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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · 11d

Kenya’s Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights - Anthony Langat for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Kenya’s Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights

Indigenous Ogiek say they are being evicted from their ancestral land to facilitate trading schemes.

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · 18d

“Am I Now in Exile?” Fleeing Bukele, by El Faro journalists for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Fleeing Bukele — The Dial

Journalists in El Salvador are under heightened scrutiny. Many have been forced to leave.

www.thedial.world

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 28d

The feature focuses on how Canaan, Haiti's residents built their city brick by brick following the nation's 2010 apocalyptic earthquake, only to experience the fall of their nation.

Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/

Canaan rose from an earthquake. Can it survive Haiti’s fall?

Questions come with building a city: How do we electrify homes? Who will form a government? Can police protect us from gangs?

haiti.longlead.com

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kenya Police Harass Human Rights Watch Staff Member:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08... @hrw.org

Kenya: Police Harass Human Rights Watch Staff Member

The Kenyan police should end its apparent harassment of Otsieno Namwaya, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch, over his work documenting serious rights abuses in Kenya.

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Israel has now killed at least 184 journalists in Palestine--at least 26 deliberately. For @columjournreview.bsky.social, here's what nearly two dozen journalists and human rights experts say we must do: www.cjr.org/feature/urge... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @azmatzahra.bsky.social

Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza

Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Aug 15

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence - For @hammerandhope.bsky.social Nanjala Nyabola chronicles Kenyan President @williamruto.bsky.social murderous regime: hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence

What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks Molly Donnellan for nominating me and to all those who wrote letters including Kem Sawyer, Jon Sawyer, Dee Hall, Andy Hall, Sarah Ripp and @pablomuirhead.bsky.social

Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm honored to be awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2025 Forward Award! Check out the other recipients uwalumni.com/about/alumni... and read my write-up here: uwalumni.com/news/jacob-k... @wisalumni.bsky.social @uwsjmc.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Aug 5

URGENT: My good friend of 20 years, the journalist @alecluhn.bsky.social , is missing. Friends in Norway: please reach out to anyone you know who was hiking Ullensvang on the northern edge of Folgefonna since last week. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness

Bad weather hampers search for Alec Luhn after he set out for solo hike in remote Folgefonna national park

www.theguardian.com

Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jul 30

As Kenya’s protests intensified, two friends bled on opposite sides. By @khoureld.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... "Young Kenyans continue to risk their lives in protests over corruption and police brutality. Others are being recruited as “goons” to menace the protesters."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/25/kenya-protests-gen-z-goons-police/"Young

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks to @clarissaleon.bsky.social and the many other editors who attended our 2025 Freelance Fair documentedny.com/2025/07/25/m... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

Misplaced Bodies and Mishandled Funds: Repatriation of Deceased Immigrants - Documented

The repatriation process is complex and costly — and for many, it's just another difficult part of the immigrant experience.

documentedny.com

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jul 29

Misplaced Bodies and Mishandled Funds: recent Columbia Journalism graduate @tanyaraghu.bsky.social on the Repatriation of Deceased Immigrants, for @documentedny.bsky.social

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jul 17

For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social ‬

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jun 19

"Understanding the costs of a war should be an obligation of every citizen of every state that wages one.” -Azmat Khan, This Alabaster Grave, a new photobook by Cengiz Yar on life, death, and humanity in Mosul, Iraq. @azmatzahra.bsky.social @cengizyar.com www.cengizyar.com/book/this-al...

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jun 8

"It’s not uncommon now to find African students in China sharing Nigerian jollof or Ethiopian injera while discussing Beijing’s censorship of the internet." China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders @lattif.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders

www.nytimes.com

Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · Jun 6

‘You Leave with Nothing’: Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision. Read this urgent piece by my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (now alumna 👩‍🎓) Béatrice Vallières: documentedny.com/2025/06/05/h...

'You Leave with Nothing': Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision - Documented

As humanitarian protections vanish overnight, thousands of Haitians in the U.S. weigh the dangers of detention against the risks of returning to a country in crisis.

documentedny.com

Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 25

1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books. Congrats to my mentor, and colleague, Sam Freedman on an incredible career. Great writeup by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social

1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 19

The Human Zoo — In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals. www.thedial.world/articles/new... “Indeed, one might be shocked to see this African safari on French soil." @thedialmag.bsky.social

The Human Zoo — The Dial

In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals.

www.thedial.world

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 15

"In Pinellas County, Florida, a man on trial for killing an attorney told a judge he needed more time to find legal representation." @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/2025/05/week...

Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine

It was reported that ravioli had been banned from being served to the College of Cardinals for fear that the stuffed pasta might contain secret messages, an MIT professor calculated a 90 percent proba...

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 9

Even better: Check out the competition! I'm in good company, with incredible reporting by Ryan Brown for @thedialmag.bsky.social Dana Hourany on Lebanon's lost villages, & Forbidden Stories for investigating Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza. @oneworldmedia.bsky.social haiti.longlead.com

Canaan rose from an earthquake. Can it survive Haiti’s fall?

Questions come with building a city: How do we electrify homes? Who will form a government? Can police protect us from gangs?

Haiti.longlead.com

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 9

Honored to be shortlisted for the One World Media Print Award for my 8-year Haiti investigation, An Unnatural Disaster, along with photographer Allison Shelley & editor Pooja Bhatia! Haiti.longlead.com @longlead.com with support from the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @oneworldmedia.bsky.social

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 7

You asked me about it and challenged my assumptions. You edited chapters yourselves. You sent me photos every time you saw saw it in a bookstore.

Please, if you haven't--consider ordering the book, audiobook, or eBook wherever books are sold. bit.ly/LookAwayBook

Look Away

A thrilling narrative investigation into the National Socialist Underground (NSU)—a German terror organization that targeted immigrants—and how a govern...

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 7

Some of you reviewed it, in The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, and more.
@nybooks.com @foreignpolicy.com @thebaffler.com

Thank you--all of you--for all your help with the most ambitious project of my career. bit.ly/LookAwayBook

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 7

Many of you helped me launch it, by turning out to my book talks--first in New York (pictured here) and soon in Washington DC, Milwaukee, and Madison. You came to support me all over Germany--Berlin, Leipzig, Freiburg, Heidelberg.
@seywarddarby.bsky.social

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Jacob Kushner @jacobkushner.bsky.social · May 7

One year ago today: I published my book, Look Away, about a plot to rid Germany of immigrants. Sadly, in the U.S. and across the world, it's as timely now as ever before. bit.ly/LookAwayBook
@grandcentralpub.bsky.social

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