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Former interactive news editor, current public health student, on maternity break. Always a New Yorker at heart.
Articles by Jacqui Maher
I Finally Became a Doctor. So Why Didn’t I Feel 'Free'?
A recent Doximity poll conducted in collaboration with Every Cure surveyed 40 practicing dermatologists on their familiarity with Olmsted syndrome, a rare genetic skin disorder, and erlotinib, an EGFR inhibitor with emerging case-based evidence as a targeted treatment. The poll identified important knowledge gaps in both recognition of Olmsted syndrome and awareness of erlotinib as a potential treatment.
Mixed America’s Family Trees
The United States is in the midst of a demographic shift. Driven by immigration and intermarriage, multiracial and multiethnic Americans — usually grouped together as “mixed-race” — are one of the country’s fastest growing demographic groups. Examine the mixed-race family trees submitted by readers and listen to them describe their families, then submit your own. In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here.
A Bot to Find the Source of Serendipity
“not in the face but in the intestine” Just before Thanksgiving last year, a new novelty Twitter account gained notice in our newsroom. @NYTMinusContext, promising “All Tweets Verbatim From New York Times Content. Not Affiliated with New York Times.” tweeted fragments from Times articles that you might not think twice about while reading in article format. Isolated, though, these phrases, like the ones I picked above, can be absurd, surprising, and delightful.
An Introduction to Haute Couture, In Numbers
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An Introduction to Haute Couture, In Numbers
Of the 15 official couture maisons, 13 are showing during Autumn/Winter 2017 Couture Week.
Software Engineer (Chinese speaker)
Condé Nast International publishes Vogue, Wired, Ars Technica, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Gq, and many other leading brands. We're in China Japan, Taiwan, India, Russia, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, the UK and Mexico. In total we run 64 websites for about 220 million monthly uniques. We're profitable, privately owned and committed to constantly reinventing ourselves at the tender age of 107.
Notable 2012 Front Pages From The New York Times
Pages can be sorted by theme or reader-submitted keywords. Submit your own reaction to the news and share your favorites after selecting a page. The iEconomy Series Debuts Jan. 22 State of the Union Jan. 25 A Tableau of Sorrow Feb. 9 Middle-Class Entitlements Feb. 12 A Chain of Kidney Transplants Feb.
2015-2016: What was that? (Part VI)
Towards the end of Part II, I wrote about “the only American I’ve met at the BBC in London so far,” my first week on the job. That remains true, 14+ months later. I described getting inducted into a building and not having a desk. I mentioned my boss, the then Head of News Labs, leaving on a jet plane leaving me to my own devices to, uh, get some devices, most importantly a laptop.
London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics
The Interactive News team at The New York Times took on the challenge of covering the Summer Games in London last year. Our efforts began with three of us meeting in the newsroom to scope out the project, and it kept going right up to the completely amazing and bonkers closing ceremony in London, a year and a half later.
2015-2016: What was that? (Part I)
It’s Wednesday, the 20th of January in the year 2016. I’m sitting at a pub — The King William IV — on the corner of the charming lane I live on in Hampstead, northwest London. Some friends are going to show up soon to try and win the weekly pub quiz with me, and I want to write about my experiences in the “mirrorworld” before they get here. So fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gents and everyone else. Since I have a lot to cover and not a lot of time, I’ll stick to the highlights, month by month.
Surreal Patriotism
I’ll never forget the day that New York was quiet. My cellphone was quiet, the air was still, my mouth, stunningly, was quiet. Everyone looked up, down, left, right. Where do you look when it’s so quiet? I remember watching televisions — they only made the still air more surreal. I was hungry, yet I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t even have a drink. I went outside, in the surreal air, on 57th Street. It was really quiet except for a news radio station playing from a man’s open van.
Show an affirming flame
Tonight I go to sleep with thoughts and prayers for the people of Paris, whether they’re natives or newly there for a safer, better life. Auden once wrote: “Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.” Don’t give into negativity, don’t despair. Keep your chin up.
Hive: Open-Source Crowdsourcing Framework
In our last blog post we introduced you to Madison, a crowdsourcing project where readers provide data on the historical ads within our archives. Madison required a system that could keep track of our tasks, users and candidate ads; combine the three to create assignments, based on which ads and users are eligible for that task; and validate the crowdsourced data we receive according to custom criteria.
A Bot to Find the Source of Serendipity
“not in the face but in the intestine” Just before Thanksgiving last year, a new novelty Twitter account gained notice in our newsroom. @NYTMinusContext, promising “All Tweets Verbatim From New York Times Content. Not Affiliated with New York Times.” tweeted fragments from Times articles that you might not think twice about while reading in article format. Isolated, though, these phrases, like the ones I picked above, can be absurd, surprising, and delightful.
A Preach-Off
Dear Diary: On a recent Thursday morning, I was late for work after running what turned out to be a set of fool’s errands. I boarded the B train at Atlantic, only to find myself face to face with a doomsayer, a gaunt woman in her 60s dressed head to toe in black. A scarf completely covered her head. She gesticulated to the passengers, the sky, to me: We were all going to burn in hell for being New Yorkers.
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