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Who are you?

Close Tabs is a newsletter to hold me accountable to exactly one, bare minimum task each week: closing all of my tabs.

I’m Hanaa’ Tameez and I’m a reporter covering journalism innovation and, more broadly, the future of news. By virtue of what I do, I spend a lot of time online. I’m always texting people links to great stories about things I’m interested in or keeping close tabs on (see what I did there?). 

Each week (?) you’ll get a few links to stories I read and (maybe) what especially stood out to me about them. At minimum, I’ll include the information about the writer and how to support them and/or their publication. You’re welcome to write me back or even better: send me a story that you think I’d like.

I love talking about writing, story structure, reporting processes, why certain stories are important, and just the “oh shit” moments that make stories pop. Some of the stories will be media-related (meaning I read them on the clock) but hopefully most of them will be about other topics (I opened the tab on the clock to read later). Some stories could be about data privacy, others could be about clean beauty. I contain multitudes.

This newsletter is free because I’m not a capitalist and you should support the people who did agonizing work of making words make sense, but if you’d like to buy me a coffee anyway, feel free 😗 

Close Tabs is really a celebration of great writing on the internet. I hope it only inspires more.

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🇵🇰 New Yorker in Boston. Staff Writer @NiemanLab. @newmarkjschool + @stonybrooku alumna. EN/ES/Broken Urdu.