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Miami bureau chief. Former political writer. I endorse only sunshine. A veces escribo en español. patricia.mazzei@nytimes.com

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Joined February 2009

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  1. When a Sunday stroll involves a rooster crowing because Miami

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    Dec 29

    Rome is in danger of becoming a dump. Not the rubbish heap of history, or a precious junkyard of antiquities, but a garbage dump.

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  3. He became a symbol of the struggling people who are so often forgotten in the aftermath of a natural disaster. On Gene Bearden, a Hurricane Michael survivor I could not forget:

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    Dec 27

    Half of the sources I quoted this year for were women. That’s 337 in total, or about one a day. Unfortunately, it's an anomaly in journalism & something I've failed at miserably in the past. Here’s how I got there & why I believe it improved my reporting:

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    So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.

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    Dec 28

    I did this story because this fact has continued to amaze me: Today, mothers who work outside the home spend THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME on interactive child care as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s.

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    Dec 28

    "On Thursday, when the electrical arc ripped apart oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the air, the light was a surreal blue. (Da ba dee, da ba da.)"

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  8. The people in the news who stayed with us in 2018

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    Dec 26

    New: Did a Queens podiatrist help Donald Trump avoid Vietnam?

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    Lin-Manuel Miranda is bringing "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico. We visited with him to learn more about what the island means to him, and what he means to the island.

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    Dec 25

    My friend, head high, writing the hell out of it: RT : "It’s been healthy for me, a fair-haired Anglo-Saxon, to be a minority in my workplace, and in some of the neighborhoods where I deliver." on how he came to deliver for Amazon:

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    Dec 25

    Trump hopped on the phone with a 7-year-old girl from SC last night to talk about Santa. Today I got to interview said little girl. Her words brightened my Christmas ... I bet they'll lift your spirits, too!

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    Dec 22

    There’s no place like the Florida Keys and I was more than happy to get to bounce around several of them for a New York Times travel piece. If you’ve never been, add it to your list.

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    Dec 24

    A Friday night mission in Utah: deliver three checks to the federal government so a few national parks could run at something close to normal.

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  15. Time for the annual walk to figure out by scent who in the neighborhood’s got a caja china going for Nochebuena

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    I've been working on this NYT project for months: Many of the deadliest mass shootings in the US were carried out by killers who used credit cards to buy high-powered weapons+ammunition that they couldn’t otherwise afford. No one was watching.

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    Dec 20

    After 5 months of work and a reporting trip to Brazil, I'm proud to share this story. It may be the most intense, suspenseful, OMG-inducing article you will ever read about a bikini.

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  18. I am so here for a Christmas/Italian soccer crossover story. Also, for this quote: “We sold a lot of statues of Trump last year,” he said. “Mamma mia.”

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    Dec 23

    How to Keep Baby Jesus in the Manger? Bolts, Cameras and Tethers, by ⁩ with a dateline you have to see for yourself

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    Dec 22

    For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone via ⁦⁩ and me, a year-end glimpse at Trump

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