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By Nellie Bowles
05.26.26 — The Free Press Community and Events
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There are a lot of places on the internet to talk or, more likely, yell incoherently. Yet there are very few places left for us to think together.

One trend we kept noticing at The Free Press was that our readers didn’t just want to engage with our stories. They wanted to engage with each other. Honestly, some of you seem more interested in the comments …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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