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Boston globe seeks a general assignment business reporter, september 26, 2021, posted by chris roush.

The Boston Globe’s business department is hiring a general assignment reporter to cover a wide range of topics. We’re looking for a self-starter with a wealth of energy and ideas who can write with flair and authority on everything from jobs and the economy to small businesses, corporations, and power players.

The reporter should possess a high metabolism and be a source-building machine, regularly publishing scoops and breaking news ahead of the competition. Furthermore, the reporter should be able to think big. We need someone who can authoritatively describe the broad trends emerging in our landscape and why they matter to our city, region, and nation.

In a given week, you might break news about hires or layoffs at a big local company; write about the impact of city or state policy on business owners; report an enterprise story about a new trend in office or business culture; and take the reins of a story about a prominent executive move that leads our website all day and lands on the front page of the paper.

Qualifications:

• You’re creative and enterprising. You see fresh angles to storylines everywhere and you’re a newshound who gets a rush when you beat the competition.
• You can handle the most important, sensitive stories we cover here at the Globe, but you’re also not beyond rolling up your sleeves and spinning an incredulous yarn filled with humor and mirth.
• You’re cool under the tightest deadlines, but you also know when not to rush a story, because taking an extra day can make the difference between a good story and a great one.
• You are able to pivot quickly and take assignments, whether they’re on the biggest news story of the day, a quirky feature, or hard news.
• You have a good sense of audience and how to write, report, and connect with digital readers.
• Experience covering business and knowledge of areas such as finance, philanthropy, hospitality, or government is a plus.

Requirements:

• At least 3-5 years journalism experience in a major market
• Ability to write clean, compelling copy on deadline
• A skilled reporter and writer who can elevate good stories into great ones
• Be adaptable and enterprising, someone who brings their own ideas to the table
• A team player who thrives in a group setting
• A willingness to adapt and be audience focused, with a curious mindset and a commitment to creating an inclusive work environment.

Please include a cover letter. This reporter will be based in Boston.

To apply, go here.

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Tornado Kills 1 in Oklahoma as Severe Weather Batters Central U.S.

Millions of people were under tornado watches early Tuesday, after at least 15 tornadoes were reported across Oklahoma and other states.

By Judson Jones ,  Johnny Diaz and John Yoon

Judson Jones is a meteorologist and a reporter for The Times.

Follow our updated coverage of Tuesday’s severe weather here .

Severe storms lashed the central United States early Tuesday, hours after a tornado in Oklahoma killed at least one person and destroyed parts of two communities.

At least 15 tornadoes were reported to have struck parts of the central United States by Monday night, seven of them in Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service. More than eight million people across parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas were under tornado watches early Tuesday.

A tornado killed one person in the city of Barnsdall, Okla., on Monday night, said Sheriff Eddie Virden of Osage County, who added that the twister was up to two miles wide. Emergency responders were going door to door in the damaged areas early Tuesday to look for people who were injured, he said.

The tornado took out about a third of the small city, where it also injured multiple people who were hospitalized in about 20 ambulances, said Jerry Roberts, the emergency management director in Osage County. The tornado also lifted the roof off a nursing home in Barnsdall, said Steven Cobb, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Tulsa.

Tornado reports across the Plains

Locations of tornado sightings or damage reported by trained spotters.

As the storm bore down, the National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency alert, which warns of catastrophic damage and severe threats to human life, for about 30 minutes in part of Osage County and Washington County in Oklahoma.

The tornado destroyed power lines along its path from Barnsdall to Bartlesville, leaving entire towns without electricity, Mr. Cobb said. Barnsdall was also hit by a tornado last month, but Monday’s tornado appeared more powerful, estimated to be a 2 or higher on the Enhanced Fujita scale , which goes from 0 to 5, Mr. Cobb said.

In Bartlesville, city officials said that emergency responders had rescued trapped individuals in a Hampton Inn and were recovering downed power lines early Tuesday. They said minor injuries had been reported, without saying how many.

At about 12:15 a.m. local time, the Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Oklahoma City and the area east of it.

In Garfield County, Okla., severe weather on Monday destroyed some barns, felled trees and sent cars hydroplaning into ditches, but no one was injured, said Mike Honigsberg, the county’s emergency management director.

The Weather Prediction Center warned of a slight risk of excessive rainfall over parts of the Central Plains and Middle Mississippi Valley from Monday into Tuesday morning. The heavy rain could produce flash flooding in urban areas, roads, small streams and low-lying areas.

More storms are forecast for the next couple of days, primarily on Wednesday, from Texas to Ohio.

Last month, more than two dozen tornadoes were reported and at least five people were killed in Oklahoma and Iowa, including an infant, the authorities said.

Livia Albeck-Ripka and Jesus Jiménez contributed reporting.

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Heavy fighting in Gaza’s Rafah keeps aid crossings closed and sends 110,000 civilians fleeing

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and forced more than 110,000 people to flee north, U.N. officials said Friday.

With nothing entering through the crossings, food and other supplies were running critically low, aid agencies said.

The World Food Program will run out of food for distribution in southern Gaza by Saturday, said Georgios Petropoulos, an official with the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Rafah. Aid groups have said fuel will also be depleted soon, forcing hospitals to shut down critical operations and bringing to a halt trucks delivering aid across south and central Gaza.

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The United Nations and other agencies have warned for weeks that an Israel assault on Rafah, on the border with Egypt near the main aid entry points, would cripple humanitarian operations and cause a disastrous surge in civilian casualties. More than 1.4 million Palestinians — half of Gaza’s population— have been sheltering in Rafah, most after fleeing Israel’s offensives elsewhere.

Heavy fighting was also underway Friday in northern Gaza, where Hamas appeared to have once again regrouped in an area where Israel has already launched punishing assaults.

Israel’s move into Rafah has been short of the full-scale invasion that it has planned. The United States is deeply opposed to a major offensive and is stepping up pressure by threatening to withhold arms to Israel.

But the heavy fighting has shook the city and spread fear that a bigger assault is coming. Artillery shelling and gunfire rattled throughout the night into Friday, an Associated Press reporter in the city said.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, said more than 110,000 people have fled Rafah. Families who have already moved multiple times during the war packed up to go again. One woman held a cat in her arms as she sat in the back of a truck piled with her family’s belongings about to head out.

The full invasion hasn’t started “and things have already gotten below zero,” said Raed al-Fayomi, a displaced person in Rafah. “There’s no food or water.”

Those fleeing erected new tents camps in the city of Khan Younis — which was half destroyed in an earlier Israeli offensive — and the town of Deir al-Balah, straining infrastructure.

The international charity Project Hope said its medical clinic in Deir al-Balah had seen a surge in people from Rafah seeking care for blast injuries, infections and pregnancies. “People are evacuating to nothing. There are no homes or proper shelters for people to go to,” said the group’s Gaza team leader based in Rafah, Moses Kondowe.

Petropoulos said humanitarian workers had no supplies to help them set up in new locations. “We simply have no tents, we have no blankets, no bedding, none of the items that you would expect a population on the move to be able to get from the humanitarian system,” he said.

Israeli troops captured the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Tuesday, forcing it to shut down. Rafah was the main point of entry for fuel.

Israel says the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing — Gaza’s main cargo terminal — is open on its side, and that aid convoys have been entering. It said trucks carrying 200,000 liters of fuel were allowed to enter the crossing Friday.

But the U.N. said it is too dangerous for workers to reach the crossing on the Gaza side to retrieve the aid because of Israel’s incursion and the ensuing fighting with Hamas.

Israeli troops are also battling Palestinian militants in eastern Rafah, not far from the crossings. The military said it had located several tunnels and eliminated militants in close combat and with airstrikes.

Hamas’ military wing said it struck a house where Israeli troops had taken up position, an armored personnel carrier and soldiers operating on foot. There was no comment from the Israeli military.

It is not possible to independently confirm battlefield accounts from either side.

Hamas also said it launched mortar rounds at troops near the Kerem Shalom crossing. The military said it intercepted two launches. The crossing was initially closed after a Hamas rocket attack on nearby forces last weekend killed four Israeli soldiers.

Hamas rockets also reached the southern Israeli city of Beersheeva on Wednesday, lightly injuring a woman with shrapnel, Israel’s military and rescue services said Friday. Five rockets were fired toward the city, with one intercepted and most falling in open areas, the military said. Through much of the war, Gaza militants fired thousands of rockets from Gaza on Israeli cities and towns, most of them intercepted, but such attacks have grown rarer in past months.

Israel says Rafah is the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza and key to its goal of dismantling the group’s military and governing capabilities and returning scores of hostages Hamas captured in its deadly Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war.

But Hamas has repeatedly regrouped, even in the hardest-hit parts of Gaza.

Heavy battles erupted this week in the Zeitoun area on the outskirts of Gaza City, in the northern part of the territory. Northern Gaza was the first target of the ground offensive, and Israel said late last year that it had mostly dismantled Hamas there.

The north remains largely isolated by Israeli troops, and the U.N. says the estimated 300,000 people there are experiencing “full-blown famine.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to proceed with the Rafah offensive with or without U.S. arms, saying “we will fight with our fingernails” if needed, in a defiant statement late Thursday. The U.S. has stepped up weapons deliveries to Israel throughout the war, and the Israeli military says it has what it needs for Rafah operations.

The war began with Hamas’ surprise attack into southern Israel last year, in which the militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 250 hostage. They are still holding some 100 captives and the remains of more than 30, after most of the rest were released during a cease-fire last year.

Israel’s bombardment and ground offensives in Gaza have killed more than 34,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures. Much of Gaza has been destroyed and some 80% of Gaza’s population has been driven from their homes.

Israel’s incursion into Rafah complicated what had been months of efforts by the U.S., Qatar and Egypt to broker a cease-fire and the release of hostages. Hamas this week said it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel says the plan does not meet its “core” demands. Follow-up talks appeared to end inconclusively on Thursday.

Hamas has demanded guarantees for an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as part of any deal — steps that Israel has ruled out.

Krauss reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Stephen Graham in Berlin contributed to this report.