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Alexis Sobel Fitts

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Caroline Kitchener@CAKitchener27 Mar 2023
At least 20 million AR-15s are stored and stashed across the country ~13.7 million of those have been manufactured since Newtown in 2012 1 in 20 U.S. adults now owns one Spend some time with this powerful project, published today by The Washington Post.washingtonpost.com/nation/in…
The gun that divides a nation

The gun that divides a nation

The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the firearms industry and its allies.

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Drew Harwell@drewharwell14 Mar 2023
GPT-4 is having some of that classic first-day impostor syndrome
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Niha Masih@NihaMasih19 Nov 2022
Thrilled to win two @sajahq awards for some hugely consequential stories for India: the hacking and surveillance of the Bhima Koregaon activists and Facebook’s lack of safety protocols that fuelled hate speech and violence in India.
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Nitasha Tiku
@nitashatiku8 Aug 2022
Does the gig economy do best when the real economy is flailing? In their earnings calls, executives at Uber, Lyft, and Doordash said inflation was helping them recruit and retain struggling gig workers washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Inflation is helping gig companies like Uber and hurting their workers

Inflation is helping gig companies like Uber and hurting their workers

Drivers and freelancers with technology platforms struggle to keep up with rising costs.

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Meghan Hoyer@MeghanHoyer4 Aug 2022
Breaking News: The @wpdatateam is expanding, big time!! We started last year w/ 6 data journalists, added @jeremybmerrill & @eh_mah_nwel to our team and now have FOUR additional full-time positions for data reporters in wellness, business, climate + demographics/public policy 1/?
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Todd C. Frankel@tcfrankel3 Aug 2022
NEW: Kidneys accidentally tossed in the trash. A heart transplant recipient told he might die soon because his donor had brain cancer. Blood type mistakes leading to donated hearts, kidneys and lungs being rejected. from @LennyMBernstein and me washingtonpost.com/health/20…
70 deaths, many wasted organs are blamed on transplant system errors

70 deaths, many wasted organs are blamed on transplant system errors

The errors included failures to identify disease in donor kidneys, hearts and livers, as well as mix-ups in matching blood types and delays in blood and urine tests that were not completed before...

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Steven Rich@dataeditor3 Aug 2022
we're hiring for ANOTHER new job on the data team at @washingtonpost, this time a business data reporter! work with me! washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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Vicki Turk@VickiTurk2 Aug 2022
🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY🚨 Attention editors, this is an extra special one! @RestofWorld is looking for a Features Editor to work on our award-winning longform stories. Location is flexible. And you get to work with me! All the information you need is here: restofworld.org/about/hiring…
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Cat Zakrzewski
@Cat_Zakrzewski1 Aug 2022
“With DoorDash, I know where my food is. That should at least be the case for a life-saving organ.” The network for organ transplants relies on archaic software and crashes for hours at a time, @josephmenn and @LennyMBernstein report. washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Thousands of lives depend on a transplant network in need of ‘vast restructuring’

Thousands of lives depend on a transplant network in need of ‘vast restructuring’

The mechanics of the entire transplant system must be overhauled, a government review concluded, citing aged software, periodic system failures, mistakes in programming and over-reliance on manual...

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Will Oremus
@WillOremus29 Jul 2022
NEW: What, exactly, would have to go wrong for the Secret Service to lose agents' Jan. 6 phone data entirely by accident in a system update? The expert consensus: A *lot* — unless the data retention system was set up to fail in the first place. Our story: washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Secret Service’s ‘ludicrous’ deletion of Jan. 6 phone data baffles experts

Secret Service’s ‘ludicrous’ deletion of Jan. 6 phone data baffles experts

Experts are divided over whether the disappearance of phone data from around the time of the insurrection is a sign of incompetence or an intentional coverup.

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Margaret Sullivan
@Sulliview28 Jul 2022
How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax. ⁦@ElaheIzadi⁩ with the fascinating details behind the story washingtonpost.com/media/202…
How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax

How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax

The Indianapolis Star and the Columbus Dispatch broke the story of a 10-year-old girl who had to leave Ohio to get an abortion after Roe v. Wade fell.

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Carter Sherman@carter_sherman21 Jul 2022
One of my colleagues wrote about getting a vasectomy recently. His experience is on the left. Another Vice writer wrote in 2019 about getting her tubes tied. Her experience is on the right.
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Drew Harwell@drewharwell19 Jul 2022
Remote work is an equality issue: "In the U.S., remote job offers were more likely to be filled by people of color, people with disabilities & veterans … Around the world, candidates who accepted remote offers were more likely to be women" wapo.st/3crES4v @NaomiNixWrites
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Faiz Siddiqui
@faizsays10 Jul 2022
NEW: ‘Hit the kill switch’: How Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids around the world. A trove of 124,000 newly released documents show Kalanick's direct involvement in discussions around covert tools to stymie investigators washingtonpost.com/technolog…
‘Hit the kill switch’: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids

‘Hit the kill switch’: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids

Regulators entered Uber’s offices only to see computers go dark before their eyes as the company used covert tech to thwart government raids, leaked records show.

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Irin Carmon@irin9 Jul 2022
Was really moved listening to @Tatum_Hunter_ tell her story today w @AliVelshi. “Whether or not they choose to parent, they will experience the profound loss of autonomy and dignity that coerced pregnancy and birth always impose” is from the Dobbs dissent msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/s…
Stop ignoring the danger and heartbreak of birth mothers and all bodies who give birth

Stop ignoring the danger and heartbreak of birth mothers and all bodies who give birth

Journalists Irin Carmon and Tatum Hunter discuss the social stigmas and challenges faced by birth mothers, and how that contributes to sidelining their voices in the abortion debate. “Adoption...

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Tatum Hunter@Tatum_Hunter_2 Jul 2022
When I got pregnant as a teen, I couldn’t get an abortion without parental permission. I relinquished my son, and my adoption was possibly the ideal-est ever -- open and loving. But that didn't keep me safe from other people's cruelty or my own grief. 🧵 wapo.st/3IbSRHz
Perspective | As a teen, I parted with my baby, but adoption wasn’t the end of my story

Perspective | As a teen, I parted with my baby, but adoption wasn’t the end of my story

Birthmothers and their trauma are too often left out of the abortion debate.

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Cat Zakrzewski
@Cat_Zakrzewski3 Jul 2022
NEW: The data privacy risks associated with abortion aren’t hypothetical. Cases in Mississippi and Indiana could preview how digital evidence could be used post-Roe. w/ @pranshuverma_ and @ClaireParkerDC washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Texts, web searches about abortion have been used to prosecute women

Texts, web searches about abortion have been used to prosecute women

The data privacy risks associated with abortion aren’t hypothetical. Cases around the world show how a digital trail can become evidence.

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Tatum Hunter@Tatum_Hunter_29 Jun 2022
NEW exclusive from me ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ : Planned Parenthood left marketing trackers running on its search and scheduling pages that shared IP address — and, in some cases, selected method of abortion — with big tech companies. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
You scheduled an abortion. Planned Parenthood’s website could tell Facebook.

You scheduled an abortion. Planned Parenthood’s website could tell Facebook.

A data-privacy issue on Planned Parenthood’s website has experts wondering: Do people seeking abortions have any chance at covering their digital tracks?

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Cat Zakrzewski
@Cat_Zakrzewski28 Jun 2022
Exclusive: A new bill would enable workers to report sexual harassment and assault even if they signed a NDA. The legislation comes nearly 5 years after #MeToo exposed how confidentiality agreements can muzzle survivors. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
NDAs can muzzle sexual harassment victims. Congress could change that.

NDAs can muzzle sexual harassment victims. Congress could change that.

A new bipartisan bill would allow employees to speak out about sexual harassment even if they signed NDAs or confidentiality agreements.

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