Sylvène Gilchrist
@sylveneg.bsky.social
Investigative Journalist with @CBC -
sylvene.gilchrist@cbc.ca
sylvene.gilchrist@cbc.ca
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
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Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.
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In Minnesota, away from the cameras, a quiet resistance to ICE raids is ongoing.
This week, our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
This week, our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
How Minneapolis taught America to fight back
Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
revealnews.org
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
In Minnesota, away from the cameras, a quiet resistance to ICE raids is ongoing.
This week, our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
This week, our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
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I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s leading expert on getting away with it
The convicted sex-criminal was obsessed with other high profile abuse cases, offering commentary, advice, and even financial help.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com
This is America.
This is America.
What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
www.propublica.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:05 PM
MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com
This is America.
This is America.
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— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
Bari Weiss’s CBS News Won’t Even Condemn Israel for Killing a CBS Contributor
Instead, the network’s new top anchor Tony Dokoupil peddles Israel’s talking points about it killing a Palestinian journalist. A CBS source calls it a ‘disgrace.’
zeteo.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The Lundin Oil trial in Stockholm is “the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes,” the columnist M. Gessen writes.
The Lundin Oil trial in Stockholm is “the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes,” the columnist M. Gessen writes.
Opinion | Can a Corporation Be Complicit in War Crimes? Sweden Is Trying to Find Out.
It’s Sweden’s longest criminal trial. I was there because of a different historic distinction.
nyti.ms
December 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The Lundin Oil trial in Stockholm is “the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes,” the columnist M. Gessen writes.
The Lundin Oil trial in Stockholm is “the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes,” the columnist M. Gessen writes.
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This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Introducing the #DamascusDossier investigation: A collaboration from ICIJ, @recherche.ndr.de and 24 media partners in 20 countries uncovers harrowing new details about former Syrian president Bashar Assad’s regime and one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st century.
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Introducing the #DamascusDossier investigation: A collaboration from ICIJ, @recherche.ndr.de and 24 media partners in 20 countries uncovers harrowing new details about former Syrian president Bashar Assad’s regime and one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st century.
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Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
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Meet one of Syria’s “shadow warriors.”
Hassan Al Hariri risked everything to help smuggle more than a million documents out of Syria during the war. They include evidence of war crimes that could one day hold Bashar al-Assad and his top officials to account.
Hassan Al Hariri risked everything to help smuggle more than a million documents out of Syria during the war. They include evidence of war crimes that could one day hold Bashar al-Assad and his top officials to account.
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Meet one of Syria’s “shadow warriors.”
Hassan Al Hariri risked everything to help smuggle more than a million documents out of Syria during the war. They include evidence of war crimes that could one day hold Bashar al-Assad and his top officials to account.
Hassan Al Hariri risked everything to help smuggle more than a million documents out of Syria during the war. They include evidence of war crimes that could one day hold Bashar al-Assad and his top officials to account.
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It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.
As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass
It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
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“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family
Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'
spectrumlocalnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
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When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets.
Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Syria’s Stolen Children
Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it...
www.lighthousereports.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets.
Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
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Wonderful news: Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Iraq by the Kataib Hezbollah militia in 2023 has finally been freed from captivity.
Elizabeth remained 900 days stripped of the very freedom she spent her adult life advocating for.
Tonight I sleep with a smile on my face.
Elizabeth remained 900 days stripped of the very freedom she spent her adult life advocating for.
Tonight I sleep with a smile on my face.
September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wonderful news: Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Iraq by the Kataib Hezbollah militia in 2023 has finally been freed from captivity.
Elizabeth remained 900 days stripped of the very freedom she spent her adult life advocating for.
Tonight I sleep with a smile on my face.
Elizabeth remained 900 days stripped of the very freedom she spent her adult life advocating for.
Tonight I sleep with a smile on my face.
Syria’s Lost Children www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
Syria’s Lost Children
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Syria’s Lost Children www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...