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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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I’d Always Wanted to See Cuba. Signing Up to Run 26.2 Miles Got Me There.

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| 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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| 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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China’s new tariff-free regime for Africa: the potential upside and downside

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| Modern Ghana Verified
China's President Xi Jinping announced in February 2026 that from 1 May China would be granting zero-tariff treatment to 53 African countries. (That is all of them bar Eswatini, which supports Taiwan.) China-Africa trade reached US$348 billion in 2025, up 17.7% from 2024. Chinese exports to Africa dominate trade flows, and amounted to US$225 billion, an increase of 25.8%. This compares to US$123 billion in imports from Africa, which grew by just 5.4%.
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