Must-read. I didn't realize this: organic milk producers can't give their animals antibiotics, and apparently many of them resort to horrible quack cures like packing eye infections with salt.

Journalist and author! It’s the absolute best part of my job and my day-to-day.

But the “for a living” part is… debatable.

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Most importantly, Nora Neus’s 24 HOURS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE raises questions that still need to be answered if we’re to avoid “another Charlottesville.”

Thanks for the shout-out, The Virginian-Pilot! buff.ly/48S06QL

If writing is thinking (as I believe it to be) the last thing you want to outsource to AI is the first draft because that's where the initial gathering of thoughts happens. It's why first drafts are hard. That difficulty signals their importance.

.Nora Neus’s 24 HOURS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE is different from other books about the Summer of Hate because it tells the story in the voices of the people who were actually there.

This is oral history for the records! The Virginian-Pilot buff.ly/48S06QL

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Wow this is such a lovely article. Thanks The Virginian-Pilot!!

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Teaching the Longform Lab has been one of the highlights of my career. I’m taking applications now and would love to have you!

Glad to see the Board of Visitors make the right decision. Edwin Alderman, the former UVA president for whom the library had been named, was an avowed white supremacist who helped to make UVA an intellectual home of eugenics and so-called 'scientific' racism.

Rural fire departments are having a severe volunteer shortage, putting farms in elevated danger. Firefighters are now looking to the ag community for assistance: 'Help us help you.'

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Honestly highly recommend. I’ve gotten a lot of students from Study Hall for my longform writing course the Longform Lab! Which you can also check out here lol longformlab.noraneus.com/course

22/2/2018 and today 22/2/2024
Six years passed of the black day under the bombing in EasternGhouta #Syria .
My father,my uncle will not be added to the list of absentees, no matter how long he is absent. He is present in all things, for the rest of my life,speech and my silence.

When journalism majors ask 'how do you guys find your stories?'

Congratulations to Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus & Julie Robine… MUHAMMAD NAJEM, WAR REPORTER is a 2025 #CaudillAward nominee!! Muhammad Najem  Nora Neus julie robine CNN

Big news from me re: 24 HOURS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE! open.substack.com/pub/noraneus/p…

I’m so honored to join the Library of Virginia tonight virtually to discuss 24 Hours in Charlottesville! The book discussion starts at 6 and I’ll join for the second half. Join me! lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/11480005 Library of Virginia