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Jonah M. Kessel
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Deputy Director, Opinion Video, . I make explanatory & investigative short-form documentaries & innovative forms of visual journalism.
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Michelle Yeoh accepting her award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture: Comedy at the #GoldenGlobes
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"Identity as a dynamic process." What a beautiful doc this is.
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Adolfo Kaminsky died today. As a teenager, he saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help kids flee the Nazis. Then helped helping others escape atrocities around the world. We told his story in his 2016 documentary.
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I’ve seen a few folks discusing the latest slate of Netflix cancellations, and I thought “hey, this is the internet—I should share MY thoughts.”
So let me tell you what I think’s going on with streaming shows right now. But first... a little history.
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The invisible hand of the market is strangling our children. Capitalism at work:
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This video is a good look at what it's like to be a parent in a pediatric ICU. It's also infuriating that care is getting harder to come by.
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Take 10 mins and watch our latest video on what's happening to pediatric emergency care in America
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This is really well done and puts images and emotions to what we have been talking about for years regarding pediatric bed closures.
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Today is Ted Danson’s birthday.
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this may be the closest we ever get to knowing what it would be like if George Costanza was elected to congress from queens
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“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I said I was `Jew-ish.'”
George Santos, GOP congressman-elect, admits some lies and tries to spin others. nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep
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Who says Live TV is dying?
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This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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(1/8) In March , and I began jotting down reports of destruction at cultural sites in Ukraine. As the year comes to a close, our count is at 339. Along with NYT culture critic , we took a closer look at four locations. Read: nyti.ms/3I7QE27
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What (if Anything) Did You Change Your Mind About This Year?
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Always devastating. And always important to scroll through. The Year in Pictures 2022
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"Just say no." PSA from and for people whose eyes are arranged horizontally
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I was very happy to participate in this story about a brave and honorable priest in a truly ridiculous country.
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Father Ioann Burdin dared to follow his conscience in Putin’s Russia and paid a heavy price. His story “is about the tragic absurdity of the Russian state and one man’s courage to call it out,” explains @Shteyngart. nyti.ms/3Y47UdV
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Today, brings you to Russia where we tell you an absurd story about a priest who decided to follow his moral compass - and pays a big price. This is why I love my job.
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1/6: Data journalist and visual journalist of have been awarded the 2022 Innovative Storytelling Award from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations!
nationalpress.org/award-story/us
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In a new Op-Doc, a filmmaker gains a sibling: an abandoned baby squirrel.
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"They have also thrown their weight behind a bill, the #AfghanAdjustmentAct, which would help Afghan allies stuck in Afghanistan and many who have already made it to the United States." #KeepThePromise
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If PTSD is an injury of the mind, moral injury is a wounding of the soul.
The Afghan withdrawal was a moral injury to many Veterans. The continued dysfunction compounds it. While suffering, so many still fight a daily battle to save those left behind.
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A short film: See the text messages from desperate Afghans, who worked w/ the US for years & now live under Taliban threat. The US promised not to let them down, but their visas are stuck. One bill can be a save many, if it passes.
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Stunning must-watch.
Congress has a few weeks left to pass the #AfghanAdjustmentAct — in many ways the only thing that would be standing between at-risk Afghans and certain death at the hands of the Taliban.
It’s that simple. It’s that serious.
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A number of colleagues in this video. Unfortunately, their experience isn’t unique as we left behind well over 100,000 Afghan allies. There are thousands of volunteers. Inboxes still fill up daily with pleas for help, some 15 months after the airlift ended.
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Where Should You Donate This Holiday Season? We Have Some Ideas.
"Underfunded, abandoned during Covid, and vilified in America’s vicious culture war - teachers have had enough… " Watch what they have to say in this short video documentary from and me
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My goals:
• advocate for what our students deserve
• help educators feel less alone
• cause ripple effects into legislation
The time is now. nytimes.com/2022/11/18/opi
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The most important video anyone who cares about kids can watch today!! Thank you 4 focusing on the effects on teachers of this constant battering and underfunding of public Ed…
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Shameful.
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From Opinion Video: There’s a crisis in American education. Across the country, educators are walking out en masse. Vacancies aren’t being filled, and schools are scrambling to find substitutes. nyti.ms/3V0Dp6A
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Are we still allowed to talk about things other than Twitter on Twitter?
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The inspiration behind this video can be found in a different staffing crisis: nurses. and I tried to show why nurses were leaving in droves at the beginning of the year. youtube.com/watch?v=PrDyii Are there other staffing crisis we should look at?
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These "small" videos are difficult to make. The 6 teachers in the video they came from a pool of 50 interviews across 18 states. It includes the work of Sam Mirpoorian, Brenton Oechsle, Lucas Mariano,
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"This is failure, by design," says and in our latest Opinion Video. "Underfunded; Abandoned during covid; and vilified in America’s vicious culture war - teachers have had enough. The real losers are the kids."
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This is a spiraling crisis. Teachers have to pick up the slack for those that left, creating increasingly worse conditions for those that remain. Meanwhile, schools across the country are bringing in glorified babysitters as substitutes, many with no background in education.
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Videos with the hashtag #teacherquittok have racked up more than 115 million views. And our kids aren’t blind to this crisis:
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Alarming numbers of educators are leaving their jobs. One survey showed more than 1/2 of teachers said they were looking to get out. That’s a disturbing # of unhappy teachers. And that’s why spent time this fall talking to teachers about why
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