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Roberto Ferdman

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Investigative Reporter/Writer/Producer, Docs and News. Basketball junky. Former @VICENews, @washingtonpost
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This Company Is Building a Hockey Empire. Many Say It’s Ruining Youth Sports.

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By Jaclyn Skurie Verified, Roberto Ferdman Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
Watch how Black Bear Sports Group’s business model is changing the world of youth hockey Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Hockey rinks are notoriously difficult businesses. They’re expensive to operate, and tend to only last about 25 years before running into major mechanical issues. And yet Black Bear Sports Group has spent the past decade buying them up, building both an empire of hockey real estate and a much broader—and lucrative—youth hockey business.
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Anonymous reporter “Iran Window” on life in Tehran.

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By Roberto Ferdman Verified, Amos Barshad Verified, Azmat Khan Verified, Meghnad Bose
| Columbia Journalism Review Verified
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In late June, amid Israel and Iran’s twelve-day exchange of air strikes and rockets, Iranian authorities detained the family of a journalist who was covering the conflict from abroad.
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The Rise of AI Local News

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By Roberto Ferdman Verified
| Columbia Journalism Review Verified
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. When Tom Cochran and David Mortlock started kicking around ideas for a new artificial intelligence startup, they drew from their own personal experiences trying to keep up with what was happening in the community where they lived.
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