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Journalist @business. Author of NYT business bestseller Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing. https://xitter.gq/t.co/jqzPJ7zoFr

Seattle
Joined April 2009
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📈 Welcome back to 1909...when the average US #tariff rate was at 23%!
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.@byJuliaLove wrote for @business about undocumented contract workers who helped power Elon Musk's expansion in Austin. Sweeping debris, laying plumbing and pouring concrete, these workers built facilities that helped make Musk’s $400 billion fortune : bloom.bg/41gG6a3
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This excellent deep dive into college athlete welfare by @petermrobison and @NBuhayar from @Bloomberg uses #KnightNewhouseData to emphasize how schools could redirect resources to support college athletes. buff.ly/4ffJSUK
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This is an interesting— and enraging— piece. Sadly, not surprised to see another example of athletes being exploited while those who profit off them look the other way.
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The human egg has become a global commodity - extracted, shipped and sold in the booming $35 billion fertility industry. I invite you to journey into that world with our latest investigation, The Egg: A story of extraction, exploitation and opportunity bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
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From the University of Washington to Penn State, athletes are being pushed by coaches to play hurt — or told to look into transferring schools if they can’t, in violation of NCAA rules trib.al/a7VJ2Ya
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NEW: our latest piece about the US's growing reliance on nurse practitioners. It examines the financial incentives hospitals have for hiring new grad NPs, and what's at stake in America's ERs and ICUs. Give it a read at this gift link. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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We won a Loeb award for business journalism for our reporting on dangerous medicines sold around the world! prnewswire.com/news-releases…
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How a Russian missile loaded with Western technology killed a 6-year-old girl in Ukraine. We go deep into one attack and reveal that Analog Devices is the company whose components are most frequently found in Russian missiles. Featuring the terrific work of the @kse_ua and the brilliant @bilousova_o bloomberg.com/features/2024-…
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Absolute BONKERS insight about the perils of NIL deals. Incredible work with thorough reporting by @petermrobison + @NBuhayar. This should be mandatory reading for admins, coaches, players, + parents. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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NIL contracts are hush-hush. We got our hands on a few of them for this deep dive into the labor story at the heart of college football. Great, as always, to work with @petermrobison xitter.gq/petermrobison/status/1…
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"How sports gambling came to be such a hulking, clanging presence in our life is the ultimate sports media story—which is funny, in a ghoulish sort of way, given there’s not a lot of sports media left to tell it." shorturl.at/GJ1pB
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Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged. Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair. We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵
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The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom. wsj.com/world/europe/evan-ge… via @WSJ
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In a major gesture toward Boeing’s Puget Sound-area workforce, Kelly Ortberg, the new CEO of Boeing whose appointment was announced Wednesday morning, has chosen to be based in Seattle seattletimes.com/business/bo…
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Readers asked ⁦to lift the paywall on ⁦⁦our Roblox⁩ investigation so it could become a PSA for all parents. Happy to report ⁦@cecianasta⁩ and I’s deep-dive is now available for free on ⁦@business⁩⁩⁩ 👇🏻 bloomberg.com/features/2024-…
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