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@jonah_kessel

Deputy Director, Opinion Video, . I make explanatory & investigative short-form documentaries & innovative forms of visual journalism.

New York, USA
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Joined February 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Sep 2020

    Whose fault is the pandemic? Turns out, it’s mine. Yours too. I made a video that explains why we all own some of the blame for why events like Covid-19 happen.

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    Aug 5

    Application period now open. The annual Innovative Award recognizes of the highest quality that re-invents the way stories are told. spread the word!

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    Aug 1

    Oh deer 🦌 … US Dept of Agriculture reports half of all wild deers in Michigan have gotten infection. Worrisome. “a human disease cannot be eradicated when it is in animal reservoirs” ~ —he led the global eradication of smallpox.

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    Jul 27

    Our Opinion video team has received nine News and Documentary Emmy nominations this year! Here are the films.

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    Jul 27

    Famed US coach banned due to "sexual and emotional misconduct." That story was brought to the world by our video team in a brave video Op-Ed by Mary Cain in 2019 by and .

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  6. Jul 27

    Our latest Op-Doc is a joy. And also just dreadful. She Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It.

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    Jul 20

    This passage from Carl Sagan has been living in my head rent-free for days now.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jul 22

    I’m tired of being cynical about everything.

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  9. Jul 21

    via ⁦⁩

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    Watch this🚨 Beyond treating all of our fellow Americans with basic human dignity, let this be a reminder of the work we must do to build an inclusive, accessible America.

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    “I don’t have a problem with the way I see,” says , a filmmaker from Maine, of his visual disability. “My only problem is with the way I’m seen.”
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  11. Jul 19

    Not A Single Filmmaker Ever. via

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  12. Jul 14

    We'll tell him. ❤️

    Replying to @JesseLKercheval
    I’ve been sobbing uncontrollably for at least 10 minutes I’m in my mid 50’s I had two unsuccessful surgeries as well No one has ever talked to me or about my whale eyes ever I don’t have Instagram to tell the filmmaker what it meant to me
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  13. Jul 14

    Our latest video is really something special. devises a few experiments to help his family experience his disability. The test shows how a little imagination can make us all more empathetic.

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    “I don’t have a problem with the way I see,” says , a filmmaker from Maine, of his visual disability. “My only problem is with the way I’m seen.”
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  14. Retweeted
    Jul 11

    Four Tibetan monks were sentenced to up to 20 years jail in secret trials with no apparent evidence of criminal wrongdoing after a violent raid on a monastery in 2019, according to a report from Human Rights Watch - which calls for their release.

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  15. Jul 13

    This is sensational: Before & After ‘Maggot Brain’

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    Jul 7

    A whopping 80% of New Zealanders want NZ government to promote human rights with PRC🇨🇳, even if it has an impact on economic relations 73% of NZers have no confidence in Xi Jinping as world leader 67% have an unfavourable view of the PRC

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  17. Jul 6

    He Is Imprisoned at Guantánamo. Making Art Is His Escape.

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    Jul 6

    if you think you can’t stomach another painted ladies/full house scene, check out ’s phenomenal drone clip that literally dives inside, up, and around one of the famous abodes. Stunning.

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    Jul 2

    We need to find a way to treat athletes like like humans. I wrote about it (with an assist from )

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    Jul 2

    President Biden announced that he wants the military to remove the prosecution of sexual assault cases from the control of commanders. Col. Don Christensen, a former prosecutor in the Air Force, explained the issue in a recent video.

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    Jun 30

    About 46 percent of Americans say they do not feel comfortable going back to living life as they used to. “The normal was not working out for all of us,” says Michael Reid, a retired Episcopal priest.

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