David Gaffen 🇺🇸🕊️✡️
@davidgaffen.bsky.social
Reuters editor, journo since the 1990s, New York, loves travel, dogs, fried food. Jewish. Writer of fiction. Undefeated against my television in arguments.
Back today on the @reuters.com podcast talking #inflation #consumer #earnings. Check it out here:
spotify.link/hbqrI7N0FXb
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October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Back today on the @reuters.com podcast talking #inflation #consumer #earnings. Check it out here:
spotify.link/hbqrI7N0FXb
spotify.link/hbqrI7N0FXb
Talking #Intel on the podcast here @reuters.com ! Okay I only get 30 seconds but still.
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Talking #Intel on the podcast here @reuters.com ! Okay I only get 30 seconds but still.
Great to show up on the podcast talking #walmart earnings here: @reuters.com
open.spotify.com/episode/2nMO...
open.spotify.com/episode/2nMO...
August 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Great to show up on the podcast talking #walmart earnings here: @reuters.com
open.spotify.com/episode/2nMO...
open.spotify.com/episode/2nMO...
This explanation from @pewresearch.org of a uniform definition of religion - and therefore not count "#Jews of no religion" illustrates how so many have difficulty understanding what it is to be #jewish as an identity. Pew has a clear goal -- not faulting them. Just noting the inconsistency.
June 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This explanation from @pewresearch.org of a uniform definition of religion - and therefore not count "#Jews of no religion" illustrates how so many have difficulty understanding what it is to be #jewish as an identity. Pew has a clear goal -- not faulting them. Just noting the inconsistency.
Not for nothing but "side hustle" is much better than "polyworking."
May 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Not for nothing but "side hustle" is much better than "polyworking."
...and with that, I'm gonna highlight this in the art of the #perfectturnofphrase... #booksky
This one is just a great example of tight writing.
This one is just a great example of tight writing.
May 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
...and with that, I'm gonna highlight this in the art of the #perfectturnofphrase... #booksky
This one is just a great example of tight writing.
This one is just a great example of tight writing.
#booksky
#currentlyreading #reading
Halfway through...picks up around page 75 and really gathers momentum.
#currentlyreading #reading
Halfway through...picks up around page 75 and really gathers momentum.
May 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#booksky
#currentlyreading #reading
Halfway through...picks up around page 75 and really gathers momentum.
#currentlyreading #reading
Halfway through...picks up around page 75 and really gathers momentum.
Shameless promotion time for me! Over at #rutgers we've put together a great panel for late April on the future of #journalism featuring some great minds (RU grads, natch) from across the industry. I'll keep putting details out there.
February 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Shameless promotion time for me! Over at #rutgers we've put together a great panel for late April on the future of #journalism featuring some great minds (RU grads, natch) from across the industry. I'll keep putting details out there.
Current situation.
February 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Current situation.
The sudden appearance of a giant canister of popcorn in the office.
Nobody knows where it comes from.
Just that it is there.
#happyholidays
Nobody knows where it comes from.
Just that it is there.
#happyholidays
December 11, 2024 at 9:06 PM
The sudden appearance of a giant canister of popcorn in the office.
Nobody knows where it comes from.
Just that it is there.
#happyholidays
Nobody knows where it comes from.
Just that it is there.
#happyholidays
How does climate affect health? Reuters’ Michele Gershberg talks with Pfizer and Amazon. @reuters.com #ReutersNext
December 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
How does climate affect health? Reuters’ Michele Gershberg talks with Pfizer and Amazon. @reuters.com #ReutersNext
With one of my faves @laurenyoung.bsky.social at #ReutersNext
December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
With one of my faves @laurenyoung.bsky.social at #ReutersNext
The #UNH suspect apparently also "ill will toward corporate America," per the NYPD. Other media outlets reporting his writings may reference the #Unabomber, who we all knew from the 80s/90s for his 35,000 word manifesto and series of mail-bomb murders. For yrs all we had was this stenciled pic.
December 9, 2024 at 9:26 PM
The #UNH suspect apparently also "ill will toward corporate America," per the NYPD. Other media outlets reporting his writings may reference the #Unabomber, who we all knew from the 80s/90s for his 35,000 word manifesto and series of mail-bomb murders. For yrs all we had was this stenciled pic.
Many of you may be aware of the "Pizza Belt" theory, which is that the best (or perhaps only edible #pizza) is in the swath that runs from South Jersey to roughly Providence RI.
It still maps well with the US map of predominant ancestries. (The counties in white? Italian was tops in 2010).
It still maps well with the US map of predominant ancestries. (The counties in white? Italian was tops in 2010).
December 7, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Many of you may be aware of the "Pizza Belt" theory, which is that the best (or perhaps only edible #pizza) is in the swath that runs from South Jersey to roughly Providence RI.
It still maps well with the US map of predominant ancestries. (The counties in white? Italian was tops in 2010).
It still maps well with the US map of predominant ancestries. (The counties in white? Italian was tops in 2010).
(As for the license plate? It's a good one. Simple, with a jagged top to represent Colorado's mountains. Doesn't try too hard. After the previous bunch of low-level disasters, Colorado is a breath of fresh air. It gets a B.)
December 7, 2024 at 8:21 PM
(As for the license plate? It's a good one. Simple, with a jagged top to represent Colorado's mountains. Doesn't try too hard. After the previous bunch of low-level disasters, Colorado is a breath of fresh air. It gets a B.)
These days, Bailey and that voice are generally in service of Maurice’s parts. Maurice was a tenor - Philip was an alto but he’s now more like a tenor as you can catch from this 2016 clip.
December 7, 2024 at 8:16 PM
These days, Bailey and that voice are generally in service of Maurice’s parts. Maurice was a tenor - Philip was an alto but he’s now more like a tenor as you can catch from this 2016 clip.
And then they bring out the lights and the last three “originals” - Bailey, Verdine White, the most frenetic bassist around, and percussionist Ralph Johnson.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
And then they bring out the lights and the last three “originals” - Bailey, Verdine White, the most frenetic bassist around, and percussionist Ralph Johnson.
And then EWF comes out with all of the hallucinations and its 3 last semi-original members - Verdine White, the most frenetic bassist around, percussionist Ralph Johnson, and Bailey.
December 7, 2024 at 8:11 PM
And then EWF comes out with all of the hallucinations and its 3 last semi-original members - Verdine White, the most frenetic bassist around, percussionist Ralph Johnson, and Bailey.
Let’s continue the #America thread with #Colorado, a state I’ve only visited once. (Yeah, that’s #BuckhornExchange, a restaurant that meets Moe Sislak’s description of “good food, good fun, and a lot of crazy crap on the walls.”)
December 7, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Let’s continue the #America thread with #Colorado, a state I’ve only visited once. (Yeah, that’s #BuckhornExchange, a restaurant that meets Moe Sislak’s description of “good food, good fun, and a lot of crazy crap on the walls.”)
The license plate, on the other hand? Mixed. I mean, the cursive is fine - it's very much that state's attitude. But the web site has got to go, and it's otherwise not doing all that much. C+
(Source: Wikipedia)
(Source: Wikipedia)
November 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The license plate, on the other hand? Mixed. I mean, the cursive is fine - it's very much that state's attitude. But the web site has got to go, and it's otherwise not doing all that much. C+
(Source: Wikipedia)
(Source: Wikipedia)
That was the perspective we had at the moment, anyway. Plus, 16 - so, y'know, no filter. Meantime, the license plate. #Arkansas goes with the diamond for the Natural State, and the color palette is pretty straightforward. It's relatively pleasing, though nothing out of this world. Gets a C+.
November 27, 2024 at 1:05 PM
That was the perspective we had at the moment, anyway. Plus, 16 - so, y'know, no filter. Meantime, the license plate. #Arkansas goes with the diamond for the Natural State, and the color palette is pretty straightforward. It's relatively pleasing, though nothing out of this world. Gets a C+.
So when you cross the river over from Memphis, it's like the world opens up. It's fields, fields, fields. Rice, corn, sorghum, what-have-you. (That's a RTRS photo below by Carlo Allegri).
November 27, 2024 at 1:05 PM
So when you cross the river over from Memphis, it's like the world opens up. It's fields, fields, fields. Rice, corn, sorghum, what-have-you. (That's a RTRS photo below by Carlo Allegri).
As for the license plate? It's just okay. It doesn't even feature the Grand Canyon, and instead goes with this sorta Wile E. Coyote-thing that's a bit much. I give this one a C+, and just barely. We haven't gotten to many good ones yet.
November 27, 2024 at 12:46 AM
As for the license plate? It's just okay. It doesn't even feature the Grand Canyon, and instead goes with this sorta Wile E. Coyote-thing that's a bit much. I give this one a C+, and just barely. We haven't gotten to many good ones yet.