A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.”

✨So, SO excited for this one: I got to profile the queen of romcoms, the queen of YA, one of my favorite authors of all time: The legend Meg Cabot, for The Conversationalist conversationalist.org/2023/02/14/pro…

I wrote about why people are obsessed with being seen as a "good person" even if they buy Hogwarts Legacy vox.com/the-goods/2359…

The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

New by me —> Alden Global Capital makes for a better Hollywood villain — but the scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is simply astonishing. Staff size is down 59% in 4 years. At its biggest local papers, paid readers are down 77%. niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-sc…

WHAT….

This is why we MUST support our local news outlets!!! Riveting story with so many twists and details. And photos! Perfect headline, perfect length (LONG) — just a phenomenal job all around: mlive.com/news/saginaw-b…

'RRR's' 'Naatu Naatu' made Oscars history. But South Asian dancers feel betrayed latimes.com/entertainment-…

Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much nyti.ms/3VREJu3

third culture this, child of immigrants that, identity through food this, cultural preservation that……wrote about a new era of night markets for Eater LA so happy I got to work with Virali Dave on this la.eater.com/2023/6/1/23745…

W/ the end of COVID child care funding near, we thought hard about how we wanted to tell this story. We settled on showing the fallout of a closure on 1 center, 1 community, 1 group of parents. The projections are 70,000 closures in the next few months. 19thnews.org/2023/08/child-…

What gets me f*cked up is that fact that these "nontraditional media forms" are not new kinds of media! TikTok news anchors literally make our stories their video backgrounds Social media's profit model is using our work and not to paying us for it. It's a rip-off engine.

Looking to hire a great journalist? Looking to find a great media job? Check out this initiative from Meera Pattni over at Semafor. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

To the professional journos I've engaged with the past few days: I'm a journalist, not a source. I have lots of DMs from journos asking what I saw at CCNY yesterday but few replies from editors who want to pay for my work.

Last fall, my now 100-year-old great aunt mailed me an envelope that sent me on a journey through the life of my cousin, Jeffrey Bomser, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989 six months after the death of his brother Larry and two days after I was born. esquire.com/news-politics/…

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