Reporter-for-hire, formerly @nytimes | Fulbright Journalist 2019-2020
Joined June 2009
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24 Jul 2024
On a seemingly perfect getaway with friends, Cassie, a startup founder, is keeping something from everyone, including her best friend Lena, a filmmaker with her own secret. Everything comes to a head when a violent moment between Cassie and her fiance shocks the group. #PitchToDA
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29 Mar 2024
One year since Evan was cynically detained on a reporting trip. He is not a spy. Journalism is not a crime. He does not belong in prison. #IStandWithEvan
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7 Feb 2024
The Tucker Carlson cargo cult in Moscow is really quite something. Just frothing at the mouth the minute any famous American hints he might do a softball Putin interview
7 Feb 2024
Leading Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov says Tucker Carlson’s interview will "break through the blockade and the narrative of Putin’s unprovoked, brutal invasion of Ukraine"
So, just another opportunity for Putin to trot out his favourite talking points at length then
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30 Nov 2023
An unbelievably draconian step even by Russia’s standards.
Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled the global gay rights movement to be an “extremist organisation” on a legal par with al-Qaeda and Isis, outlawing any display of support for LGBT rights. on.ft.com/3QUvtTC
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19 Nov 2023
So many children are brought into the morgue that burial shrouds are cut into child-size pieces.
“Every day we cry while we’re working to prepare the children.”
Parents scrawl names directly onto their children’s skin, in case they are lost or killed and need to be identified.
19 Nov 2023
Gaza Has Become a ‘Graveyard’ for Children
Far more children have been killed in Gaza in the past six weeks than in all the world’s major conflict zones combined — across two dozen countries, including Ukraine — during all of last year. nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world…
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19 Nov 2023
Gaza Has Become a ‘Graveyard’ for Children
Far more children have been killed in Gaza in the past six weeks than in all the world’s major conflict zones combined — across two dozen countries, including Ukraine — during all of last year. nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world…
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13 Nov 2023
✍️ @paulwsj: "Consider the opposite of that frequently bemoaned condition of the perpetual news cycle: What if you could get no valid information at all? Because that is the kind of void Evan is facing"
Read more: standard.co.uk/comment/evan-…
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14 Nov 2023
Huge scoop from my colleagues. A leading western journalist who has long been considered one of Germany’s top independent experts on Russia received at least €600,000 in undisclosed offshore payments from companies linked to an oligarch close to Putin
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28 Oct 2023
Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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27 Oct 2023
A fellowship where journalists working in countries with limited press freedoms can REST and RECOVER: reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/en/…
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Valeriya Safronova retweeted
26 Oct 2023
Happy 32nd Birthday to our friend and colleague Evan Gershkovich, who is still in jail in Russia awaiting trial on espionage charges. We continue to call for his release #FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan
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26 Oct 2023
Happy 32nd birthday to @evangershkovich
Evan, a WSJ reporter and friend, has been an unjust prisoner in Russia for 211 days
I miss you
#FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan
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26 Oct 2023
"Gaza's religious affairs ministry has authorised burials in mass graves... some families have begun to wear identification bracelets, or are writing names on the arms of their children, to increase the chance they can be identified if they die." ft.com/content/a3fded7d-7b91…
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23 Oct 2023
.@feeldCo has acquired a reputation for fostering something rare in the dating-app world: directness. Ana Kirova, its CEO since 2021, has had a strong hand in that development. Gift link here: shorturl.at/vDSV7
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22 Oct 2023
Seven years ago, I was delighted to meet @feeldCo founder @denull in London. Today, I'm delighted to open the @nytimes and find THIS: @vsaffron nytimes.com/2023/10/21/busin… Huge congratulations @anafiki and Dimo! 🙌 #sextech #socialsex #socialsexrevolution @makelovenotporn
25 Jun 2016
Great meeting @denull @3nderapp We loved each other's biz cards! @makelovenotporn #sextech #make3nderlovenotporn
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18 Oct 2023
I just contacted two well-connected friends in Tunisia’s small Jewish community to inquire whether this tweet, about a synagogue attack there last night, was true.
Sadly, they said, it is.
The fire was set in protest against Israel last night at El Hamma synagogue near Gabes.
18 Oct 2023
En Tunisie, la synagogue d'El Hamma a été détruite et incendiée hier soir par des centaines d'émeutiers, sans la moindre intervention policière. De nombreuses vidéos sur TikTok et Facebook. Et pas la moindre mention dans les médias nationaux tiktok.com/discover/ا%D…
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19 Oct 2023
An analysis of satellite imagery suggests that, after less than two weeks of war, 11,000 buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged. "At least 92,000 people will have no home to return to when the fighting stops." economist.com/briefing/2023/…
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19 Oct 2023
“Continuing to give Israel what he described as carte blanche to kill a generation of enemies, only to create a new one, does not ultimately serve the United States’ interests, Mr. Paul said.” nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/st…
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