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Reading this in a calmer state and I'm grateful to Neel Dhanesha. Somehow he managed to get it all down. Or in? I will say that I fricking LOVE my job at Vermont Public. But I feel like this interview got what I care about, and that's hard. And I'm grateful. niemanlab.org/2024/04/rumble…

I got to talk to Erica Heilman for my job, which was a bit of a dream. niemanlab.org/2024/04/rumble…

Wrote a quick little ditty about Sequencer Magazine, which I am very excited about!
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now Neel Dhanesha's first story for Nieman Lab is up!!

it's about Proof News, Julia Angwin's new attempt to bring the scientific method to journalism:

niemanlab.org/2024/03/proof-…

A group of smaller digital-only publications (Raw Story, AlterNet, and The Intercept) is charting a new legal strategy against AI developers like OpenAI

first story from @niemanlab's generative AI staff writer Andrew Deck 🔎
niemanlab.org/2024/03/the-in…

We’re crushed by the state of the industry, and want to hear from those who’ve experienced a layoff or buyout.

If that’s you, please join the 150+ journalists who’ve shared their experiences w/ The Institute for Independent Journalists + Nieman Reports and take our 5-minute-long survey.niemanreports.org/articles/impac…

🚨 SOURCE REQUEST: I’m working on a Nieman Lab story about journalists who have experienced layoffs and website shutdowns. How did you archive your work? What did it mean for your beat? Did it impact your job search?

Email me: [email protected] or DM me for Signal. Thanks! 🙏🏽

Emerging from the depths with a bit of personnel news

We’re looking for a reporter to cover the companies, technologies, and VCs at the forefront of the energy transition for Heatmap News: heatmap.news/heatmap-is-hir…

How is this COP agreement, the so-called 'stocktake,' any different from any other COP agreement? Neel Dhanesha gets answers to all the questions you may have but were too afraid to ask. heatmap.news/climate/cop28-…

How can one be a citizen of the US—thus complicit in this absolute horror—without losing one’s mind or faith in humanity. I truly don’t know. I’m struggling.

rebecca's work is a blueprint for so many of us climate journos. whoever hires her is lucky!!!!

'This 'disaster' created a greenway through the middle of the city. Now you can actually get to the airport.'

Read Neel Dhanesha's interview with Ian Coss on Boston's unfairly maligned Big Dig:

heatmap.news/climate/interv…

In 2023, with democracy in crisis in the U.S., how do you kill a show that uncovers the inner workings of a judicial body that's quickly transforming how people live, love, work, vote and even what they are allowed to do with their own bodies?

Solidarity with all of my former colleagues at WNYC 🎙. If you care about public media at all (and you should! it is a thing of wonder!), please sign the petition.

It’s a familiar story: a big corporation moves into a small town, buys up property, and vehemently fights to stop any local policy that hurts its bottom line. Except the company in this case isn’t a major automaker or an oil conglomerate, it’s Burning Man: grist.org/culture/burnin…

I have been impatiently waiting for this to come out, and now that it has I urge you to go read it immediately. Shannon put so much thought and care into reporting this vitally important story.

On the 1 year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, I recommend that if homeowners do nothing else this year, they should consider getting a home energy audit. You can get a $150 tax credit for it!

...and many other tips in here!
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Everyone involved in this newspaper raid is going to regret awakening the interest of journalists in Marion County affairs