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This assignment is part research, part cultural analysis, and part reflective storytelling.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Oct. 2025 -
Because it is privately funded and receives no federal money, the project is exempt from many exhaustive governmental vetting and environmental analysis requirements.—
Anjeanette Damon,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and tossed-off ideas for improving her beloved sport—and maybe even keeping its ever-looming obsolescence at bay for another decade or three.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Altitude Sports broadcast team includes play-by-play mainstay Chris Marlowe and his color commentary partner Scott Hastings, as well as reporter/analysts Christopher Dempsey and Katy Winge.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Editors want expert commentary on trends, challenges and solutions — not a sales pitch.—
Cynthia Salarizadeh,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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