Caroline Houck

New York

International Stories Editor at The New York Times

Editing international stories at the @nytimes. Previously @voxdotcom and @defenseone

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Articles

Noise canceling can help save your ears

Jun 26, 2024 | msn.com | Caroline Houck

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Noise canceling can help save your ears

Jun 26, 2024 | msn.com | Caroline Houck

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Noise canceling can help save your ears

Jun 25, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Caroline Houck

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Noise canceling headphones can help save your ears

Jun 25, 2024 | vox.com | Caroline Houck

Are your ears doing okay right now? Do you know? I don’t. I’m wearing noise-canceling headphones, blocking out the din of traffic passing by so that instead Spotify’s Deep Focus playlist can let me do what it promises. It’s awesome … but I can’t help but wonder: Is this damaging my hearing? Our is increasingly loud, and it’s . You can safely listen to sounds at 85 decibels — the whir of a food processor or the ambient noise of a plane in flight — for up to eight hours.
North America’s biggest city is running out of water

May 9, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Caroline Houck

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North America’s biggest city is running out of water

May 9, 2024 | msn.com | Caroline Houck

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Mexico City, a city of 22 million, is running out of water

May 8, 2024 | vox.com | Caroline Houck

Mexico City is parched. After abysmally low amounts of rainfall over the last few years, the reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system that supplies over 20 percent of the Mexican capital’s 22 million residents’ usable water are running out. “If it doesn’t start raining soon, as it is supposed to, these [reservoirs] will run out of water by the end of June,” Oscar Ocampo, a public policy researcher on the environment, water, and energy, told my colleagues over on the Today, Explained podcast.
A Very Bad Year for Press Freedom

Mar 29, 2024 | rsn.org | Caroline Houck

Russia’s year-long detention of Evan Gershkovich is one part of a very grim picture for journalism. This morning, Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter and the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia on espionage charges since the Cold War, woke up to his second year in prison. After five years of covering Russia, he was arrested in March 2023.
A very bad year for press freedom

Mar 28, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Caroline Houck

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A very bad year for press freedom

Mar 28, 2024 | vox.com | Caroline Houck

This morning, Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter and the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia on espionage charges since the Cold War, woke up to his second year in prison. After five years of covering Russia, he was arrested in March 2023.