Geraldine Baum, Communications Strategist and Veteran Journalist, Joins PEN America as Chief Communications Officer
PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said: “We are fortunate to have Geraldine take charge of our communications efforts at a time of mounting threats to open discourse in the… More
Journalism and COVID-19: Remembering Robert Fresco
“He hated peas. He wore black dress socks with shorts. He was terrible at Pictionary. He preferred to drive a standard transmission.” More
Journalism and COVID-19: Remembering Alan Finder
“A career journalist who believed deeply in the power of the written word and the urgency of truth, my father was in many ways the consummate twentieth century newspaperman.” More
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I spoke up against Musk and now my email inbox is filled with harassing emails and people are threatening me on socials. I won't be intimidated and I will continue to speak out against hate.
‘I can’t take up a weapon, so I create’: how #Ukraine’s artists are taking on Putin’s Russia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/ukraine-russia-war-arts-artists-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw