Casey Quackenbush is a Hong Kong/New York-based journalist writing about politics, culture, and climate change. In recent months, the Hong Kong protests and Australia’s bushfire crisis have dominated her work. Previously, she was a reporter with Time. You can also find her work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and Aperture. She has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied history and journalism.
When Jean Ronald Saint Preux started live-streaming on Facebook, the police had already smashed his driver seat window. On a clear day, May 20th, in the parking lot of the town hall of Albany, a … Read more
As Patrick Marley moved down the queue of voters lined up near a high school in Madison, some of his interviewees had to shout. Six feet apart is not ideal for a personal conversation about politics, especially on the … Read more
Two weeks after Australia began 2020 on fire, scores of mourners gathered for a funeral for a father and son in a small rural town called Cobargo in southeastern New South Wales. In the final days of 2019, ferocious … Read more
Every weekend, Tom Grundy plays a game of cat and mouse. The Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) editor-in-chief opens his computer to 12 livestreams of the Hong Kong protests while trying to untangle dozens of threads on the encrypted … Read more
