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It's hard to believe that a year has passed--it feels like two--which means that it's time for the paperback edition, a surprisingly slender volume available on February 14 . Buy it for a sweetheart. Thanks to all of you who helped make The Naked Don’t Fear the Water a success: it was on TIME and the Economist's Best of 2022 lists, has been longlisted for a PEN award, and is being translated into nine languages, most recently Italian. If you're in New York City next week, please join us for a celebration at
Last Wednesday, the video that I produced with my colleagues from the New York Times ’ Visual Investigation team won two Emmy awards, for Best News Coverage (Short Form), and Outstanding Investigative News Coverage. Here’s the press release :
Using never-before-seen security camera footage, The Visual Investigations team was the first to dispute the military version of a U.S. drone strike against what it claimed was an ISIS suicide bomber. The team proved that the United States instead killed an innocent Afghan civilian and nine of his family members. This group of dogged journalists verified the footage with eyewitness accounts and satellite images to create a highly detailed and damning account of the day’s events. The video unit’s coverage fo
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