Megha Rajagopalan
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Megha Rajagopalan
@meghara
International investigations at The New York Times based in London. I rarely check this site, please email to get in contact [email protected]
London, England
Joined February 2008
- 177 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986, making it among the deadliest countries to be a journalist. Hah, hah, hah.
- For those who can't read it — Woman: "May you have abundance each year." Cat: "May you have fish each year." The Chinese characters for abundance and fish are both pronounced "yú," a joke that is probably centuries old and clearly still hilarious today.You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- NEW: China secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past 3 years, escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even after it publicly claimed the detainees were been set free Some camps can hold >10,000 people.
- The Lion King sets Simba up as a pure-of-heart exile challenging Scar’s corrupt despotism but his coup d’état ultimately serves to reinforce the bankrupt concepts of hereditary rule and might over right. In this dissertation I will
- What’s actually happening is the government is planning to shove out the villagers who have lived on the island with the dragons for generations and re-open it for a small number of wealthy tourists.Indonesia is closing Komodo Island for all of 2020 to protect its Komodo dragons. There are only 1,700 of the rare lizards on the island. Last year, there were over 176,000 visitors who visited the area.
- Am so grateful to our team, to @BuzzFeedNews, @alexcampbell & the organizations that supported us. Most of all I'm grateful to ex-detainees who told us what happened to them inside Xinjiang's camps. The public owes much to their courage. Still much more work to be done.
- NEW: Hidden in the mountains near the China-Kazakhstan border lies a fast-growing internment camp capable of holding thousands. Extensive interviews w 3 ex-detainees & an architectural analysis helped us digitally reconstruct it. From me & @alisonkilling
- Early in my career in journalism, two male colleagues at my level told me what they earned. Armed with that info, I negotiated a similar salary, much higher than my first offer. Male reporters— want to do your part for equal pay? Tell a woman you work with how much you earn.
- Memo from entire continent of Asia: take ur shoes offKeeping floors clean just got a lot easier
- Americans in Austria can now seek consular assistance at McDonalds. This is actually a real thing.
- Replying to @megharaQUEEN. "One colleague told Liang Xiangyi that her eye-rolling moment was broadcast live, to which she replied 'Because the woman next to me was being an idiot.'"
- NEW from @alisonkilling and me — we used public records, satellite images & interviews to find and map scores of factories built right inside Xinjiang's mass internment camps. An ex-detainee who was forced to sew school uniforms said that inside, "I felt like I was in hell.”EXCLUSIVE: For years, human rights activists feared the Xinjiang detention facilities doubled as work camps. For the first time, satellite photos confirm China has built acres of factories inside the compounds, facilitating forced labor on a vast scale. buzzfeednews.com/article/alison…
- Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson vs Taiwan presidential office spokesperson
