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Shradha Dinesh

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(data) reporter at the wall street journal

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Susan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Thank you @ire.org for recognizing Killer Train from @miamiherald.com and @wlrnnews.bsky.social. A massive team effort behind this reporting—the list of names reflects it.
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Susan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This was a collaborative effort across journalists, editors, photographers and graphic teams across two newsrooms. Reporting: @brittanywallman.bsky.social, @danielrivero.bsky.social, @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social, @joshceb.bsky.social, @shradhadinesh.bsky.social, @beckreports.bsky.social and myself
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Susan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Honored that @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social recognized our @miamiherald.com / @wlrnnews.bsky.social investigation into the country’s deadliest major passenger train www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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Pulitzer Prizes honor Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown and Brightline investigation
Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown on Monday was honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for her groundbreaking and impactful investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 06/11/2025
Darren Brown was drawn to Florida by Brightline to be a part of something exciting, a new, fast train, privately owned, luxury on wheels. He was incredibly proud to be, as he called it, a “badass bullet train conductor.” Until the deaths started happening. 🧵
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Susan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“There’d been a communication breakdown. The second Brightline train ‘suddenly approached’ at maximum speed, an official record of the incident recounted. Everyone ran for their lives. The train ran over Conrad a second time.” — @brittanywallman.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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Haunted by Brightline: A conductor got his dream job. Then people started dying.
“What’s your body count?” someone asked the conductor on Instagram. “16,” he responded, like he was providing his shirt size.
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Susan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Latest from Killer Train: FECR is suing Brightline for “clandestinely” negotiating with county governments to add more trains to its rails in violation of a contract agreement between the two companies. Story by @joshceb.bsky.social + @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/miam...
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 01/08/2025
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
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FEC Railway sues Brightline over commuter rail expansion plan
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 18/07/2025
After an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.”
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Killer Train: U.S. transportation chief commits to reducing Brightline deaths
After an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.”
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New Miami Herald/WLRN investigation: Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 21/05/2025
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
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Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
so excited to be in snowy minneapolis for #NICAR25! say hi if you’re around, i’d love to connect
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Short of sitting by the tracks and scrutinizing hazardous material placards, they have no way of knowing what's on every railcar passing through." NEW data story w/ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at UMD: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g...
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Two years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East Palestine
Two years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East Palestine.
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
regretting all decisions that led me to understand every single word of this piece
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
it’s wild that just a couple weeks worth of abysmal music habits/taste during college finals took over all other data for the year on my spotify wrapped
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 03/12/2024
screengrab from Arrested Development when Buster Bluth and Lucille no. 1 attend "Motherboy XXX"
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
who is going to write the explainer on how the tiktok fyp has been taken over by livestreams peddling QVC channel-esque teleshopping slop content!! who is watching this stuff? (I personally see more of this now than any other labeled advertising! and the app has felt unusable for weeks now)
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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
To all a happy 🎇🎇🎇 International Shapefile Day 🎇🎇🎇🎇 May your colleagues never send you just the .shp when you ask for their data. (thanks to Gabriel Zanlorenssi for reminding me)
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
in anticipation of my new computer arriving, I've endured almost nightly dreams where I'm stuck in a groundhog day-type eternity debugging a flood of nonsensical python environment errors
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
finally my favorite time of the year — got offline and accomplished some of my own recipe testing this week need to add some cookie week recipes to the rotation asap!
A spread of two types of cookie (peanut butter blossoms and sugar) and dehydrated orange slices.
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
my password manager, of all things (!!!), got bought out a few years ago and this perfectly sums up my feelings about finding another (still haven’t) (and more broadly how the constant need to replace tech with other ~better~ tech feels like such a waste of time & energy)
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…
Image: A bedroom at night, a face is lit up by the glow of a phone screen displaying cat memes. On the book-cluttered bedside table, three books look on angrily. The lead book waves a large knife and says: "Nobody needs to get hurt... Let's just put the phone down, nice and slowly..."

Caption: Bedside reading pile turns nasty
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
hello! here’s a random map i made a long time ago 📊 trying to find other folks working on interesting *data science-y* /computational social sci projects and writers on internet culture and tech/AI & society beats say hi if that sounds like you :)
Monochromatic blue map showing the bathymetry of Lake Superior in meters created in March 2022. Title is Lake Superior Bathymetry and the continuous scale is a dark to light color ramp from -405.1 meters to 376.81 meters.
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Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
microdosing this app until it stops feeling like every post in my feed was written in 2012 internet
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