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October 2024
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Issue 31.10
GBONEWS: Senior Voters Swing; New Republic’s Geezer-ism; Elder Ballots Shade Blue; Social Security Worse Under Trump Plan; 50-Plus Cat Ladies Vote Women’s Rights; CNN: Campaigns Defrauding Dementia Patients; & More.
September 2024
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Issue 31.9
GBONEWS: American Eldercide on Preventable Pandemic Deaths; Hospital, Heal Thyself; Fellowship Picks 5; Hey, PBS! Julia Alvarez (the author’s Mom) was UN’s “Ambassador of Ageing.”
August 2024
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Issue 31.8
GBONEWS: Ageism Experts on “Too Old” Biden; 14 New Journalists in Aging Fellows; Reporter in Pandemic-Care Trenches; Age Tech Market Exploding; Senior Hunger, Neglect in New Mexico, California
July 2024
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Issue 31.7
GBONEWS: Deadline Extended, July 22 for 15th Journalists in Aging Fellowships; New Books on Aging Women; Paula Span at 15 Years on NYT New Old Age Column; Hospitalized and Isolated in Puerto Rico; Secret Prescription Drug Inflation Exposed; Psychiatric Care Scarce; & More
June 2024
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GBONews: 15th Journalists in Aging Fellowship Deadline; WSJ Hit for Ageist Biden Story by Major Media, Colbert and Myers; WHO Fight Over Next Pandemic, Generational Wealth, US Senate on Affordable Dental; Few Blacks in Residential Care; Hmong Adult Day Care; & MORE
May 2024
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Issue 31.5
GBONEWS: NYT’s Kristof Keynotes Health Journalism 2024; Gen Z and Jon Stewart; Journalist’s Sons of Chinatown Memoir; Homelessness Solutions; Alzheimer’s Care With Montessori Method; Seniors and STDs; Language Barriers and So. Asian Elders
April 2024
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Issue 31.4
GBONEWS: Mental Health Research May 2; Minority Aging Impact Video; Unhoused Seniors; Indian Elders in U.S.; Medicare and Long-COVID; Surviving End-Stage Poverty; Geriatrician Shortage; Assisted Living’s Bad Algorithms; & MORE
March 2024
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Issue 31.3
GBONEWS: Scientific Sources on Presidential Memory; Social Security Pros/Cons in Campaign; Ageism in Health Care; Health Journalism Conference Scholarships; Gwyneth Paltrow’s Surprising Longevity View; American Society on Aging’s 70th Meeting; Loving Midlife and With Poetry; 3 Decades at the NYT; Tevye’s Timely Words on, Oy!, the People; & MORE
February 2024
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Issue 31.2
GBO NEWS: Wise Up to Aging, Jon Stewart – On Presidents, Partisanship, the Press and Prejudice; Deadlines for Roslynn Carter Mental Health and USC Annenberg National Reporting Fellowships; Florida’s Anti-Vax Debate; Hearing Loss and Falls; Language Barriers to Elder Health; Aging Black to 104 (with Black History Sources)
January 2024
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Issue 31.1
GBO NEWS: Ex-Presidential Hopeful O’Malley New Soc. Sec. Head; FL Alzheimer’s Costs; WI Memory Cafes; Hmong Elders; LGBTQ Housing; Nursing Home Staffing; Active Green Aging; Medicare’s Advantage Plan Trap; Aging Angry Book; & MORE
December 2023
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Issue 30.12
GBO NEWS: 14th Journalists in Aging Fellows Making News; Harvard’s Housing Older Adults Study; NYT-KHN Dying Broke Series on Care Cost; Black Nursing Homes; The Elders’ Statement on Gaza; LAT’s Hiltzik on Social Security Falsehoods; Suicides of Old White Men; & MORE
October 2023
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Issue 30.11
GBO NEWS: 22 Journalists in Aging Fellows at GSA Scientific Meeting in Tampa; Stanford’s Knight Fellowship Deadline; National Press Foundation’s 19 Fellows; Online Resources, Books for Reporters—Methuselah’s Zoo, Ageism Unmasked.
September 2023
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Issue 30.10
GBO NEWS: Journalists in Aging Fellowships Select 15 Reporters; Menopause Blog Empowering Women’s Health; Alzheimer’s Memories and Chile’s Other 9/11; Positive Dementia Films Beyond Fear of Diagnosis; & MORE
August 2023
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Issue 30.9
GBO NEWS: Columbia’s Age Boom Journalism Fellowships Names 36 Reporters; Kristof on US Health Scandal; Care Still Unaffordable for Seniors with Employer Coverage; Stealth Mental Care Crisis; Skepticism on Kaiser Permanente’s National Expansion; Japanese Artist Hokusai on Positive Aging; & MORE
July 2023
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Issue 30.8
GBO NEWS: McConnell, Feinstein–80 as New Fear Factor; Black Military Women; Oklahoma Parkinson’s Alliance; Few Cancer-Risk Patients in Drug Trials; Race Bias in Menopause Studies; Climate Change and Mental Health; Living With Arthritis; Isolated in Colorado; & MORE
June 2023
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Issue 30.7
GBO NEWS: Apply Now—Journalists in Aging Fellowships; HHS Secty. Becerra to Open Aging Conference; Prevention Editor to Lead Online Longevity Research Webinar; Ageist Media Obsession with Pres. Biden’s Age; Climate Change Heat Deaths; Alcoholism and Ageism; Post-Covid Problems; & MORE
May 2023
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Issue 30.6
GBONEWS: UN’s Little-Covered Debate on Right to Long Life; Mental Health in Long-Term Care; Nursing Home Neglect; Health Journalism Awards to ProPublica, New Yorker, Globe and Mail, Others; Adam Gopnik Book on Mastery in Later Life; Plus MORE
April 2023
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Issue 30.5
GBO NEWS: NYT’s Presidential Ageism; Dying Youth–And Falling US Longevity; Researching 10,000 SuperAgers; Humanitarian Muhammad Ali; Bruce Willis’ Dementia; Caregiving Style Guide; Sex & Aging; New Safeguarding Social Security Book; & MORE
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Issue 30.4
GBO NEWS: For Politicians—Sources on Aging in Prison; USC Health Journalism Fellowships; NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly’s Hearing Loss; Nursing Home Poverty; Social Security Report and Bonehead Falsehood via Yahoo; Elders Mental Health; Medicare Shortfall on Breast Cancer; Teetering on Medicaid’s Edge; & More
March 2023
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Issue 30.3
GBO NEWS: SPECIAL 30th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE — Reflections on Generations Beat Journalism by 5 Who Were in the Room at Our 1993 Founding
February 2023
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Issue 30.2
GBO News: Spring Training for Pres. Biden, 80; Farewell, Pres. Carter, 98; Roslyn Carter Reporting Fellowship Deadline; War and Love in Ukraine; Forced Suicides for Japan’s Elders; KHN Expose on Facilities Cashing In vs. Resident Care; & MORE
January 2023
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Issue 30.1
GBO NEWS: Media Ageism Faces the Music; Guns and Elders; Fentanyl Killing Older Blacks; $170K Scripps Howard Awards; Long Home Care Waiting Lists; Medicare Cuts Drug Costs; & MORE
December 2022
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Issue 29.14
GBO NEWS: 5 Reporting Fellowship Deadlines; 11th Legacy Film Fest; Employers’ Medicare (Dis)Advantage; Private Equity’s Sick Profits; Indian Immigrants’ US Golden Years; LGBTQ Back in Assisted Living Closet; Racism in Elders’ Med Research; NYC’s Asian Seniors; & MORE
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GBO NEWS: On Gerontocracy Insider’s “Weird Al” Parody of In-Depth Reporting—The Old Russians Are Coming!; Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource Published Double Antidote to Ageism
October 2022
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Issue 29.12
GBO NEWS: Age-Reporting Program Names 10 Continuing Fellows; GOP Proposes Social Security, Medicare Cuts–Following Conservative “Leninist Strategy”; NYT Exposes Medicare Advantage Fraud; New Books—”Retirement Reboot,” Longevity Lessons from “Methuselah’s Zoo”; Exam Room Ageism; & MORE
September 2022
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Issue 29.11
GBO NEWS: Journalists in Aging Fellowships Tap 16; Economic Hardships in Puerto Rico; Long Covid; Zombie Cells; Rents and Homeless Seniors; Danger! Scientific Knowledge Minus Understanding; & MORE
August 2022
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Issue 29.10
GBO NEWS: Columbia U’s Age Boom Taps 36 Reporting Fellows; The (not so) Super Age; Hollywood & The United States of Ageism; Age Bias and Fox Sports; FDA on Non-Prescription Hearing Aids; & MORE
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Issue 29.9
GBO NEWS: New Journalism Fellowship Deadline; Privatizing Medicare; Francis’ Pope-Mo-Wheel; When Abortion Was a Crime; Medicare Privatization; Aging in Prison; Covid Burden on Latinos; & MORE
July 2022
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Issue 29.8
GBO NEWS: Journalism Fellowship News on Aging; Liz Cheney’s Jan. 6 Ageism, Green Elders & Climate Change; Ethan Hawke’s Love Lesson from Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward; Social Security’s Big COLA; MindSite News Shines Light on Mental Health; Scapegoating Seniors in 4 Languages; Ocean Vuong on Grandmothers; & MORE
June 2022
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Issue 29.7
GBO NEWS: Journalists in Aging Fellowship Deadline Announced; Media Ageism at NYT, NY Magazine, NPR Promotes Gerontocracy Myth Blaming the Old, Solving Nothing
May 2022
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Issue 29.6
GBO NEWS: Pre-Roe Memories Spotlight Older Women; Columbia U’s Age Boom Fellowship Deadline; Indian Americans Reinventing Widowhood; Minnesota’s Ukrainians, Russians; Dems Win Over Older Rural Trump Voters; & MORE
April 2022
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Issue 29.5
GBO NEWS: USA Today’s ‘Dying for Care’ COVID Expose with USC Webinar; NYT: Broken Patent System Drains Medicare; 4 New Bookmobile Titles; Houston’s Strange Civil Rights Legacy; HIV Over 50; Sisterhood Wellness Walks; & MORE
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Issue 29.4
GBO NEWS: News Links on Ukrainian Seniors; Top US Aging Groups Promote Human Rights—Not Mentioning Ukraine Elders; Life Expectancy Drops for White Americans; USC Reporting Fellowships Open; Elon Musk: The Old “Asphyxiate Society”; Ageism Unmasked; & MORE
March 2022
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Issue 29.3
GBO NEWS: Ukrainian Elders Running, Standing Defiant; NY Times Hit on “Nihilistic” and “Hedonistic” Boomers; New Take on Palliative Care; At 98 Herbert Gold and Sons Exchange Poems on Exits and Entrances; & MORE
February 2022
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Issue 29.2
GBO NEWS: Old Gold at the Olympics; USC, Rosalynn Carter and Other Reporting Fellowships; WSJ on Excess Pandemic Deaths; Medicare Privatization’s Dark History; Faith and Dementia Care in Black Families; NPR’s Scott Simon vs. Paywalls; & MORE
January 2022
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Issue 29.1
GBO NEWS: NYT’s Leland Ends 7-Year Saga on Elders 85-Plus; GettingDotOlder, Public TV’s Mighty 13-Part Series Underway; Scripps Howard Awards Deadline; Helen Dennis Logs 1000th Syndicated Successful Aging Column, & MORE
December 2021
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Issue 28.13
GBO NEWS: Eisenberg Departs PBS Next Avenue; Black, Latina Women and Dementia; Ageist Elderspeak of Docs, RNs; How Creativity Improves Elder Care; Hidden Meaning of Stories Seniors Repeat; Why Aging Farmworkers Never Retire; What Not to Ask Aged Writers: & MORE
November 2021
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Issue 28.12
GBO NEWS: BBB Bill’s Passage News for Elders; Britney Freed, But Seniors?; 11 Journalists in Aging Continuing Fellows Named; Fixing Racial Retirement Gap; Evictions Hit Seniors; & MORE
October 2021
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Issue 28.11
GBO NEWS: 17 Reporters Named Journalists in Aging Fellows; RAISE Act for 53 Million Caregivers; Older Women of Color; Will Congress Pass Older Workers Bureau?; Costs of Growing Older Tallied; Social Security Doomsayers Wrong Again; & MORE
September 2021
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Issue 28.10
GBO NEWS: Poynter’s MediaWise for Seniors vs, Fake News; NBC’s Al Roker Splashes Back at Ageism; NYT on Phony Nursing Home Diagnosis to Drug Elders; KALW Hits Hospital Disability Bias in Pandemic; Social Security Report and You; & MORE
August 2021
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Issue 28.9
GBO NEWS: Behind Social Security Commissioner Fight; New Medicare Head; Reporting Fellowships; Britney Spears and Conservatorship Fixes; PLUS Grandfamilies Raising Grandkids; On Golden Pod(casts); Learning Older, Wiser; & MORE
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Issue 28.8
GBO NEWS: Deadline Extended — Journalists in Aging Fellowship Applications, Aug. 23; AZ Republic’s Elder-Killing Heat Story; Why’s Workplace Ageism OK?; COVID Coping in Many Cultures; MacArthur Genius Anne Basting; Senior Singles; LTC Infrastructure; Aging While Black; & MORE
July 2021
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Issue 28.7
12th Journalists in Aging Fellowship Deadline, Aug 11; PBS NewsHour’s Ageism; Biden Fires Trump Social Security Head; PLUS NPR Jaffe’s Breast Cancer Secret; Boomer Financial Distress; & MORE
June 2021
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Issue 28.6
GBO NEWS: Who Lives to 100?; Reporting Fellowship Deadline; Latinx Elders and Pandemic Care; Social Security vs. Military Bloat; Senior Mover’s Moving Memoir: Nobelist Kahneman Says Experience Matters; & MORE
May 2021
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Issue 28.5
GBO NEWS: Columbia U Taps 34 Age Boom Reporting Fellows; USC Health Fellowship Deadline Now June 1; Indian Elders & Jollywood Dancing; PLUS COVID’s Unexpected Tech Advantage; Puerto Rico’s Caregivers; LGBTQ Housing Crisis; Legacy Film Fest Runs This Week; & MORE
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Issue 28.4
GBO NEWS: 10th Legacy Film Fest (Virtually) National; NYT Shows Ageism Deeper Than SNL’s Crude Slurs; PLUS Span’s Audio Bubbe Diaries Published; USC’s National Reporting Fellowship Deadline; & MORE
March 2021
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Issue 28.3
GBO NEWS: Oldest President and Aging; COVID Isolation vs. Safety; Bold Proposal in Social Security Book; PLUS Robotic Pets; Arab American Elders in Pandemic; & MORE
February 2021
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Issue 28.2
GBO NEWS: Covering COVID Shots Travails; “Conservative Policies Shortening US Lives”; NPR’s “Founding Mothers” at 50; PLUS Disability Justice; Climate Change; Dychtwald’s “Radical Curiosity” Memoir; Media Access to On Aging 2021 Conference with Comedian Seth Rogan’s non-Hilarity on Alzheimer’s; & MORE
January 2021
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Issue 28.1
GBO NEWS: DC Elder Insider Blancato on Biden Admin & 117th Congress; Story Links on Trump Drugs Failure; COVID Hit on Nest Eggs; Hidden Hunger — PLUS Climate Change vs. Retirement; Nursing Homes’ Bad Biz Model; Arab American Elders in Pandemic; & MORE
December 2020
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Issue 27.14
GBO NEWS: MacArthur Genius Basting’s “Creative Care” Book; Blogger Ronni Bennett’s Oregon Exit: Britain’s “AgeSpeaks” Radio; Race & Mental Health Study; Grantmakers in Aging HIV Report; & More
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Issue 27.13
GBONEWS: Santa’s Dr. Fauci Ornament in Your Stocking; Ageism Goes To Washington Media (Biden’s Cabinet is so OLD!); Fight to Reauthorize Elder Justice Act to Prevent Abuse); Trump-McConnel’s Fed Court Youth-ocracy; COVID-Effect: Medicare/Private-Pay Patient’s Avoid Nursing Homes; & More
November 2020
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Issue 27.12
GBO NEWS: SPECIAL ACCESS ISSUE 7 Journalists in Aging Expert Zooms Online – Election Aftermath on Health and Economic Security; COVID’s Future; Age Demographics; Older Workers; Ageism; & Palliative Care
October 2020
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Issue 27.11
GBO NEWS: 15 Named Journalists in Aging Fellows; Under Biden’s Social Security Plan Hood (Guess Who Hasn’t a Plan); NORC-AP’s Aging & COVID-19; Seniors’ Ethnic/Racial Econ Disparities; New Retirement Reporter at Gannett’s Desert Sun; Remembering Gray Panther’s Maggie Kuhn; CalPERS Private Equity Gamble (Again?); & MORE
August 2020
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Issue 27.10
GBO NEWS: Age Reporting Fellowship Deadline Extended; Remembering Gail Sheehy; Biden Platform on Aging (GOP’s Is Guess Who?); Don’t Trust Mitt’s TRUST Act; OK, Boomer Book’s Nuanced Ageism; View of Nursing Home COVID Disaster from Room 10; Creative Aging Query for Reporters
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Issue 27.9
GBO NEWS: $1,500 Journalists in Aging Deadline; Biden’s Caregiving Plan; KQED Deafness Story Goes Hollywood; NYT’s Huge ADA at 30 Series; Native American Food Fight Story Awarded; Age Writer’s Bluegrass Book Strums Up Top Nomination; Facilities Evict Elders for COVID-19 Bonus; & MORE
July 2020
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Issue 27.8
GBO NEWS: Covering COVID-19—On Nursing Homes, Racial Justice, Obit Writing & Palliative Care; Patterson Fellowship Deadline; Aging in Prisons; Hugh Downs, 99, Left Aging Legacy; Youth Author Jason Reynolds with Krista Tippett on Black Lives & Generations
June 2020
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Issue 27.7
GBO NEWS: New Long-Term Care Database; Playing the COVID Nursing Home Card; Elder Despair and Suicide; 1991 Book’s “Crisis of 2020” Had Ageist Agenda; Pandemic in Cape Cod and Latinx LA; & More
May 2020
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Issue 27.6
GBO NEWS: COVID’s Invasion of the Elder Snatchers; Dr. Aronson’s “Elderhood” Named Pulitzer Finalist; Joe Biden and Getting Medicare to Age Zero; Ageism Epidemic in the Pandemic; Virus Sledgehammer on Older Workers; COVID, Age & Racial Equality; & MORE
April 2020
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Issue 27.5
GBO NEWS: COVID-19 Sources on Nursing Homes, Older Workers, Law, Vaccine Science, and Older Americans Act Reauthorization, Plus Reporting Awards, John Prine, LGBTQ Pioneer Phyllis Lyon & Some Talmudic Wisdom
March 2020
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Issue 27.4
GBO NEWS: COVID-19 Elder Update–Trump Weakening Long-Term Care; Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults Report from the National Academies; “The Loneliness Paradox” video by Humorist Josh Kornbluth; “Leads From Liz” on LGBT Aging Sources; New Books: Kleinman’s Soul of Care, Talbot’s Heaven & Hell Stoke Story; Basting’s Creative Care; & MORE
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Issue 27.3
GBO NEWS: CORONA SPECIAL ISSUE—COVID-19 Meets Ageism2020: Social Media Gaffes, Comedian Trevor Noah Blames Senior “Delinquents” for Spread; Nursing Home Infection Mismanagement; Payroll Tax Cut for Affluent, Not Workers; Major Aging Conferences Cancelled, Postponed; Webinar on Future of Pandemics & Aging.
February 2020
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Issue 27.2
GBO NEWS: News Links Besides Impeachment and Primaries (Cuts & Claims Below the Fold); Columbia U’s Age Boom Reporting Fellowships; GAO Says Health Guidelines Fail Older Americans; 2020 Candidates on Disability, Long-Term Care; & MORE
January 2020
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Issue 27.1
GBO NEWS: Oy Vey, Boomer–Ageism’s Not OK; NYT Earns “A” on Death, “F” on Gun Suicide; The Bookmobile Gets Its Irish Up; Don’t Forget Rural Elders; Paul Theroux Finds Escapes U.S,. Ageism in Old Mexico; & MORE
December 2019
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Issue 26.14
GBO NEWS: Buttigieg’s Long-Term Care Plan; “Public Option” Safer? Guess Again; Queer Eye on LTC; Early Dementia Detection; Bipartisan Medical Failure; Warning on Holiday Pet Scams; Immigrant Elders’ Stressed for Lack of Regional Foods; Study: Old Dogs Can Show Humans Tricks; & MORE
November 2019
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Issue 26.13
GBO NEWS: NYT’s Bogus Old vs. Young Attack; Free Aging-Conference Book Online with Reporting Sources; WHO to Release Arts & Health Study, Nov. 11; AHCJ’s Bruzzese Steps Down; Peters-Smith New Sarasota Herald-Tribune Opinions Editor; Seegert Appointed Fellowship Coordinator; Long-Term Care Crisis; Uninsured Kids Hit 4 Million; & MORE
October 2019
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Issue
GBO NEWS: Ageism Hits Millennials; Press@GSA Meeting, Austin, Nov. 13-17–with Lunch and the Science of Dog Aging; KHN’s Must-Read Feed on Debates, Open Enrollment Flaws; Nursing Home Profiteering & Death-Sniffing Rats; Tom Cole’s “Old Man Country “ Book Out in Dec.; & MORE
September 2019
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Issue 26.11
GBO News: 20 Tapped as Reporting Fellows on Aging; Woodstock (and Altamont) at 50; Medicare4All—Doesn’t Cover Eldercare Much; Old & Alone; Aging Sick on the Streets; & MORE
August 2019
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Issue 26.10
GBO News: Guns vs. Elders (Beyond Mass Shootings); Legacy Film Festival on Aging; Journalism Fellowship Deadlines; Celebrating N.C. Black Musicians; Jewish Elders’ Mental Health TV Docu; Seniors’ Trauma; & MORE
July 2019
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Issue 26.9
GBO NEWS: Age Reporting Fellowship Deadline Extended, July 31; Medicare for All vs. Biden’s ACA 2.0 Mostly Ignore Aging; “Atlantic” Ageist Article Debunked; Elder Suicide; CA Governor’s Age Master Plan; Latina Longevity; & MORE
June 2019
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Issue 26.8
GBO NEWS: Deadline for 10th Journalists in Aging Fellowships; NBC/Latino on Latinas; Vietnamese Dementia FM Doc; KQED’s Graying California; Elderhood; Dr. Verghese on MD/MBAs; & MORE
May 2019
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Issue 26.7
GBO NEWS: Ethics in Dementia Reporting; Marketplace on Financial Abuse & Brain Science; Reveal on Massive Assisted Living Fraud; Opioids & Grandparents; Post-Prison Health Care; Media at Silicon Valley Boomer Summit; & MORE
April 2019
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Issue 26.6
GBO NEWS: Upending Ageism Series Gets Grant; Immigration Policy Hurting Woman; Bankrupt vs. Not Bankrupt—Shaky Reporting on Social Security; Over Half of Middle-Income Seniors to Need Housing, Caregiving; & MORE
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Issue 26.5
GBO NEWS: Health Journalism 2019; Nat’l Press Foundation Taps 21 for Alzheimer’s Fellowships; Reporter’s Struggle with U.S. Med System; StriaNews Marks 1st Year; Centenarian Blue Zones (How They Afford Long Life); Gen Beat Reporter Reflects at 90; & MORE
March 2019
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Issue 26.4
GBO NEWS: Refugee Elders in Kentucky; Aging While Black; Advance Review Copies on Elderhood, Working While Older; Aging Stats Coast to Coast; Immigrants’ Happy Meals Taste of Home; & MORE
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Issue 26.3
GBO NEWS: Homeless Over 50; Online “Medicare for All” Comparison Tool; Mark Miller’s New Podcast; Applewhite’s Anti-Ageism “Compact” in The Guardian; Opioids, Elders & ERs; Gold at 95, Ferlinghetti, 100; & MORE
February 2019
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Issue 26.2
GBO NEWS: WHY AGEISM DOESN’T GET ‘OLD’: NYT’s Leonhardt Falsely Pits Young vs. Old; Princeton Scholars (and Study’s Coverage) Suggest Elders’ Fading Memories Most Prone to Fake News; & Deadlines for Journalism Fellowships
January 2019
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Issue 26.1
GBO NEWS: PBS’s Next Avenue’s New Head; Bookmobile News—Marc Freedman’s How to Live Forever Top WSJ Choice, Plus Elizabeth White on Job Ageism, Mary Pipher on Women at 70, Bestseller Katy Butler on Dying Well; & Selected Story Links
December 2018
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GBO NEWS: Boomer v. Millennial Ageism; Intergenerational Rosa Parks; Book Publishing on Aging; ‘Bingocize’; Racial, LGBT End-of-Life Care Disparities; Pentagon Waste Report; & MORE
November 2018
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Issue 18.11
GBO NEWS: 36 Gen-Beat Reporters to Boston This Week; A Brave Exit, A Sad Exit & Exit Polls; That Same Ol’ Ageism; Journalism Fellowship Deadlines
September 2018
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Issue 18.10
GBO NEWS: 20 Tapped as Journalists in Aging Fellows; “Old School” Launched vs Ageism; Stephen Colbert’s Midlife -isms; High Rents Burden 78% of Low-Income CA Seniors; Medicare-for-All $10 Trillion Cheaper; & MORE
August 2018
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Issue 18.9
GBO NEWS: Stria’s Susan Donley & Her Purple Pen; Ageism in Health, Media, Movies & Bankruptcy; Journalists Fellowship Program Wrongly Hit; Legacy Film Festival
July 2018
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Issue 18.8
GBO NEWS: Journalists Fellowship Deadline Extended; Boston Globe’s New Boomer Beat; “Death Cafes” & “FUN-erals”; Real News on Medicare, Drug Costs and Retirement; Ageism a Royal Pain (Says the Royal Society)
June 2018
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Issue 18.7
GBO NEWS: Journalists in Aging Fellowship Deadline, June 29; Silicon Valley Boomer Summit; Dr. Ruth, the Queen & More at 90; Senior Bullies; Dementia and Guns; “Aging Parents, Stressed Families” & MORE
May 2018
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GBO NEWS: Columbia Names 21 Journalism Fellows; Ageism in Media; High Tech for Rural Elders; New From Authors Herbert Gold, 94, Connie Goldman, 87; WaPo on Hospice & Dementia; & MORE
April 2018
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Issue 18.5
GBO NEWS: CBS 60 Minutes’ Alzheimer’s Failure; Hey, GOP—Pres. Reagan on Social Security & Deficit; Older White Voters’ Turn from Trump; KALW’s Hour Radio Docu on Palliative Care; “Devastating” Care Cost for Vietnamese Family; IBM’s Ageism; & MORE
March 2018
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Issue 18.4
GBO NEWS: Pennsylvania’s Real Winner; Reporters at Aging in America Meeting; Harry Potter & Daniel Ellsberg’s Doomsday Machine; Reporting Fellowships; Health Journalism 2018; & MORE
February 2018
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Issue 18.3
GBO NEWS: 2 Views of Trauma (Preventing & Surviving); GBONews/JNG to Turn 25 at ASA Fete; Reporting Fellowships; Leland’s NYT Bestseller; AgeLab’s Coughlin at Aging 2.0; & MORE
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Issue 18.2
GBO NEWS: Ivanka’s Child Care Paid via Social Security?; Reporting Fellowship Deadlines; AHCJ & Aging America Conferences; The Bookmobile; & MORE
January 2018
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GBO NEWS: The 1%’s Other Tax Escape; Will Paul Ryan Steal Your Security?; Coughlin’s “Longevity Economy”; Mexico’s Med Tourism (Forget the Wall), Villages, Elder Fraud; & MORE
December 2017
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Issue 17.14
GBO NEWS: New Yorker Falters on Ageism; Conscious Caregiving Book; Older Voters Suppressed; Detroit’s Transit-Restricted Arab Seniors; LA’s Aging Undocumented Laborers; Hard Times for Arizona’s Indian Elders; & MORE
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Issue 17.13
GBO NEWS: Taxing Times—GOP’s Bill; Star-Tribune’s 5-Parts on Elder Abuse; International Study: U.S. Seniors Struggle More; & MORE
November 2017
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Issue 17.12
GBO NEWS: GOP Tax Rigmarole; New America Media to Shut Down; USC, Harvard Journalism Fellowship Deadlines; NYT’s John Leland’s New Oldest-Old Book; & MORE
October 2017
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Issue 17.11
GBO NEWS: Puerto Rican Elders Still Struggle Post Hurricane; POLITICO and WaPo on Aging Agenda; 20 Nat’l Press Aging Fellows in DC; Trump Plan & Indian Health; How Elders Lose Rights; & More
September 2017
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Issue 17.10
GBO NEWS: DACA & Social Security; Hole-y ‘Bucket List’ Films with an Alzheimer’s Nazi Hunter, a Terminal Dog Lover & More
August 2017
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Issue 17.9
GBO NEWS: Labor Day & Older Workers; ‘Ending Ageism’; WaPo Profiles 5 Surviving Beat Writers; & More
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Issue 17.8
GBO NEWS: Summer of Luv Hype; Legacy Film Fest; Robots; Reporting Awards, Fellowships; & More
June 2017
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Issue 17.7
GBO NEWS: World Aging Conference; GOP Senate Bill—Savings vs. Deaths; National Press Club Award to KHN’s Anna Gorman; WSJ on Doctors “Too Old to Practice?”; & More
May 2017
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Issue 17.6
GBO NEWS: 18 Get Journalists in Aging Fellowships; World Aging Congress Press; AP Poll—Majority Want Medicare LTC Coverage; Justice in Aging Book Club Summer Reading List (Seriously!)
April 2017
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Issue 17.5
GBO NEWS: 1 Week to Fellowship Deadline; Robots; Black Retirees’ Reverse Migration; Financial Elder Abuse; Gray Climate Change Advocates; & MORE
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Issue 17.4
GBO NEWS: Reporting Fellowship Deadline Extended; Columbia’s Age Boom Taps 22 Reporting Fellows; The Age-Unfriendly Skys; Trump’s Sad! Social Security Proposal; & MORE
March 2017
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Issue 17.3
GBO NEWS: Colbert on Ben Carson’s “Geezer” Surgery; Journalism Fellowships; Repeal-Replace This!; Healthy Soul Food; Rigged on Roots of Inequality
February 2017
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Issue 17.2
GBO NEWS: PBS Alzheimer’s Docu Slammed; HHS Leaks; Medicare Age Boost Would Add Uninsured; Fellowship Deadlines at Columbia, Roslyn Carter Center; & MORE
January 2017
December 2016
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Issue 16.18
GBO NEWS: Medicare, Medicaid & Trump; U.S. Longevity Drops; Old, Black and “Invisible in New York” Series; & MORE
November 2016
October 2016
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Issue 16.16
GBO NEWS: MemoryWell Journalists Tell Dementia Patients’ Stories; Gen-Beat Reporters in New Orleans Event; Poverty Stats, Older Women, Steinem and, Oh, Yeah, Trump: & MORE
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Issue 16.15
GBO NEWS: Norman Lear on PBS; 9 Journalism Fellowships; GOP Senators Eye Entitlements; Major Family Caregiving Report; Latinos & Alzheimer’s; & MORE
September 2016
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Issue 16.14
GBO NEWS: 16 Journalism Fellows Named; Health Reporting IT Conference; Age Discrimination & Jobs; Going Gray in LA; & MORE
August 2016
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Issue 16.13
GBO NEWS: Last New Orleans Fellowship Chance; Happiness of the Oldest-Old; Hamilton? Try Social Security Innovator–Thomas Paine; Immortality at NYT; AARP Shamed; & More
July 2016
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Issue 16.12
GBO NEWS: Aging-Fellowship Deadline Extended; GOP & Dem Platforms; Dr. Bill Disrupts Aging; Summer Books 2; Dem & GOP Platforms on Entitlements; & More
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Issue 16.11
GBO NEWS: 1 Week to Fellowship Deadline; MediCaring’s LTC Solutions; New LGBT Medicare-Medicaid Rules; Summer Books; & More
June 2016
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Issue 16.10
GBO NEWS: Blaming the Old for Brexit; 2 Journalism Fellowship Deadlines; ‘ProPublica’s’ Pharma Exposé; Guardianship Trap; & More
May 2016
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Issue 16.9
GBO NEWS SPECIAL ISSUE: Ageism in Voter-ID Laws & How to Report It
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Issue 16.8
GBO NEWS: Entitlements According to Trump; Columbia’s 20 Age Boom Reporters; HuffPost’s Global Aging Coverage; & MORE
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Issue 16.7
GBO NEWS: NPR Anchor Calls for Caregivers Day; NPF Names 20 ‘Retirement’ Journalism Fellows; New Gen-Beat Websites; & MORE
April 2016
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Issue 16.6
GBO NEWS: Robotic Aging; Investment-Conflict Regs; Older Workers’ Stress; NIA Global Aging Report; & MORE
March 2016
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Issue 16.5
GBO NEWS: House Votes on Older Americans Act; NPF Fellowship Deadline; To Oldly Go. . . ; & More
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Issue 16.4
GBO NEWS: Health Journalism 2016; Sally Field, 70, on New Film & Aging; ‘Hidden Poor’ Seniors; Flawed Retirement ‘Nudge’ Policies; & More
February 2016
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Issue 16.3
GBO NEWS: USC Reporting Fellowships; DC Event Press Reg; Medicare Interactive; This Chair Rocks; & More
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Issue 16.2
GBO NEWS: Dartmouth Atlas Phone Briefing on Wed.; AARP Takes Purpose Prize Over; CBO’s Social Security Flub; Retirement Crisis; Hugh Downs at 95 & More
January 2016
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Issue 16.1
GBO NEWS: Social Security & Election 2016; Too Old to Be President?; White House Report; & More
December 2015
October 2015
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Issue 15.14
GBO NEWS: AP’s Gen-Beat Reporter Goes National; Pulitzer Winner Takes Buyout; Reporting Fellowships; & More
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Issue 15.13
GBO NEWS: 18 Get Age Journalism Fellowships; Playboy Hits Ageism; “Daily Show’s” Noah Blows Christie Interview on Social Security; New Books & More
August 2015
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Issue 15.12
GBO NEWS: Aging Fellowship Deadline Extended; “Live?Die?Kill?: Los Angeles”; Gerontologist Evicted Seniors; & More
July 2015
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Issue 15.11
GBO NEWS: Journalist in Aging Fellows Deadline; Senior Workers at Senate; ACA’s Wrong Prescription; & More
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Issue 15.10
GBO NEWS: Press Rush, Agenda for July 13 White House Aging Conference
June 2015
May 2015
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Issue 15.8
GBO NEWS: Journalism Fellows Named; Norman Lear in Silicon Valley; Medicare-Medicaid at 50
April 2015
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Issue 15.7
GBO NEWS: Pulitzer & AHCJ Winners; Once-Tortured Elder Black Prisoners; Social Security & 2016 Campaign
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Issue 15.6
GBO NEWS: Wiser Fools; NPF Reporting Fellowship Deadline; CJR’s Trudy Lieberman; Palliative Care Resource Gap; & More
March 2015
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Issue 15.5
GBO NEWS: Race, Wealth and Retirement; March Mindefulness; The Storyboard; & More
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Issue 15.4
GBO NEWS: Caregiving from Fair Labor–to Murder; Herb Gold’s 20th Novel at 91
February 2015
January 2015
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Issue 15.2
GBO NEWS: NYT Ends, Revamps “New Old Age”; Social Security’s Race, Gender Tax Gap; Age Fellowship Deadline, ‘Selma’ & More
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Issue 15.1
GBO NEWS: Reporting Fellowship Deadlines; GOP’s Disability Attack; & More
December 2014
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Issue 14.15
GBO NEWS: Hispanic Care Project Wins Emmy; Elder Justice Act; Fed Bill’s Pension Theft; & More
October 2014
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GBO NEWS: Press Meet-Up at GSA; Geoffrey Holder’s Last Dance; Being Mortal
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Issue 14.13
GBO NEWS: Ageist Provocateur Zeke Emanuel’s Jovial Death Wish at 75
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
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Issue 14.8
GBO NEWS: News Fellowship Deadlines; Economist’s Billion Shades of Ageism
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Issue 14.7
GBO NEWS: OWL’S Mother’s Day Report; Race, Age & the Recession; Crossword Queen Turns 100
April 2014
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Issue 14.6
GBO NEWS: Fellowship Deadline; LBGT Seniors; Granddad Keith Richards; 4.8M Elders Hungry
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Issue 14.5
GBO NEWS: DC GOP & DEMS — ‘EVILNESS,’ CARING, ‘KAFKAESQUE’
March 2014
February 2014
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Issue 14.3
GBO NEWS: NYT’s New “Retiring” Column; Congress & Senior Entrepreneurs; Old Poets
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Issue 14.2
GBO NEWS: Bill Maher’s Ageism in Mirror; Oscar Nominees; New Books
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
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Issue 13.16
GBO NEWS: JAMA’s “Critical Issues”; Fed Health’s Other Digital Mess; Elders Denied Social Security
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Issue 13.15
GBO NEWS: AP’s “Working Longer”; GSA in New Orleans; 65+ Women
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
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Issue 13.9
GBO NEWS: NAM’s 400 Ethnic Elders Stories; Grace Slick’s Acid & Wrinkles; & More
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Issue 13.8
GBO NEWS: New Journalism Fellowships; Sequestered Seniors; Sharper Brains
April 2013
March 2013
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Issue 13.6
GBO NEWS: New NPR Gen-Beat Reporter; Special AHCJ Conference Report
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Issue 13.5
GBO NEWS: AP Gen Beat Reporter’s Fellowship; LGBT Aging; Entitlement Lies
February 2013
January 2013
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Issue 13.3
Columnist Jane Glenn Haas Dies; New Senate-Aging Members & More
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Issue 13.02
Obama on Entitlements; Fellowship Deadlines & More
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Issue 13.01
Oscar Nod to Aging; End-of-Life Debate
December 2012
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Issue 12.18
Starbuck’s Fiscal ‘Tall’ Falls Short; Nursing Home Tool & More
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Issue 12.17
Avoiding “Fiscal Cliff” Briefing; Fiscal “Dart” to CBS; More