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Tom Robbins
@tommy_robb
Ex-Village Voice, The City, Daily News, NY Observer, City Limits, Dover Garage. CUNY Craig Newmark Journalism School. [email protected]
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Joined August 2011
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    A happy NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell with NewsMax at Trump’s MSG rally.
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    On the drive to the hospital where he breathed his last, Wayne Barrett was still doing interviews for a big, tough story on Donald Trump.
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    Just some of the stories broken by the @NYDailyNews in past few weeks: --A mini race-riot among FDNY members in the Bronx; --NYPD failure to discipline officers despite blatant evidence; --NYPD move to charge Pantaleo in Garner death; --Non-stop exclusives re NYCHA scandal.
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    DA Cy Vance Jr. : "Effective August 1st, my office will decline to prosecute marijuana possession and smoking cases."
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    The Village Voice was so well named – it gave those of us who wrote for it our own voice, too often a rare thing in journalism. And there were so many great voices. To have worked there was an honor – zaniness and all.
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    “...like the character in a whodunit who readers immediately dismiss as too obvious to have committed the crime.” nyti.ms/2RZGmaD?smid=n…
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    Great teachable journalism moment of how Trump played the News - and everyone else -- back in the day: A mugging confrontation that never happened. nydn.us/2F2nXEd
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    Best Journalism Award Ever: More than 20 years ago, @chbagli wrote a story that saved a hotel worker's job. Last nite at a party honoring the now-ex Times reporter's great career, we saw a photo of the grateful worker's college grad son. He's named Charlie.
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    A new set of bullies from Chicago are laying siege to @NYDailyNews. Here’s the button we made and wore proudly in 1992 after the publisher drowned and the News went into bankruptcy. It’s still true.
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    The night Donald Trump celebrated by having New York's most dogged investigative reporter arrested. @BarrettNation simonandschuster.com/books/Trump/Wa…
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    Colin Kaepernick at @thenation institute dinner: "We need journalists now more than ever."
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    WW II hero Robert Morgenthau, 97: "Its part of the American legacy to look after refugees. We've lost our way." nytimes.com/2017/01/29/nyr…
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    Few loved New York City more, or served her better, than Jim Dwyer, reporter and citizen extraordinary. We've been blessed to have him among us and we are bereft to be without him.
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    He's a $262,000 a year public servant who doesn't keep a schedule, officials at his agency admit. So what exactly does Mayor Adams' friend and point man Tim Pearson do? Good luck finding out.