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Melissa Bell

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Covers:  the bizarre, digital media, india, media, world news, music, washington dc, kittens, internet culture
CEO, ChicagoPublicMedia.org. Founder, Vox.com. Goofball, Real Life. You can reach me at mbell@chicagopublicmedia.org.

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Melissa Bell’s Journalist Portfolio

'A Gay Girl in Damascus' comes clean

'A Gay Girl in Damascus' comes clean

The persona Tom MacMaster built and cultivated for years — a lesbian who was half Syrian and half American — …

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Skater's Paradise Lost

Skater's Paradise Lost

It is hard to take seriously a shirtless, shoeless man rocking a giant shiner when he tries to claim a place …

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In beta

In beta

It’s a confusing time for the media world, but we’re not stumbling blindly into the digital divide alone.

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Farage y Le Pen apelan al mismo discurso desafiante: solo el pueblo puede juzgarnos

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By Melissa Bell
| Yahoo Noticias
Que decida el pueblo. Ese fue el desafiante mensaje del martes de dos de los populistas más famosos del mundo, cuando Nigel Farage y Marine Le Pen anunciaron, con pocas horas de diferencia, su intención de desafiar las normas de sus países para plantear el mismo argumento ante el mismo jurado, con la política dominante tanto francesa como británica en juego.
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Farage and Le Pen make the same defiant pitch: Only the people can judge us

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By Melissa Bell
| Yahoo Verified
Let the people decide. That was the defiant message of two of the world's most famous populists on Tuesday, as Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen announced, within hours of each other, their intention to defy their country's norms in order to put the same pitch to the same jury, with both French and British mainstream politics now in the balance.
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French court clears a path for Le Pen to run for office with ankle monitor but upholds conviction

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By Pierre Bairin, Lauren Kent, Melissa Bell, Joseph Ataman Verified
| Yahoo Singapore Verified
Pierre P Bairin, Lauren Kent, Melissa Bell, Joseph Ataman, CNN Tue, 7 July 2026 at 1:15 pm UTC 3 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ruling opens the door for Marine Le Pen to stand in next year’s presidential election.
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