Journalist, editor, ex-Associated Press, ex-Washington Post.
Joined February 2014
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Paul Schemm retweeted
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
So I join the ranks of the WashPost laid off, including so much of the international staff, my Russia-Ukraine department has been gutted and some of the best people fired. What serious paper doesn't cover that conflict?
Paul Schemm retweeted
For nearly a century, @washingtonpost foreign correspondents have been on the frontlines of wars, pandemics, economic crises, civil uprisings and so much more. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch and share.
@JeffBezos #SaveThePost
In the expansion of the Post’s foreign coverage under @jeffbezos, I was hired as an editor and I’ve worked with nearly all of their foreign correspondents in my job to help their work shine. It would be a waste to scrap this brilliant network, one of the few left. #SaveThePost
I had the immense pleasure to work with @reemakkad Satwik Gade and Hanna Good on this visual presentation of the dark and wild story of the koh-i-noor, the diamond that has become too controversial to appear in crowns of Britain’s queens anymore.
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For Indians – as well as Pakistanis, Iranians and even Afghans – the diamond’s continuing home in London makes it a symbol of what Britain stole from them in the colonial period.
Paul Schemm retweeted
Far be it from me tell my American friends how to vote, but I find the following rule useful: If a party has attempted to overthrow an election because they didn’t like the result, don’t reward them by giving them a result they’ll like.
By the great @leloveluck , a piece I had a chance to edit about how crystal meth is hitting Basra and other Iraqi cities (coming in from Iran of all places).
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Intriguing look at another aspect of climate change, the Lebanese have to start eating different kinds of fish as the sea warms by @SarahDadouch
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Iraq's present could well be our future, excellent work by my colleague @leloveluck
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Paul Schemm retweeted
Egypt’s historic houseboats are demolished as Cairo is remade. “There is a very clear approach from the government that doesn’t see any kind of value in the heritage, any kind of value in the city memory.” @HebaFarooq @PaulSchemm washingtonpost.com/world/202…
