mirandaleitsinger: Recent Episodes

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My Journey in Journalism

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After #Election2018 + seeing all of these women winning, you think, ‘fantastic.’ Then you realize we’re NOW making up 22 percent of Congress and 28 percent of CA state leg … and […]

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I conceived this series with a colleague focusing on California women making their first bids for political office — from city hall to Congress. We received 50 responses to an engagement callout […]

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CHICAGO — Denee Mallon marveled at the view of Lake Michigan from her hospital bed in the Windy City, where she had just made history: the then 74-year-old transgender woman underwent a […]

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Iyengar National Association of the U.S. (letter): overhauls sexual misconduct reporting, ethical guidelines, use of touch in teaching (moving to informed consent) and will require all teachers and some others to take […]

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A KQED callout for #MeToo accounts in the Bay Area yoga world and my ensuing investigation revealed a range of allegations by seven women against five teachers: from inappropriate massage to a […]

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For more than 50 years, Eric Smith has delivered the San Francisco Chronicle to his neighbors and friends in the Berkeley Hills – throwing millions of newspapers from his 1975 Chevrolet Capri. […]

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Very excited to report that I have been named a finalist for this GLAAD award for my months-long enterprise story: “Left Behind: LGBT Homeless Youth Struggle to Survive on the Streets.” The winner […]

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The latest in my coverage of the Gregory-DiMartino family, survivors of the Boston Marathon. Rebekah had her leg amputated on Monday. I spoke with her over the weekend before the surgery. Despite the […]

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A controversial interview I did with the leader of the anti-gay marriage camp ahead of the Supreme Court decision on whether or not to hear same-sex marriage cases pending before it. Is NOM […]

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Shortly after her wife died in March, Arlene Goldberg had to give up the beloved South Florida home that the couple shared. Because Goldberg’s 2011 marriage to her partner of 47 years […]