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Ari Schneider

@arischneider.bsky.social

Senior Writer, Mountain Gazette Vermont raised, Colorado based Also in Wash Post, NYT, The Guardian, etc. Mostly investigative and narrative journalism about environmental issues, tech, criminal justice, sports.

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Awesome. I adopted my dog from a Texas rescue in 2018. I was living in New England and they put her on a commercial flight from Houston to Boston, where I picked her up from baggage claim.

17.10.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Print Ain't Dead: A Mountain Gazette Anthology Print Ain’t Dead – a Mountain Gazette Anthology Celebrate 60 years of Mountain Gazette with this 300+ page hardcover literary anthology featuring legendary voices of mountain culture past and present....

Never, ever, did I think my writing would be published in a book alongside the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Edward Abbey. It’s still very hard to believe. PRINT AIN'T DEAD, celebrating 60 years of Mountain Gazette, is now available to pre-order.
mountaingazette.com/products/pri...

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4-Week: The Heart of the Matterβ€”Ethics in Creative Nonfiction What is objectivity in both journalism and memoir, really? Who gets to write about sensitive topics? Can I use AI? Do I need my ex's consent before I write about him? When is it OK to go undercover? W...

Last chance to sign up for my ethics in nonfiction class! It's 4 weeks and meets on Zoom on Tuesday evenings. A great opportunity for anyone who writes essays, memoirs, or reported narratives.
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...

15.08.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The brilliant @natalielampert.bsky.social and I are teaching a four-week class on ETHICS IN NONFICTION beginning August 19. It's on ZOOM, so you can join from anywhere. Sign up here: lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...

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JUST IN: Gov. Polis scuttles walkway near the state Capitol.

87,000 people responded to a survey, 93% opposed.

"I'll chain myself to the Capitol plaza, if needed, to prevent construction of the walkway," says Polis, who was its initial and rare champion.

Plans have cost ~$1 million, he says.

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One night in Sept. 1943, my great-grandmother took my grandfather in one arm and his sister in the other and jumped off a train to save their lives. Last summer, I rode the same tracks across Italy to meet the descendants of one of their rescuers. The whole story: books2read.com/stolenheadst...

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What's especially maddening is that so much unbelievable shit has happened in the past 6 months that I practically forgot this happened.

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When Cooper was on Carlson's podcast last year, he argued that Winston Churchill, not Hitler, was the "chief villain" of WWII and that the Holocaust was an accident. Something I wrote about in books2read.com/stolenheadst...

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Those videos of the forced shavings of Druze mustaches recall images of the Nazis forcibly cutting payos off Hasidim in Poland at the start of the war. I feel sick each time one shows up in my feeds

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Stolen Headstones | Kirkus Reviews In this memoir, a journalist details his Polish family’s flight from the Nazis during World War II and his own efforts to fill in the many blanks.

A great review from Kirkus! "Schneider's research is impeccableβ€”this is a remarkable example of relentless journalistic investigation... An enthralling study of generational trauma created by the Holocaust."
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

14.07.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing "Stolen Headstones" Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, I travel across a rightward-shifting Europe to piece together what happened to my family during the Holocaust.

Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, I travel across a rightward-shifting Europe to piece together what happened to my family during the Holocaust.
open.substack.com/pub/arischne...

13.07.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Scott draws parallels between America today and Germany in the 1930s/40s. He's right to do so. I write about this in my new book:
arischneider.com#stolenheadst...

13.07.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stolen Headstones Stolen Headstones - Kindle edition by Schneider, Ari. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Stolen Headstones.

Thanks to everyone placing preorders. Stolen Headstones is now the # 1 new release in Jewish History on Amazon
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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I generally don't like the idea of AIs training on my work without crediting me, but I do think Grok could learn a few things from my new book:
books2read.com/b/stolenhead...

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I'm happy to send copies to educators too

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Also calling anyone who writes or podcasts about WWII history, Jewish issues, extremism, or longform journalism. Stolen Headstones is unlike any Holocaust story you've read before.

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Calling all book reviewers, newsletter writers, and podcasters: ARCs of my new book are now available on NetGalley. You can also DM me for a copy. Please help me spread the word!
books2read.com/b/stolenhead...

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Cover reveal! Did you miss my big story in Mountain Gazette 203? I'm re-releasing it as an e-book! This new author's cut includes over a dozen never-before-published photos and additional commentary. Many thanks to @lauriestories.bsky.social and Daniel Lombroso for these kind reviews. More soon.

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NEW: Boulder terror suspect charged with a federal hate crime as affidavit reveals he told investigators he "wanted to kill all Zionist people" and would do it again www.9news.com/article/news...

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Horrified by this attack on my community today πŸŽ—οΈ

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Emily Tidwell doing her craft on assignment for Mountain Gazette last week. It has been a pleasure working with such a talented photographer. Our collab will be in the fall issue. #greatplains #stormchasing

01.06.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Photo from a Mountain Gazette assignment in Saint Gervais, France, last summer. Shot on a #Leica Q3

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I'm starting to share some of my photography on Instagram if you care to follow @ ari_schneider

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Here are Agata Pagani, a reporter at La FedeltΓ  in Fossano, Italy; Aleksandra Wierzbowska, a Polish photojournalist; and Robert Gmiterek, the editor-in-chief of Przestrzen Pogranicza, a magazine in eastern Poland. Mountain Gazette 203 is out now. You'll find my story beginning on page 128.

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A favorite part of my job is collaborating with other journalists around the world. My latest Mountain Gazette story was a yearlong challenge that required traveling to five European countries and working in several different languages. It wouldn't have been possible without a lot of help.

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Did something new and joined the press pit at a runway show. Great energy, great fits at Denver Fashion Week.

15.05.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mountain Gazette 203 article (p. 128-147) by the brilliant @arischneider.bsky.social.
#FightFascism with love.
Thank you, Ari, for telling our family's story. πŸ’•
left: my grandma and mom
center: my grandparents
right: my grandpa and uncle

02.05.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you've just gotten Mountain Gazette 203 in the mail, turn to page 128

27.04.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Remembering Beila and Wolf Yom HaShoah, Mountain Gazette 203, and my family's Holocaust story.

Wrote a little more for my newsletter this morning:
arischneider.substack.com/p/rememberin...

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Their stories and the stories of my great-grandparents who survived the Holocaust are being published in Mountain Gazette 203. If you missed out on subscribing in time, stay tuned...

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