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Now, a Temperature Check
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The Calm and The Storm
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Stand up for democracy with us 🤝
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Week One of Flying Solo!
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I'm Coming Home — And Taking A Break
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It's Our Editor-in-Chief's Birthday! 🎉
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Notes from Rural Oregon
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A Note on Press Freedom in Georgia
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On the Eve of Our Anniversary, A Dispatch from MIT
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Sustain The Xylom on World Press Freedom Day!
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Taking a Solutions Mindset Beyond Our Newsroom
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A Book Preview about Ecology, Justice, and the South 🌿
Dear Reader, I'm so excited to share with you a preview of a book excerpt of Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South by...
We Have a New Fiscal Sponsor!
Dear Reader, Great news: The Xylom is now a fiscally sponsored project of the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) incorporated in the...
An Update Regarding Our Fiscal Sponsor
Dear Reader, I'll get straight to the point: Our 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, Open Collective Foundation, has announced that it will dissolve by the end of the...
It's 2024. Why Do You Read The Xylom?
Dear Reader, We're back after a newsletter hiatus in January! This past month, I was reporting along the Texas Coastal Bend for my J-school thesis. My photo...
What Our Newsroom Fellow is Learning about Fire
Before you move on... This is it, readers, the home stretch! There’s just one week left in this year’s NewsMatch campaign, and we are so close to meeting our...
When the Award-Winning Journalists You Judged Get Dehumanized
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#SciWri23 in Mile High
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Two-and-a-half Cool Things We're Working On
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A Message from Our Newsroom Fellow
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Here's What's Next in Our Newsroom Fellow Hiring Process
Dear reader, I owe it to you to give an update on where we’re at in our newsroom fellow hiring process. Since this is our first hire we want to make sure we...