@karihow

Dream come true: I moved to London to work on enterprise for Reuters, but I still have Maine. (And I still love music, @niemanstory and @latimes.)

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This is so lovely. Thank you, Diana.
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What happens when you’re the fire chief of your hometown, Paradise, and you can’t stop it burning to the ground? “That fucked me up, for lack of a classy word.” A great story on firefighter trauma by @nedmparker1. reuters.com/investigates/spe…

Burnout: Firefighter trauma grows in the American West

As researchers document increasing mental health struggles, one firefighter saw his hometown of Paradise, California, burn down. He hasn’t been the same since.

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She once showed tourists around Mandalay. Now she's in the jungle with the rebels fighting the Myanmar junta, having her appendix out with a rough knife, while conscious. It hasn't healed. Stunning reporting by @poppymcp and @Shoon_Naing. reuters.com/investigates/spe…

Inside the clandestine rebellion against Myanmar’s junta

The young members of the resistance vow to fight the “final battle” to overthrow a government they say threatens to take them back to a darker past.

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The wonder of a Maine covered bridge in autumn.
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The bridge is a reproduction of the original, which was swept away in a flood.
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Also: weathered woodgrain and graffitied love and granting of wishes.
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“At night, in hungry darkness they would listen to the cascading rain. Life was damp. Until it wasn’t.” I loved working with @SEisenhammer on this chilling story about the Amazon and what its future means for all of us. reuters.com/investigates/spe…

The Amazon’s Little Tipping Points: Nearing a point of no return?

Reuters has tracked three decades-long observations of the region to give a real-world view of degradation once only predicted by computer simulations.

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For years, I’ve dreamed of editing a story on fire lookouts and their solitary, soulful life scanning the horizon for puffs of smoke. This absolutely lovely piece by @AlexandraUlmer is better than I ever imagined it could be. reuters.com/investigates/spe…

In love, but apart, as they fight fires in the American West

For one firefighting couple, climate change is raising temperatures and exacerbating drought, helping to create a hellish fire season.

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I feel like Maine has followed me to London. Seen on my street today - discombobulating and comforting at the same time. (First time seeing a canoe in London in nearly four years here.)
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I especially like the canoe juxtaposed against the lace curtains and the “Seventeen” etched in stone above the very formal door.
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“Goodfellas” meets “1984” (you read that right) in this wonderful interview with Alexsei Navalny from a gulag that’s both utterly sinister and full of dark humor. nytimes.com/2021/08/25/world…
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This is a drama about life and death and desperation to reach America, but what I love most about it is the redemption story. By @AlexandraUlmer and @kristinacooke. reut.rs/3AVwPnG

Inside a doomed migrant boat journey from Mexico to California

As the 40-foot cabin cruiser lurched for 12 hours on the Pacific on its dead-of-night journey to California from Tijuana, a Mexican migrant named Eberardo tried to keep the panicked passengers'...

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Twelve years ago, Tahir Luddin helped me escape from captivity after we were kidnapped by the Taliban. Now I am struggling to get his family out of Kabul. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Trying—and Failing—to Save the Family of the Afghan Who Saved Me

Twelve years ago, Tahir Luddin helped us both escape after we were kidnapped by the Taliban. Now I am struggling to get his family out of Kabul.

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An incredible thread from the head of Afghanistan’s central bank, on his last days in Kabul and his narrow escape.
Ajmal Ahmady@aahmady16 Aug 2021
1/The collapse of the Government in Afghanistan this past week was so swift and complete - it was disorienting and difficult to comprehend. This is how the events seemed to proceed from my perspective as Central Bank Governor.
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Ah, the coast of Maine...
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Am slightly obsessed with this image of a graceful fellow passenger - the sunglasses, the hat, the pinkie.
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Another great face on the schooner.
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When Nina was a teen, she got dolled up to meet boys in the town square. Instead, she stumbled onto a rare protest and was shot by Soviet troops. 60 years later, she's still afraid. An incredible yarn about Putin, Navalny and protest by @polinaivanovva. reuters.com/investigates/spe…

Navalny protests? Not in this Russian town haunted by 1962 massacre

Nearly 60 years after a bloody crackdown on dissent, some survivors are still afraid to talk about it – and wouldn't dream of sticking their necks out today.

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The massacre and its cover-up haunts her. She can’t stop being scared of a knock on the door. “You’ll leave,” she said, after I thanked her for the interview. “And then they’ll come for me, for a different reason. You understand?”
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Great line - we should have used it in the story!
Sakura Murakami@sakmurak20 Jul 2021
Replying to @sakmurak
This story is about what could have been, what is, and the little heartbreaks in between. Edited by @karihow
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