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More talk—plus action. Vera Chan's a pop-cult technologist wading into data, tech & random acts. #binders

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It’s been 35 years since Daisy Heath vanished from her family’s home in rural Washington. Find out how a small newspaper is raising awareness about this and other unsolved disappearances of Indigenous women.

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@60Minutes2 May 2021
“They were a guerilla disease fighting operation,” says Michael Lewis about “the Wolverines,” a group of seven doctors that, early in the pandemic, urged states to implement safety measures because they believed the federal government was failing to do so. cbsn.ws/3nHjE4m

7 doctors urged states to implement safety measure early in pandemic

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Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. THE PREMONITION. On Sale Tuesday, May 4. michaellewiswrites.com
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Andrew Harnik@andyharnik7 Jan 2021
Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., helps ATF police officers clean up debris and personal belongings strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) @ap
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A #data #journalism project on missing women in Mexico, led by @iartetam of @Pajaropolitico, wins @Microsoft @KnightCenterUT contest for training and funding knightcenter.utexas.edu/data…
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@NPR18 Sep 2020
BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who charted a course for women’s rights at the U.S. Supreme Court and became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, has died from complications from cancer. She was 87. trib.al/K3Pgt3C
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Lorna Rose@LornaARose3 Sep 2020
Glass Castle x This Much Country. Lorna deals w news of her dad's bigamy by disappearing into a world of drinking & promiscuity. 10 yrs later she departs 2 work trail crew in AK. But will swinging pickaxes & learning 2 camp heal her? PNWA finalist, pubbed exrpts. #PitMad #Mem
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Nana Howton@NHWriter13 Sep 2020
Lisbon, 1497: An 11 y.o. girl wonders about her brother’s whereabouts. Everyone else thinks he perished at sea. She hears of Vasco da Gama's voyage 2 find a sea path to India, disguises as a boy & stows away on VG’s ship hoping to find her lost brother. Book 1 of 3. #PitMad #MG
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POLICE K9 ATTACKS SON; 4YO BOY HAS LEG AMPUTATED A family fights to cope after their personal tragedy makes national headlines. I’LL WALK WITH YOU is the story of child who refuses to walk again and a mother who refuses to let hope be severed. #pitmad #mem #a #insp #dis #nf
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Let the MIND Games begin! The MIND team challenges you to imagine unique ways to rank news articles that align with user interests. Download the training dataset to test algorithms until August 20, 2020. Competition begins Aug 21 & offers $20K in prizes: aka.ms/AA91teh

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@NPR14 Apr 2020
A small team at Johns Hopkins University created what's become one of the most authoritative online dashboards tracking COVID-19 data around the world. Here's how they did it 👇 trib.al/zNbcJOm
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Mediabistro
@Mediabistro15 Apr 2020
Remote job: Calling all experienced editors and managers! IBT Media is looking for an Editor-in-Chief for their Medical Daily website. mbist.ro/2RAQNQv #remotejob
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94.9 KLTY@949KLTY21 Mar 2020
94.9 KLTY's @BonnieOnAir was amazed by the Italians singing from their windows. 🇮🇹 So... with her friend, Danzel, she & her fellow residents in Downtown Dallas started something pretty inspiring too! 😄💕 #LeanOnMe #SpeakLove #TeamKLTY
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Tomorrow in LA: Connect with the members of the ONA Women's Leadership Accelerator and hear from a panel of #digitalwomenleaders, including @FastTalkingD, @laurahertzfeld and @sona. 6:30pm at @microsoftnews. bit.ly/2Terfd6 #ONAWLA
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News reporting grantee winners: ‘I’ve developed other skills that make me a 21st-century journalist’ msft.it/6019TbrSX
Reporter Verah Okeyo talks with Kenyans

ALT Reporter Verah Okeyo talks with Kenyans

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#JAMAForum: A community’s design affects the health of its inhabitants—for better or worse. Several approaches are emerging as avenues to promote action on place-based health equity. newsatjama.jama.com/2019/12/…
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District council elections in Hong Kong on Sunday drew record-setting crowds of voters to polling places. The city was calm: Democracy advocates appeared focused on participating in one of the few elections that China allows in the territory. nyti.ms/2KNOztF

Record Turnout in Hong Kong Vote After Months of Protests and Rising Violence (Published 2019)

The citywide district council election, normally a quiet, local affair, is seen as a referendum on the demonstrations.

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Even Researchers Were Shocked By How Tough Life Is For Sanitation Workers n.pr/2rUfpcX
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Replying to @WHO @ilo @wateraid @WorldBank @WHO_Europe @WHOAFRO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @DrTedros
Sanitation workers provide an essential public service that is key to safeguarding human health. They are often the most marginalised, poor and discriminated-against members of society, carrying out their jobs with no equipment, protection or legal rights bit.ly/3550Jpp
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Millions of sanitation workers in the developing world are forced to work in conditions that endanger their health and lives, and violate their dignity and human rights: Joint WHO/@ilo/@wateraid/@WorldBank report ahead of #WorldToiletDay 👉bit.ly/3550Jpp
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