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Nushin Rashidian

@NushinRashidian

Nushin Rashidian is a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Journalism School, where she researches the relationship between publishers and platforms. Along with Alyson Martin she co-founded Cannabis Wire, a news organization that covers the global cannabis industry. Martin and Rashidian also co-authored “A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition” (The New Press, 2014).

Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat

Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat

In early 2014, John Ingold, a longtime reporter for The Denver Post, noticed that the number of parents of young patients registered with the state to gain access to medical…