Month: April 2023
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The Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder | The New Yorker
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The Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder After the death of a reporter who investigated narcopolitics, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/the-covert-mission-to-solve-a-mexican-journalists-murder The murder scene had been captured on at least five security cameras, from multiple angles.…
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The Women of Rural America Are Dying Too Young – The Atlantic
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How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures Death in a dying town via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/the-forgotten-girls-monica-potts-book-excerpt/673581/ oy crazy” was what people called it. “She was so boy crazy,” I would hear about my girlfriends. I never heard the reverse, that a boy was “girl crazy.” Girls having crushes, sneaking out at night to have fun: It…
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When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library | The New Yorker
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When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library A Montana county’s battle shows how faith in public learning and public space is fraying. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-the-culture-wars-come-for-the-public-library The class had come from a Catholic school, and, a few days later, the teacher wrote to the Daily Inter Lake, a local newspaper, saying how…
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The Hacker – Columbia Journalism Review
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The Hacker Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business. via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/runa-sandvik.php As Sandvik saw it, that was all she could do in the face of an overwhelming digital threat. “There is just no guarantee for us that we’re never…