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Thomas Birmingham

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New Haven
As seen in: EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology
Covers:  Crises in housing, crises in New Haven, sometimes a bit of both, and sometimes beyond.

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Thomas Birmingham’s Biography

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Graduate of the Yale Journalism Initiative. Written previously for Louisville Courier Journal, The Yale Politic, and Yale Daily News. Someone once told me I'm naturally anti-dogmatic, whatever that means.

Thomas Birmingham’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Death of the Livable City

The Death of the Livable City

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‘This is not OK’: Why renters say this affordable housing nonprofit is failing them

‘This is not OK’: Why renters say this affordable housing nonprofit is failing them

The small group gathered on the porch of Russell Apartments was about to turn into a crowd. An angry crowd. …

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'Blatant money grab': Louisville renters outraged over soaring rent costs, landlord apathy

'Blatant money grab': Louisville renters outraged over soaring rent costs, landlord apathy

Asia Mabry remembered thinking "it's just glitching." She couldn't believe it when she opened the website …

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Got a bad landlord? This Louisville group is helping renters fight back — and win

Got a bad landlord? This Louisville group is helping renters fight back — and win

Emma Litton has spent the last two months trying to stop her home from killing her. She sat in the kitchen…

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Pointing to Nothing: The Promise and Failure of New Haven’s Civilian Review Board

Pointing to Nothing: The Promise and Failure of New Haven’s Civilian Review Board

After Emma Jones’ son Malik was murdered by police in 1997, she spent the next 23 years working to create a C…

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Waiting for a Haven: Homelessness in Yale’s Backyard

Waiting for a Haven: Homelessness in Yale’s Backyard

Inside Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s Drop-In and Resource Center, Alvin* was sitting at a small, tucked-awa…

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Articles

A regional audit of compliance with ABS gynaecomastia imaging guidelines for male breast patients identifies potential gap in optimising use of one-stop radiology services

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By Thomas Birmingham, Amy Robinson
| EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology Verified
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“Those poor kids in Africa”

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By Thomas Birmingham
| thekirkwoodcall.com
The first time I remember hearing it was in fifth grade. “Those poor kids in Africa.” When the Student Council leaders at my Catholic school said those words, they were presenting the latest school-wide service project to my class: raising $1,000 to send food provisions to a small town in Uganda. The town was marked by a dot on a blank map of Africa, and I doubt anyone involved would be able to recall that town’s name. At the end of the day, it didn’t matter.
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The top priority

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By Thomas Birmingham
| thekirkwoodcall.com
They drilled a hole in his back. They put metal tubes in his body. He came to school with a cane. Then, under KHS’s revised attendance policy, he got detention. Aaron De Marco, senior, has cystinuria, a rare and aggressive condition which causes him to produce kidney stones every single day. Symptoms include anything from sharp, intense pain in the lower back to constant stomach pain and blood in the urine. Not long after he was diagnosed in the fall of 2017, he found out he needed surgery.
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Interview

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No, and it is my one and only flaw.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To empathetically portray people as products of the unjust systems around them, and show through our work visions of a better world for them.

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That believing landlords shouldn't exist means one cannot cover crises caused by commodified housing fairly. It means quite the opposite.