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Kathleen McElroy is the only other journalist I know of (besides me) in the Texas A&M to NYT pipeline.
I met her as a sophomore, and I was just in awe, having someone of her stature and experience willing to talk stories and even dig into my raw copy. nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/…
I met her as a sophomore, and I was just in awe, having someone of her stature and experience willing to talk stories and even dig into my raw copy. nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/…
www.nytimes.com Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director. Then Came the Complaints. (Published 2023) Kathleen McElroy was appointed head of a journalism program at the university. But then her work in D.E.I. seemed to come into question. Maybe disaster can lead to opportunity.
I heard that a lot in Rolling Fork in the weeks after the devastating tornado.
But was it a chance to breathe life into a struggling town — or set off on the well-trodden path to leave the Mississippi Delta?
nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/…
I heard that a lot in Rolling Fork in the weeks after the devastating tornado.
But was it a chance to breathe life into a struggling town — or set off on the well-trodden path to leave the Mississippi Delta?
nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/…
www.nytimes.com In the Mississippi Delta, Hoping for Opportunity After a Ruinous Tornado (Published 2023) Rolling Fork, Miss., like much of the Delta, had already been wrecked by disinvestment and decline before a giant tornado swept through in late March, leaving residents to ponder whether to rebuild... On the Fourth of July in Atlanta, you first go see the official, government-sanctioned fireworks display, then you watch the almost certainly unsanctioned one being fired off in a bank parking lot.
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Dateline: Nutbush City Limits nytimes.com/2023/05/29/us/…
www.nytimes.com This Town Made Tina Turner. She Made It Famous. (Published 2023) The singer, who just died, immortalized her hometown in a song. Its residents remember how she sprinkled her glitter onto Nutbush, Tenn., opening it to the world.