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Articles Editor • Instructor • Books: Infested (2015) & The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (2016 & 2023) • She/Her • 
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Really looking forward to diving into the updated version of @brookeborel’s fact-checking guide from @UChicagoPress!
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Extremely true --> "anyone who has ever tried to brush a reluctant toddler’s teeth knows firsthand that those tiny molars don’t always get high-quality home care." New feature today by
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Experts say there’s a strong economic incentive to focus on interventions, especially at practices that serve Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which have exceptionally low reimbursement rates in many states.
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The Sites Reservoir has the potential to release enough water to support 640,000 people each year, but there are lingering questions about whether it will be able to do that, given its plans to divert most water during few-and-far-between storm events.
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A new report estimates that there were 32,260 fewer abortions in the U.S. in 2022, after the fall of Roe. Last month, Rebecca Grant dug into the intensive research effort behind those numbers.
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“When technology reinforces inequality, it tends to be called a glitch, a temporary blip that is easily fixed in the code. But it’s much more than this,” says Meredith Broussard, a data journalist at New York University.
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There's still time to apply to STAT's summer internship. Deadline April 17. Pay is $18/hr. Can be remote, though slight preference for folks interested in being in our Boston office. Instructions below 👇🏾:
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As the FDA routes more drugs through accelerated approval and other expedited pathways, Reshma Ramachandran, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, and others have grown increasingly alarmed that speed is trumping patients’ best interests.
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Wonderful writing/reporting/photos by Bill Morris, editing by and production by in today's feature. Quite a tale!
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Application deadline extended to April 16!
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Mother Jones is hiring editorial fellows to fact-check and report for the magazine & website! THRILLED to share that fellows are now @MoJoUnion members, with strong benefits 
Details here: motherjones.com/careers/fellow
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. is hiring an assistant managing editor to supervise editors and reporters on our national desk
📅Deadline: April 27
📌Location: Remote (NYC preferred)
💰Salary: $200K - $225K
✅ Reqs: +10 years accountability reporting management
Details:
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I’m thrilled and honored that my @undarkmag piece “In El Salvador and Beyond, an Unsolved Kidney Disease Mystery” has been selected for the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 anthology! Thank you @carlzimmer, @jaimealyse, @MarinerBooks, @brookeborel, and @kitracahana
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BBC is hiring journalists in the US.
We're growing our US presence, and need folks to help us cover the biggest stories here.
(You don't have to be British! I'm VERY American, and they hired me.)
Job thread below. Just a messenger, not a manager, but DM if you're intrigued
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So how do you report a story like this out? Some hints in the piece:
"ProPublica spoke to more than 15 former yacht workers"
"According to interviews with more than a dozen visitors and former resort staff"
"said...the artist commissioned by Crow"
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A bullshitter "doesn’t know or care about the truth one way or the other." Insightful op-ed at today by and
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Hi. I'm filling in as features editor at and am hungry for print magazine (5000+ word) pitches. Politics, power, policy, social issues, weird regional controversies, unlikely villains, ideological trends, etc. Pitch me! MTaylor@TNR.com
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Application deadline has been extended to April 7th! Apply, apply, apply! nasw.submittable.com/submit/256595/
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DUE DATE TODAY 4/5: Journalism students, apply for our @ScienceWriters Diversity Summer Fellowship! Receive $3,000 to supplement your upcoming internship stipends—so you can focus more on your career experience, and less on everyday worries: nasw.org/article/nasw-s #SciWriStudent
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New today by : A deep dive into efforts to restore Sabratha's ancient Roman theater in Libya (including excellent photos/video curated by ):
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“This year I didn’t sell anything, because most of it burned in the fields. Everything we salvaged was stored in these warehouses, and now that’s gone too," said Slovina Lubova, a farmer and harvester in eastern Ukraine.
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Are you interested in technology journalism? Applications for 's Emerging Journalist Fellowship are now open. You can work from anywhere in the US. Pay is $20/hr, applications due May 15
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WE ARE HIRING!!!!!!
Criminal justice journalists, come work with me at .
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New today , a report from Ukraine by (with his always-stunning photos, too!)
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Mother Jones is hiring editorial fellows to fact-check and report for the magazine & website! THRILLED to share that fellows are now members, with strong benefits 💪🎉💪🎉 Details here:
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The proposal to help prevent whale strikes would implement a mandatory speed limit of 10 knots in places where whales are spotted, and, for the first time, impose speed restrictions on many recreational and commercial fishing boats.
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Is long Covid in children a silent epidemic? A challenging but very rare condition? Or something in between? New today
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Breastfeeding? Confused about the new mastitis guidelines? So was , who has a terrific essay today digging into the science
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“This SAP process is really a horrible process for getting patients access to experimental drugs like psilocybin,” said Spencer Hawkswell, CEO of TheraPsil.
bit.ly/3SSOsPb
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some personal news: I'm leaving ! i'm here through the end of April :)
and so their search begins for a new climate editor (or director if you have the exp). share far and wide!
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We're proud to partner with for this new reporting position in our newsroom. (Well, technically, both our newsrooms!) Read on, apply if it sounds like a good fit, or share with your talented friends!
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There's a fellowship opening at ! Similar to my position—80% time, 1 year long, *health insurance*—but focused on rural communities instead of climate justice:
classifieds.hcn.org/denver/employm
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Before the Taliban’s recent takeover, international governments and non-governmental organizations had undertaken projects to develop Afghanistan’s water management capacities and improve the country’s ability to adapt to climate change.
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Very proud of the Undark team!
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Thrilled to see our Long Division series named as a finalist in the National Magazine Awards. Congrats to the entire @undarkmag team — and particularly to @ashleythesmart and Angela Saini, who so deftly shaped this package. @ASME1963
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Lovely book review today -- and check out that feature photo! At first glance in a thumbnail I thought it was some sort of medical scan (before I saw the headline)
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25 days from today, sunset in NYC will be at 7:00pm. Just saying.
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Interestingly, even though reporters coaxed the bot into repeating disinformation in the style of Dr. Mercola just last week, ChatGPT no longer responds the same way for that prompt (at least it didn't for me).
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Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying.
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People more likely to be victims of crime in Labour-run areas, new study shows.
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This was tough to report! Thanks to for assigning the piece - prompted by a tip from a ophthalmology resident as #AB2236 (a bill to expand optometrists' scope of practice) wended its way thru CA state legislature last fall 1/
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