Dan Golden

ProPublica senior editor & reporter. Author, The Price of Admission and Spy Schools; co-author, The Ransomware Hunting Team. Religion: Red Sox-ism

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The Trump admin's spurious attacks on Voice of America mirror Joe McCarthy's in nationally-televised hearings in 1953. I trace the parallels and explain why VOA has been a perennial target: https://t.co/O1c4Hzu6Lq

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@jenniferlevitz A delightful surprise for me too!

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Ecstatic to have our investigative series, Uprooted, honored by #Columbia Journalism with the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award. It recognizes outstanding work covering racial injustice in the US. Thanks to a great collaboration @propublica @VCIJ_Tweet @WHRO @brandkells @DanLGolden

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File under Long Overdue! It took a compelling ProPublica/VCIJ series to prod Newport News VA and Christopher Newport University to re-examine the school's location and expansion, which eradicated a thriving Black neighborhood. Are reparations next? https://t.co/aDIdkxaSnt

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So many scammers were laundering gift cards at Walmart that they often ran into each other at self-checkout counters! Check out (pardon the pun) this absorbing look at how the retailer's lax oversight fostered a boom in fraud: https://t.co/bwckaitVr0

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@MigoElParcero @jhu Thanks for the idea!

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At least Paul Trible was consistent. As president of Christopher Newport University for 26 years, the ex-senator's policies drove out nearby Black residents, and reduced the numbers of Black students and faculty. Read the latest in our "Uprooted" series: https://t.co/G94MfqmBuf

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Former Christopher Newport president Paul Trible, now a distinguished professor, isn't teaching this year and has no university responsibilities. But he's making $524,000, more than anyone else at the state school. https://t.co/G94MfqmBuf

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ProPublica Event: Next week, join us for a discussion led by @brandkells, @HansenLouis and @DanLGolden.

In partnership with @chronicle, @VCIJ_Tweet and @WHRO.

RSVP: https://t.co/8RxryTXY3S

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Richard Dyke, a folksy Maine turnaround artist, helped popularize the AR-15. Now his home state is grieving. Read James Bandler's compelling account of the businessman behind the mainstreaming of assault-style rifles. https://t.co/9pqvseuf73

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Should universities that have uprooted Black communities pay reparations, or give scholarships to descendants? Virginia officials discuss remedies in light of our reporting. https://t.co/sIhjAY03x1

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@stacy_kess I remember well. Now the morgues themselves have passed away. Everything's digitized.

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The first floor of the newspaper building in Springfield, Mass., where I learned to be a reporter, is now a marijuana dispensary. Here's what I found when I returned to my old haunts after more than 40 years: https://t.co/UcXAByih1h

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@wgetopsec @Renee_Dudley Hope you enjoy it!

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@kam3266 @propublica At the Daily News?

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@mike_w_allen @WSJ @garyputka Thanks Mike, great idea!

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Now that local newspapers are vanishing, we remember them as the bedrock of democracy. But the reality was more complex. As a young reporter for a long-defunct paper, I learned a lot of important lessons, and some that I had to unlearn. https://t.co/UcXAByiOQP

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In their heyday, local papers covered their towns as closely as the London media cover a coronation. But they also could be cozy with power-brokers. My look at the mixed legacy of now-departed papers: https://t.co/UcXAByih1h

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A provision in Virginia law makes it harder for the public to know the inside story of how Christopher Newport University has uprooted a Black community. And that's how the higher ed lobby wants it. https://t.co/HKZLUHnqGr