Bina Venkataraman
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Bina Venkataraman
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Exec/Editorial leader, author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age. Former: Boston Globe Editorial Page Editor, Washington Post columnist, MIT Lecturer. Sometimes surfer.
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Do NYC voters expect Zohran Mamdani to actually make all the buses free? I wrote about what New York can learn from the election and reelection of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu about city politics & daydreams.
Thanks for asking me for my take, @mitrakalita.bsky.social
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Mayor Mamdani can’t magically make buses free. Lesson from Boston: Maybe it doesn’t matter - Epicenter NYC
Now that Zohran Mamdani has been elected the next mayor of New York City, it may be tempting to think that voters expect him to  work wonders:  freeze rents, open […]
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November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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AI Spotlight Series - AN Editor's Guide to AI - August 25, 2025 - 11 AM EDT - This workshop is geared towards journalists in the North America, South America, Africa, and Europe timezones - Instructors: Gideon Lichfield and Bina Venkataraman - This track is designed for managing editors, executive editors, desk editors, social media editors -anyone in charge of directing coverage, commissioning stories, or packaging and producing them for public consumption. - Apply by July 31, 2025
July 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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AI Spotlight Series - AN Editor's Guide to AI - August 25, 2025 - 11 AM EDT - This workshop is geared towards journalists in the North America, South America, Africa, and Europe timezones - Instructors: Gideon Lichfield and Bina Venkataraman - This track is designed for managing editors, executive editors, desk editors, social media editors -anyone in charge of directing coverage, commissioning stories, or packaging and producing them for public consumption. - Apply by July 31, 2025
July 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Wait for it.

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June 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ireland is positioning itself to gain from the brain drain from the United States as research scientists and scholars flee Trump's violent assault on colleges and universities. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Ireland hopes to entice academics as US becomes ‘a cold place for free thinkers’
Proposed scheme involves talent scouts offering attractive packages to tempt academics and lecturers from abroad
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May 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"Whether they are geeks in garages or eggheads in university labs, American entrepreneurs have built their ideas and fortunes on the back of basic research supported by taxpayers, who then reap the rewards," @binajv.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/3S00PJK
Opinion | RIP American innovation
Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?
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May 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Pulitzer Center - AfricaCheck - AI Spotlight Series - An Editor's Guide to AI - June 10, 2025 - The workshop is geared towards journalists in the North America, South America, Africa, and Europe time zones - Instructors: Tom Simonite and Bina Venkataraman - This track, co-organized with Africa Check, is designed for managing editors, executive editores, desk editors, and social media editores -anyone in charge of directing coverage, commissioning stories, or packaging and producing them for public consumption. Apply by May 15, 2025.
May 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Brilliant column with a profoundly important message. Kudos to
@binajv.bsky.social 👏👏👏

wapo.st/4keFurS
Opinion | RIP American innovation
Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?
wapo.st
May 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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RIP, American innovation. It’s been great to be from the most inventive country on earth. My eulogy for what’s being lost as political leaders slash science research budgets. For @postopinions.bsky.social (gift link) wapo.st/4keFurS
Opinion | RIP American innovation
Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?
wapo.st
May 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM