(Readers’ Pick) In the heat of the Arab Spring, Torie Rose DeGhett was carefully curating the best stories, quotes and photos coming out of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and the rest of the rapidly changing region.
“I absolutely think more people ought to be using Tumblr as a tool of serious journalism,” says DeGhett, who serves as an editor at London-based foreign policy magazine Current Intelligence. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t occasionally indulge in writing about another one of her passions: Middle Eastern hip-hop.