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Senior Editor at . Formerly: editor at , reporter at . What is this I can't even.

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Joined July 2009

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    PC culture is making it hard for colleges to...oh, what's that? Study: Nearly 90% of full-time professors are white

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    This was one of the most striking things about visiting Istanbul. Beyoğlu is virtually billboard-free.

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    Satellite leaf-peeping is a thing now, thanks to .

  4. Mmmm, bed beans.

  5. Time it takes me to revert to full bachelorhood when leaves: -1 day. I'm eating dinner in bed, and he leaves tomorrow.

  6. Pretty much everybody at slow-clapped for this this week

  7. “Our industry desperately needs to rethink what the perfect applicant looks like.” BOOM.

  8. ICYMI, this essay on diversity in public media is, well, un-missable:

  9. No weekly retrospective complete without honoring , who we lost last year. IMO, carries the torch.

  10. I also don’t think it’s accident that I loved being edited by and — weekly people to the bone, it felt like.

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    13/ Bet if you polled the staff at the , it would be far more people than Kate Boo and who got start at alt weeklies.

  12. When you first called me to work on the edit, , I know it was a *thing* I was about to experience

  13. My first three months on the job, I stayed late every night just to read the archives.

  14. So much of what we talk about needing now — new voices, experiments — and & other weeklies were always doing.

  15. The under at the time was the kind of place that loved those stories, and let me play with tone and style.

  16. It was about the inner life of a 10-year-old filmmaker and it was a complete, purposeful rip of ’s American Male, Age 10.

  17. See for moving tribute to alt-weeklies. Got my own start at with a very small story my EIC allowed to go big.

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    Police routinely withhold body camera videos after shootings

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    7/ Though we at MoJo are trying our best to help fill the breech. (Apply to be fellow here:

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    6/ Anyway, not sure anything is coming close to replacing the alt weeklies as training ground for serious reporting/writing (not just takes)

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