Erik Oster

@ErikDOster

Associate director, marketing, . Previously senior editor, agencies for . Graduate: School of Journalism + Mentorship Program.

Newtown, CT
Joined September 2011
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  1. 14 hours ago

    "What’s clear is we have all seen the harm that police have caused to our communities and the kind of false conflation of policing and public safety when, in fact, so many of the communities that are over-policed are also disproportionately harmed by police."

    We need leaders who embrace a movement for justice, who understand we can’t incarcerate our way out of violence & who will invest in people, not . Me for ⁦:⁩ Want to know how defund police battle plays out? Watch
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  2. Jun 17

    "So much emphasis has been placed on socializing after quarantine..yet many can't understand how people coming out of prison need help adapting to avoid the cycle of reincarceration..the lack of reintegration support factors into >65% of people being rearrested within 3 years."

    In , the withholding of all the things that keep us balanced in tough times - a home, access to family & employment - are the baseline. Me for ⁦⁩ If you think adjusting to life after is tough, imagine going through this
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  3. Jun 4

    Very excited to share that I am joining to work with to build and develop an agency editorial property in an associate director role focused on content

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  4. Jun 4

    I suppose I've sat on this personal news for long enough. It's true... I shaved my beard.

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  5. Jun 4

    "the system we have for expungement in New York is broken. It is application-based...difficult to navigate and costly. In the nearly 4 years since [its creation] <1% of eligible people have...had their records expunged." NY needs to fix this with legislation now.

    Incarceration has a profound effect that reaches far beyond prison itself. Millions of people are needlessly unemployed, underemployed or homeless just because they have a conviction. It’s time we give them a . Me for :
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  6. Jun 1

    One last big shoutout to the great art team at Adweek, especially to creative director for the farewell cover. 🙏

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  7. Jun 1

    Thank you, for helping me feel a little more at ease when outside my comfort zone on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad. A big thanks to for all her help with the Agencies newsletter. Far too many people to name in a thread. I'll miss working with all of you.

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  8. Jun 1

    Very grateful to for all his help and guidance over the years and to many talented editors for making my work better. Glad to have worked with fantastic, talented people people like , and ...

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  9. Jun 1

    Sad I didn't get to work with him, , and for longer. Thanks to for hiring me as a freelancer many years ago+everything since (including the tally in the previous tweet).

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  10. Jun 1

    After around 1,320 stories for Adweek and 8,330 AgencySpy posts, today was my last day at Adweek. Many great people I'll miss working with and thankful to have called co-workers but excited for what's next. In a happy counterpoint, today 's officially joined AW full-time🧵

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  11. Jun 1

    I worked with last month on this story about 's international expansion with a new Tokyo office:

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  12. Jun 1

    On the UK side of things, wrote about acquiring social media agency :

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  13. Jun 1

    Last week covered working with McDonald's to amplify its PSA about the rise in hate crimes and racism faced by the AAPI community during the pandemic:

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  14. Jun 1

    And in my last story for Adweek, I took a look at 's reimagining of the review process:

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  15. Jun 1

    Today had the scoop on the only upfront dedicated to retail media:

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  16. Jun 1

    You can read for free today, so if you're not a subscriber and want to catch up on some recent agency news here are a few stories, starting with 's new one on holding company talent flocking to independents🧵

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  17. Jun 1

    Uh, please don't send me anything under embargo today.

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    May 30

    On the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, let's acknowledge that what happened in Greenwood was not a spontaneous eruption of hatred. That's the narrative that America likes to portray but what happened on May 31, 1921, is an example of systemic racism. A thread

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    May 30

    There were 357 “American Indian boarding schools” in the United States. Run by the government and by Christian missionaries, by 1926 as many as 83% of all Native American children were forced to attend these places. It’s still unknown how many children died there.

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  20. Retweeted
    May 28

    So we are clear, could close this today, but has chosen to keep it operational.

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    WATCH: I just learned of a prison ship in the South Bronx where 600 people are being held in terrifying conditions. is organizing protests. My friend is investigating with and asked me to share this intercepted audio.
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