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A seasoned news editor (with CBS, ABC and Time experience) who is skilled at shaping articles online and in print for clarity, substance, structure and language. Areas of expertise: line editing, copy editing, business, arts and lifestyle news reporting (including for The New York Times, WSJ.com), history research, SEO (HuffPost training).

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment / Elliott Erwitt: Pittsburgh 1950

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment / Elliott Erwitt: Pittsburgh 1950

For Henri Cartier-Bresson, it was an ironic turn of events. When the first large photo book of the French pho…

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Updating Ruskin's Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene

Updating Ruskin's Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene

Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime presents in its introductory text an intriguing proposition: …

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Photographs Trace US Government Abuses, from Manzanar to Guantánamo

Photographs Trace US Government Abuses, from Manzanar to Guantánamo

Concurrent shows at the International Center of Photography feature historical images of Japanese-American de…

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Teaching Japanese-American Internment Using Primary Resources

Teaching Japanese-American Internment Using Primary Resources

The day after the early-morning surprise assault on Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States formally…

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Among The Treasures Of The Bund, Lessons For Today

Among The Treasures Of The Bund, Lessons For Today

The New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which has held the fragile archives of the Bund since …

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New Web Portal Provides Access to Historic Materials on Jewish Life in Poland

New Web Portal Provides Access to Historic Materials on Jewish Life in Poland

A new Web portal, Jewish Life in Poland, is making directly accessible thousands of maps, photos, films and o…

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#Docuhistory: Asian Americans

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By Marjorie Backman, Michael Gonchar 
| Duke University
PBS's Asian Americans #Docuhistory with Michael Salgarolo Join us Thursday, May 21, 2020, for a screening and Twitter discussion of Part 1 of the PBS documentary, Asian Americans (2020). Part I of the documentary, entitled Breaking Ground & A Question of Loyalty, chronicles how new immigrants from China, Japan, and beyond adapted to life in America, building railroads, impressing in Hollywood, and fighting for equality.
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'Concentration Camps' in Burundi

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By Marjorie Backman
| archive.org
“Some people we interviewed called them extermination camps because so many people are being killed.” — Human Rights Watch’s Timothy Longman The Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees freedom of movement. The Geneva conventions forbid the forced displacement of a civilian population, except briefly to protect people from combat.
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Among The Treasures Of The Bund, Lessons For Today

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By Marjorie Backman
| Forward
The New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which has held the fragile archives of the Bund since 1992, is announcing on Wednesday night a new initiative to make them more accessible to scholars and family researchers by digitizing and posting them online.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

writer for Dorchester Community News

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

Who do you wish followed you?

Maggie Haberman

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