programming director; swang@theatlantic.com | previously @niemanlab @wbur @bostondotcom @harvard_press | 방탄소년단, bacon, battlestar galactica
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19 Jul 2024
the gate agent at the Rome airport where I am just mumbled under his breath that this was “9/11-level confusing”
19 Jul 2024
"It is as though the Y2K apocalypse has finally arrived, 24 and a half years later than expected."
@matteo_wong's latest:
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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16 Jul 2024
🚨If you think D.C. needs more local journalism, here’s an amazing chance to help create some! A group of former @dcist and @wamu885 staffers are creating @51stnews, a non-profit worker-led news outlet on all things D.C. And they need your financial help: givebutter.com/The51st
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11 Apr 2024
well....it was not an april fools...it's happening ‼️ we're asking YOU to vote on a name for D.C.'s new worker-led news outlet ‼️ there's an option to leave open-ended feedback as well; we're all ears!
forms.gle/3HKxFPFv67CYZphm7
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29 Mar 2024
In 1910, an unknown writer foreshadowed the Titanic disaster. For the latest edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, @shansquared digs into The Atlantic’s archives and solves the mystery behind his byline: theatln.tc/iCPxPAvx
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20 Mar 2024
5:34pm: There are numerous wildfires in the Shenandoah Valley and surrounding areas. If you are smelling smoke outdoors, those fires are the likely source.
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15 Mar 2024
Cities face rising murder rates
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23 Jan 2024
assistant editor audience engagement job — on a very kind team that loves journalism. Salary is $55k-$65k, includes one weekend shift a week, based in DC
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5 Sep 2023
Nieman Lab is expanding!!!
🎉 @s_peppered is now our full-time LOCAL NEWS staff writer
🎉 We are hiring a staff writer focused on generative AI and journalism
🎉 We are ALSO hiring a general staff writer
More here, and how to apply:
buff.ly/3ErrFnc
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28 Aug 2023
“More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
Here is Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” as it appeared in the August 1963 issue of @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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14 Jul 2023
Here it comes, again. Another outburst of smoke from Canadian fires. It will enter the Upper Midwest into Saturday and some of it (in lesser quantities) could reach the Ohio Valley and East Coast early next week.
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14 Jul 2023
exhibit A: my reaction when Ddaeng came on at yoongi’s concert, captured on camera by @shansquared
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11 Jul 2023
Happy birthday, E.B. White 🕸️🐖
11 Jul 2023
“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.” Four years before “Charlotte's Web,” E. B. White wrote this essay on the death of a beloved pig, reflecting on illness, caretaking, suffering, and community: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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6 Jul 2023
when I was born, my mother said I dreamed one day my baby girl will grow up waking up each day with the thought, this would make a good tweet but I need to also post it on threads
the american dream
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