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Audio producer. Past: The Journal for @GimletMedia and @WSJ. @OnlyAGameNPR. @OnPointRadio. Martin.kessler91 (at) gmail (dot) com

Joined June 2010
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Our Kickstarter is live‼️ A new season of Burn It All Down is coming and we need your help to make it happen. Your support keeps independent, feminist sports media alive! Learn more and support the campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/bur…
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I got bored waiting for basketball season so I made an Immaculate Grid-style game for @IvyLeague hoops:
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Today the first episode of Prodigies drops… I am incredibly proud of this work + beyond grateful for my talented team @jessicawluther @khjones Jessica Bodiford who helped tell these important stories brilliantly and with care – at Austin, TX
Maligned and overlooked in society, the evolution of gymnastics runs through the voiceless 🙌 Introducing our newest pod, 'American Prodigies', hosted by @mirarose88. Define your own LEGACY and listen now: bwpod.co/CzxqCH
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Facebook researchers have said slowing down the platform (i.e., making it harder for anything to go viral) could combat misinformation and dangerous movements Today on #TheJournal: @JeffHorwitz on why Facebook didn't do that. And what it did instead open.spotify.com/episode/4nf…
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🚨 New Facebook Files podcast episode 🚨 "Stop the Steal was just the fastest growing stuff on the platform." - @JeffHorwitz on Facebook's response to 2020 election and Jan. 6. open.spotify.com/episode/4nf…
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NEW EPISODE: Facebook’s AI couldn’t tell the difference between car crashes and cockfights, even as the company was promoting it as a solution to its content moderation problems.  open.spotify.com/episode/7M7…
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Many parents pleaded guilty in the varsity blues college admissions scandal, but 2 say they're innocent ...so prosecutors have released SECRET PHONE TAPES Today on #TheJournal: @melissakorn & @jenniferlevitz on what the recordings reveal open.spotify.com/episode/68T…
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.@piagadkari made this fantastic episode happen 🙌
"The thing I want everyone to know is that Facebook is far, far more dangerous than anyone knows and it is getting worse" @FrancesHaugen_ tells @kate_linebaugh on @WSJ #TheJournal why she blew the whistle on Facebook Hear the conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/4Z2…
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"By six months in [at Facebook], I had learned so much about the consequences of the problem and felt so powerless to actually make progress on it that I was starting to have panic attacks."
In Part 6 of The Facebook Files from @WSJ and @gimletmedia: whistleblower @FrancesHaugen_ shares her story open.spotify.com/episode/4Z2…
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