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Sheera Frenkel
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NYT Reporter and author of NYT Bestseller AN UGLY TRUTH, with . Raising two kids and a cat in Oakland. Tell me a story: sheera.frenkel@nytimes.com
Oakland, CAJoined February 2009

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Please, someone do the analysis of how many people with blue checks have “founder” in their bio and/or proclaim they are Tesla fans .
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Terrible day. helped free people from prison, changed laws, got sexual harassers fired, and more. As it did so, it won a Pulitzer, Pulitzer finalist honors 3 times, 3 Polk Awards, a National Magazine Award, etc. Happy to help editors find great journalists.
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In case it isn’t obvious, I’m looking for a new job after 10 years! Please hire me! I’m very good at reporting the news, particularly investigation and finding people. I’ve produced definitive coverage on online extremism. Also, I write viral stories about the royal family.
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Breaking News: BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division, BuzzFeed News, as part of an effort to cut the company’s work force by 15%, the chief executive said. nyti.ms/41nXMOh
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It’s a sad day for BF alum, but a opportunity for any editors out there looking to hire! You can’t do better than the crew at BuzzFeed News.
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So, 21yo shared classified material on a small Discord server for months and was ultimately identified by a group of journalists who *checks notes* spent hours staring at kitchen countertops.
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A breakthrough in our investigation came when the team identified a Steam profile in Airman Teixeira's name that led to an Instagram profile with photos of the exact location where leaked docs were photographed — a kitchen countertop in his childhood home. nytimes.com/live/2023/04/1
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NEW: Harlan Crow paid Thomas for property. The law explicitly requires disclosure of property sales. Thomas didn't disclose anything. Here's Thomas' signature on the undisclosed deal. propublica.org/article/claren By @JustinElliott @js_kaplan & @Amierjeski
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My three-year-old fell fell skiing today and when I caught up with her she was lying like this and giggling. I would have been so broken if my limbs were this contorted.
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A YouTuber's irreverent Discord server is the center of a crisis over leaked Pentagon docs. “It was just spread onto the nicheiest, nerdiest parts of the internet,” said the YouTuber, wow_mao. He was surprised by the sudden attention. W/
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For real. Searching for the word substack on Twitter returns “newsletter”.🤪 What’s next to be hardcoded? Search for Elon returns “the most amazing funniest guy ever”? 🤷‍♀️
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Elon’s pettiness is boundless. Searching Twitter for the word “substack” now returns search results for the word “newsletter.” Elon is as big an asshole as I’ve ever come across in my life. And I’m a Trump biographer.
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He wrote in the email, which was viewed by The New York Times, that it was an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later." and on the thinking inside Google and Microsoft amid the AI boom:
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“I just got hired by The Wall Street Journal. I’m the Moscow correspondent. I’m in the bureau. I did the thing.” - ’s profile of Evan, the first American reporter jailed on spying charges since the end of the Cold War:
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“Why is he working on something that won’t make him richer? One answer is that lots of people do that once they have enough money, which Sam probably does. The other is that he likes power.” so many gold coins in this Sam Altman profile from
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NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate… Show more
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Bye blue check! Thanks for helping people find me when scammers were trying to create fake accounts in my name. Sorry to see it go this way. If you need to find me, my email is in my bio. That's going to be the best way to reach me.
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