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Executive Editor @YahooNews. Before: @NYDailyNews @amNewYork @Newsday @CBSNews. Also: Runner, traveler, reader. Believer that dogs are the best people.

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I head a new department at the Daily News focused on social media, community engagement, innovative digital storytelling, live coverage and newsroom convergence. I'm also an adjunct journalism professor at St. John's University. Past journalism lives at: Newsday, amNewYork, CBS News and the Village Voice.

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Cristina Mittermeier. La Grande Saggezza

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By Lauren Johnston Verified
| itinerarinellarte.it
Dal 14 luglio 2026 al 10 gennaio 2027, il Castello di Brescia, nello spazio espositivo del Museo del Risorgimento Leonessa d'Italia, nel Grande Miglio, ospita la mostra di Cristina Mittermeier (Città del Messico, 1966) dal titolo La Grande Saggezza, a cura di Lauren Johnston.
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I’d Always Wanted to See Cuba. Signing Up to Run 26.2 Miles Got Me There.

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By Lauren Johnston Verified
| Atlas Obscura Verified
Running the Marabana — Havana’s annual marathon — was never about the miles or the medal for me. It was the fulfillment of a decades-old promise I’d made to myself on a family vacation standing at the Southernmost Point of the Continental United States in Key West, Florida staring at a concrete buoy painted with an alluring message: “90 Miles to Cuba.” That signpost to an off-limits place just beyond the horizon stayed with me. I knew I’d find a way to go there someday.
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China’s Africa strategy is shifting and Iran conflict will speed it up

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By Lauren Johnston Verified
| The Nigerian Voice Verified
The global geoeconomic volatility wrought by the second Donald Trump US presidency and hostilities in the Middle East make the shift in China’s Africa strategy even more important for China and for Africa. China’s Africa strategy started to shift in 2019, towards investment. It is anchored in Hunan Province. The “Hunan Model” emerged because the “Angola Model” (building infrastructure and extracting resources) faced sustainability hurdles.
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