SMALL NEWS IS BIG NEWS
A lot has changed since Anthony Ciarletta’s first day of employment at a pharmacy. It was the early 1980s, and he was only in the fourth grade. Ciarletta tagged along for work that day with his dad for a lesson
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Emotions ‘Run the Gamut’ in Family’s Hunt for Healthy Organ Gail Jasne, who is battling end-stage liver disease, received dark news about a week ago that also could have potentially delivered her light. Her phone rang and a friend was
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Rebuilding Robust Local News Industry Requires Public Action Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur remembers a moment from his cub reporter days in Brooklyn when the potency and importance of the local press emerged for him in vivid display. He was assigned
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You’ve probably read and seen plenty of coverage about new artificial intelligence platforms – articles and segments showing people experiencing the jaw-dropping capabilities of services like ChatGPT while analysts forecast all manner of danger and opportunity. In some research I
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Last month an interview I conducted with ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) generated a decent amount of buzz, and I’ve had a few people ask for an encore. I didn’t want to return to the device as a novelty. But I did want
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Turkish-American Westchester Moms Turn Tragedy into Common Cause To even come close to understanding why Zeynep Parlak Vitelli was shaking so hard a few days ago, you have to know what unfolded in her childhood a couple of decades ago. I’m
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Credit to Southern District Judge for Saving the Day I was poking around for unrelated legal documents last week when I stumbled across a case that just wrapped up on Jan. 26 in the Southern District of New York federal courthouse in
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Evolving Role of Private Industry Both Entices and Unsettles Seniors This column is part of a series on CareMount / Optum and wider local healthcare issues. Sometimes when you write a column – hopefully most of the time – you
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Root Cause of Misinformation Age: Platforms More Than People Before I dive into this column, I just want to be clear that weekday trips to fancy Manhattan buildings, where I meet media bigwigs and thought leaders from academia, are many
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This piece is part of a series about Optum/CareMount and local healthcare. It was Dec. 4, 2020, and 264 CareMount shareholders — the healthcare group’s doctors — awoke that morning to a potentially exciting, enriching, and career-altering day they hoped
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