by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:
Melinda Grenier retweeted
Anthony Bourdain said: "Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride." Still good advice.
Melinda Grenier retweeted
How @propublica reporters @mrym_jml and @msanchezMIA found sources through TikTok, Spanish-language radio stations, and local businesses when reporting on the death of a young child on a Wisconsin dairy farm.
niemanlab.org/2023/05/how-pr…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
Startling stats: After many US kids lost a parent during COVID, a large % of families are NOT receiving federal survivor benefits to help w/costs, including an estimated ~717,000 Black children.
Our new reporting on the Social Security program> @CBSNews cbsnews.com/news/social-secu…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
Your health insurance company keeps notes, phone call recordings and emails as they decide whether to deny your claim.
Here’s how you can get them:
propub.li/3MFQXCR
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After @ProPublica reached out to HomeVestors (the "We Buy Ugly Houses" people) for a story on the company's practices, the CEO instructed franchisees not to click on ProPublica’s story link, lest it improve the story's search ranking.
So....This link👇👇?
propublica.org/article/ugly-…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
Want to know what happened when your health insurer decided not to cover a drug or treatment your doctor prescribed? You have a right to obtain documents detailing the behind-the-scenes deliberations. Here is how to make the request - propublica.org/article/find-…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
Bloomberg is hiring an AI editor! (Note that this job is for a human being who will edit stories about AI. You have to be a human to apply.)
Come edit AI coverage on my team and help shape the way we're reporting and writing about technology that's changing the world.
careers.bloomberg.com/job/de…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
This is too much. He just turned six. It was his birthday. And now he is an orphan. He doesn’t even have his little brother anymore. My God.
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Pretty exciting day. I enjoyed this team, and going back to my reporting roots.
Awards are cool and all, but nothing compares to the hearing people say they got their lives back.
That will stick forever.
Congrats everyone.
al.com/news/2023/05/alcom-wi…
Melinda Grenier retweeted
If you’re a student journalist filling in local news gaps in your community in an innovative way, get in touch!
💌 [email protected]
Harvard's @thecrimson aims to fill local news gaps with a new Cambridge-focused newsletter. buff.ly/3AgeIKJ
Melinda Grenier retweeted
“Standing on the edge of death now, I feel compelled,” writes Amy Silverstein (@ajsilverstein16), “to use my experience in the transplant trenches to illuminate and challenge the status quo.” nyti.ms/3A5qIi2
