Hey y’all,
I only worked about 2.5 days this week, thanks to the 4th of July holiday and early dismissal on Friday. Still, I squeezed out a story about job cuts at a big payments company called Stripe.
Full disclosure: Stripe is the company that helps get your substack subscription money over to me. That being said, I cover them just like I would cover any other company.
Monday will be my sixth week as a reporter at Payments Dive. I think I’m getting the hang of it. I can edit other people’s articles now. And I’m building up a system for finding my own stories.
Over the last six weeks, I came across a few folks from the South Asian diaspora worth mentioning here. I hope you find them as noteworthy as I do.
Sabrina Siddiqui 🇵🇰🇺🇸
Eighty-six. It only took eighty-six words for a reporter for The Wall Street Journal to start getting harassed online. You can watch the video and read the text below:
Mr. Prime Minister, India has long prided itself as the world’s largest democracy, but there are many human rights groups who say that your government has discriminated against religious minorities and sought to silence its critics. As you stand here in the East Room of the White House where so many world leaders have made commitments to protecting democracy, what steps are you and your government willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims and other minorities in your country and to uphold free speech?
As a professional journalist I can say that her question is pointed and fair. When she asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the rights of Muslims, she was hoding a powerful man accountable. That’s her job.
As a member of the South Asian Journalists Association, I stand in full support of Sabrina. You can follow her work on The Wall Street Journal and on her Twitter page .
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