Co-founder + Co-CEO @Hidden_Compass. Photog + journalist. Won some awards. Atty/FPD/TFA. Red Cross volunteer. https://xitter.cf/t.co/RNDGDG9R77
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined July 2009
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CALL FOR PITCHES! We're looking for photo features for upcoming issues of @Hidden_Compass.
Contributor Guidelines: bit.ly/40Di7yq
Pay: $800 + 50% of campaign proceeds
Send pitches/submissions to: [email protected]
#callforpitches #callforsubmissions #PitchMe
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An estimated 500K people live in thousands of colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Largely built between the 1950s and 1980s, these communities have been promised water — but it has never come. via @alereports @TexasTribune
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On #WorldPressFreedomDay, and every day, we at Hidden Compass honor the critical work of journalists and acknowledge the risks they take. Here are 3 ways you can engage in the global conversation, celebrate freedom of the press, and help further progress.
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🔴 #RSFIndex RSF unveils the 2023 World Press Freedom Index:
1: Norway 🇳🇴
2: Ireland 🇮🇪
3: Denmark 🇩🇰
24: France 🇫🇷
26: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
45: United States 🇺🇸
68: Japan 🇯🇵
92: Brazil 🇧🇷
161: India 🇮🇳
136: Algeria 🇩🇿
179: China 🇨🇳
180: North Korea 🇰🇵
rsf.org/en/index
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Our friend @WayfaringSiv (of @Hidden_Compass) is full of insight. A personal favorite is “Look behind you”.
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“Ultimately, our work is disruptive because we honor the intelligence of our readers.”
I gave an interview to @AuthorityMgzine about @Hidden_Compass, being a #startup founder, and what I learned from bedbugs in a French château.
Check out this interview with co-founder @WayfaringSiv for @AuthorityMgzine, where she discusses disrupting the journalism industry, and the business lessons of bed bugs:
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🎉We’re now accepting proposals for our 2024 Pathfinder Prize: $15,000 to fund your expedition. Begin the voyage at hiddencompass.net/pathfinder…. #PathfinderPrize #CallForProposals
Hidden Compass is now accepting proposals for the 2024 #PathfinderPrize! Think you deserve to win $15k to fund your dream expedition? Learn more and submit your proposal by July 20, 2023. hiddencompass.net/pathfinder…
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Writing Puzzle #66
Below is a description of a pepper grinder on Amazon.
Your challenge: Rewrite it to make it either a) more clear, or b) more... strange.
ALT A product description for a Pepper Mill with the highlighted portion "Only use pepper in this Pepper Mill: Peugeot's mechanisms are not interchangeable as they are designed for each specific spice to best express its organoleptic wealth, its singularity, and its imagination.
I put together a “polar regions” photo gallery for my friends at Ethical Traveler. Check it out! And while you're there, take a look at their report on the most ethical travel destinations of 2023 — it's an excellent resource! ethicaltraveler.org/gallerie…
This is how I started my morning, and I don’t regret it.
If you let unopened mail pile up, sorry: you have an extreme fear of the unknown and are only marginally equipped to navigate adult life.
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On a road trip, the library rides shotgun. 😁 Bound for Big Bend to co-lead a couple of night photography workshops!
Originally published in @Hidden_Compass!
Have your read our Solas Award Grand Prize Gold Winning essay “The Weight of Paradise” from Cherene Sherrard? You’ll love it! travelerstales.com/the-weigh… #WritingCommmunity #TravelWriting #Oahu #Hawaii
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All of Evan’s reporting is now free to read. wsj.com/news/author/evan-ger…
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The fact that *no* U.S. President attended any of the seven coronations since 1789 tells you everything you need to know about the right-wing outrage machine.
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Wise words: The American journalist arrested by Russia is not an ‘alleged spy.’ He is a hostage, until proven otherwise, writes @jrezaian.
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“Today, Twitter feels more expired than evil.”
An Elegy for the Old Twitter - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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A federal judge has ruled that Llano County officials must again offer books they previously removed from the public library system and allow them to be checked out again.
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So excited for our first-ever #PathfinderPrize winners to head to Greenland in just a few days! Here’s a little thread on the man who inspired their expedition. And if you want to become an @Hidden_Compass Pathfinder, stay tuned! The proposal window opens in late April.
Over the past weeks, we’ve been getting better acquainted with the #PathfinderPrize team behind “In Tété’s Footsteps: A Cultural Expedition in Greenland.” But what about the man who inspired the journey? (1/3)
