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Tanaz Meghjani

@tanaz115

Journalist @Business | Email: [email protected] | @Columbia '22 @Yale '17

Joined October 2020
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Reto Gregori@RetoGregori8 Aug 2024
Our Big Take today comes live from Bowling Green, Kentucky. @g0ingmad , @devinleonard and @tanaz115 went on a field trip to Ozempictown, USA. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

America’s weight-loss drug capital isn’t Hollywood or Manhattan. It’s Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Daniela Sirtori@dani_lsc26 Sep 2023
Corporate America lived up to diversity promises made in 2020, an exclusive @business analysis found. But will that change last? There are already hints it won't. W/ @JeffAGreen, @DavidIngold, @rzgreenfield, @raeedahwahid and more 📰 bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…
Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.

Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.

In the year following the Black Lives Matter protests, S&P 100 companies added more diverse workforces.

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“You can be outraged but the outrage is in their purpose.” Find out more about an extremely generous govt lender that was created to help homebuyers but instead loaning $$$$$$$$$$$$$s to banks that make little or no mortgages. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW
A $1.5 Trillion Backstop for Homebuyers Props Up Banks Instead

A $1.5 Trillion Backstop for Homebuyers Props Up Banks Instead

The Federal Home Loan Bank system provides billions to banks curtailing mortgage lending, and millions to its executives

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Crisis, what crisis? A remarkable 778 executives, directors and other insiders bought shares of US banks in Q2. “Insiders are expressing a strong belief the regional-banking system is sound, not in danger of a wide-scale collapse.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets @tanaz115
More Bank Insiders Are Buying Shares in Their Own Companies

More Bank Insiders Are Buying Shares in Their Own Companies

More bank insiders are buying shares in their own companies, a vote of confidence in the industry after a crisis sparked by the collapse of four regional lenders earlier this year.

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Madison Muller@g0ingmad2 May 2023
If you want to know how the world is preparing for the next global pandemic look at Rolaing, a Cambodian village located on a tributary of the Mekong River: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Bird Flu's Surge Has Scientists Seeking Clues to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Bird Flu's Surge Has Scientists Seeking Clues to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Scientists are using the lessons learned from Covid to track new mutations of a virus that experts say is even more dangerous

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John Lauerman@LauermanJohn10 Mar 2023
Murky demand picture sours booster market for Covid vaccine makers. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @tanaz115
Covid Boosters Sour for Pfizer, Moderna With Uptake Rate at 16%

Covid Boosters Sour for Pfizer, Moderna With Uptake Rate at 16%

When Covid-19 vaccines first gained approval two years ago, Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. didn’t have to worry about demand. Now, billions of dollars ride on a picture that is murkier than ever.

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Makers of infant formula use misleading marketing and aggressive lobbying tactics to drive sales in a $55 billion-a-year industry, according to the World Health Organization bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets with @tanaz115
Baby Formula Industry Slammed for Marketing, Lobbying Tactics in WHO Report

Baby Formula Industry Slammed for Marketing, Lobbying Tactics in WHO Report

Makers of infant formula use misleading marketing and aggressive lobbying tactics to drive sales in a $55 billion-a-year industry, according to a three-paper series from the World Health Organization.

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sam rabiyah@samrabiyah18 Nov 2022
for @THECITYNY (w/ @tanaz115): exclusive state data shows fewer empty rent stabilized apartments reported so far in 2022 compared to last year landlord groups blamed the 2019 rent laws for vacancies, but new data suggests the law had no long-term impact thecity.nyc/housing/2022/11/…
New State Numbers Show Slide in Vacant Rent-Stabilized Apartments

New State Numbers Show Slide in Vacant Rent-Stabilized Apartments

Housing officials say that landlords registered 38,000 vacant units so far this year, down from the 60,000 reported in 2021. Landlords are still pressing for an end to restrictions they say keep...

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Alyssa Katz@alykatzz16 Nov 2022
It's happening: NYC food delivery workers are on their way to getting a minimum wage + expenses, reaching $23.82 an hour. @clauirizarry has details. thecity.nyc/work/2022/11/16/…
Food Delivery Workers Would Be Paid $23.82 Minimum Under Proposed New City Rules

Food Delivery Workers Would Be Paid $23.82 Minimum Under Proposed New City Rules

Required by a law spurred by worker organizing and THE CITY’s reporting, pay scale is first for the industry.

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Local workers centers are seeing 3-5x demand for mandatory OSHA-30 training in recent weeks, largely driven by asylum seekers bused from El Paso -- revealing longtime gaps in access for free, life-saving courses. w/ @tanaz115 @gabpobl thecity.nyc/work/2022/11/14/… @THECITYNY
Migrant Job-Seekers Face Long Waits for Required Construction Safety Course

Migrant Job-Seekers Face Long Waits for Required Construction Safety Course

New York City requires 40 hours of OSHA-certified training for workers on building and demolition jobs. The few free classes available are now overwhelmed.

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Richard Kim@RichardKimNYC10 Nov 2022
Are you ready for this? Democrat Max Rose got trounced in NY-11 by Republican Nicole Malliotakis. But an analysis by @THECITYNY @tanaz115 shows how Rose could have won under the maps drawn up by the state legislature & overturned by a NY court. thecity.nyc/2022/11/9/234504…
How Democrat Max Rose Would Have Won NY-11 Under District Maps Thrown Out by Court

How Democrat Max Rose Would Have Won NY-11 Under District Maps Thrown Out by Court

An analysis by THE CITY shows that if voters in Sunset Park and Park Slope had been in the district, as under earlier maps, Rose would have edged out Nicole Malliotakis — and maybe helped save...

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The City Reporter@THECITYNY9 Nov 2022
NEW: How did your neighbors vote and how many actually cast their ballot? We mapped out the 2022 general election results. buff.ly/3fOpxNw
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The City Reporter@THECITYNY6 Nov 2022
Are you ready to vote on the four local ballot questions this year? Read our guide on what the four measures mean and how they got on the ballot. buff.ly/3zKKyiO
The 4 Ballot Questions Up for a Vote in New York in November

The 4 Ballot Questions Up for a Vote in New York in November

If enacted, the proposals would boost spending on environmental projects, define how the city calculates the cost of living and create a new racial equity office.

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Richard Kim@RichardKimNYC27 Oct 2022
Today's must read: Climate science tells us that much of Coney Island will be underwater in the next generation. But we've built massively there in the decade since Sandy. A deep dive into why this is happening by @sssmaldo & @KendraWrites thecity.nyc/2022/10/27/23424…
Hurricane Sandy Devastated Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added Almost 2,000 Homes to...

Hurricane Sandy Devastated Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added Almost 2,000 Homes to...

Gleaming new high-rise towers, built to the latest standards, stand alongside older family homes, badly in need of retrofitting. Climate change puts both at risk — although on starkly different...

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Alyssa Katz@alykatzz27 Oct 2022
Just stunning: less than 10% of tenants facing eviction are now getting lawyers under NYC's "Right to Counsel" law that was supposed to guarantee them. Numbers obtained by @ANHDNYC and analyzed by @samrabiyah. thecity.nyc/2022/10/27/23425…
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Scoop🚨 The MTA gave contractors the green light to steal wages from immigrant subway cleaners during the height of the pandemic. ✍️My Exclusive for @Documentedny/@Report4America documentedny.com/2022/10/25/…
Immigrant Subway Cleaners are Illegally Underpaid With MTA's Permission - Documented

Immigrant Subway Cleaners are Illegally Underpaid With MTA's Permission - Documented

The City Comptroller says the MTA owes subway cleaners a salary of $28 per hour. MTA is telling contractors otherwise as they underpay workers

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Jose Martinez@JMartinezNYC25 Oct 2022
WHEEL CROWDED: ‘Free-for-all’ on NYC sidewalks causes copious complaining to 311 about bikes, e-bikes & scooters 🚲 🛵 🛴 New in @THECITYNY, with @tanaz115 & @clauirizarry thecity.nyc/2022/10/25/23421… – at Manhattan, NY
The Sidewalks are Crowded — With Hazards on Wheels, Pedestrians Say

The Sidewalks are Crowded — With Hazards on Wheels, Pedestrians Say

A ‘free-for-all’ of bikes, e-bikes, scooters and e-scooters on sidewalks causes copious complaining to 311

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sam rabiyah@samrabiyah20 Oct 2022
update: new numbers shared with us by city's official vacancy survey show even more empty rent stabilized apartments — a good 27k more than what landlords reported to the state thecity.nyc/housing/2022/10/…
NYC Had 88,830 Vacant Rent-Stabilized Apartments Last Year, City Housing Agency Estimates

NYC Had 88,830 Vacant Rent-Stabilized Apartments Last Year, City Housing Agency Estimates

Roughly 1 in 10 rent-regulated apartments were vacant in 2021, Census survey data reveals — far more than the 61,000 vacancies landlords reported to the state.

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sam rabiyah@samrabiyah19 Oct 2022
for @THECITYNY: an internal state agency memo we got shows landlords are keeping 61k+ rent stabilized units OFF the market, nearly double a year ago. landlord groups blame the 2019 rent laws and lack of funds for repairs, but the data raises some questions thecity.nyc/housing/2022/10/…
More than 60,000 Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are Now Vacant — and Tenant Advocates Say Landlords Are...

More than 60,000 Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are Now Vacant — and Tenant Advocates Say Landlords Are...

The number of empty regulated apartments nearly doubled between 2020 and 2021, a state memo obtained by THE CITY shows.

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Absolutely blockbuster reporting from ⁦@CAKitchener⁩ — reporting from 4 U.S. cities & Mexico — on the covert supply chain getting pills to women seeking abortions Follow along from desperate Reddit threads to central Mexico to the U.S. mail system: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Covert network provides pills for thousands of abortions in U.S. post Roe

Covert network provides pills for thousands of abortions in U.S. post Roe

A growing army of community-based distributors is reaching pregnant women through word of mouth and social media — and supplying pills for free.

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