A former Boston Globe & Reuters reporter who is now homeless gives a gutting, beautifully written, and clear-eyed firsthand account of what it's like to be homeless in America right now.
This is the best article you'll read today, easily. The ending is chilling.
#LongReads #Journalism #News #AmWriting #Housing #Homelessness
📢 Big News!
Today, we’re announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.
Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.
Read more in our announcement here:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/
For a full list of federated accounts to follow, visit the Flipboard directory:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
Follow our Mastodon accounts in Brazil and Germany to discover Flipboard accounts to follow and keep up with the day's news:
And as always, tell us in the comments what you think!
Readers who’ve written to cancel their #WashingtonPost subscriptions have cited its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate, but they have also cited what they see as the paper’s general decline.
"The best thing those readers can do is cancel their $139 annual #AmazonPrime subscriptions, if they have them, and invest that money in the #journalism they say they want and need."
Hey #believeinfilm friends,
Film photography took a back seat in the 2000s and 2010s because it couldn't compete with digital cameras' speed and convenience.
But does that still hold true in 2024?
Apparently, not. Miles Myerscough-Harris shot the Jests game on Portra, had it developed, and posted the results as the game continued.
I discuss this idea further on the blog: https://www.analog.cafe/comments/k676
What was the fastest film photo turnaround for you?
"how much the reporting of #Trump necessarily edits & parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect... presenting information in as intelligible a form as possible is what we are trained for. But the shock I felt hearing half an hour of unfiltered meanderings from [Trump] made me wonder whether the editing does our readers a disservice”
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_ohio_speech_bloodbath_media_broadcast_live.php
