Yousuf ＆ Zahra were aged 4 and 1 when they were taken from their home in Miami, Florida. Their father Bashir Shikder received videos of them inside the Islamic State’s strongholds in Syria. When the ISIS caliphate collapsed he traveled there himself to search for his children. We (Correspondent Seb Walker and VICE News) went along with him on his search.
Watch our story “Taken By ISIS: One American Father’s Harrowing Journey to Get His Kids Back from the Caliphate” https://youtu.be/bCg9mDTjbgg
Watch more of my work at VICE News here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o617wypMGeYLyoisM6pLESu
Proof: https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1168992217916170241
Text sent by the Ward Primary Presidency. Everything down the memory hole.
Edit: That's all we have time for today, but if you have more questions, leave them in the comments and Elizabeth or I will try to get to them later this afternoon. In the meantime, please keep following our coverage at usatoday.com. Thank you!
Hey everyone! I’m Lindsay Schnell, and I wrote last week on why Alaska has abnormally high rates of domestic violence, sexual assault and murder of women. She spent nine days in Alaska reporting this story, visiting the cities of Juneau, Anchorage, Kotzebue and Buckland. She spoke to dozens of sources, including victims, victims’ family members, activists, lawmakers, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, domestic violence experts and residents, and reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents.
On Friday, Attorney General William Barr declared a public safety “emergency” in Alaska, directing more than $10 million in immediate law enforcement aid to largely rural communities ravaged by domestic violence and sexual abuse.
I’m a national correspondent based in Portland, Oregon. I cover issues in the West and nationally I focus on the intersection of religion and politics. I’ve been at USA TODAY since September 2017. I was a sports writer for the first decade of my career, and previously worked at Sports Illustrated and The Oregonian.
Elizabeth Williams, an Anchorage-based activist, is joining me today to talk about why Alaska is so dangerous for women. Elizabeth Williams is a social worker in Anchorage, Alaska. She and her younger brother started No More Free Passes in response to the infamous Justin Schneider case. No More Free Passes successfully voted out the judge, changed the laws, and are now working to change how Alaska prosecutes sexual assaults.
You can read the stories from Lindsay’s reporting here:
- Part 1: Missing or murdered? In America’s deadliest state, one family is still looking for answers
- Part 2: A deadly place: Alaska is the most dangerous state for women, now they’re fighting back
Twitter: @Lindsay_Schnell
Proof: https://i.redd.it/b0uxairqmp731.jpg
I’m also a newly published author of "Savage News”( out April 2019.) It’s a book about reporting while female that’s maybe loosely based on my experiences… And I sift through all the sound coming at you to identify what you can ignore, what matters and why on Instagram @JessicaYellin #NewsNotNoise
Vogue article link - https://www.vogue.com/article/jessica-yellin-news-not-noise-instagram-news?verso=true
The Wrap Link - https://www.thewrap.com/members/2019/01/30/jessica-yellin-put-instagram-over-broadcast-cnn/
IG link - https://www.instagram.com/jessicayellin/?hl=en
News Not Noise Link - https://www.sagemedia.com
Proof: https://i.redd.it/vw5yaqv40tm21.jpg
What do guys think about this? Good of the BBC to make the admission? Not sufficient?
>Friday 23rd August 2019: Today, BBC Radio 4, 15 July 2019
>In a report about cases of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party, our correspondent said “the number of allegations concern only 0.6% of the party membership.” Our correspondent misspoke here; the actual figure is 0.06%, as provided in our other reports on this matter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/
Hi everyone -- I'm Yamiche Alcindor, and I cover the White House and Trump administration for the PBS NewsHour and serve as a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. I was in McAllen, Texas, last week during President Trump's visit to the southern border and I often report about the intersection of race and politics. Before joining the NewsHour last year, I was a reporter for the New York Times and USA Today. Send me your questions!
Proof: https://i.redd.it/2f0ax0jzsna21.jpg
I’ve spent the last couple of years covering the run-up to the constitutionally mandated head count of every person living in the U.S. As my NPR colleague Linda Holmes puts it, these are “things that aren't sexy but affect the way we all live.” The results of the 2020 census will determine how congressional seats and Electoral College votes are allocated among the states, as well as how an estimated $880 billion a year in federal funding are distributed to local communities, over the next decade.
In addition to the breaking news, like the Supreme Court agreeing to decide whether the controversial citizenship question will be added to the 2020 census, I report in-depth stories around the census. A recent example is assembling the timeline of how the Trump administration pushed for the citizenship question. That involved combing through more than 12,000 pages of government emails and internal documents.
I’ve also been following changes to how the census will ask about race (people who identify as black and/or white will be asked to specify their non-Hispanic origins) and relationships between people in the same household (there are new categories for same-sex and opposite-sex couples).
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UPDATE 11:58 A.M. Thanks for your questions! Hansi is signing off, but please keep your questions about the 2020 census coming.
Email him at hwang@npr.org, and follow him on Twitter @hansilowang.
Hello Reddit, I’m Nahlah Ayed a foreign correspondent based in London for CBC News, the news division of Canada’s public broadcaster.
I have just returned from Mozambique, where I was covering the devastating impact of Cyclone Idai on the small south African country. The official death toll in Mozambique now stands at nearly 600 and authorities have warned that number will climb as flood waters recede. Cases of cholera have reached more than 1000 and climbing, as officials struggle to provide clean water to affected areas. Three weeks after Cyclone Idai hit the city of Beira and swept across central Mozambique, near 140,000 people are displaced - either in schools, churches, or camps.
Here is one of my reports on Mozambique’s unfolding catastrophe: https://youtu.be/qjaW4JcBq-w
I have covered major events around the world from the refugee crisis unfolding across Europe, to the displacement of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, to the attacks in Paris, to the conflict in Ukraine and many other stories. I spent over a decade working in the Middle East reporting on numerous conflicts, every day life, and later, the Arab uprisings.
I also wrote a book on refugeehood, A Thousand Farewells, (https://www.cbc.ca/books/a-thousand-farewells-1.3984284) which explores the myriad of ways in which ordinary citizens of the Arab world have coped with conflict, oppression and loss.
Proof: https://twitter.com/NahlahAyed/status/1113825898694889473
EDIT 2 PM ET : I'm signing off now, thanks everyone for your amazing questions.
Logging off now! Thanks for all of these great questions. To continue the conversation, follow us on Twitter @NPRlifekit, or me @anya1anya, or send us an email lifekit@npr.org. You can see the whole Life Kit series here and get more info on my book at anyakamenetz.net.
I cover education and technology. I follow the research, talk to the experts, and I travel the country speaking to parents and teachers about kids and screen time. I did a deep dive on this topic in my book https://www.npr.org/books/titles/579778789/the-art-of-screen-time-how-your-family-can-balance-digital-media-and-real-life and in our recent Life Kit Screen Time series. https://npr.org/lifekit#parenting
Parents often struggle to manage the role of digital devices, especially phones and tablets, in family life. A lot of the research in this area is new and contested, which doesn’t make things any easier. But there are clear signs to know whether you or a kid has a real problem, and common sense guidelines to help you make better choices that might surprise you. So ask me anything!
Hi Reddit! I’m the founding editor of https://thecorrespondent.com/, an ad-free, member-funded journalism platform that wants to change what news is about, how it’s made, and how it’s funded. I loved talking to you all today. Thank you for the great questions, I'm signing off now!
If you enjoyed our conversation, I hope you'll consider becoming a founding member: https://thecorrespondent.com/join
The Correspondent is an ad-free, member-funded journalism platform for unbreaking news that tries to help you understand the underlying forces that shape our world.
In my AMA, I’m excited to talk about why real news is a bigger problem than fake news; why The Correspondent will reject the notion of journalistic objectivity; why we’re letting people Choose What The Pay for The Correspondent; why journalism should be guided by the idea of progress; why all my journalistic heroes are comedians rather than reporters; and anything else you want to ask me!
News as we know it leaves us cynical, divided, and less informed; a reliance on advertising revenue means news organizations prioritize the needs of advertisers over the needs of readers; and all-too-often the news talks to you, rather than with you.
The Correspondent will flip that script. We’re trying to raise $2.5m from as many founding members as possible to launch a new platform that won’t cover the news as we know it, but instead provide smart coverage of structural, long-term developments that shape the world around us, and we’ll collaborate with our members at every step of a story’s production (we’ve been doing this successfully, with 60,000 members, in The Netherlands for the last 5 years).
We’re in the middle of a 30-day campaign to find founding members from around the world who can help us get this off the ground. More than 33,000 founding members have joined our cause in the last three weeks — raising more than $1,9 million. And we also have more than 100 ambassadors who back our mission such as Nate Silver, Jimmy Wales, Rosanne Cash, Jay Rosen, Esther Dyson, Judd Apatow, Baratunde Thurston, Cameron Russell, Beau Willimon, and DeRay Mckesson.
https://twitter.com/robwijnberg/status/1072213795014094850
EDIT: Thank you for all your insightful and interesting questions. I'm signing off because it's almost time to turn on the daily White House briefing. Speaking of which, don't forget to subscribe to my new podcast, Debriefing the Briefing! - Major
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I’m a journalist, podcast host and a San Diego Padres superfan. I’m the Chief Washington Correspondent for CBS News and appear on both CBS TV and CBS News Radio. My two podcasts are: The Takeout (politics, policy and pop culture over a meal with an esteemed guest) Debriefing the Briefing (an analysis of the White House’s Coronavirus Taskforce Briefings.) Dave Winfield was the first Padre in the Hall of Fame but Tony Gwynn is the greatest Padre who ever lived (saw him inducted in Cooperstown).
TAKEOUT https://bit.ly/takeoutpod
Debriefing The Briefing (DBTB) https://bit.ly/CBSDebriefing
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Hello, my name is Lyse Doucet. I have been covering international news for the BBC for over 30 years. I was in Tehran last week. The first visit since 2009 to a country I have been reporting from since 1989.
Here's a link to my BBC News editor's blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26612871
This is my Twitter account: https://twitter.com/bbclysedoucet
And here's a picture of me ready to answer your questions: https://twitter.com/bbclysedoucet/status/445556222717362176
UPDATE - Thank you to all...sadly, we have to bring our conversation to a close..I am sorry I couldn't answer all your questions, and respond to all your comments....but let's do it again sometime? And a special thank you to Mark Frankel and Chris Hamilton, my great BBC colleagues, and to the Reddit team..
Happy Persian New Year! Nawroz Mobarak !
> Friday 23rd August 2019: Today, BBC Radio 4, 15 July 2019 > > In a report about cases of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party, our correspondent said “the number of allegations concern only 0.6% of the party membership.” Our correspondent misspoke here; the actual figure is 0.06%, as provided in our other reports on this matter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/
