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Jacob Kushner

@jacobkushner.bsky.social

International Journalist - https://linktr.ee/JacobKushner Author: LOOK AWAY - https://bit.ly/LookAwayBook Visiting Professor, Columbia Journalism School https://journalism.columbia.edu/directory/jacob-kushner https://jacobkushner.com/

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Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nairobi’s poorest residents have long found uncertain refuge in settlements along the city’s rivers. As floods and drought in rural areas drive more Kenyans to Nairobi, many are forced to trade one environmentally precarious situation for another. @jacobkushner.bsky.social reports from Nairobi:

Doubly Displaced

Fleeing floods and drought in rural areas, Kenyans find precarious refuge along Nairobi rivers. Now, residents say the city’s Climate Action Plan is being weaponized against them.

placesjournal.org

Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

"For thousands of people whose homes were flooded in 2024, their troubles didn’t end when the water receded. The government came for them next." @jacobkushner.bsky.social on the precarity of life in informal settlements outside Nairobi, where residents say climate action is weaponized against them.

Doubly Displaced

Fleeing floods and drought in rural areas, Kenyans find precarious refuge along Nairobi rivers. Now, residents say the city’s Climate Action Plan is being weaponized against them.

placesjournal.org

Jacob Kushner@jacobkushner.bsky.social · last wk.

For 3 years, I followed one community through an endless cycle of floods, demolitions, and evictions, in a single Nairobi slum. For @placesjournal.bsky.social, my deep dive into how the city's poorest residents are being evicted in the name of "climate resilience" placesjournal.org/article/doub...

Doubly Displaced

Fleeing floods and drought in rural areas, Kenyans find precarious refuge along Nairobi rivers. Now, residents say the city’s Climate Action Plan is being weaponized against them.

placesjournal.org

Now Voyager@nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As China rises to fill the void left by America’s global geopolitical retreat, and as more Chinese people travel and migrate around the world, why does Sanmao’s version of Africa still have such an unparalleled pull on millions of Chinese? @jacobkushner.bsky.social: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/st...

Sanmao Introduced Chinese Readers to Africa. But Were Her Stories True?

Millions of Chinese readers discovered the Sahara through Sanmao’s stories. Jacob Kushner revisits episodes from her life and asks how much of what she wrote was true.

nowvoyagermag.com

Jacob Kushner@jacobkushner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"We were so accustomed to watching the news and seeing images of buildings being destroyed, of dead bodies, of blood, but they were always in the Arab world. Now, the same thing was happening in the heart of the United States." www.thedial.world/articles/new... @thedialmag.bsky.social

Looking at America From Gaza — The Dial

“At times I see it as a site of exclusion and segregation, and at other times as the specter of another possible life.”

thedial.world

Long Lead@longlead.com · 11mo ago

The feature focuses on how Canaan, Haiti's residents built their city brick by brick following the nation's 2010 apocalyptic earthquake, only to experience the fall of their nation. Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/

Canaan rose from an earthquake. Can it survive Haiti’s fall?

Questions come with building a city: How do we electrify homes? Who will form a government? Can police protect us from gangs?

haiti.longlead.com

Jacob Kushner@jacobkushner.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Israel has now killed at least 184 journalists in Palestine--at least 26 deliberately. For @columjournreview.bsky.social, here's what nearly two dozen journalists and human rights experts say we must do: www.cjr.org/feature/urge... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @azmatzahra.bsky.social

Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza

Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.

cjr.org

Jacob Kushner@jacobkushner.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence - For @hammerandhope.bsky.social Nanjala Nyabola chronicles Kenyan President @williamruto.bsky.social murderous regime: hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence

What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.

hammerandhope.org

Jacob Kushner@jacobkushner.bsky.social · last yr.

‘You Leave with Nothing’: Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision. Read this urgent piece by my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (now alumna 👩‍🎓) Béatrice Vallières: documentedny.com/2025/06/05/h...

'You Leave with Nothing': Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision - Documented

As humanitarian protections vanish overnight, thousands of Haitians in the U.S. weigh the dangers of detention against the risks of returning to a country in crisis.

documentedny.com