Chris Allbritton has covered conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan. As Reuters’s Pakistan bureau chief, he led the coverage of the killing of Osama bin Laden and broke stories on Pakistani cooperation in the U.S. drone war. His work on technology, Islam, the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, and travel has appeared in Time Magazine, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Popular Mechanics, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newark Star-Ledger, Singapore Straits Times, and Der Spiegel.
Allbritton is a new media pioneer. In 2002, he founded the award-winning blog Back-to-Iraq.com, which was among the first to use the crowd-funding model for journalism. He holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Arkansas. For 2008-2009, he was awarded a Stanford University John S. Knight Fellowship.
Allbritton enjoys scuba diving and adventure travel and once journeyed across the Pacific—from Bangkok to Bogotá—by cargo ship.
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Windlift’s Drones Set to Transform Wind Energy and Fight Climate Change
Windlift, a Durham, N.C.-based startup, is developing autonomous tethered drones that generate electricity by letting the air turn the rotors on its turbine propellers as it swoops through a loopy sideways figure eight pattern, potentially reducing material requirements by 90% compared to traditional wind turbines.
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New York City Faces Financial Strain Amid Influx Of Migrants And Asylum Seekers
New York City has spent $2.4 billion on migrants and asylum seekers since July 2022, and if the current influx continues, they will cost a total of $10 billion by the summer of 2025, but immigration advocates argue that once migrants are settled into their new lives, they quickly begin earning wages, paying taxes, starting businesses, and reinvigorating neighborhoods.
