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Journalism gets fused with art “Empathy — putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, a natural product of journalism — is now limited by our screens.” Here we are, experiencing loss together, but we can’t gather. I can FaceTime you; I can text you puppy photos. But this process makes us that much more dependent on the phones we use for work, life, doomscrolling, and the other pandemic realities we desperately want to escape. It’s like an apocalyptic movie where the credits never ro...

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Emory Webster can talk again — and she’s got a lot to say.  Last month, the Arizona Daily Star and ProPublica reported that Emory, who is 11 and has cerebral palsy, had been waiting more than 18 months for a communication device from the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities, or DDD. The wait was over the day after the story appeared.  “Monday morning I had a text from our...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced in partnership with the Arizona Daily Star, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Emory Webster can talk again — and she’s got a lot to say. Last month, the Arizona Daily Star and ProPublica reported that Emory, who is 11 and has cerebral palsy, had been waiting more than 18 months for a communication de...