Reading world: My book, The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die, is out in paperback today. Please buy a copy!
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Katie Engelhart
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Journalist. Writer. Producer. Author of The Inevitable.
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"Lawyers can use brain injury as evidence of abuse but the diagnosis can become a double-edged sword if it is used by an alleged abuser to argue that their partner has a diminished capacity to parent, potentially leading to the abuse victim losing custody"
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It's normally hyperbole to say that a book is 'essential reading' -- but 's book IS essential reading and now a finalist the 's Bernstein Award.
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Tune in to PBS tonight on your local station to see our exclusive investigation into California-based manufacturing giant , which is accused of supplying the Russians arms industry with sophisticated machine tools in violation of U.S. sanctions.
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Oncology in America: "64 percent of nursing home residents — received aggressive treatment in their final 30 days. A quarter underwent cancer treatment: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy."
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Most older people envision a serene death at home with loved ones, without pain or panic. Instead, most with metastatic cancer get aggressive care even in their last 30 days. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/hea
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How child labor investigations go wrong: A 13-year-old girl was one of dozens of kids cleaning slaughterhouses owned by JBS, the world's biggest meatpacker.
Prosecutors didn't charge JBS or its contractor, but put the girl's dad in jail and may deport him.
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Writers! I was going to teach another advanced magazine writing workshop when the pandemic hit. FINALLY rescheduling for April 15-16 in SF. Last group of students started publishing in NY’er, became NYTM contributor, published first book. 8 students max. Lmk if you want details.
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I cried my way through this incredible investigation by — about Made In America child labor.
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The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now.
Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/
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For a third year in a row, will offer a fellowship to develop journalists with an expertise in coverage of disability issues. Here are the details. The deadline to apply is March 24.
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NEW: I wrote about going to interview the man who hid/saved my grandfather from the nazis, a decade of war reporting, why some people risk their lives to save strangers while others kill their neighbors, and being the grandchild of 4 Holocaust survivors:
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Pressure Mounts for Hospice Reform — “The New Yorker-ProPublica investigation shook the industry to its foundation.” Impact by @AvaKofman @propublica propublica.org/article/pressu
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NEW: Two House committees just released results from their 18-month investigation into the FDA's approval of Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm. The team has the breakdown of all the most important revelations.🧵
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LOVE to see The Inevitable recommended in a piece about favourite cookbooks! "It’s a complex and fascinating subject and Engelhart writes with intelligence and compassion." Thank you .
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It might seem counterintuitive to run a business whose clients are not long for this world.
But hospices solve this obstacle in all kinds of ways, including by signing up patients who aren't actually dying...
My investigation +
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Exactly 12yrs after my roommate was roofied at a frat party. Admins have known about this… forever & always, but have responded with little more than temporary halts on frat parties - lest they lose $$ from grown-up frat boy alumni.
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I had a long and winding conversation with on 's The Gray Area podcast. About dignity and indignity and autonomy and Right to Life politics and what makes a life 'sacred' (if anything). I hope you listen:
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The Inevitable! “I picked up this book as a duty, not expecting a pleasure. But it is so well written and thoroughly researched.. that it is, extraordinarily, a delight to read: interesting & moving, thought-provoking & important.” Thank you 🙏
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I haven't tweeted in 8 years but I'm so excited to work with the next generation of investigative reporters. Apply for the new Local Investigations Fellowship, which I'm leading for .
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1 week left to apply! This is a great way for early-career journalists to gain large-newsroom experience, 1:1 mentorship, union representation and pay ($1,117.85/week). The program runs from early June through Labour Day 2023. #jobs #journojobs
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When I was researching my book, I had to avoid reporting -- both because it was so opinion-driven & because of factual inaccuracies / omissions of fact. With such an under-reported subject, a single reporter can have a hugely outsized effect on the discourse.
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Another example from this reporter: "...more than 65% of people are being euthanized due to cancer." They aren't "being euthanatized" against their will. They are are sick with cancer and are *choosing* to have their doctors speed things along, likely to avoid suffering.
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An example from a recent article on the Right to Die: "...tells physicians and nurses to inform patients if they might qualify to be killed." Qualify to be killed? Huh? This is not language that I have ever seen used by patients, doctors or legislators
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Imagine, say, if the allowed a reporter who was obviously/openly opposed to abortion to cover abortion. Imagine if that reporter borrowed the terminology & values of 'Right to Life' advocates when writing allegedly disinterested wire articles. I don't think that would happen.
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For years, has had a reporter who very obviously & deeply & emotionally opposes the Right to Die cover the subject for the wire service. I wonder how this single journalist, whose stories are published/adapted/translated by global outlets, has shaped the cultural debate.
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CALL FOR PITCHES: Longreads wants your words! We take essay submissions, feature pitches, reading list ideas, and other queries, and we pay competitive rates for accepted work. Here’s a 🧵 of what the editors are looking for:
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👋 Hi again — I’m now back to full-time reporting after maternity leave
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It takes a lot to pretend to conduct an intrepid investigation when another journalist has literally already published over 10,000 words on the same company.
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A doc that uses a huge amount of reporting - without citing or crediting me - won an Emmy. It wasn't even subtle; the doc is about the exact same nursing home company I wrote about. I spent months, dawn to dusk, on my reporting. I won a George Polk Award for it.
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This piece by Zoe Heller, on the essence of Charles, is so good: “Oddly, and perhaps rather tragically, the severest damage to his reputation has come not from his modest history of vice but from his strenuous aspirations to virtue.”
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✨Happy paperback publication day to , , , Gianfranco Calligarich, and ! 📚✨
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The Inevitable makes for a perfect breezy beach read (🤞) buy today!
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Did you know: Many of the same so-called 'Right to Life' groups that worked to overturn #RoevWade are involved in (quieter) campaigns against Right to Die legislation. Assisted dying is also about the politics of body autonomy - but it gets very little media attention. Why?
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My favourite chapter of the book was excerpted by and you can read it here. It's about a spectacularly intelligent woman named Professor Avril Henry who ended her life because she was old and had no interest in growing any older:
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. called The Inevitable "a remarkably nuanced, empathetic and well-crafted work of journalism." called it "deeply researched and beautifully reported."
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When Canada introduced its medical-assistance-in-dying legislation, in 2016, some people with mental illness and histories of psychiatric treatment felt like they had been “screwed over” and excluded.
Read ’s full story from the archive:
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This is a study of what happened to women having miscarriages in Texas after Texas passed its strict anti-abortion law. 28 patients were unable to receive necessary care; they saw infections, hemorrhaging, admission into the ICU, and a ruptured uterus requiring hysterectomy.
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$1,475,448 from the NRA.
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Today, I join all Americans in mourning those whose lives have been stolen in Uvalde. This tragedy is as horrifying as it is heartbreaking. My deepest condolences are with the families & loved ones of those killed, with those who were injured, & with the entire state of Texas. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Tune in tomorrow, 12 PM ET, at with Daniel Bergner for a conversation w/ about his newest book, THE MIND AND THE MOON!
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A few years ago, I spent some time with two women -- a student in Mississippi & a mother of three in Florida -- who ordered abortion pills from India. And used them. They bravely showed their faces and shared their stories. Here's the short documentary:
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