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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Owed The World

lessons survived

Joe Mozingo (thanks, Mark): Port-au-Prince, Haiti — He was running through what felt like a dream. He had to get home. His father, Sony, would know what was happening. He'd keep everyone calm and tell them what needed to be done.



White dust choked the air. Ghost-gray figures stalked about, digging at mountains of shattered concrete.



Robenson Jacques, 33, sprinted up the hill to his house on Rue Estime. The bottom-floor office where his father sold lottery tickets had crumpled like a can.



Sony's dead," his mom told him.



"Mama, please don't say that! Sony cannot be dead."



"He is," she said, quietly sobbing.



Robenson climbed over the ruins of his neighbors' dwellings to the…

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