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  • Editor at Large, The Boston Globe
  • Edith Kinney Gaylord Professor in Investigative Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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As seen in: The Boston Globe, Medium, Boston.com, Reader's Digest (U.S.), The Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, The American Conservative, Art in America, CommonWealth Beacon
Editor at large @BostonGlobe. Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Investigative Journalism, Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University.

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ROBINSON: Canadians with glioblastoma enduring cruel provincial red tape

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By Walter Robinson 
| Toronto Sun
Almost 30 years ago my father succumbed to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer. From the stroke that led to his diagnosis to surgery, radiation, and ultimately his death, he lived a mere 66 days. He died at the too-young age of 66. Roughly 1,600 Canadians are diagnosed with GBM each year. When my dad died in December 1996, survival rates were 5%, today, 6%.
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Why is nonprofit news taking off in Massachusetts?

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By Walter Robinson 
| CommonWealth Beacon
This speech was originally delivered at an Institute for Nonprofit News conference on October 17 at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. For many of us, nonprofit journalism is the antidote for our collective malaise. For two decades now, we’ve looked on in disbelief, and often averted our eyes, as the vigorous journalism we had been accustomed to withered away. Over the last several years, this existential threat to the roots of our democracy has become ever more dispiriting.
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AI and #MentalHealth

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By Walter Robinson 
| Medium
'S uck it up' ... 'don't be a wimp' ... 'get your head straight' ... 'put your personal s&#t aside and focus on the task at hand' ... these phrases and others with the same hard-edge, locker room, and on the field bravado were often the default response to mental health situations across so many areas of our work, friendships, and family lives just a generation ago. One's mental health, in the broadest sense, can be a combination of biological, environmental, genetic, and psychological factors.
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