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Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸

@mattdpearce

Reporter for @latimes · President of @MediaGuildWest · May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

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For two years, I've been using a trove of data about migrant children to find clusters of kids working factory jobs.

Today, we're sharing the database so others can dig into where kids are living with distant relatives and strangers and working full time. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸(@mattdpearce) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am never one to turn away a spotlight on journalist safety. But it is also not lost on me that American-made or -provided munitions could be the number one killer of journalists this year. Not Vladimir Putin.

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Spent some time with Yo Munkan, one of the Thai hostages in Gaza released last month. She had no rage or bitterness — just heartache. With photos from Lauren DeCicca latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Spent some time with Yo Munkan, one of the Thai hostages in Gaza released last month. She had no rage or bitterness — just heartache. With photos from @laurendecicca latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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Early in her KCRW career, Ruth would read live on-air every front-page story in the day’s New York Times, playing to LA’s cultural insecurities. RIP. latimes.com/entertainment-…

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I wrote about one of the landmark figures in public radio, Ruth Seymour of KCRW, who died today at 88. latimes.com/entertainment-…

I wrote about one of the landmark figures in public radio, Ruth Seymour of KCRW, who died today at 88. latimes.com/entertainment-…
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Dennis Romero(@dennisjromero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ruth Seymour, who made LA's KCRW an original influencer, dies at 88

Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 nails her legacy: With the ’60s 'fading in the rearview,' Seymour repackaged 'leftist cultural sensibilities' for a more mainstream, moneyed audience:

latimes.com/entertainment-…

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Los Angeles Times(@latimes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ruth Seymour, the longtime radio executive who built KCRW into a public media powerhouse in the late 20th century, transforming the sonic landscape of Los Angeles and beyond, died on Friday. She was 88.

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“In a very real sense, we are talking not about some ‘clash of ideas’ but about a sustained and highly fractious workplace dispute at the heart of the American culture industry.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war? by Youssef Jajili in L.A. Times Opinion

'The killing of journalists in Gaza is being normalized with no one taking responsibility.'

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Lindsey Hilsum(@lindseyhilsum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to ⁦Committee to Protect Journalists⁩ cpj.org/2023/12/israel…

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Media Guild of the West 🧭(@MediaGuildWest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Region 16 Regional Director Timothy L. Watson says that when bargaining first contracts, 'employees are highly susceptible to unfair labor practices intended to undermine support.'
As a relatively new union, we see this all too often, and we do not stand for it.

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NEW episode of Know Your Enemy! We're joined by Erik Baker to discuss Garry Wills's 2010 book BOMB POWER, a blistering critique of how the atomic bomb transformed our govt into a national security state ruled over by our 'commander in chief'
…ow-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bomb-…

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