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Benjamin Gottlieb

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Covers:  investigative reporting, los angeles city and county government, los angeles county, socioeconomics, internet freedom, south asia, environment, long-form features, california politics, israeli politics, education, breaking news, sustainability, higher education, israeli palestinian conflict, globalization, south america, middle east, social media trends, southern california, crime, southeast asia, religion and politics, web design, seo
podcasts @SoFi | professor @LoyolaMarymount | past @kcrw + @kcet | obnoxious LA sports fan | hubby to @sarahparvini
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Double killing in Exposition Park leaves friends and family reeling

Double killing in Exposition Park leaves friends and family reeling

The Los Angeles Times — "There was blood everywhere, on the steps and everything," said Medina, 20. "I looked and saw my friend just twitching. I felt his heart, I hugged him, and he was gone."
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Silence, fear after 15-year old girl is shot to death

Silence, fear after 15-year old girl is shot to death

The Los Angeles Times — Fifteen-year-old Saray Rivas was shot and killed in a part of Los Angeles where residents are afraid to talk, where silence eats up questions about immigration status, gang violence and even murder.
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Growing beef trade hits India's sacred cow

Growing beef trade hits India's sacred cow

CNN — For the last 15 years, Ashoo Mongia and his team of 120 Delhi-based volunteers have thrown themselves in a battle that pits India's billon-dollar meat industry and growing underground beef trade against Hindu traditionalists keen on preserving the holy status of cows.
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Hong Kong's poorest living in 'coffin homes'

Hong Kong's poorest living in 'coffin homes'

CNN — Hong Kong (CNN) -- Hidden amid the multi-million dollar high-rise apartments and chic shopping malls of Hong Kong's urban centers are scores of tiny, unseen tenements -- some no bigger than coffins -- that many people call home.
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Crops out of concrete: Farming Hong Kong's urban island

Crops out of concrete: Farming Hong Kong's urban island

CNN — On the roof of a 21-story office building in Hong Kong's eastern district sits a grassy patch of hope that agriculture can thrive even in one of the world's most congested spaces.
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Iran preparing internal version of Internet

Iran preparing internal version of Internet

Washington Post — The Iranian government, determined to limit Western influence and defend itself against cyberattacks, appears to have laid the technical foundations for a national online network that would be detached from the Internet and permit tighter control over the flow of information.
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Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history

Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history

Washington Post — Now in her mid-70s, Amelia Singh Netervala is part of the nation's thinning Punjabi-Mexican population, an identity forged out of historical necessity and made possible by uncanny cultural parallels.
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In India, non-Hindu parents face adoption prejudice

In India, non-Hindu parents face adoption prejudice

DAWN — Structured, regulated adoption is a relatively new phenomenon in India, and for many years the law governing adoption discriminated against Muslims and Christians.
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When a Jain Marries a Bengali: An Indian Love Story That Defied Tradition

When a Jain Marries a Bengali: An Indian Love Story That Defied Tradition

NPR's On Being — Ashok Jain's parents beat him mercilessly after he told them he married a Hindu woman.
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