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senior producer #ghoststory @pineapplemedia | before: the daily @nytimes , made the #1619podcast

New York, NY
Joined January 2010
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
Election night at the @nytimes is electric and frenzied. But top moment for me was when @mikiebarb and I got shooed away from the reporters who were calling races
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@nniebrown
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1 year
i'm working with a new host on a podcast series, and in emails to sources or outside experts he describes members of the team as his "producer colleagues" rather than his producers. a small thing, and a low bar to clear but shocking how unusual that small gesture of respect is.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 years
happy birthday @barbaro . here's you singing to yourself. or hmm-ing to yourself, rather.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
a little pRoFeSsIoNaL news for your Monday morning feed: after 5 amazing years at the nytimes making The Daily & #1619podcast , I have decided to join a team doing some of the most exciting work in audio... today is my first day @pineapplemedia !
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
the final episode of ghost story is out this week! (i’m a few days late…) we spent over a year making this wild story and we’re so proud of it. so i’m gonna take a thread to tell you abt the people who made it!!
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
whenever the daily has a female voice on the show, we invariably receive some comment like this, but this one is particularly hysterical. tag a friend who’s also unbearable, nothing personal!
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
"I am the American heartbreak-- / The rock on which Freedom / Stumped its toe-- / The great mistake / That Jamestown made / Long ago." -Langston Hughes, "American Heartbreak: 1619" what a triumph @nhannahjones !!!
@nhannahjones
Ida Bae Wells
3 years
Just got home from two days of emotionally devastating filming in my ancestral land of Mississippi and this was waiting for me. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I finally am holding it in my hands. The very first image in the book: That’s my dad. 🖤🖤🖤
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
reporters @nytimes spend a lot of time distancing themselves from “opinion,” but it doesn’t matter. when opinion publishes something like this, it reflects on the whole paper, it changes how people view reporters on the ground and lifts up violent opinions with the paper’s clout
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
My new piece: She was going to be the 1st US prisoner to get gender-reassignment surgery. The prison had other plans
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
sheri fink's reporting is stunning and thorough. she's among the best yall, and this is a must listen/must read as a new hurricane barrels toward the east coast
@sherifink
Sheri Fink
6 years
Today, part one of a two part podcast on how one family's hurricane rescue saga reveals frightening gaps in our preparedness, from The Daily based on my story Lost in the Storm. Podcast here: . Produced by @nniebrown for @nytimes
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
yall gotta listen to @katiemingle 's podcast According to Need @99piorg . homelessness is ubiquitous in our world and yet most of us look away. the show is so good at mixing the personal with the structural. it's heartbreaking & infuriating & tender.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
what a phenomenal and infuriating story. companies have been knowingly dumping cancer- and liver damage-causing chemicals into community water for decades, and getting away with it. from @emilysteel and @degelles
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
LA! Come see some members of The Daily team talk about making the show -- Sept 20 w/ @mikiebarb @itscaitlinhd & me at the Ace Hotel theater.
@NYTimesPR
NYTimes Communications
6 years
This September, join @mikiebarb and “The Daily” on the West Coast #TimesEvents
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
oops
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
this has been an all around shitty time and a particularly rough go on the times' audio team, but getting to work with this empathetic and brilliant team every day has been a true comfort. i dislike how invisible the work of producers and editors is, so forgive a small THREAD 1/
@sorayashock
Soraya Shockley
3 years
This is the first episode of a series I’ve been working on with the incomparable @nniebrown @2sindhu @LizOBaylen and Lisa Tobin. Welcome to ODESSA!
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
Well, when your boss tells you to retire...
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
A group of producers out of San Quentin prison are vying for a spot in one of the most popular podcast networks.
@CalSunday
California Sunday
8 years
"Y'all ready to listen? 'Cause we ready to talk." Podcasting from San Quentin:
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
. @pamelacolloff is one of my most favorite reporters / writers so this means a whole lot to me. ✨
@pamelacolloff
Pamela Colloff
6 years
Finally listened to this episode of The Daily, in which an evangelical who's soured on Trump has a heartfelt conversation with her Trump-supporting dad. Wish we had more dialogues like this. Or dialogue at all. Important work by @nniebrown @elizabethjdias
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
new @CalSunday on SOUND is beautiful. check out my piece on 1st podcast inside prison + hear prison radio from 1941
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
i mean what, exactly, “compels” men to comment on women’s voices and not what those voices are saying
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
Yeah sex is good but have you ever tried sitting on the phone with your insurance company for over an hour trying to get them to cover basic care? It fucking sucks.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
5 years
At 2:58 Chuck Schumer tells the world about the 1619 project, recounting Nikole's story nearly in full. He also recommends everyone listen to it "on podcast" which I think is a great idea.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
5 years
This episode has some of the most astonishing tape I have ever heard.
@mikiebarb
Michael Barbaro
5 years
On today's Daily: three months ago, a recording appeared on an obscure web site for whistleblowers in the Mormon community. @nniebrown and @Liz_A_Harris with the extraordinary story that recording told:
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
this is like toy story for plants
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
9 years
This 99% story was so fun to make. Listen & youll meet a girl who saw her own face on a milk carton http://t.co/p6EMTUs2NM @romanmars
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
bittersweet to say goodbye to so many amazing colleagues. but so pumped to join the incredible team that @WBJenna and @maxlinsky have built.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 years
Love this beautiful story about Rauch, pronounced Roach, the sort of unofficial veterinarian of San Quentin prison.
@earhustlesq
Ear Hustle Podcast
7 years
Meet Rauch, a critter-lover: “If I could be an animal, I'd be a wish dragon that only appeared when kids needed it.”
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
It’s a perfect companion to samins utterly brilliant SALT FAT ACID HEAT which WILL teach you how to actually cook— to learn to taste and experiment for yourself— if you let it
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5 years
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
call 415-529-6057 when you're in the bathroom. I guarantee you'll see it differently. #SFHomelessProject @PopUpMag
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
the moral of this nymag story is never yawn or stretch while next to @mikiebarb
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
5 years
good to see the times homepage designers having some fun in the new year
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
!!!
@KingJames
LeBron James
6 years
Everyone should take time to listen to this. Really deep look at what young black men go through. The idea that it's just about "class" isn't true. It's about so much more.
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Annie Brown
7 months
@ChloePrasinos was my partner in it from the beginning. such a creative brilliant mind on that one. (she also crucially held it together during the seance you hear in ep 7 while the host tristan and i became totally useless)
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
Call 415-529-6057 on your way to work tomorrow & let @baratunde make your commute more interesting.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
finally, i’m sure if you’ve heard the show you can already tell, @TristanAJE was just abt the best host one can ask for. a dogged reporter, a delight to travel w and spend hrs on zoom w, and the kind of ego-less host who yielded all the latitude i needed to do my job well
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Annie Brown
8 months
chloe is a true talent & a delight — her editorial brain is so sharp, incisive & generous. she builds beautifully & interviews thoroughly. she trains greener producers with so much patience. her layoff was a devastating loss to our team. snag her up before some else does!!!
@ChloePrasinos
Chloe Prasinos
8 months
So! If you need an editor w/ a decade of experience in the biz to structure your series or finesse your script; a teacher to speak on formal innovation or making fiction; a reporter-producer to find the nuance; a sound designer to bring the magic — I’m at cbprasinos at gmail
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
many thanks to our partners at @WonderyMedia (esp @richkradio ) and all of our colleagues at @pineapplemedia !!!
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
we were lucky to have two amazing producers in @xandraellin and @emrolled . both of these women are whip smart and hysterical. some of the smartest and funniest lines in the show were written by them.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
<3
@basimrazzo
Basim Razzo
6 years
Congrats @nniebrown , and thankful for making my voice heard.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
@AsteadWesley i would give my sister my white nuggets and she would give me her grey ones. i was on the winning end of that deal.
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Annie Brown
2 years
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
V special phone story this week from a member of the Pulse Nightclub family. Call 415-529-6057 when you're at home.
@PopUpMag
Pop-Up Magazine
8 years
This week our Phone Story is from Giovanni Nieves, a hair stylist and drag performer from Orlando. Dial 415-529-6057 when you're at home.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 years
Criminal is airing milk carton kids from @99pi ! Spoiler: I found a kid who saw HER OWN FACE ON THE CARTON
@CriminalShow
Criminal
7 years
The story behind the first face ever printed on a milk carton, w/ reporter @nniebrown and @99piorg . Listen & share:
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
I’ve cried from joy three times already— obviously once when Samin cried while eating the perfect parmasean
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
i am SO HAPPY to hear that EAR HUSTLE has won radiotopia's podquest. so deserved. can NOT wait to hear.
@radiotopia
Radiotopia
8 years
It's f㏌ally here! Our #Podquest w㏌ner is... @letsearhustle ! Read about the contest & the impressⅳe w㏌ner on our blog
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
everyone knows @lovelljoel is an incredible narrative editor, and boy is he, but you might not know he’s a total delight to work with and write jokes with.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
finding new music you love that isnt actually "new" is a little like falling for a new crush -- you can’t believe they’ve just been living in the same world this whole time and you’re only finding out now.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
its the head hitting the limbo stick that does it for me
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
@kevinroose appropriate questions
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
lisa tobin's story brain is unparalleled. she knows immediately what you’re trying to accomplish in an early draft, and then takes the story by the hand all the way to the finish. it’s amazing to be a part of.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
last week of #Olympics & last week to hear @latifnasser 's hysterical phone story about the weirdest olympic prizes. 415-529-6057-- call it.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
why are we so obsessed with gender we have to assign one to hurricanes?
@ABC
ABC News
6 years
"We could only capture her with a super wide-angle lens." Massive Hurricane #Florence seen from the International Space Station:
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Annie Brown
6 years
in a mashup of my dreams, @DollyParton wrote a song for this More Perfect album. DOLLY PARTON PEOPLE. radio has never felt more like the place for me.
@Radiolab
Radiolab
6 years
More Perfect is dropping an ALBUM feat. @DollyParton , @DevendraBanhart , @tmbg , @kashdoll and many more. Album + all new podcast season drop 9/18. Listen to our first single by @kevinmorby - exclusively on Billboard:
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
@AsteadWesley astead "i'm going to tweet less this year" herdon
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
our amazing associate producer was @natalie_peart , who supported every aspect of the show and handled the very complicated logistics of reporting. as one intl reporter at the times told me years ago, logistics are 70% of reporting. (also the last line of the show was nat’s idea)
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
the wonderful @jesshackel developed this story with tristan at the beginning and from the start saw the potential in it. she stuck around production and ran all fact checking and behind the scenes editorial work
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
I've got a story in @CalSunday 's new issue on SOUND about podcasting in prison. Bonus: hear prison radio from 1941!
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
@AsteadWesley i love that you were fishing for this meme during our interview
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
5 years
part 2 tomorrow! the final ep
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
come dive deep into structure! tape! editing! sound! music! story! and apply to @uniondocs audio storytelling intensive. this is gonna be real fun.
@AIRmedia
AIR
6 years
We're looking for 14 gifted storytellers to make up the Winter class at AIR’s #FullSpectrum18 Storytelling Intensive @UnionDocs . Apply by 10/9.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
. @sorayashock just joined the team as this project was beginning but she is already a leader. her writing is incisive & funny. you will hear more of her builds in later episodes, but many of the best lines in todays ep came from soraya’s brilliant brain. i’ll do whatever she says
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
SAMIN SAMIN SAMIN SAMIN... @CiaoSamin <3 <3 <3
@Eater
Eater
6 years
Netflix has announced a return date for ‘Chef’s Table’ and a new series based on the hit cookbook ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
like the spy cliffhanger at the end of ep 4? that was xandra, and the show’s log line (‘a story about the things that come back to haunt you’) was emerald
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
LL Lulu
@lmillernpr
Lulu Miller
6 years
Today is LL Cool J's 50th birthday !!!! As such, I have prepared a list of 50 OTHER things that Ladies Love. @llcoolj
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 months
our executive producer was maddy sprung keyser who has no social media, that sane creature, but who deserves to be shouted out none the less. i’ve never experienced a smoother production cuz of all the work she did in laying the road for us to walk.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
. @LizOBaylen is the most rigorous editor i’ve ever worked with. she has shown me how to move mountains to get reporting done i didn’t think was possible. there’s nothing this woman can’t do.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
whyyyyyy nytimes whyyyyy
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
1 year
very glad the panera bread moment made it into the write up @ilyamarritz @AndreaBNYC
@ilyamarritz
Ilya Marritz
1 year
wow thank you @asarahlarson for including Will Be Wild in your ten best! very excited to rub shoulders here with @NancySolomon2 @trufelman @rumblestripvt @leoncrawl & so many more whose work I enjoy & admire
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
"good people thriving makes me thrive" +1
@radbrowndads
ahmed ali akbar
6 years
I interviewed @ciaosamin for @seesomething earlier this year and I'm relistening to it now, after having watched Salt Fat Acid Heart on Netflix. I'm so happy. Good people thriving makes me thrive.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
i wrote this poem out by hand earlier this year and taped it to my wall
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@JiayangFan
Jiayang Fan 樊嘉扬
2 years
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. (ELIZABETH BISHOP)
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
oh man this is gonna be really good -- and from some of my absolute faves @hooliwho @TracieHunte @AMelathe cannot wait for more family cameos throughout
@hooliwho
julia longoria
3 years
Our new show, The Experiment, starts today, with a toast. Our trailer is a little story about my aunt's weird, wise tipsy words. Can't wait to share more from the brilliant brains @WNYC and @TheAtlantic . #TheExperimentPodcast
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
lol he could have a very successful youtube presence
@robinlopsahl
Robin Opsahl
6 years
michael barbaro asmr
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
5 years
BOBBY
@mysweetlord
Bobby Lord
5 years
Most people don't realize we typically use the instrumental version of podcast theme songs. For instance, here's the full theme for The Daily with the original lyrics.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
The forgotten civil rights story of black resistance in Louisiana-- an awesome piece from @eeddings & @undoneshow .
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Annie Brown
7 years
Read the whole thread of this to get a v detailed sense of what "building a wall" really means.
@reveal
Reveal
7 years
1/ There’s been much talk this week re: @realdonaldtrump ’s proposed border wall. Reporters @mikejcorey & @abeckerreveal have some context.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
everyone should follow this very strong feminist with some very original takes
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
@alexlaughs i feel VERY strongly about "Maruman MNEMOSYNE" 8.27 x 5.83 Inches - unruled. the paper is divine. the sheets are lightly perforated. i only use them.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
first up: @2sindhu built so many scenes in this-- including the classroom AND the open. she makes little jokes w/ tape. her pacing is impeccable. when i feel dry and lacking inspiration i sometimes ask sindhu to take a pass and it invariably comes back pulsing with life & humor
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
so cool from @RadioIke making his new york times homepage premiere!
@RadioIke
Ike Sriskandarajah
6 years
I always loved the skits on The ‘Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.’ So for the 20th anniversary I tracked down a handful of those kids, their teacher and asked them about L-O-V-E. Here’s what they said:
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
1 year
great night sleep on the great western railway @RailwayGreat thanks to the best attendant del
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
Amy Sedaris is adorable and absurd in this week's phone story. Call 415-529-6057.
@PopUpMag
Pop-Up Magazine
8 years
Amy Sedaris has a new story for you. Call 415-529-6057 when you're tidying up to hear it.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
i dont know you but i love you 🙌
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
Call @katebingburt 's phone story, 415-5296057 w/ a pen. Gave me a chance to read this portuguese receipt! @PopUpMag
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
wow yes the metaphors we live by
@robintran04
Robin Tran 🏳️‍⚧️
2 years
“Earn a living” is such a horrifying phrase that we just accept as normal
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
WE MISS YOU
@RadioIke
Ike Sriskandarajah
4 years
This was such a good week of The Daily. The chaos and uncertainty of the moment reminds me why I fell in love with the show when it started. And today’s New York vignettes really brought it home. 👏🏾 @stellatan @jesscheung12 , Alexandra Leigh Young
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
@pamelacolloff okay pamela this is an absurd tweet but thank you
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Annie Brown
4 years
me trying to start an episode draft v50
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 years
SPOTTED
@mikiebarb
Michael Barbaro
7 years
Love this kind of creepin
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
3 years
WE LOVE LISA CHOW
@NYTimesPR
NYTimes Communications
3 years
💫Congrats to Lisa Chow ( @lisaechow ) who was named editor of “The Daily”.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
2 years
there's so much to love in @jmooallem 's piece in the times magazine this week on his famously ugly doppelgänger. but i was knocked over by this description of how headaches actually feel.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
8 years
. @edyong209 brings us an awesome new phone story. Call when you're about to wash your hands. 415-529-6057.
@PopUpMag
Pop-Up Magazine
8 years
Call 415-529-6057 when you’re about to wash your hands for a new Phone Story from @edyong209 .
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
7 years
. @AzmatZahra & @Anand_Gopal_ did the world a huge service.
@AzmatZahra
Azmat Khan
7 years
Ahead of an 18-month @NYTmag investigation by @Anand_Gopal_ & me from Iraq, tune into today’s episode of The Daily, the first of two parts about a man who survived a Coalition airstrike in Iraq: (Produced by the v talented @nniebrown , hosted by @mikiebarb )
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
4 years
i've watched this 57 times now this little head turn my lord
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
4 years
If you’ve had a rough week check out Little Man snoozing with his very good boy.❤️🐶🌎
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
<3 <3 <3
@pepetwocoineth
Pepe 2.0 #PEPE2
6 years
I am on a plane weeping into my hands upon learning that Aretha has passed away. She had no equal… We are so lucky we got to be on this earth when she was alive and was our Queen.
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@nniebrown
Annie Brown
6 years
wow wow for anyone who hasn't heard the breaktaking reporting from @madeleinebaran on in the dark season 2 now is the time
@pamelacolloff
Pamela Colloff
6 years
It's hard to overstate how monumental this news is, in perhaps the most egregious death penalty case in the country right now. It wouldn't have happened without the work of @madeleinebaran and her IN THE DARK team at @apmreports . Their work may now save an innocent man's life.
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Annie Brown
4 years
@SwitchedOnPop @nyphil yessss i have been desperate for this kind of content
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