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When I was young, baseball players were like teachers to me, in that it was hard to imagine them doing anything other than their job. In the same way that I imagined my teachers living and sleeping in their classrooms, at age 10 or so I couldn t really conceive of a baseball player s life off of the field. So when I saw Jack McDowell s 1992 Pinnacle baseball card for the first time, I was a little dumbstruck.
If you ve never seen it, the card features McDowell in a killer early â90s vest strumming a guitar in some kind of live venue. And when I saw it back then, I couldn t imagine anything cooler than a pitcher who also played in a rock band. The back story on McDowell is that an injury a few years prior had given him more time to devote to his musical interests.
If there's anything the past few years have taught us, it's the importance of communication. Politics, social issues, and a global crisis have divided us like never before and it's been scary to observe how even our leaders struggle to communicate with each other. But there's hope! These tips from expert Celeste Headlee can be applied at work or at home. Whether you're speaking to your partner, a friend, or someone you fundamentally disagree with, you can apply these methods to come to a better understanding. Click through the gallery to learn more.
In July, we published this statement in recognition of the work we needed to begin at CPR to confront issues of equity, diversity and inclusion in our newsroom and organization as a whole.
The ongoing fight against racism in newsrooms
Yesterday, Alex Goldman a co-host of
Reply All, a popular tech podcast produced by Gimlet popped up in the show’s feed with a brief programming announcement: “The Test Kitchen,”
Reply All’s recent series about racism at the food magazine
Bon Appétit, has been canceled; the show as a whole is going on hiatus; and two of its journalists P.J. Vogt, a co-host alongside Goldman, and Sruthi Pinnamaneni, who reported the Test Kitchen series won’t be coming back. Goldman also offered an apology. “We now understand that we should never have published this series as reported, and the fact that we did was a systemic editorial failure,” he said. “We’re very sorry for our many failings.”