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Art Director

new york city
Joined January 2010
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Status News hosted a freedom of the press-themed WHCD kickoff party in DC, and I designed the invite:
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Designed this limited edition shirt for Status News, which coincides with the WHCD. 50% of proceeds will be donated to the legal defense fund of @rcfp, who provide pro-bono support to journalists facing legal threats for doing their jobs.
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The Ben Folds Five is my favo(u)rite band! cc @JenHeuer @jenhillustrator 🛒
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Some new illustrations / logo treatment from me in this great investigation series:
#CaspianCabals, an ICIJ-led investigation with 20+ media partners, is based on tens of thousands of pages of confidential emails, oil industry records, court documents and regulatory filings and hundreds of interviews. Coming to you this evening! Sign up: buff.ly/3AQhEBP
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hire Roger! Hire him now!
Just lost my job to AI! ✌️ Anyone looking for a full stack principal engineer with 20+ years of experience, multiple publications, and a let's-make-it-happen attitude?
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How much does Venmo hate you having privacy? So much that they wouldn’t allow private contacts despite constant complaints until finally in 2021 @RMac18 used public Friends to find Joe Biden’s personal account, and finally Venmo caved buzzfeednews.com/article/rya…
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Palestinians walk out of the rubble, covered in dust after the Israeli attack on Abu Aisha family house in Deir al Balah, Gaza on June 14, 2024. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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* a lone trumpet plays a somber, minor key version of "Old Town Road" *
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Perplexity’s knock off of our reporting feels like a crystallization of the "Can journalism survive AI?" convo. The company took our paywalled work, without our permission, and competitively broadcast it across web, video, mobile — as though it were itself a media outlet.
Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by @perplexity_ai . It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views. #zeroclick forbes.com/sites/sarahemerso…
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Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by @perplexity_ai . It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views. #zeroclick forbes.com/sites/sarahemerso…
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Our new EP, “Vox Humana” is out now! 5 songs about the human condition through the filter of 00’s indie! open.spotify.com/album/2URCX…
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I messaged Adolfo as soon as I saw this news, but let me just say publicly that media organizations making dumb moves is not news, sadly, but laying off Adolfo in an election year is among the dumber moves out there. He is an incredible reporter and a good person. Hire him.
I was among those laid off from the @WSJ along with @ailworth, @cmaiduc, @acaldwellwsj, @ShannonNajma, @bkesling, @SuryatapaB, and @TalalNAnsari. Grateful for those who trusted me with their stories and for my amazing colleagues. Not sure what’s next, but I'm excited to find out.
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BREAKING: Netanyahu says the air strike in Rafah on Sunday was "a tragic mistake" and adds that it will be investigated
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Mixed Signals already in the charts ... subscribe here: link.chtbl.com/6X2V2kxZ
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Worked with the talented @tinasmithdesign on this update to the Bridgerton glossary for @NetflixTudum: netflix.com/tudum/articles/b…
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"@markseibel tells stories" were always the most delightful times in the BFN newsroom
Happy retirement to @markseibel, a brilliant, exacting editor whose chaotic energy matched my own and never thought twice about launching me (young, inexperienced & female) into a wild national security beat. Wish all reporters were as lucky!Now let’s bully him to write a memoir
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Holy shit this is bleak
Oh my god an Etsy seller used the NYTimes front page with the list of 100k Covid deaths for home decor
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