Editor in Chief of The New York Times Magazine; formerly at Texas Monthly; author of Nothing Happened and Then It Did; Oakland grown.
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A truly great run. Bravo @mwollan. Take a bow.
Nearly every week for seven years I called up a stranger and asked that person to describe how to do something. I sought out advice on animals and empathy, on birth and death, on pratfalls and skipping stones. This is my last @NYTmag Tip column.
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Jake Silverstein retweeted
Frederick Douglass: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man w/o at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Juneteenth doesn’t mark the emancipation of the enslaved, but emancipation of the US. We shld all rejoice & work twd our mutual liberation.
This weekend’s @NYTmag cover is a deeply-reported story by @emilybazelon on debates among providers within the field of transgender health care over how to treat teenagers. nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magaz…
Emily spent 8 months on this piece, and interviewed and quoted many transgender providers who have a variety of perspectives, as well as cisgender providers who have spent their careers in gender-affirming care.
This is not a piece about that. It’s about debates over best practices happening among health care providers who do support social and medical transition for minors.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., transgender rights & health care have come under intense attack, with Republican state legislatures passing laws to bar access to basic treatment for youth.
The Standards were last updated 10 yrs ago, & a lot has changed in the field since. Some of those changes are reflected in the debates Emily writes about.
The Standards are important. They influence the positions taken by major medical groups and the coverage offered by health insurers and national health services around the world. They also help guide individual practitioners.
Emily focused on the process that a group of practitioners went through to write an update to the “Standards of Care,” a set of guidelines issued by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health.
Great thread from @emilybazelon introducing her new story, an important one that’s on the cover of this weekend’s @NYTmag
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Thrilled that the @nytimes coverage of airstrikes in Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan has been awarded a Pulitzer in international reporting. So proud of @AzmatZahra, @David_Philipps @EricSchmittNYT & the many reporters & editors who worked so hard on this important coverage!!!
Jake Silverstein retweeted
I kind of choked with the speech last night—bright lights big city!—so let me take a sec to express my gratitude. I know how rare it is to receive support for a story like this: about everyday people using everyday strategies to survive a huge historical crisis…
.@FluentMundo won in Essays & Criticism for her piece abt going dancing in NYC after first lockdowns let up, a gorgeous meditation on loneliness and the magic of social dance that had evaporated from our lives during the pandemic. (props to Maridelis Morales Rosado for the pics)
Jake Silverstein retweeted
The story I wrote on the fall of Kabul won a National Magazine Award last night! It was a team effort: congrats to @jimhuylebroek @WaliAriann @SafiPadshah @jacoob1994 & eds @sashagila @billwasik @jakesilverstein. High-fives to fellow @NYTmag winners @FluentMundo and @AzmatZahra
Jake Silverstein retweeted
Genuinely so honored @ASME1963 recognized the Civilian Casualty Files. It meant everything to have editors like @jakesilverstein, @ByLukeMitchell, @mattbpurdy & Paul Fishleder supporting me — and to meet people like @basimrazzo and Katbeah Ahmed, who changed my world. Indebted 🙏
.@AzmatZahra's five-year investigation on the human toll of America's air strikes in the Middle East has won the @ASME1963 National Magazine Award in the Public Interest category. nyti.ms/3KgsoZw
Last night @NYTMag won three National Magazine Awards!!! 🏆🏆🏆 Incredibly proud of the writers, photographers and mag staff who put in the work for these honors.
2021 was a tough year for doing this kind of collaborative work. I’m so grateful to work w/ writers & photographers as talented as these & for my incredible colleagues at @NYTMag, whose innumerable acts of quiet editorial devotion & brilliance make all this work as good as it is
And nothing but admiration and kudos for all the other winners and finalists last night. This was the first in-person @ASME1963 ceremony since 2019! It was moving and exciting to see IRL the folks who’ve been doing all the truly great magazine work of the past two years remotely