"The new owner of CBS and the current editor-in-chief ... set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one." @postbaron.bsky.social via @sulliview.bsky.social
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"What you realize pretty quickly in the show is that we directly interrogate what true crime is." @leahsottile.bsky.social and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social
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#podcasts #storytelling #journalism
Thank you @alvvaysband.bsky.social for one of my very favorite songs to play live. “Archie, Marry Me” at @timstavernseattle.bsky.social
21st Ave., Greenway in West Seattle
Join me from a ride from West Seattle to the two line
“I think the way that you tell people’s stories, you end up kind of making them a little bit two- dimensional if you don’t also show the internal process, their choices, their thoughts.” @nadiareiman.bsky.social
Four lessons for journalist from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social, author of LONDON FALLING: niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/09/f... via @niemanstoryboard.org
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Notes from the @powerofnarrative.bsky.social conference, plus @mallarytenore.bsky.social on writing about family
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Over at @niemanstoryboard.org, Emilia Wisniewski shares some takeaways from my @powerofnarrative.bsky.social conversation with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
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#longreads #booksky #journalism
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
True story
"When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @mallarytenore.bsky.social on Sophie Elmhirst's "A Marriage at Sea." Plus: Joi Lee in @longlead.com, Carl Rosen in @nymag.com, and 13 years of @brendanomeara.bsky.social's Creative Nonfiction podcast.
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I'm honored to be in this company, and deeply appreciative that @newhousesu.bsky.social chose to recognize a story that calls out the uncomfortable truth in our industry.
It was such a thrill to interview @praddenkeefe.bsky.social last weekend at @powerofnarrative.bsky.social in Boston. "London Falling" is fantastic.
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We went through more first-hand accounts from Dilley, the only immigrant family detention center. It's the little details that really stick with me—Christmas "celebrations," a girl's letter asking for help, accounts of being hidden away during congressional visits www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Every story has to be discovered twice, first in the world, and then in the author’s study. One discovers a story the second time by constructing it.” — Tracy Kidder (1945-2026)
“I know this is a time when I really need to do this job, and I need to do it well, and I need to do it with purpose. That means that I need to pace myself.” @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social (2025)
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It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.
from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.
A kind shout-out of my essay on elementary school career day by @niemanstoryboard.org and @markarms.bsky.social!
If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @kerryhowley.bsky.social @nymag.com on Camp Mystic, and remembering Tracy Kidder. Plus: @leahsottile.bsky.social @mallarytenore.bsky.social
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My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Join me next weekend in Boston for my conversation with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social about his new book, LONDON FALLING. Plus: J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.
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#longreads #journalism
Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵
“A handful of Mr. Chavez’s relatives & former U.F.W. leaders have been aware for years about various allegations…but there is no evidence that they made efforts to fully investigate…acknowledge the victims or apologize to them. Instead, many of the women say they were discouraged from speaking out”
Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.
A collaboration w/ @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org and @bellingcat.com
Really great reporting from @sergioolmos.bsky.social and team documenting how the same federal agents have moved from city to city over the past year to inflict violence on the public.
I've posted about this before but if there are any editors interested in a story about a group of young mothers fighting to improve work conditions for pregnant workers, I'd love to pitch you a story I'm trying to find a home for! (The pitch is not this vague! Connects to a national issue too.)
Enjoyed talking with @markarms.bsky.social at the Neiman Storyboard about my Shakopee/ICE story. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/13/h...
Plus: indeed! Send us your (not-typical) three-minute audio climate stories by April 6. After you devour the latest newsletter from @markarms.bsky.social and @niemanstoryboard.org of course.
Details below and here: audioflux.org/circuit07
