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Ann Friedman Had the Bestseller and the Followers. It Still Wasn’t Enough. (opens the original)
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Making music from death row (opens the original)
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It’s rare that I talk about my day job in this newsletter, but in my capacity as Director of Product at The Marshall Project—the nonprofit newsroom focused on criminal justice—I recently had the honor of designing a project called Redemption Songs. Each week, reporter Maurice Chammah tells a story of American mass incarceration through one song by an incarcerated artist.This week, I’ll highlight the account of a rapper on death row recording an album over a prison phone line. In an age of fri
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