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This week's episode on Joseph Medill made me think about another figure from the history of journalism,

although with a very, very different claim to fame.

That was Paul Julius Reuter, who used telegraphs and trains and boats and

pigeons to deliver the news. This episode originally came out February 13, 2019. Enjoy. Welcome to Stuff

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Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

We have kind of an accidental theme in the episodes that I've researched lately.

Inspired by things I read on Twitter,

which makes it sound like I'm reading Twitter a lot,

which is the opposite of true.

Whenever I open Twitter, I just kind of zoom up to the top and look at the three most recent things

and then go away from that.

So I just coincidentally have caught various interesting tweets lately. This time,

it was author and science communicator Rosemary Mosco, who had a Twitter thread about pigeons

and how cool they are and how they are all over cities because humans put them there. So don't

be mad at them for it.

The pigeons didn't do it themselves.

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