@mccanner

breaking news and internet ephemera at The New York Times.

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Joined May 2009
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Someone should write an essay about how we don't have anywhere to announce Big News now that Twitter is what it is, but anyway I'm back on here for the first time in a year to share this xitter.cf/NYTimesPR/status/18132…
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@NYTimesPR16 Jul 2024
We are delighted to welcome Erin McCann and Joey Lee to the Weather Data team. nytco.com/press/erin-mccann-…

Erin McCann and Joey Lee Join the Weather Data Team | The New York Times Company

We are delighted to announce two additions to the Weather Data team. Erin McCann will be joining the Weather Data team as a senior editor, where she will spearhead our written coverage of extreme…

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(I'm mostly spending my time on instagram and bluesky these days. meh. they are what they are.)
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Also as long as i'm here, hey we're hiring meteorologist/reporters! London: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co… California: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co…
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I don't post on Twitter anymore but I will post on Twitter this one time to say how absolutely happy I am that this is happening for Kwame, and for Chicago.
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it's so ... large
Esther Bintliff@estherbintliff4 Sep 2023
Great excitement at the @nytimes London bureau where @mccanner brought in this gigantic epic croissant to share (Bonne Maman jam for scale as well as accompaniment) 🥐
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The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department nytimes.com/2023/07/10/busin…

The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department (Published 2023)

Coverage of games, players and leagues will now come primarily from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.

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Rachel Griffin Accurso, the star of “Songs for Littles,” has seen her children’s videos skyrocket in popularity over the last year, garnering more than 4.8 million YouTube subscribers. She says she’s found her calling in encouraging children to speak. nyti.ms/3Nyc5KL

‘Now, Let’s Be a Starfish!’: Learning With Ms. Rachel, Song by Song (Published 2023)

The YouTube star of “Songs for Littles,” an online video series that pulls millions of views, says she’s found her calling in encouraging children to speak.

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To avoid disqualification, Belgium needed a hurdler. Any hurdler. nytimes.com/2023/06/26/sport…

Belgium Was Out of Hurdlers. So a Shot-Putter Agreed to Run. (Published 2023)

Jolien Boumkwo’s 100-meter hurdles debut was not a stunt. Her team needed the points, and she volunteered.

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erin mccann | retweeted
Amanda Katz@katzish14 Jun 2023
“The crackdown comes…as victims’ advocates continue to press the denomination to take action after devastating reports of sexual abuse of women and children, and are met with resistance from some men in the organization”
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There is a movement in the Southern Baptist Convention to purge women from its leadership. Some churches with female pastors have already been expelled. And this week, delegates are set to vote on a strict ban against women in church leadership. nyti.ms/3qwLoOv

Southern Baptists Move to Purge Churches With Female Pastors (Published 2023)

Some conservatives in the evangelical denomination fear a liberal drift, and are set to vote on a strict ban against women in church leadership. Two churches are appealing their expulsions.

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Silvio Berlusconi has been dominant for so long in Italy that I wrote his obit for both the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost
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A California family found around $10,000 while cleaning a relative’s Los Angeles home last fall. But it wasn’t so simple to collect the treasure — it came in the form of an estimated one million pennies. nyti.ms/45UX6Tj
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Sunrise reveals another day of widespread haze across the Northeast, with another significant push of thick wildfire smoke likely across the region. Live updates --> nyti.ms/3Nh55CT
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The last time it happened was in 1891, and it didn’t go well for the royal family. nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world…

Queen Victoria’s Son Was the Last British Royal to Testify in Court (Published 2023)

Prince Harry’s expected courtroom testimony this week will be the first time that a prominent member of Britain’s royal family has been cross-examined in over 130 years.

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WHY DID NO ONE PICK UP THIS STORY MY GOD
Frankie Adkins@frankie_adkins322 May 2023
Recently, I pitched a story about the very weird tradition of competitive worm charming. This was a bit of a tumbleweed pitch — mostly silence from editors and a few bemused rejections. (1/8) 🪱
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*exceptionally* happy to share with the (dwindling number of) people on this site that @clairemoses is joining our Express crew in London as a reporter nytco.com/press/claire-moses…

Claire Moses Joining Express Team | The New York Times Company

Claire brings breaking news skills and an eye for unusual features to her new role in London. Read more in this note from Patrick LaForge and Erin McCann We are beyond delighted to announce that…

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(also exceptionally amused at how she's 100% judging you in that photograph)
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TIL: The chief of the Kyle, Texas, fire department is named Kyle. nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/ky…

What Do You Call 2,326 Kyles in One Place? A World Record. (Published 2023)

Kyle, Texas, is hosting a fair this month to try to break the world record for the largest gathering of people with the same first name.

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Caity Weaver@caityweaver11 May 2023
I thought I liked this story by @conniewang — but when I started crying at the part where all the Connies meet their namesake Connie Chung at the story’s photo shoot, I realized I LOVED it 😭 THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS ALSO NAMED CONNIE!!! I’M SCREAMING nytimes.com/interactive/2023…

Opinion | Why Are There So Many Asian American Women Named Connie? (Published 2023)

I thought my story was special. Little did I know it was the story of a generation.

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is it "by earning investment banking level money"
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