Diti Kohli
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Greater Boston used to be the kind of place where someone could buy a home with a working-class paycheck.
That is not true anymore.
For Spotlight, this is my story of a Watertown family, their multifamily home, and the fading dream of homeownership. 🧵
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Today, a man harassed me on the Green Line for several stops until someone stepped in and pretended to know me.
And let me say — that shit works.
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Shoutout to Anthony from Boston Conservatory, who ALSO waited with me until my stop for good measure 🚊
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He went with a very vague "Hey, it's been so long since I've seen you!" And when I hesitated, he said "two years, I think" and leaned in for a hug.
The simpler, the better, I think.
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Hello, personal news alert!
Almost two years after my first
@BostonGlobe
co-op interview, it’s officially official. I’m joining the staff as a business producer and reporter. *cue excited squeal*
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If you want your coffee from a unionized barista, try the Starbucks at 1304 Commonwealth Avenue or 277 Harvard Street.
The two cafes made it official today — a first for the coffee giant in Massachusetts.
@SBWorkersUnited
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Nothing more telling about the state of the T than getting stuck (and evacuated) on the Green Line extension — while reporting on the Green Line extension.
We stood still for an hour, then this…
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Two dozen Starbucks employees in Boston are part of growing coalition of workers looking to unionize the country’s largest coffeehouse chain.
“Our stores could be even stronger if the baristas on the ground — the people on the floor — had more say."
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When the Build Back Better Act fizzled in the Senate, the expanded child tax credit program — a crucial lifeline for million of families — disappeared.
This is the story of Rebecca Wood, her daughter, and the $250 that helped keep them afloat in 2021.
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Friday news dump: I’m getting promoted! 📰
Starting next month, I’ll be taking over as the
@BostonGlobe
business general assignment reporter. The new post will give me more time to write + report, as the wonderful
@DanaGerber6
takes on my digital producing responsibilities.
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NEW: Three Somerville coffee shops — Diesel Café, Bloc Café, and Forge Baking Company (
@DbfUnited
) — have ratified a union contract.
They're the 2nd ☕️☕️ chain in Boston and among the first nationwide to reach an agreement after organizing.
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In 2019, three Boston area housing authorities tweaked Section 8 vouchers so that they are worth more in pricier neighborhoods. The move has the potential to transform where people live in Mass. and shrink pockets of poverty.
It's already working. /1
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If you’re looking for a copy of the Sunday Globe, do not go to the Central Square 7/11. I quite literally bought them all 🥹
(📸:
@adriarwatson
)
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Months ago, I started asking Gen Z Bostonians if they see a sustainable financial future for themselves here. They painted a dismal picture of a city of cultural and academic prowess, pricing out the very people who make it hum.
These are their stories 🧵
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woke up and screamed about this lil front page byline today :’(
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hello world, guess who is officially a college graduate? me!!
thank you to
@emersoncollege
for making me move to boston and giving me a degree 🎓
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✨Personal news✨ I'll be spending my summer as an intern at the
@TB_Times
, and I am SO excited. Catch me actually getting sun for once.
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Today was my last day as an arts producer at the
@BostonGlobe
!
After an insane and exciting 18 months, I’m signing off to rest and read at home before moving to Tampa for the summer. Expect more work from me for the
@TB_Times
starting June 7 ✨ ✨
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In my first (!!) personal essay for the
@BostonGlobe
, I paid tribute to the joys of bhangra, my Indian-American identity, and my dad — just ahead of Father's Day.
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Spent the day with 9/11 families and cannot stop thinking about this quote (that didn’t make the coming story):
“To this day, we haven’t found the remains of my brother. So I believe he is in the sunsets, in the particles of the ozone. He makes the colors in the sunsets.”
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“When you’re sleeping, you should be able to expect to wake up,” a member of
@blackboston2020
said on
#BreonnaTaylor
.
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The dream: spend all night at a 24 hour diner, talk to hordes of drunk people, drink lots of coffee, and then write about it.
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a day late, but bye bye co-op <3
(i’m very happy to be staying on as a freelancer though, so i will still be here to annoy you with tweets promoting my stories)
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In an interesting turn of events, I am
@BeaconUpdate
’s new editor-in-Chief. Forever grateful to
@byChrisVan
for the work he put into this paper.
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New: Boston finally has someone on the hook for life after dark.
Corean Reynolds, formerly of the
@bostonfdn
, will soon step in as the director of nightlife economy, a new cabinet position under Wu aimed at making the late-night scene more vibrant.
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One day, you’re taking your first journalism class.
And before you know it, you’re gabbing about dress codes with Tim Gunn at your alma mater.
Sometimes, life is very cool 👔
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In Sept., the
@BostonGlobe
sent 12 reporters (including me) to the corners of the country. Our winding road back home was a constellation of joy and grief, full of fascinating stories.
"Two Weeks In America" debuts this weekend. Here's a peek:
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Seems like a good time to point out that, like a lot of local outlets,
@mndailynews
is absolutely killing it. Covering all the campus angles with multiple reporters on the ground. Student journalism at its FINEST.
A link to some of their work in the thread:
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Mayor Wu has joined the picket line with striking
@BostonSBWU
workers on Comm Ave.
“It doesn’t work for our families ... when the burdens and the costs that are going up come on the backs of our workers with unsafe conditions or hours that are cut."
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huge girlboss energy in the newsroom today, since every person here is a woman in her early 20s
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For college students, dorms are closed. Commencement is cancelled. And Zoom has taken over. So some are reconstructing campus and holding graduation on Minecraft (I'm not kidding).
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Y’all, I chatted up the guy next to me on the plane reading the Globe a few minutes ago — and didn’t tell him immediately I work there.
He said he had read this story and liked it. (“Fascinating.”)
Best. Feeling. Ever.
In 2019, three Boston area housing authorities tweaked Section 8 vouchers so that they are worth more in pricier neighborhoods. The move has the potential to transform where people live in Mass. and shrink pockets of poverty.
It's already working. /1
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On Friday, I spent hours going through
@realDonaldTrump
’s twitter to find out how many of his tweets had been labeled as misleading. (Hint: it’s 35.9%)
On Saturday, that stat was on the front page of the
@BostonGlobe
.
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Outside the Boston Opera House this beautiful afternoon watching the
@BostonBallet
dancers film the Waltz of the Flowers while wearing street clothes and masks🩰
@BostonGlobe
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A lil late, but I’m at the Count Every Vote rally in the Boston Common. I’ll be tweeting here 🐦
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Sure, the president has coronavirus. But these live events workers are fighting for extended unemployment benefits today by march from the Citizens Opera House to the Boch Center.
I’ll be tweeting in the thread.
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A few weeks ago, someone called Boston “a liberal city whose nightlife is imprisoned in a chastity belt.”
I documented the citywide effort to scrap that buttoned-down reputation and make Boston after hours swankier, sexier, and more diverse.
My latest:
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Prices for Stop & Shop crinkle-cut French fries were 90 cents more in Jamaica Plain than in Dedham. Bubba’s hamburgers? $17.99, compared to $13.99.
A great
@tianarochon
on grocery cost gaps and the teens that uncovered it all:
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last year today, i went into the boston globe for my first day and did my little typey-type in my blue turtleneck 🥺🥺🥺
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I interviewed Guy Fieri, the king of Flavortown, about his upcoming restaurant on Tremont Street and his favorite Boston restaurants. 🔥🕶
(Hint: his
#1
pick is in Eastie.)
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Cambridge is in the midst of creating protected bike lanes on 25 miles of roadway that includes all of Mass. Ave. But the ambitious plan has spurred a raucous public spat between business owners and transit advocates.
My latest for
@BostonGlobe
🧵
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Hello from Missouri!
I’m making the long, slow drive back to Boston with
@emmaplatoff
to document America and Americans for
@BostonGlobe
. Please send food/music recs + thoughts on interesting places and people in this quadrant of the US 🇺🇸
I’ll be tweeting along the way.
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I’m headed to India to see my grandparents, eat street food, and smother my cousins’ babies with love.
Expect no journalism tweets (only chaos) until Jan. 4 👋🏼
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in a world where my name is often mispronounced, i can’t believe the uber voice is always spot-on
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You're not imagining it: The residential neighborhoods of Boston — Allston and Hyde Park, for example — are on the up-and-up from the pandemic, while downtown lags behind.
The proof is in the data, and in my
@BostonGlobe
story here 🧵:
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shoutout to the taco bell parking lot where i ate a quesarito and wrote 800 words on this holy friday night
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An unassuming strip mall in Hadley is now a hotbed of union activity — home to the first organized Trader Joe’s, Barnes & Noble, and Michaels.
If you’re wondering how this happened in a place better known for asparagus farms, here’s your answer:
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journo request: how does everyone keep track of their sources? i always just rummage through my emails, which doesn't seem like the best strategy
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I can FINALLY participate in this end-of-the-year thread nonsense. Indulge me only because I'm proud of the 250+ stories I wrote for the
@BostonGlobe
and
@BeaconUpdate
in 2020, which was otherwise a dumpster fire.
Here are 10 favorites. 🧵🧵🧵
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hey, that’s me!
Amazing coach
@tomthuang
does it again. He selected 15 all-stars for a competitive program designed to showcase BIPOC views.
Introducing
@Poynter
's newest Power of Diverse Voices class 🥳
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In big-time coffee news, workers at three Somerville cafes have moved to unionize ☕️☕️☕️
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yes, i am a (socially-distanced) wedding. yes, it’s for work. yes, i used it as an excuse to dress up.
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fyi i’ve spent the last three days just nerding out in amsterdam
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Reporters at
@HuntNewsNU
have not been able to interview President Joseph Aoun since 2013. This week, they took to social media to hold Northeastern administration accountable.
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every time there is good bookstore news, an angel is born
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always nice to pick up a weekend paper and see your own name on the front 🥺
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If anyone was wondering, Ginsburg is still spelled wrong on the marquee...
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this is service journalism
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the two harvard students next to me at tatte are plotting their romantic futures like elle in legally blonde
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I never wanted to learn any cooking — especially Indian cooking — as a teenager. But this AAPI Heritage Month, I wrote about returning to the kitchen with my mom (virtually) and finding my way home.
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On Comm. Avenue, Starbucks workers (
@BostonSBWU
) and community members have executed a nearly month-long, 24/7 strike — in defiance of alleged union-busting and a manager they say is racist and homophobic.
Here's a look at one day, from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
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Took a peek at the e-edition this morning, and my name is on the front🥺🥺
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👩🎓 ✅
who wants to take bets on whether or not emerson says my name right during graduation today?
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just remembering dec 2019 when i bought this tapestry not knowing it would become the background of my entire zoom existence
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talked about my mom! on TV!
Like many who leave home,
@BostonGlobe
business reporter
@ditikohli_
found herself missing the dishes she grew up with.
Over Facetime, Kohli found her way back to her roots, and her mother, through pickled mangoes and samosas with afternoon chai.
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I'll end this thread by noting that several studies show bike lanes have either positive or non-significant impacts on businesses. Of course, that doesn't mean that Cambridge store owners — just now emerging from COVID losses — will believe that.
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~a little personal news again~
Very happy to say I'll be back at
@BeaconUpdate
in the fall as managing editor, covering all things Emerson once again and working with the most wonderful people!
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Northeastern senior AJ Addae (
@ajiswriting
) wrote a powerful blackout poem using words from the college's statement last week. I spoke with her about writing, social media, and her future in medicine.
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literally bought the biggest mirror i could find, and for what reason??
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The debut episode of our new video series, BoZton, is out!
This project was a labor of love, a different kind of storytelling that hoped to bring the voices of young people to the paper. I'm biased — but it's worth the watch 🥹
We get it. The hunt for Boston apartments can be a nightmare. In Episode 1 of the BoZton video series, Globe reporter
@ditikohli_
tagged along as three 20-something Bostonians looked for a place to call home.
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Before Boston went quiet last week, I reported on the culture of sexual harassment that has persisted at Berklee College of Music.
Students took to social media to voice their experiences with three professors. My story here: (1/3)
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I spent a wonderful weekend at
@poynter
, meeting loads of talented journalists and the other half of the Huang brothers (
@tomthuang
)
10/10, no notes ✍️
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makeshift office outside a suburban dunkin’ to make a phone call i cannot reschedule 🙃
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I could not be more excited to share that I'll be working full-time as the living arts co-op for the
@BostonGlobe
come January! That said, send your ~culture-related~ tips and queries my way.
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playing a dangerous game called how much money can i spend in coolidge corner today
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