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When the Fires Struck, Austin Scott Pivoted on Behalf of his Altadena Community

February 20, 2026

“It’s incredible to realize that at the beginning of 2025, I had just started painting and drawing. And by the end of the year, I was published in the LA Times as one of eight featured holiday wrapping-paper artists. It was a fantastic journey.”

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Healing Work: How Alain Fleury Managed a Health Crisis During a Busy Editing Career

April 6, 2026

“I love bringing people together …. I saw during my cancer journey people coming together, supporting me, and I felt the love and support, from my family members to my friends.”

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ROB CALLAHAN: Why Government Actions Could Spell Big Trouble for Organized Labor

February 13, 2026

This column was initially conceived of as an examination of the various labor-related initiatives in Project 2025. I’d intended to recap some of the ways the Trump administration attacked the labor movement in its first year, and also to predict some of the assaults unions can anticipate in the second. But as I write this, screens all over the country continue to play on an endless, agonizing loop the frame-by-frame slo-mo cellphone footage of good Samaritans (one of them a member of AFGE Local 3669) suffering extrajudicial execution at the hands of masked secret police on the streets of Minneapolis.

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Radical Thinking: How the Post Team Armed up for ‘One Battle After Another’

March 4, 2026

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob Ferguson, a long-haired, amiable, long-retired radical whose past participation in the revolutionary group the French 75 has led him to adopt an underground lifestyle.

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Courage & Conviction: Neither Police Interrogation nor Tech Limitations Could Stop the Editor of the Oscar-Nominated Iranian Film ‘It was Just an Accident’

March 4, 2026

“Due to the sensitivity of the situation, we operate with a minimal crew. At the same time, our working method has always been to begin editing simultaneously with shooting.”

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How Former Assistant Charlie Greene Moved up to the Big Chair with ‘Is This Thing On?’

February 11, 2026

“I wanted the movie to feel like New York in the late ‘90s.”

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‘The Paper’ and Its Cuts: The Team Behind the Peacock Mockumentary Tells All

February 10, 2026

“We redressed the whole set to look like a 1970s newsroom. Greg Daniels and Michael Koman based it on Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries — the black-and-white film look, the texture, the gear. We brought in period costumes and typewriters, even had a few people smoking, and shot on black-and-white 16mm film. Even the aspect ratio was different from the rest of the show.”

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS DO: Lindsay Huang, Assistant Editor

March 3, 2026

“Learning how to communicate more effectively is one of the main challenges. I’ve realized that miscommunication or under-communication can easily lead to unnecessary problems and delays during a project, while over-communication can become inefficient or even frustrating for others.”

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Surgical Precision: How the Post Team of ‘The Pitt’ Keeps the Hit Hospital Drama Humming

March 3, 2026

“It becomes this amoeba of three editors working in conjunction with each other to create one storytelling style, which ends up being ‘The Pitt.’ It’s not that we’re all following one rule, but rather we’re trying to create rules in the same world.”

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In New Book, Walter Murch Explains Editing Secrets Behind ‘The Conversation’ and More

February 3, 2026

Walter Murch, ACE is a filmmaking phenomenon. Now in his early 80s, he has worked over the past six decades on many landmark films that have benefited from his insightful film editing and sound design skills, often simultaneously

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