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AddThis Sharing Buttons above Written by Victoria Myers Illustrations by Desiree Nasim April 28th, 2016 In 1944, journalist Martha Gellhorn hid in the bathroom of a hospital ship crossing the English Channel and became the only woman to land on Normandy Beach. In 1945, she was one of the first journalists—male or female—to visit and…
Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr This photo of the San Juan River Utah is among dozens of thousands I’ve put up on Flickr. it might be collateral damage if Yahoo dies or fails to sell the service to a worthy buyer. Flickr is far from perfect, but it is also by far the best online…
After a series of recent hashtag campaigns — #MyYellowfaceStory, #MyBrownfaceStory, #whitewashedOUT — in which Asian Americans and others spoke out against the lack of Asian and Asian-American representation in film, theater, and books, a new campaign launched Thursday which is propelling the conversation to the next level. #StarringJohnCho is a social movement and social media…
The last time my mother and I had an actual conversation was on Mother’s Day 2014, when she told me that I shouldn’t have bothered calling her. Switching between Russian and heavily accented English, she said it was insulting for me to wish her well on this holiday when I hadn’t done anything to make…
Chances are the last time you ate at a Sbarro restaurant, you were at the mall. For many in Generations X and Y, the weekends meant window shopping at mall chain stores — KB Toys, Waldenbooks, Sam Goody, Aeropostale — and then hitting the Sbarro at the food court. What was significant about a restaurant…
A group of young black women poised to graduate from the United States Military Academy gathered on the steps of West Point’s oldest barracks last week in traditional gray dress uniforms, complete with sabers, for a group photo. Known as an “Old Corps” photograph because it mimics historical portraits, it was nearly identical to thousands…
Number of mothers in the U.S.: 43.5 million Percentage of people in the U.S. who celebrate Mother’s Day: 84 Percentage of private sector workers without access to paid family leave: 88 Number of weeks new parents can take off under New York’s recently passed paid leave law: 12 Average out-of-pocket cost per week to employees…
The profile of one Ben Rhodes running in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is not unsympathetic, which makes it all the more devastating. Perhaps the key sentence is this: “His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in…
A cache of internal documents shows that despite growing revenue, Palantir has lost top-tier clients, is struggling to stem staff departures, and has recorded cash collections at just a fraction of its customer bookings. A trove of internal documents and insider interviews has pulled back the curtain on one of Silicon Valley’s most secretive and highly-valued…
As I’ve spent the last several months looking for a full-time journalism job, I keep noticing something depressing. When you search job sites for “journalism,” “reporter” or other similar keywords, what you’ll find is a whole bunch of roles that have nothing to do directly with producing the news. For every one job result for…