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  "description": "Los Angeles-based multimedia journalist Mel Buer on freelancing and what it's like to cover labor and protest movements.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T18:03:34.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This week, I caught up with Los Angeles-based multimedia journalist Mel Buer. We talked about how an international reporting trip early in her career inspired her to continue covering labor and protest movements, what it meant to cover a strike in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, and what she wants you to know about freelancing and indie journalism.\n\nFor more of Mel's work, here's recent reporting on a union struggle at a hospital in Stockton, California, that she was kind enough to let me republish. Or head to her newsletter, Words About Work_,_ and tune into her podcast, The Union Bug.\n\nHere's my conversation with Mel:\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
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