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Dena Takruri
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Senior Presenter and Producer, AJ+
Peabody Award-winning Senior Presenter @ajplus | Coauthor of They Called Me A Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight For Freedom out now! bit.ly/3wu5klM
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Donald Winkler
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Editor and Co-Publisher, International Wine Review
Editor and Co-Publisher of the International Wine Review.
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Sabrina Hahn
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Presenter, ABC Radio and Writer, The West Australian
ABC radio presenter, The West Australian garden writer, plant-a-holic, gardening know-a-lot, tree hugger & dedicated supporter of wine growers. Hort with Heart.
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John McMurtrie
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Nonfiction Editor, Kirkus Reviews
Nonfiction editor, @KirkusReviews. General editor of LITERARY JOURNEYS, published by @princetonupress.
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Nicholas Best
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Senior Producer, CNN
Producer @CNN. Sort of a guitarist. Definitely a film fanatic.
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David Rapp
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Indie Editor, Kirkus Reviews
@KirkusReviews. All opinions my own. He/him.
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Margot Harrison
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Associate Editor, Seven Days
I'm associate editor at Seven Days, Vermont's alt weekly news and culture source, and write about books and film. My YA author alter-ego is @MargotFHarrison.
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Ed Levine
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Founder, Serious Eats
Founder of @SeriousEats, host of Special Sauce podcast, author of memoir Serious Eater: . Order it: tinyurl.com/y4vacq4q
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Marc Freeman
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Journalist and Writer, Freelance
Freelance journalist for @VanityFair, @thr, Slate, & more. 1st book, a Modern Family oral history is out May 2020. Dad, husband, angst-ridden & sometimes funny
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Lalit Kumar Singh
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Freelance Contributor, Freelance
Independent Journalist | Alumni @IIMC_india , SIS @JNU_official_50 | Ex @NDTV, @bigfmindia, Ex Co-Founder @Greportindia | Views are personal | 🇮🇳
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Jordan Ritter Conn
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Senior Staff Writer, The Ringer
Senior Staff Writer: @ringer. Author, THE ROAD FROM RAQQA. Working on a book about masculinity in America.
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