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The Anniversary Of A Texas Tornado – Seema Yasmin – Medium
This essay about the Dallas tornado outbreak of December 26, 2015 won the Mayborn literary non-fiction essay award and originally appeared in the journal Ten Spurs. When I came back from Africa, my house was gone. I knew it wouldn’t be there.
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An Exploration Of Fear – Seema Yasmin – Medium
On Tuesdays, I do four scary things before 4 p.m. First, I balance on a bike and cycle through the streets of Palo Alto onto Stanford’s campus. I sing in front of a voice teacher and vocalists. I play piano to a room full of pianists.
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Epidemics Of Misinformation And Why We Should Stop Oversimplifying Things
I used to be a disease detective for the federal government. In fact, that’s the job that enticed me to leave my work as a hospital doctor in east London and move to America.
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Covering An Epidemic Is Like Covering Conflict: Why Science Reporters Should Be Trained Like War…
Should science reporters be trained like war correspondents? For the last seven months I’ve been exploring misinformation and ways to improve the state of science journalism. But my interviews with reporters from all over the world leads me to worry about the state of science journalists.
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A Survival Kit For Journalists Of Color
You left because the editors shut down your pitches. Or because they said yes but never ran those columns, the ones you felt most passionate about, the stories of the El Salvadorian women who folded dough into triangles to send their daughters to private school, the young African American lawyer fighting police brutality cases.
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