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was: arts & culture editor @columbiaspec @nbcnews @hawaiinewsnow via @DJNF ‘23 | @nahj | @politico PJI ‘24 | words: @ajenglish @hyperallergic
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I’m freelancing for a bit post-grad! Circulating my contact information for tips. Open to all tips, particularly ones that are immigration, culture, and Latino interest related. Chat with me on signal at
isa farfan.93 or email isabellanicole100 (at) gmail (dot) com!
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Reporting live from my own graduation. After Barnard’s student speaker delivered a pro-Palestinian commencement address, the emcee said those views do not reflect those of the college and that they the college respects “free speech.”
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“Long live Hind’s Hall, every fascist state will fall,” a vehicle projects after police blocked initial attempts for the vehicle to park on Amsterdam.
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More on Columbia journalists //Outside media was only allowed on campus for TWO HOURS a day. Student journalists were on the clock 24/7. And even while covering their peers, these journalists upheld high journalistic standards.
@ColumbiaSpec
taught me everything I know.
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Students began singing “we shall not be moved,” a union song of the Civil Rights Movement, to boos from the parent section and shouts of “bring them home.”
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Food trucks normally catering to students, now serving the NYPD after the university called for police presence until at least May 17.
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I’m proud of my mentors, colleagues, and the reporters I had the privilege of training who are doing amazing, consequential reporting.
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Original reporting: Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) has a 70 person arts team who made the banners that hung from the occupied Hind’s hall.
“generations from now they're going to look back on it and put in history textbooks,” a CUAD artist tells me.
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Hundreds of students rose and turned their back to President Rosenbury as she made remarks to introduce the class of 2024.
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In other news, I graduated college this week with a degree in Political Science and English with minors in Columbia Daily Spectator and steaming milk at The Hungarian Pastry Shop. I’m looking to connect with NYC based journalists. If that’s you, I’d love to meet for a coffee, DM!
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A long-standing tradition at Columbia is the night before finals “primal scream.” At midnight, students held an impromptu scream in front of Minouche Shafik’s residence. Finals were postponed until next week, but originally scheduled to begin tomorrow.
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Someone told me the other day that whatever “useless” training you have in life will come in handy. My dad told me I was swaying in a bachata rhythm in my live report. Real.
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For context, isapizza60 is the internet name my parents allowed me to create when I was 10.
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Alumni of Columbia University and Barnard College announced in a press release today that they will be redirecting donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency, Palestinian Children’s Fund, and World Central Kitchen. They will also boycott reunions. Full press release here:
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Columbia College Dean Sorett sent this email to students, quoting Marin Luther King “Where do we go from here: chaos or community?”
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Cops arrested human chain blocking bus of arrested protesters. Arrested protester passively resisting and screaming.
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Maui’s Latino community contends with destruction, grief and immigration fears after fires. My first bilingual reporting and first for
@NBCNews
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A student from CUAD, SJP, and JVP shared a photo with me of the CUAD arts team painting the banners that hung from the occupied Hamilton Hall.
“our country claims to prioritize free speech above all else and the speech what is being written is not hateful speech,” they said.
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These are the incredible
@ColumbiaSpec
journalists
@SheaVance22
@ishabanerjee20
reporting on the scene of Columbia’s “primal scream” turned protest— a moment in the semester that usually marks the start finals, supposed to start tmrw. Finals have been postponed until next Friday.
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I'm excited to join
@politico
as part of the Politico Journalism Institute's 2024 class based in NYC later this month! I can't wait.
We are pleased to announce the POLITICO Journalism Institute's 2024 class! This class comes from 15 public and private colleges and universities, as well as two high school participants.
Join us in welcoming this new wave of emerging journalists👇
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In my final words for
@ColumbiaSpec
, I wrote about my dad (and forgot to submit my acknowledgements on time). Thank you
@bella_druckman
@iriesentner
@NSheidlower
@ccemorse
@00mlet
and many more 🧵
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Operators of a projection van are testing on St. John’s Cathedral for a light show “on behalf of Palestine” on Hamilton Hall in about 15 minutes.
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Students remain in place in front of the occupied Hamilton Hall, singing. This is the same building hundreds of students occupied in 1968 in protest of the Vietnam War and a gym proposed to be built in Morningside Park.
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Increasing police presence.
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Despite telling us that Rosenbury would not be shaking hands, she is. Some students are walking straight by.
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In an email sent this morning to Barnard students, President Rosenbury writes, “NYPD is not on our campus, but we do permit them to use the restrooms on the first floor of Barnard Hall and the lower level of Milstein.”
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For
@AJEnglish
, I spoke to nine international student protesters at Columbia, three international student journalists at UCLA, and three civil rights experts about the immigration risks these students face for their pro-Palestinian activism.
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ok but when i say this is my first award EVER, it literally is. I did not get student of the month (ever lol) growing up. I am so proud of this article and my personal progress.
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Columbia student arts groups performing in the solidarity encampment on day 4.
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It appears police have prevented the van from parking.
Operators of a projection van are testing on St. John’s Cathedral for a light show “on behalf of Palestine” on Hamilton Hall in about 15 minutes.
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These are the protesters arrested outside of campus— before police spotted entering Hamilton.
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Approaching 4 a.m. “This does not end tonight,” an organizer is telling the crowd.
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Barnard has canceled handshakes as graduates walk the stage this year.
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A man is carried, under arrest. Numbers are climbing. My estimate is about two dozen right now. These are people NOT on campus.
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About 70-100 protesters are in the new Columbia encampment, according to someone inside. This weekend is alumni weekend, and they say alumni are engaging in the encampment.
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Are you an international student at a U.S. college? I'm looking to speak to students about how their immigration status impacts involvement in campus protests right now (as a freelancer for NBC News). Email isabellanicole100
@gmail
.com and I can share my secure contact info!
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Today I finished my ten-day digital media residency program at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism for
@DJNF
before heading to
@HawaiiNewsNow
. Thank you
@mrconnect
for leading an amazing program and I’m so amazed by all the young journalists I’ve met here.
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What happened to the banners from the Columbia encampments? After weeks of my inquiry and demands from artists for the return of their work, Columbia committed to returning all protest art stored in the archives. Read what I found for
@hyperallergic
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At Barnard grad rehearsal. Flags “of particular note” are banned, per Radio City Hall rules, because “flags come in a variety of sizes that may block view.”
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A trash bag full of zip ties after 108 Columbia students were arrested.
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Visiting my family in the Andes and we discovered this protest in the Plaza Mayor de Cusco, Peru. An organizer told me this group, Cusco con Palestina, is here every Thurs. "La República" reported an altercation between Israeli tourists and protesters last month, caught on video.
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I see police climbing into Hamilton Hall via a latter outside the window. Awaiting confirmation that they have actually entered.
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i wrote maggie haberman’s thank you note, this is my most important byline
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wrote this for
@theeyemag
about my sister, art, and what it means to have taste and be an interesting person.
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Booing from the parents section for individual students walking across stage with Palestinian flag.
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grandma handed me a bag of my childhood “art.” all the other kids drew pictures of our family. I wrote a daily newspaper that i printed and distributed.
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Sixth day on the job and I got to speak to Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, who is also the highest-ranking Korean American in a U.S. statewide position. Stay tuned!
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First food reporting for HNN!
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I am so honored! ❤️📰
In a day of ... craziness in the media world, definitely refreshing seeing so many
@ColumbiaSpec
articles winning at SPJ, including
@isapizza60
's excellent story on Celsius.
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Hours since the news of university-wide commencement cancellation, President Rosenbury announced the Barnard commencement speaker, former president of Brown University Ruth Simmons. Full email:
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spec may pay me $1.47 per hour but that’s still $1.47 more than bwog pays its staffers
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So excited to be part of the DJNF class of 2023!
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@floppedpoet
i received a 658 word criticism from an unpaid editorial internship when I applied telling me everything from my writing was bad, my coding, and my expertise of the city wasn’t good enough. for an unpaid internship after i wrote an entire web article as part of the application.
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Police headed toward campus through the blocks-long “frozen zone.”
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For a reporting project I am looking to speak to international students from ANY college in the U.S. on F or J Visas who have been involved in campus protests. DM me or email me at isabellanicole100
@gmail
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Columbia student protesters appear to be setting up an occupation in Hamilton Hall.
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Barnard and Columbia under shelter in place orders. Officer confirming to me they’re entering now. Large correction buses arriving.
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By day, Z From Baltimore works at the Honolulu airport. But after work, he is a poet, activist, author, emcee, and now, three-time Grand Slam Champion.
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The university distributed the sheet below this morning, telling students to disperse by 2 p.m. today or face interim suspension. On interim suspension, students who remain on the West Lawn will be trespassing.
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@mitchellreports
@ryanobles
@ahylton26
@PattersonNBC
@RepEspaillat
@peterbakernyt
@alivitali
@BrendanBuck
@JoyceWhiteVance
@LawProfButler
@rafsanchez
@RepSchneider
@Yamiche
@MSNBC
Ok maybe it’s time to not have Isapizza as my Twitter handle
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Correction: the finals scheduled for tomorrow are rescheduled for May 10.
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Today, the U.S. repatriated seven Korean soldiers killed at the Battle of Chosin in 1950 back to South Korea. Only one of the sets of remains was identified, and 73 years later, his nephew came to Pearl Harbor to claim his remains. Here are some photos I took today:
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THREE columbia dining halls playing “If I Were a Boy” in the span of two days. WHAT IS UP??!!!
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New York Playbook:
Schumer gets boo'ed, while Republicans like Lawler who are in tight election battles view their party’s pro-Israel posture as a winning message,
@isapizza60
and
@_amiramckee
report in New York Playbook:
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Tents allowed up now, and admitted students engaging in alternative programming as part of the “people’s university for Palestine.”
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I just typed Peal Harbor in a text message and it auto corrected to Barbie
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Pro-Palestinian students occupy a building at Columbia University, breaking windows and barricading doors in protest escalation
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Pouhana ʻO Nā Wāhine is the nation's first federally funded Native Hawaiian resource center on domestic violence. Director and survivor Dr. Dayna Schultz is behind it. Read her story here:
Original reporting, writing, and data vis (from state reports).
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Oh that horrible first photo is me accepting edits at graduation lol.
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what does this say about me
It’s so cute seeing pictures of ppl as children & u can just tell they’ve always had the same personality
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And congrats to ME
@androo_park
for his well-deserved win for Data Visualization!
A&C editor
@isapizza60
's story on the underlying tensions between Barnard Dining and the student body, brought to the foreground by the promotion of the controversial energy drink Celsius, won the award for Food/Restaurant Journalism
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thinking about this woman in LA who approached me on a beach (it was my first time openly wearing a bikini) and said:
“you have such a nice shape, it’s really cute and refreshing.”
WHAT
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back in the town i failed my drivers test twice in. never forget where you came from.
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the only thing standing in between me and summer is 40 easy bib inputs
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leaving a tweet up that nobody has liked is a radical act of self love
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This Columbia University commencement is the hallmark of the relationship between Barnard and Columbia, which promises Barnard students degrees conferred by Columbia University.
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sorry i’m running late, just discovered Abby Lee Miller’s youtube channel
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@floppedpoet
my point being that these applications don’t judge your potential to learn. they judge if you already know what an internship is supposed to teach you.
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