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

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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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    Oct 11

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

    A global movement to ban urban billboards
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    Oct 10

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

    Warm temperatures are screwing up Maine's famous foliage
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  4. Oct 9

    Mmmm, bed beans.

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  5. Oct 9

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

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  6. Oct 9

    Pretty much everybody at slow-clapped for this this week

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  7. Oct 9

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

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  8. Oct 9

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

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  9. Oct 9

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

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  10. Oct 9

    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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    Oct 9

    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.

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  12. Oct 9

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

    it was a great story!
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  13. Oct 9

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

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  14. Oct 9

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

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  15. Oct 9

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

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  16. Oct 9

    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. Oct 9

    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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    Oct 9

    Police routinely withhold body camera videos after shootings

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    Oct 9

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

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    Oct 9

    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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