Corin Faife

@corintxt
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Tech journalist + researcher // civic innovation fellow at Cornell Tech, formerly reporter at Verge and Markup // always looking for the future in the present
Personal sitehttps://corinfaife.co/

🗼About 15 years ago now I was renting a tiny room in Paris, bar tending to pay the bills while I worked on my French. Maybe 5 years after that I started thinking about journalism seriously for the first time...

If you'd told me then that I'd end up in New York working at a French news agency, well, the younger me would have been incredibly happy to know how things turned out. 🗽🍷😄

🤓🗞️ Some personal news: 👉 Very excited to say that I'll be starting work at @AFP
in September, as the first North American hire on their global data & graphics team.

When I heard that they were looking for a US-based data journalist who also could work in / translate from French, I thought the job looked like the perfect fit for me. And well, it seems like they thought so too. 📉🇫🇷📈

I think I'm finally starting to understand React components (!)

On World Press Freedom Day, I stand with my colleague and friend Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained by Russia for five weeks. All of us at The Wall Street Journal call for Evan's release and all the other reporters detained for simply doing their job.

#IStandWithEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeEvan

I'm in!
Soon Rupi Kaur is going to be out of a job

"The court that overturned Roe v. Wade is being asked to determine when an act of creation begins."

The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI: https://www.wired.com/story/andy-warhol-fair-use-prince-generative-ai/

The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI

The US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.

WIRED
Residents of San Lucas, CA, haven't had clean drinking water for over a decade – after a local farm's use of nitrate-rich fertilizer contaminated their only water supply. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/23/this-california-town-hasnt-had-clean-drinking-water-in-11-years/
This California town hasn’t had clean drinking water in 11 years

The small Monterey County farming community of San Lucas must live daily with the inconvenience, danger and fear of contaminated water — and is one of many across the Salinas and Central valleys wh…

The Mercury News
Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News in wake of Dominion defamation settlement

Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways, the network said.

CNBC
A great day for media, but IMO too early to celebrate until we know what Tucker's next move will be.