Julie K. Brown's friends, family, former editors, and colleagues say her backstory — lean times with her single mother, a circuitous route to journalism, and formative years as a reporter in Philly — made her tough enough to expose Jeffrey Epstein, and the prosecutors who gave him a sweetheart deal.
This is an incredible story given its sourcing. It gives very granular details — who sat next to who — about highly classified meetings with very few people in them. Meaning at least one meeting participant clearly informed the reporting. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
Pretty simple concept, albeit rare in the world.
“A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
Months before the World Cup, FIFA is beginning to claw back the spare change it offered host cities for footing the bill. share.inquirer.com/D86lQa
In this probing piece, @polgreen.bsky.social makes an argument about the state of the news industry that I haven’t seen before. Essentially, that the decline in public trust coincided with journalism getting better.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
Had to happen. Bizarre end to what’s got to be the most incompetent display of theoretical leadership at a news organization since, I don’t know, the Tronc era. www.axios.com/2026/02/07/w...
You heard about the prosecutor defending ICE who broke in court said “the system sucks. This job sucks.”
She isn’t the only one frustrated.
Philly’s federal judges are reaching to Greek mythology metaphors to express their frustration.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer ( @inquirer.com ) has more than 50 journalists dedicated to election coverage today — and into tomorrow — as voters decide the next governor of New Jersey, the state of the PA Supreme Court, the Philly District Attorney and more. share.inquirer.com/qbHwn9
The Mets lost that day. Which makes sense, because as Jimmy Rollins said: “We couldn’t get them on the home side, because we knew what they did.”
@inquirer.com wrote about those infamous steaks, said to be among the best in the city, earlier this summer. www.inquirer.com/food/phillie...
The latest edition of @willbunch.bsky.social’s newsletter kicks off with this doozy of a thought: share.inquirer.com/u3rb2T
I recently finished a capstone project as part of a @newmarkjplus.bsky.social executive fellowship and landed on a humbling realization: journalism is an industry that thinks more highly of itself than anyone else does of it.
I think that’s our fault — and fixable. medium.com/news-innovat...
I recently finished a capstone project as part of a @newmarkjplus.bsky.social executive fellowship and landed on a humbling realization: journalism is an industry that thinks more highly of itself than anyone else does of it.
I think that’s our fault — and fixable. medium.com/news-innovat...
This is good. I’m not sure to what extent I agree with it, but more could be said about the arrogance-feigning-as-humility speak that comes from the tech titans so regularly. www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...
“Student newspaper editors said they are handling a surge of requests to take down or alter published articles, primarily from international students who fear pieces they wrote might attract the attention of ICE and endanger their legal statuses on campus.” www.inquirer.com/education/st...
Exactly. “Good enough” is a total failure if that’s the most widespread outcome of a transformational technology.
This is the type of nonsense that will hinder AI integration and limit its effectiveness. Companies should use AI to challenge the boundaries of what’s possible and explore how much more can be done, not to establish a floor of acceptable mediocrity. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/shop...
One lesson from this story: how honest, consistent, and careful with national security the best reporters are compared to the people who always attack them.
For most of my adult life, I've been eagerly awaiting the U.S. return of soccer's World Cup. But under Trump, the very real risk of tourists staying home to avoid airport hassles or even arrest, as well as America's global pariah status, may ruin it
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The chainsaw of government efficiency now includes indefinite closures of 425 popular campgrounds across Pennsylvania (and surely elsewhere) share.inquirer.com/koS50W
A measles case has been identified in a patient who visited several CHOP locations in Philadelphia over the last few days. Here's what to know about the case -- which is not linked to the Montco case identified a few weeks ago or the West Texas outbreak: www.inquirer.com/health/measl...
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On Tuesday afternoon, Eloise Brown got a call from Eagles team president, Don Smolenski.
“I’m calling from New Orleans,” Smolenski said. “I have a question to ask you. Would you like to come and join us and watch us on Sunday?” (1/4) www.inquirer.com/eagles/elois...
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Why am I weirdly here for this acronym?
“The Post, in April, laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal,’ or ‘B.H.A.G.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
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