my column this week is about the unique collaboration btwn content creators & cnn journalists that finally took swalwell down. also an absolutely wild tale about a grifter/journalist who managed to con her way into jobs at a string of local papers from @samtabachnik.bsky.social.
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.
Workers I spoke to are pissed.
Tony Gonzales and the Patient Work of Local News: Impactful reporting from the San Antonio Express-News; Fargo columnists fed to the wood chipper; profiling the Big Beautiful Bill’s ugliness. Read this week's Laurels and Darts by @banikarim.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
fun way to get in the mix
i’m not a conspiracy theorist but this is quite a statement at a time when the administration could definitely use a distraction.
Examining “crisis pregnancy” centers in rural parts of Texas that lack maternal care. Plus: Bad AI practice and CNN’s good reporting from the West Bank. Read Laurels and Darts by @banikarim.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Filmmaker Sebastian Walker on the journalistic benefits of a “direct conversation” with Iranian leaders, despite draconian restrictions. Read the interview with @banikarim.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
i talked to @ashleyharrell.bsky.social about the trump admin’s decision to blacklist her & her team at @sfgate.com for reporting about the systematic dismantling of protections for natl parks over the last 14 months. guess they touched a nerve.
SFGate’s national parks bureau makes waves. Plus: AI slop on slop at Vanity Fair, and holding Grammarly’s CEO accountable. Read this week's Laurels and Darts with @banikarim.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
the details in this piece about journalist estefany rodriguez’s detention are awful.
one of my favorite things about writing laurel & darts is getting to talk to good journalists like @leahsottile.bsky.social & @ryanjhaas.bsky.social doing cool shit. you should read their work.
Noah Shachtman lands at the Times, somehow. Plus: A strong start for a Substack looking westward, and a Banner week in Baltimore. This week's Laurels and Darts by @banikarim.bsky.social.
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this is hilarious: “CBS News executives ascribe some portion of the viewership results to changes tied to the recent shift to Daylight Savings Time, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
daylight savings time is a thing that notoriously only impacts one network apparently.
i’ve heard a lot of media execs say wild things but referring to pieces as “story-units” is next level.
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Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record
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ProPublica’s Payoff, plus, why we should let Trump go to voicemail, and great work from Charleston’s Post and Courier. This week's Laurels and Darts by @banikarim.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
"It was a striking example of something that happens more than the public sees: rigorous investigative reporting often arms lawmakers with facts that help them hold officials to account."
Love this point from @banikarim.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social
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there is grave concern for the journalists, dissidents and political prisoners in Iran who were already unjustly incarcerated before this war began and are now trapped as Iran is bombarded.
BREAKING:
The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.
They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
this man must have a humiliation kink. there is no other explanation for this.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
this is so unserious
if you believe the primary goal of these bombs is to help the iranian people, you have not been paying attention. i hope it does lead to some relief for them. they desperately need it. but many more will die first. war is hell.
beg to differ. real nerds are like vietnam massacre bob kerrey?
i’ll never understand this inability to match his foundation to the actual skin color on his face or hand? this is a skill i mastered in middle school.
is he handing out presidential medals like a game show host? they don’t usually do this right?
yes i am watching this for work.
they somehow managed to make the hockey thing so weird and awkward.
what the actual fuck? this is actually deranged.
New York Times Headline: Bench Presses, Pull-Ups ... Kid Rock? The White House Had a Very Manly Week.
manly is not how i’d describe this.