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Julia Ritchey

@juliaritchey.bsky.social
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Audio scavenger at NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. Focus on econ and eating whole grains. Savannah, Ga. Signal jritchey.44

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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We (@PlanetMoney) are hiring a temp video producer. Remote-hybrid for folks in NYC. job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
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Temporary Video Producer III, Planet Money
New York, New York, United States
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
All reporters should do this. Larry King-style: seven words or less.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is how brief they're getting under Kevin Warsh.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Huge win for NPR getting this distribution deal w Casey Newton and Kevin Roose for their new video pod. After years of NYT poaching from NPR’s bench! (FYI, The Indicator is also launching a Saturday video pod with Kenny Malone and @wailinwong.bsky.social!) Stay tuned!! www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Kevin Roose and Casey Newton partner with NPR
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are partnering with NPR for distribution and ad sales of their new show, "Machine Gods."
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can't believe we've rebranded flip phones as foldables.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We checked in with our cousins to the North about how Canada is treating this trade war. www.npr.org/2026/09/08/n...
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Canada fights tariffs with tariffs : The Indicator from Planet Money
The era of friendly diplomacy has fallen to the wayside once again as the U.S. - Canada trade war enters a new phase. This time, Canada is countering the latest round of tariffs with their own, target...
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Beyond credulity that Bessent barring certain media orgs from G20 Finance in Asheville is anything other than viewpoint discrimination. The Grove Park Inn can handle the volume. They also denied AVL’s only watchdog outlet but allowed the Gannett-owned paper. avlwatchdog.org/watchdog-oth...
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Watchdog, other selected media denied access to cover G20 finance summit • Asheville Watchdog
The response, when it finally came, was terse.  “Thank you for your interest in covering the U.S. G20 Finance Ministerial in Asheville, North Carolina,” the Treasury Department press office wrote to t...
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Weekend homework.
Picking pattern for intro to Jolene by Dolly Parton. Capo 4th fret.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Three years ago we mourned the loss of Coyote vs. Acme, a fully finished movie unceremoniously shelved. But now it's back! In theaters tomorrow! Here's our episode with the team behind the film on what it took to get it out into the world, by @samkesler.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2026/08/27/n...
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Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its big break : The Indicator from Planet Money
Coyote vs. Acme will finally get its theatrical release on Friday after a years-long saga involving supposed tax write-downs, negotiations and multibillion-dollar studio deals. It's a drama almost str...
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Zuckerberg saw the writing on the wall. As part of this settlement, Meta has agreed to: > end infinite scroll > enact 2-hour time limits > silent notifications between 10 pm to 7 am > tallying of like button clicks www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims
The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of the best perks of working at WPLN in Nashville is I got annual tickets to Dollywood, a place I loved visiting when growing up in WNC. A truly affordable family vacation for a lot of folks who couldn’t do Disney. Dolly forever.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not Dolly. Not now.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Poetry.
NYT PUSH NOTIFICATION: Frank Beard, ZZ Top’s drummer and the band’s only member without a beard, is dead at 77.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New season of ‘Winning Time’ when…
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ugh, @npr.org shop just dropped a line of 90s merch. This is millennial catnip. shopnpr.org
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Radio Free Asia, mostly dismantled by Trump 2.0 and Kari Lake, is holding an auction for all their A/V equipment, among other items. They suspended most language broadcasts (Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur) last year. Pickup in D.C. only. rasmus.com/auctions/gal...
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Shipping is available. Please contact Antonio for shipping: antonio@antoniosmoving.com For delivery within a 150 mile radius, contact Lugg: https://lugg.com/rasmus-auctions-delivery License 2906000261 WE have split the TV & Radio production equipment and the office furniture and business equipment into two separate auctions.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Which letter best describes how the U.S. economy is shaped: C or K? We examine the Sesame Street arguments for both and why there’s so much disagreement over who’s faring best in today’s economy. open.spotify.com/episode/0Nj5...
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C is for C-shaped economy
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A Georgia company that made peanut products for malnourished kids abroad lost all its business after USAID was decimated. So it pivoted to making peanut butter for Feeding America food banks, which have also seen deep cuts from the Trump admin. thecurrentga.org/2026/08/04/g...
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Good Spread peanut butter a ‘win-win’ for communities in U.S., abroad - The Current
After USAID cuts, the Georgia-based nonprofit Mana Nutrition relaunched its Good Spread peanut butter line to subsidize food bank distributions and combat domestic hunger.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So much flashy corruption in this era, easy to overlook this kinda press release. The US Treasury quietly gutted a rule (once embraced by both parties) to disclose names behind shell companies. Here’s our story from May on the slow death of the Corporate Transparency Act: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5831...
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🥶🥶🥶
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Let's commiserate over job lock-in: indicator@npr.org or jritchey@npr.org if you have a good story.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I was also happy this turned out to be the case. As someone who does not like war movies but does like in Monty Python when they all go "run away, run away" in abject terror ...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This parasite story reminds me of the plot line from East of Eden when Adam bet on shipping the refrigerated boxcar of lettuce to NYC only for it to spoil and ruin him financially... though not gastrointestinally. 70% of U.S. lettuce comes from Salinas Valley!
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One of the best accountability and solutions journalism stories I've seen in a minute. Charleston's Post & Courier mapped all the accountability deserts across the state where corruption is most ripe and offers some ways to fix it (based on North Carolina 💪). www.postandcourier.com/news/special...
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TOWNFALL: Many South Carolina towns are broken — plagued by infighting, corruption and mismanagement. Here’s how to fix them.
A new Post and Courier report reveals how small towns have become dens of corruption or incompetence. Many lie in “accountability deserts,” our analysis shows.
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NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Are you working in the U.S. under a Temporary Protected Status that is about to expire? Do you employ workers with expiring TPS status? We'd like to hear from you for a potential story. Email: indicator@npr.org.
Are you working in the U.S. under a Temporary Protected Status that is about to expire? Do you employ workers with expiring TPS status? We'd like to hear from you for a potential story. Email: indicator@npr.org.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@jmritchey.bsky.social Eegah!
A sign forewarning of snakes.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This game is like the Calvin peeing decal, but in place of Calvin is le manneken-pis, Brussels’ most famous baby duke statue, relieving himself on U.S. soil.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’m not so much pivoting to video at work as falling down the stone well in E3 of Widow’s Bay.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It appears the Kevin O’Leary Utah data center fallout claimed three Utah GOP incumbents last night. I covered these guys during my time as a statehouse reporter in SLC, including some #metoo allegations, so this is pretty major for normally staid red-state politics. www.ksl.com/article/5153...
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Stuart Adams, Trevor Lee, Dan McCay lose reelection bids in Utah Legislature
Multiple prominent Republicans in the Utah Legislature have lost their bids for reelection, including one of the most powerful politicians in the state.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A brilliantly bad idea hatched by @wailinwong.bsky.social and me during a story edit: A chatbot named Pearl that dispenses advice trained only on things people’s grandmas told them growing up, even or especially if outlandish or untrue. Prompts are called Pearls of Wisdom.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
[Toy Story 5 spoiler] Lilypad’s redemption arch palliates surveillance capitalism and the toys are complicit.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Memphis emcees 8Ball & MJG Tiny Desk just posted for NPR's Black Music Month! Watched this taping two weeks at in D.C. and the energy was electric. Southern rap at its finest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXf...
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8Ball & MJG: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Congo wearing those 🔥 leopard print arrival fits destroyed my hope of securing a late ticket to see them in ATL. Tix were $169 May 10, now cheapest is like $460 since they landed. 😭
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
World Cup tips: This site lets you pick the countries you want to follow and synchs all the games to your phone calendar including knockouts. Through Peacock, you can watch the Telemundo casts of the matches without all the American commentary. mon-calendrier-coupe-du-monde-2026.vercel.app#builder
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My Calendar — World Cup 2026
Build your FIFA World Cup 2026 calendar and subscribe — it updates itself as the bracket fills in.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Will be in NYC next month and kindly ask the incredible playoffs vibes to continue through the summer, please and thanks.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"...Starbase bears less similarity to the enlightened wonderland depicted in [Star Trek] than it does to the autocratic company towns of the 19th and early 20th centuries." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is Colonizing Earth
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Elon Musk is a vewwy special boy who gets vewwwy special rules. The SpaceX IPO tomorrow is no exception: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
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The SpaceX IPO drama explained : The Indicator from Planet Money
What the SpaceX IPO, the largest ever, reveals about big tech, the NASDAQ and more big IPOs to come. Sure it will make Elon Musk a trillionaire, but what does this mean for your retirement account? Fa...
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Me.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Chalamet needs to summon shai-halud. Put everyone at this game out of their misery.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Utterly predictable.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Why Saudis lost the will to LIV (laugh, love) from @wailinwong.bsky.social feat. golf guru Alan Shipnuck. www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...
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Saudi’s LIV Golf exit is just the start : The Indicator from Planet Money
Is Saudi Arabia no longer a golf state? The Saudi sovereign wealth fund poured billions into culture and sports in the last decade, none more high profile than LIV Golf, a rival to the PGA. So why is ...
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It’s because you can’t hold your beer while playing like you can in cornhole.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Tonight if you’re a New Yorker with children you need to set a good example and get arrested. Prove to your children that you stand for something, particularly New York basketball
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Made a playlist of some highlights (old and new favs) from Kilby Block Party in Utah last weekend. Best music festival I’ve ever attended. open.spotify.com/playlist/3r5...
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Kilby Highlights ‘26
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There are now businesses to certify your work as human-generated. @darianwoods.bsky.social profiles one and subjects The Indicator to the "H" test to prove we are not AI slop machines. lnk.to/q1KNPAjtWE
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It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop : The Indicator from Planet Money
Go to It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop : The Indicator from Planet Money.
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great marketing for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey* *The Odyssey takes place before the Peloponnesian War 🤓
Google trend for Thucydides Trap
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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
East of Eden is my favorite book of all time and to get a remake from Kathy's POV played by Florence Pugh is a fever dream. I can even overlook the fact that Netflix is making it. youtu.be/fdBr5KyUilU?...
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East of Eden | Official Teaser | Netflix
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