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For @nysfocus / CJI Investigations, @ColumbiaJournMA alums and CJI fellows @WillowGHiggins (MA Politics '23) and @RyanKost (MA Politics '23) report that DAs promised to help wrongfully convicted New Yorkers - but, in many cases, they made things worse.

Listen to @WNYC's broadcast of @TheaterofWar's reading of @ColumbiaJournMA alum @iscoe (MA Science '22)'s @NewYorker story about the NYC trial over the death of Jordan Neely - featuring actors Chad Coleman, Arliss Howard, Amy Ryan and David Strathairn.

For @thewalrus, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @ItmeMihika (MA Arts and Culture '23) writes about how matchmakers in India now have competition from AI.

For @nytimes, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @HurtesSarah (MA Science '20) reports that despite attacks, an underground church in Nairobi for L.G.B.T.Q. Africans is thriving.

For @nytimes, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @Lattif (MA Politics '16) reports that some who left Lebanon in successive waves of emigration have felt drawn back to aid recovery efforts after the bloody and destructive war between Israel and Hezbollah.

@ColumbiaJournMA Arts and Culture Concentration professor David Hajdu's new book "The Uncanny Muse," which offers a survey of centuries of machines that have served as instruments of cultural change, is reviewed in @washingtonpost:

For @TheBrooklynRail, @ColumbiaJournMA class member @dibamohtasham (MA Arts and Culture '25) profiles actress Ava Lalezarzadeh, a cast member of Broadway's @roundaboutnyc production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "English."

Happy Publication Day to @ColumbiaJournMA Arts and Culture Concentration professor David Hajdu, whose new book "The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI" is out in stores today from @wwnorton!

For @washingtonpost, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @dino_grandoni (MA Science '15) reports that a new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world.

For @washingtonpost, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @caseyparks (MA Politics '18) reports on how the Trump administration’s early moves are the culmination of a nearly decade-old campaign to roll back transgender rights.

For @devex, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @sarajerving (MA Business '14) reports on how USAID's Washington D.C. headquarters has become a battleground.

For @nytimes, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @myaguarnieri (MA Politics '20) wrote about Montevideo, Uruguay's nearly 14-mile waterside promenade La Rambla, which serves as an outdoor living room for locals.

For @guardian, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @RebekahWh (MA Science '23) reported that stark before and after photographs reveal the sharp decline of Norway’s seabirds.

For @FortuneMagazine, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @erikafry (MA Politics '11) writes about how the drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers became a $557 billion industry that its customers love to hate.

For @WSJ, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @robertfoconnell (MA Arts and Culture '20) writes about how Russell Westbrook has become the NBA's biggest bargain.

For @ForeignPolicy, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @PoulsenRegin (MA Politics '20) writes about what Trump wants in Greenland.

For @BostonGlobe, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @shurufu (MA Business '22; Knight-Bagehot '22) reports that New England job seekers are finding that it's getting tougher to get hired.

For @nytimes, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @Lattif (MA Politics '16) reports that a new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers - and changing the stories told about the region.

RT @JacobKushner: If you’re in Nairobi and interested in becoming a journalist or deepening your skills, come to @BarazaMedia this Thursday…

Read in @columbiamag about Professor @SamuelGFreedman's legendary "Book Writing" seminar, in which several @ColumbiaJournMA alums, including @caseyparks (MA Politics '18), who is featured in the article, developed successful book projects.