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metro investigative reporter. Human. Hoosier. Wildcat. Alum of /. On board of directors of .

New York, NY
Joined February 2009
Born March 16
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  1. Nov 6

    "Neither Nate immediately responded for a request for comment. Though to be fair, they’re both pretty busy at the moment."

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  2. Nov 3

    So is anybody else playing the Hamilton soundtrack on repeat all day today?

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  3. Nov 2

    As of today, The New York Times has dropped its paywall for coverage of the 2020 election. Read all of the live updates here, even if you don't have a subscription. (Although you should get a subscription)

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    Oct 29

    Journalism movies can be exciting, but they will never show you the reporter calling 75+ different agencies because you need an email address to send a few questions.

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    Oct 29

    Investigative journalism seems glamorous until you wake up at 6:30AM to start listening to a five hour legislative hearing from more than a decade ago that will result in ONE sentence in your 6,000 word story.

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  6. Oct 27

    Here's a good thread on what it would actually take to reform the dysfunction-plagued New York City Board of Elections, via

    So, you want to rebuild the partisan Board of Elections. How? It's complicated, but not impossible. And fundamental change does not require the governor's signature. New from me:
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  7. Oct 26

    As New York City voters continue to encounter long lines at the polls, officials call for reform at the city Board of Elections. Story today on the fallout of our investigation of the beleaguered elections agency, with :

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  8. Oct 26

    Here's a story that's never been reported, though. In 2000, narrowly lost to an incumbent state senator with sway over the elections board. Months later, maintenance workers found ballots in an AC duct. They were from a pro-Krueger neighborhood

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  9. Oct 26

    We are ... not the first ones to write about the . Here's some brief history on criticism of America's only major election agency staffed almost entirely by Democratic and Republican bosses -- a structure that dates to the 1800s. Little has changed

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  10. Oct 26

    NEW: The agency that oversees elections in NYC is staffed almost entirely by relatives & friends of political leaders, even the computer programmers. Many are incompetent. “The agency is chronically dysfunctional,” one current staffer said. With

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    Oct 20

    LONG THREAD ON HUNGER IN NEW YORK: In New York, 1.5 million people can’t afford food. It is a startling number that has forced some people to get in pantry lines for the first time.

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    Oct 20

    I spent a year — give or take some months due to the pandemic — reporting this story. My sources said they love NYSNA and love nurses, but wanted to hold union leadership accountable. Here’s my behind-the-scenes look at the internal divisions at NYSNA.

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  13. Oct 18

    Update: We went to in Yorktown. (Thank you for the recommendation). Apples were picked. Good times were had. New York is beautiful, folks! 🍂🍃

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    Oct 16

    Thanks to (BSJ11) for visiting with us last week and discussing his Pultizer-Prize winning work. Watch the full conversation between him and Dean Charles Whitaker:

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  15. Oct 5

    On Wednesday, before the vice presidential debate, join me and the dean of 's journalism school, Charles Whitaker, for a conversation about investigative reporting

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    Join us on Wed., Oct. 7 from 5 to 6 p.m. (CT) for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winner (BSJ11) and Medill Dean Charles Whitaker about Rosenthal's series on how predatory loans shattered the lives of vulnerable taxi drivers.
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  16. Sep 29

    I apologize for interrupting pre-debate twitter, but I must share this profile about my oldest brother, , who helped develop a new legal theory and used it to secure pandemic protections for potentially thousands of McDonald's workers:

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    Sep 27

    Thank you to every subscriber who doesn’t drop us even when we as an institution are imperfect. Your support creates journalism like this.

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    Sep 27

    The breadth and depth of the newsroom is on display tonight.

    Fifteen years ago, a mysterious top-hatted figure and a parade of circus performers interrupted a wedding in a music video with an unconventional soundtrack. This is how Panic! at the Disco announced itself in “I Write Sins Not Tragedies."
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    Sep 27

    a story about trump. but a story about the systems we live under. a piece that highlights both

    Here. We. Go. ⁦ ⁩ has paid basically zero taxes for years.
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