Co-signed - it has been an absolute privilege 🙏

Eternally grateful that I’m able to teach with Azmat Khan and learn so much from her in the process. (📸: Samaa Khullar)

Well done Mohammed Salem, w/Reuters, for winning the Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic news reporting from abroad in any medium for an entry titled Gaza, “‘Hell on Earth'” #OPCAwards85

The OPC honors Mohammed Sawwaf, Ibrahim Al-Otla, Salah Al-Haw, Marwan Al-Sawwaf, ALEF Multimedia and Witness Docs with Al Jazeera English for winning the Edward R. Murrow Award for reporting on Gaza. Watch the acceptance speech here: youtu.be/Bmhp36-A2p8 #OPCAwards85

Congrats to Maggie Michael, El Tayeb Siddig, Ryan McNeill, Zohra Bensemra, Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir, Aidan Lewis and Reuters staff for winning the inaugural Continuing Coverage of Conflict Award for reporting on the Sudan. Watch here: youtu.be/Rcr4SS0Ck4Q #OPCAwards85

Congratulations to Mosab Abu Toha of the The New Yorker for winning the Flora Lewis Award for best commentary on international news with a series of essays on Gaza. Watch the acceptance speech here: youtu.be/yofcuCM8qgA #OPCAwards85

.Ayman lit a candle in honor of all journalists killed, injured or imprisoned while doing their work in Gaza, Ukraine, Mexico, Philippines at the Overseas Press Club Awards youtu.be/tdalk6m3zBQ?fe…

It is a beautifully eloquent tribute and a reminder that journalism is never a crime.

NYC friends: Come join me next Thursday May 9 as I speak with the great Seyward Darby (Author, Sisters in Hate) at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC! Many thanks Overseas Press Club for sponsoring the event. Grand Central Pub Register here: flatironnomad.nyc/event/look-awa…

Just a little clarification on this - I’m talking about students of the Columbia Journalism School. I got in after this only because a Professor escorted us. Access seems to change every minute.

The IDF says it is telling civilians to evacuate parts of Rafah ahead of a planned offensive, but our recent investigation into similar past warnings showed safe zones were repeatedly targeted anyway.

Congratulations to Samar Abu Elouf of the The New York Times for winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for best photographic reporting with courage and enterprise, for coverage of Gaza. Watch the acceptance speech here: youtu.be/AuLbBdL8rAc #OPCAwards85

💥Many Palestinian media reports of a major Israeli bombardment in eastern Rafah.

Re-upping this today, as Israel tells Gazan civilians to move from eastern Rafah:

Israel's shutdown of Al Jazeera English on national security grounds sets a dangerous precedent, as I told The New York Times. But it's even more alarming in context. Journos in Gaza have been killed, injured, exiled. Foreign media is banned. Who will tell the story? nytimes.com/live/2024/05/0…

In a letter from the editors in Columbia Daily Spectator, Esha Karam and I offer a sharp critique of Columbia and the NYPD’s reprehensible treatment of our journalists as officers harassed, bullied, and forced us off campus before brutalizing our peers (🧵): columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

“The University must make a commitment to never again weaponize campus access against the press, and especially its student press—no matter how severely events escalate.”

“It’s not defensible to tell press that you’ll to arrest them for doing nothing more than standing some place and reporting what the police are doing.”

My conversation with jelani cobb for CJR’s The Kicker.

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One of the many experiences of me and my fellow Columbia Daily Spectator reporters when hundreds of NYPD officers swept Columbia’s campus on Tuesday night.

columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

'It’s going to be one of those moments where people ask, 'Where were you when …?' And we’re all going to have to have an answer.'

An oral history of protest and discipline at Columbia in the words of those living it.

Read Columbia Daily Spectator and New York Magazine.

columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…

Our latest: a breakdown of how counter protestors attacked the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA, setting off violence that remained unchecked for hours. Paywall free link:

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