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  • The artist stands in a gallery space, holding onto the brim of his hat. He's shot from below and is mostly in silhouette to protect his identity. His painting his behind him, while others fill the walls of the gallery to his left and right.

    The Story of Scrap Yard

    UP Mag | A history of New York City’s little graffiti shop that could, and the man that made it a landmark.

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  • A man gets a hair cut in a barbershop. The shot frames the barber's hand as he razor cuts the side of the man's head. The man, who is Black, is looking down, and wearing a black and green robe to protect his clothes from hair.

    Flatbush Beauty Businesses Struggle to Regain Footing, Three Years After COVID

    BK Reader | At-home haircuts, inflation, and rising rents mean tough business for barbers and hairdressers.

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  • Qiana Mickie standing in the garden. She's wearing a brown leather jacket and a scarf around her neck. She has a white sweater on. She has short curly reddish-brown hair and a jubilant smile.

    Interview with NYC's New Director of Urban Agriculture

    BKReader | In the shadow of the elevated L train, across from a lot full of lumber and railroad ties, the Powell Street Garden in Brownsville is a little piece of community-cultivated paradise.

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The Comeback Kids

A profile series for River Reporter newspaper on young people with big ideas returning home to Northeast Pennsylvania and upstate New York.

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Freelance

The Cairo Review

  • Tunisia: An Arab anomaly?
    Can Tunisia serve as a model for Arab Spring countries? Safwan Masri says no.

  • Death of the Blogosphere
    Egyptian bloggers, writing and reporting on the January 25 uprising, suddenly went offline after 2015. Why and where are they now?

A woman wearing a pink and blue striped sweater and a vest looks over rows of eggs on a table. A brick wall is behind her. She wears a pink scarf over her hair.

ETC.

 

PublicSource

The Pitt News
Selected work from my time as a reporter, editor and editor-in-chief at the daily student newspaper at the University of Pittsburgh.