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Congrats to Carolina Abbott Galvão for publishing this fascinating story in The Dial magazine, thanks to a connection she made with editor Mara Wilson at the Columbia Journalism School Freelance Fair: www.thedial.world/articles/new... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @thedialmag.bsky.social

"Gaza resembles one huge cemetery where time is obliterated and there is no longer any distinction between past, present, and future. All I can think of is how to escape." @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

"We were so accustomed to watching the news and seeing images of buildings being destroyed, of dead bodies, of blood, but they were always in the Arab world. Now, the same thing was happening in the heart of the United States." www.thedial.world/articles/new... @thedialmag.bsky.social

"Why was America doing all this?" Looking at America from Gaza. By Muhammad al-Zaqzouq for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Layoffs at CBS, NBC, and Teen Vogue show a shift in newsroom priorities away from the promises of 2020: @riddhisetty.bsky.social for @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Guantánamo's Secret History — Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to use the military base to incarcerate migrants. www.thedial.world/articles/new... @thedialmag.bsky.social

Kenya’s Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights - Anthony Langat for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

“Am I Now in Exile?” Fleeing Bukele, by El Faro journalists for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The feature focuses on how Canaan, Haiti's residents built their city brick by brick following the nation's 2010 apocalyptic earthquake, only to experience the fall of their nation. Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/

Kenya Police Harass Human Rights Watch Staff Member: www.hrw.org/news/2025/08... @hrw.org

Israel has now killed at least 184 journalists in Palestine--at least 26 deliberately. For @columjournreview.bsky.social, here's what nearly two dozen journalists and human rights experts say we must do: www.cjr.org/feature/urge... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @azmatzahra.bsky.social

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence - For @hammerandhope.bsky.social Nanjala Nyabola chronicles Kenyan President @williamruto.bsky.social murderous regime: hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

I'm honored to be awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2025 Forward Award! Check out the other recipients uwalumni.com/about/alumni... and read my write-up here: uwalumni.com/news/jacob-k... @wisalumni.bsky.social @uwsjmc.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social

URGENT: My good friend of 20 years, the journalist @alecluhn.bsky.social , is missing. Friends in Norway: please reach out to anyone you know who was hiking Ullensvang on the northern edge of Folgefonna since last week. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

As Kenya’s protests intensified, two friends bled on opposite sides. By @khoureld.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... "Young Kenyans continue to risk their lives in protests over corruption and police brutality. Others are being recruited as “goons” to menace the protesters."

Misplaced Bodies and Mishandled Funds: recent Columbia Journalism graduate @tanyaraghu.bsky.social on the Repatriation of Deceased Immigrants, for @documentedny.bsky.social

For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social ‬

"Understanding the costs of a war should be an obligation of every citizen of every state that wages one.” -Azmat Khan, This Alabaster Grave, a new photobook by Cengiz Yar on life, death, and humanity in Mosul, Iraq. @azmatzahra.bsky.social @cengizyar.com www.cengizyar.com/book/this-al...

"It’s not uncommon now to find African students in China sharing Nigerian jollof or Ethiopian injera while discussing Beijing’s censorship of the internet." China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders @lattif.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

‘You Leave with Nothing’: Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision. Read this urgent piece by my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (now alumna 👩‍🎓) Béatrice Vallières: documentedny.com/2025/06/05/h...

1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books. Congrats to my mentor, and colleague, Sam Freedman on an incredible career. Great writeup by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

The Human Zoo — In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals. www.thedial.world/articles/new... “Indeed, one might be shocked to see this African safari on French soil." @thedialmag.bsky.social

"In Pinellas County, Florida, a man on trial for killing an attorney told a judge he needed more time to find legal representation." @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/2025/05/week...

Even better: Check out the competition! I'm in good company, with incredible reporting by Ryan Brown for @thedialmag.bsky.social Dana Hourany on Lebanon's lost villages, & Forbidden Stories for investigating Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza. @oneworldmedia.bsky.social haiti.longlead.com

Honored to be shortlisted for the One World Media Print Award for my 8-year Haiti investigation, An Unnatural Disaster, along with photographer Allison Shelley & editor Pooja Bhatia! Haiti.longlead.com @longlead.com with support from the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @oneworldmedia.bsky.social

One year ago today: I published my book, Look Away, about a plot to rid Germany of immigrants. Sadly, in the U.S. and across the world, it's as timely now as ever before. bit.ly/LookAwayBook @grandcentralpub.bsky.social

Congrats to my former journalism student, 2025 Wolff Fellowship recipient Cat Carroll, who will spend the next year reporting on global migration in seven different countries: ls.wisc.edu/news/tracing... @cgcarroll.bsky.social @uwethics.bsky.social attn. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

Happening now! New York's mayoral candidates being grilled by our Columbia Journalism students *Watch it live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_T... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

Officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/w... @lattif.bsky.social

2/2 And congratulations to Dial contributors @jacobkushner.bsky.social and Clair MacDougall who were also longlisted for the Print Award for their work in The Long Lead and New Lines Magazine. See the full list: oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/longl...

Chilling. Heartbreaking. Finding Shadi: A Syrian Father’s 12-Year Search for His Missing Son. @bcsolomon.bsky.social for @wsj.com www.wsj.com/video/series...

Honored that our #Haiti story was just longlisted for a One World Media award: oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/longl... Read it: AN UNNATURAL DISASTER Haiti.longlead.com with @longlead.com @pulitzercenter.bsky.social #OWMAwards2025

Trump’s App Shutdown Is a Gift to Mexico’s Cartels @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social for @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o... Patricia Evangelista for @nytimes.com

Our statement on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and threats to the first amendment freedoms of our students: @columbiajournalism.bsky.social bit.ly/4kzwTkE

Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w... @lattif.bsky.social

"The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who gained prominence amid that campus’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations has divided the American Jewish community." Yeah, @nytimes.com, we were all aligned on pretty much everything as of late. Until now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/n...

Columbia "rolled over again, with interim president Katrina Armstrong declaring that they are 'committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns,'" writes @katz.theracket.news "The disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil is a trial run": theracket.news/p/the-disapp...

Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/w... @lattif.bsky.social for @nytimes.com attn. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

“The AfD doubled its result … and has become the country’s second-strongest party. One reason for its success … was the CDU’s decision to embrace harsher immigration policies: If you take on the far right’s talking points, you legitimize them.” @thedialmag.bsky.social mailchi.mp/30d64c989aa9...

Best rundown of Germany’s election this week: @thedialmag.bsky.social mailchi.mp/30d64c989aa9... “Merz criticized those who had turned up to protest right-wing extremism, calling them “left and green nutcases.” The left, he said, “is over.”)

Today in Tucson—speaking with journalism students about international reporting, freelancing, pitching, grad school and more! @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

Rape under wraps: Match Group has known since 2016 about abusive users on its dozen dating apps, but leaves millions of people in the dark. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social

With just days to go until Germany's snap election, I went on the Radio Free Mike podcast to talk about my new book, Look Away, and the resurgence of Germany's anti-immigrant far right: open.substack.com/pub/michaels... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ab...

Kenya’s Empty Promises on Protecting Women: The country has demanded an end to misogynist violence—and the government has failed to deliver. @allanolingo.bsky.social and Kamau Maichuhie for @foreignpolicy.com @fullerproject.org foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/31/k...

“Now I’m in the greatest country in the world,” Sajjad said, dazed from not sleeping. The policeman laughed. At the Gates of Fortress Europe: Caitlin Chandler for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Putin’s passport trap: The Cubans caught in Moscow’s endless war www.politico.eu/article/puti... @evahartog.bsky.social for @politico.eu

"My philosophy is whoever becomes the leader you just follow them — that’s the core principle of any democracy.” Yes--that's the textbook definition of autocracy. I mean, democracy. Amanda Sperber for The Dial, in DC: www.thedial.world/articles/sta... @thedialmag.bsky.social

"The new U.S. president may have campaigned on “America First,” closed borders and mass deportations, but the game of Trump’s America, this event seemed to announce, is for anyone who wants to play." Amanda Sperber for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/sta...