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Mirin Fader
@MirinFader
Sports writer. Storyteller. Senior staff writer . NYT best-selling author of Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA Champion amzn.to/3kDRN3v
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“Human-Generated Journalism”
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BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Come Up With Some of Its Content -- WSJ BuzzFeed to Use AI to Create More Comprehensive Quizzes, Interactive Content, CEO Peretti Says BuzzFeed Remains Focused on Human-Generated Journalism in Its Newsroom. Spokeswoman Says $BZFD
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“With any book, in the writing, I don’t start from the beginning. With my 1st book I tried to start from the beginning and I wrote the chapter 15 times. I would just lay on the ground and cry & think, I cannot do this…so I start w a story I know I can tell then work backwards.”
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Longform Podcast #519: Peggy Orenstein (@peggyorenstein), author of “Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater” pod.link/551088534
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Incredible achievement. It’s taken Shiffrin a lot of persistence and courage to get to this point. For more on her internal journey, I had profiled her not too long ago: syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2889391-an
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BREAKING: Mikaela Shiffrin breaks women's World Cup skiing record with 83rd win. She had been tied with Lindsey Vonn. apnews.com/article/mikael
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“If she stays, I’m not talking to the rest of you.” Grateful for pioneers like Missy who have paved the way. A phenomenal person in every way.
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New Two Writers Slinging Yang stars @mkisaacson — former Jordan-era @chicagotribuneBulls beat writer, ESPN columnist, now Northwestern prof. Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7A8IYh Apple Pods podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mel Anchor spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/YyawclxNPwb
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This means the world to me, thank you so much for the kind words, ! 🥺
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Mirin Fader’s bio of Giannis! It’s beautiful. @MirinFader as dynamic a chronicle of human spirit as anything I’ve ever read twitter.com/GrandCentralPu…
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“The blank page is there for ranting and reckoning, dreaming and wishing. It doesn’t have to be edited for presentation…what I share won’t be commodified or applauded. There is no “look at me,” only “look within.”
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"Even as a reporter, it’s OK to tell a grieving relative how sorry you are. It’s OK to cry during an interview. It’s OK to ask for a tissue. It’s OK, if you’ve suffered a similar loss, to show your understanding."
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The new Pearlman Journalism Substack is out. This week's topic: How to cover tragedy in sports. pearlman.substack.com/p/the-yang-sli
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“He cared as much about the writing as I did.” I loved #TurnEveryPage about writer Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb. Delightful, inspiring, funny. Captures the true spirit of a close editor and writer relationship over decades. The book nerd in me could not stop smiling ☺️
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The number of times I have been asked to share my “thoughts” about situations I have nothing that I want to say, or feel I need to say, and which would be a major distraction to do so, is a strange symptom of a social-media disease.
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A fantastic list. So many great books in here. Was happy to share my favorites:
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The Sports Books That Sportswriters Love📚🏀⚽️🏈⚾️🎾🏉🎱🏒🥊 Over 150 writers answered one question - which sports books do you really love? Find out which books were recommended, including plenty of hidden gems, in the All Sports Books newsletter. allsportsbookreviews.substack.com/p/the-sports-b
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Hi everyone, 💜 thank you so much for reading my work this year and for buying my ‘Giannis’ book. It means a lot! Here’s a thread of my fav. features I wrote this year , starting w/ my profile of DeMar DeRozan:
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