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Editor-in-chief @ jcmonitor.com & ehmonitor.com. Past: @kashmirobserver, @nytimes, @citylab, @eartist_, @nationalcomment & more. Book #2 out June 2026.

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David Lepeska’s Biography

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Award-winning journalist and multi-media reporter, have published print, photo, video and radio stories from around the world for outlets as diverse as the NY Times, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic Cities, Next American City, Chicago magazine, New York Post, and others.

David Lepeska’s Journalist Portfolio

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Modi Wants to Bring Tourists Back to Kashmir

Modi Wants to Bring Tourists Back to Kashmir

India's government wants to turn the war-torn region into a renewed tourist hot spot, despite the lingering v…

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The Diary of a Ukrainian Filmmaker-Turned-Soldier

The Diary of a Ukrainian Filmmaker-Turned-Soldier

A cinematographer reflects on his time on the battlefield in Europe's biggest land war in decades

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Ukraine Embraces its Jewish Minority, Reckons with its Traumatic History

Ukraine Embraces its Jewish Minority, Reckons with its Traumatic History

After encircling the Soviet Red Army in late September 1941, Nazi forces captured Kyiv and promptly posted no…

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The unbearable sadness of being a Turk this summer

The unbearable sadness of being a Turk this summer

This summer, every day in Turkey seems to bring a new outrage. The latest is the wildfires that have ravaged …

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Turkey, Greece and the EU are all failing refugees

Turkey, Greece and the EU are all failing refugees

Few seas have seen as much drama as the Aegean. Start with Greek myth. Three millennia ago, Paris sailed home…

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Turkey's high-risk gamble in Afghanistan

Turkey's high-risk gamble in Afghanistan

It's easy to view the American-led war in Afghanistan as a disaster. Twenty years after US and Nato forces ar…

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Boulder among women’s prison site finalists

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| Boulder Monitor Verified
After assessing 10 locations, the Montana Department of Corrections views three places – Boulder, Deer Lodge, and Miles City – as its preferred options for its new women’s prison. Speaking to a legislative budgeting committee March 18, DOC Director Eric Strauss explained that, of the three, Deer Lodge may be the weakest choice, given that an ongoing expansion there would likely complicate further construction.
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More turnover at Basin’s shuttered school

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| Boulder Monitor Verified
Basin Elementary school board chair Shannon Phillips plans to step down from the post in May, citing an increasingly full workload. “A few months ago I accepted a new job position and it has taken more time and effort than I anticipated,” Phillips told The Monitor.
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Dave’s to turn lanes into roller rink

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| Boulder Monitor Verified
Dave’s 32 Oz. owner Michael Tolley is open to new ideas, so when a patron recently presented an intriguing proposal for the space that used to hold six bowling alleys, he jumped on board. “Somebody said ‘I’d like to put my roller skates on and go out there and enjoy’,” Tolley recalled.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

First paid position? Senior reporter for the Kashmir Observer, in Srinagar, Kashmir, India.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

For work? No. For fun/nostalgia? Yep.

How is social media changing news?

Almost impossible to answer right now, but we're in the early stages of an enormous shift in how people gather, disseminate and share news

Awards

Commonwealth Press Words & Images Award

2007 - Top Annual story in CPQ

The Commonwealth Press Union's Words & Images Award went annually to the best reported story in its now-defunct publication, Commonwealth Press Quarterly.

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