Thanks University of California Press! ISRAEL's BLACK PANTHERS is off 40% until May 10 with discount code MAY40. Get your copy now! ucpress.edu/book/978052029…

When the next 990 forms, covering 2023 and the Oct. 7 aftermath, start to drop, there will be some real drama.

Congratulations to my Pulitzer-prize winning friend Christopher Neely!

BREAKING: Lookout Santa Cruz wins Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting buff.ly/3wov0Ty

Really enjoyed this piece but I’m also offended on behalf of Jenny Odell that she wasn’t mentioned in it. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

In collaboration with New York Magazine, Columbia Daily Spectator created the magazine’s new cover package, providing an intimate look at the crisis on the ground at Columbia University that has gripped the nation. Writing and photography was done entirely by our staff.

🔗: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Over a months-long investigation, across four districts, and interviews with over seventy people, Tusha Mittal found that the Sangh Parivar is waging a systematic campaign to erase all markers of Christianity in #UttarPradesh .
caravanmagazine.in/religion/the-u…

Thorough report on a generally ignored story: some US governments have recently begun investments or have increased the percentage of their investment portfolios in bonds issued by Israel.
jta.org/2024/05/01/uni…

Amid the university divestment fight, here's a story about a Palm Beach County official who put $700 million! of taxpayer money into Israel bonds, helping finance the war. Meet Joe Abruzzo, the man holding more Israel bonds than anyone else in the world. jta.org/2024/05/01/uni…

The liberal ethos that swept the U.S. Catholic Church is undergoing an immense change, with plummeting church attendance, increasingly conservative priests and young people searching for more tradition reshaping parishes across the country. apnews.com/article/cathol…

Editors: If you're looking to pay for words, images or video footage from inside the Columbia University protests, let me know and I'll connect you with some Columbia Journalism students who have been covering the story.

If you're a current Columbia Journalism student and need feedback on a pitch, advice on how to reach out to editors, or someone to talk through your reporting with, feel free to get in touch. I'll do whatever I can to help you sell your work.

Massive flag of Chabad's messiah faction being waved by counterprotestor at UCLA overnight.

The Russian government copy pasted Wikipedia to a new site, censored the articles, then banned the original Wikipedia. Head of new Russian government Wikipedia is the old admin of real Russian Wikipedia

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Prosecutors have accused a local irrigation official of masterminding the theft of $25 million worth of water. The story of one of the most audacious and long-running water heists in California history. Tremendous reporting by my colleague jessica garrison: latimes.com/california/sto…

Holy shit! Israel Black Panthers is a staff pick at the legendary Powell's Books in Portland! Thanks for spotting this Andrew Lapin

California is opening its first state park in nearly a decade, near the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers in the San Joaquin Valley: latimes.com/travel/story/2… via chris reynolds

BIG NEWS: ICYMI, a big New York State bipartisan breakthrough--a payroll tax credit for hiring reporters in NY. (NY lost 51% of its journalists since 2005) editorandpublisher.com/stories/new-yo…