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Georgia Journalist | @NYTimes @AtlCivicCircle | formerly @Florida_Today/@USAToday @stateaffairsGA @phnompenhpost @themessenger. @USC ‘14. Speaks: 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇫🇷

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Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon’s Biography

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Award winning journalist. Formerly with State Affairs - Georgia and Florida Today/USA Today Network. Features writes for the The Phnom Penh Post between 2015 and 2018 when the newspaper was bought out and lost editorial independence amid a wider crackdown on press freedom in Cambodia. Freelance bylines in the BBC, Aljazeera and South China Morning Post. Began work in Cambodia on a 2015-16 Princeton in Asia Fellowship.

USC Class of 2014. Full tuition scholarship.

Fluent in Italian and French, …

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon’s Journalist Portfolio

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Excited delirium: Rare and deadly syndrome or a condition to excuse deaths by police?

Excited delirium: Rare and deadly syndrome or a condition to excuse deaths by police?

Before he died last December, Gregory Lloyd Edwards, a 38-year-old U.S. Army veteran suffering from post-trau…

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A Turning Point for Cambodia's Tiles - New Naratif

A Turning Point for Cambodia's Tiles - New Naratif

He’d been the cornerstone of encaustic cement tile-making in Cambodia for decades, but 78-year-old Heng Srun …

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Coronavirus: As Florida re-opens, COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul

Coronavirus: As Florida re-opens, COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul

Late last Friday, the architect and manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard — praised by White House official…

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What's in the censored Florida Medical Examiners database of COVID-19 deaths?

What's in the censored Florida Medical Examiners database of COVID-19 deaths?

The Florida Department of Health has blocked the Medical Examiners Commission from releasing their own detail…

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Laos dam collapse: are innocent villagers paying for government's ambition?

Laos dam collapse: are innocent villagers paying for government's ambition?

As surging waters swallowed the ground floor of Vee Keoheuy's home, she hoisted herself out the window onto a…

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The European populists monitoring 'sham' elections

The European populists monitoring 'sham' elections

A group of European populist and nationalist politicians descended upon Cambodia last weekend to observe nati…

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Most council members skipped the public’s only budget hearing, as Atlantans demand more money for parks, not police

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By Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon 
| Atlanta Civic Circle
Last year, just one person spoke at Atlanta’s one and only budget hearing dedicated to public comment.
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Proposed changes could make Atlanta City Council public comment less of a time suck

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By Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon 
| Atlanta Civic Circle
By the time it was Matthew Cullen McClellan’s turn to comment at an Atlanta City Council meeting last week, he’d spent nearly five hours at City Hall. That’s because he donated his two minutes of speaking time to Housing Justice League organizing director Matthew Nursey, forcing him to stay until it was Nursey’s turn to speak.
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Public outcry stalls proposal to replace Beltline light rail with bike, scooter lanes

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By Hailey Weiner, Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon 
| Atlanta Civic Circle
An Atlanta City Council resolution to install paved bike and scooter lanes on land earmarked for a promised tramline on the Beltline was tabled right before dozens of Atlantans spoke out against it at Monday’s city council meeting. At least 25 Atlantans spoke against District 8 Councilmember Mary Norwood’s proposal, introduced on May 3, while just one spoke in favor, during public comment at the May 18 meeting.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Reporter/sub-editor at the Phnom Penh Post, national section, covering the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Sloan Sabbath

Awards

Society of Publishers in Asia

2018 - Excellence in reporting Arts and Culture

International press award for newspapers based in Asia or covering the region. Winning submission: https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/crime-against-local-history-cambodias-lost-manuscripts "Judge's comment: This well-written and researched piece skillfully highlights how ignorance and the drive of profit is seeing the loss of unique written records of Cambodian history, religion and culture -- to the tourist trade."

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Sigma Data Journalism Awards

2020 - Young Journalist (shortlisted)

This award honors outstanding work done by a student or early-career professional aged 27 or younger at the time the work was created. Judges will consider the quality and innovation of data use, analysis, reporting and/or presentation. The work should have been solely or principally created by the entrant. A maximum of seven examples of work per entry will be considered. Entry: https://www.floridatoday.com/in-depth/news/2019/10/24/excited-delirium-custody-deaths-gregory-edwards-melbourne-taser/2374304001/

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