There is a college affordability problem, but this story is not good evidence. (I help send 40 FGLI students to college every year.) It names out-of-state publics and a not-wealthy Catholic college. I wish the author had gotten better advice on what kinds of schools to target to maximize fin aid!

The accent's legit, we've got the tape. Eight-year-old @emilysweeney22.bsky.social, you're on the air. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The best app is Timehop because every year I get this reminder and am delighted all over again despite (because of?) having zero memory of which corporate assholes my mother was referring to.

lollllllllllll (Greenwell's book is extremely good! bookshop.org/p/books/bad-... )

I just burned my way through Megan's well written and compelling book. It is a deep dive into the lives of those who PE destroy in their desire to make obscene amounts of money. Three thumbs up — would recommend! 👍👍👍

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What a joy to talk to Boston legend @emilysweeney22.bsky.social, who is as smart as she is funny and cool.

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Here's a thoroughly reported feature (with gift link!) exploring all of those questions through the lens of a small struggling college, which never once turns into a rant about the writer's personal feelings about the role of higher education or AI. (n.b. I am the writer.)

Recent Kicker guest Sofia Barnett is part of the @startribune.com team that won a Pulitzer for their coverage of the Annunciation school shooting. Just a couple of months out of college, she was the first reporter on the scene. With @greenwell.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Hi hello! I'm very tangentially involved in a very cool new project (with actual icons @anamariecox.bsky.social @evanurquhart.bsky.social @brianphillips.lol). It's called @nwsnws.com, and the idea is basically "what if Google Reader but for indie and nonprofit news outlets?" Which... yes.

News folks! I'm psyched to share a new project to help indie journalists combine our power. It's called NewsNews (@nwsnws.com). The idea is to give readers an easy way to find a wide variety of high quality news and journalists a low-effort revenue stream. Journalists, sign up here to learn more:

Hi hello! I'm very tangentially involved in a very cool new project (with actual icons @anamariecox.bsky.social @evanurquhart.bsky.social @brianphillips.lol). It's called @nwsnws.com, and the idea is basically "what if Google Reader but for indie and nonprofit news outlets?" Which... yes.

a panel of features editors just talked to our freelance class and it was genuinely so helpful (as someone who's written for these magazines for years). if you'd like to ask top-tier editors about how to land a story, consider joining the next cohort @greenwell.bsky.social flyingsolofreelancing.com

I need everyone to read this Priya Krishna story about how Starbucks inadvertently kicked off the indie coffee shop boom by switching to automatic espresso machines and creating a secondary market for fancy La Marzoccos. More journalism about logistics and supply chains!

good reminder to listen to my @columjournreview.bsky.social podcast ep with @edsbs.bsky.social about how he and @hollyanderson.bsky.social became the best fundraisers on earth (and probably the other planets too). www.cjr.org/kicker/spenc...

Spencer Hall, a proud University of Florida alum, has exactly two tattoos — both honoring the University of Michigan, which has won the #CharitybundiBowl every year since it started. Listen in with @greenwell.bsky.social and @edsbs.bsky.social. youtu.be/j9Ao6TLjivM

hey did you see us in the Colombia Journalism Review yet

The first big boost to @edsbs.bsky.social and @hollyanderson.bsky.social's #CharitibundiBowl came with the first Trump administration's anti-immigration messaging. The 2026 event, which runs through this weekend, crossed the million-dollar mark Wednesday evening. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I really loved interviewing @edsbs.bsky.social about being too niche for Vox Media and casually raising $1 million and counting to support refugees, and I REALLY love this illustration. @newap-georgia.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

The only media outlets, to my awareness, outside the sports blogosphere to cover the #CharitibundiBowl in its 19 years of existence: ✅ @bycasagrande.bsky.social at AL.com ✅ @jasonkirk.fyi at the holy gd NYT ✅ Megan

I really loved interviewing @edsbs.bsky.social about being too niche for Vox Media and casually raising $1 million and counting to support refugees, and I REALLY love this illustration. @newap-georgia.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

a very special sneak peek of tomorrow's @columjournreview.bsky.social podcast, Charity Bowl edition. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

every time i had to deal with walgreens in the past month i thought of @greenwell.bsky.social 's excellent book on the ravaging effects of private equity and got madder and madder

Student journalists take important risks because they report on authority figures who can control their academic futures. Eric Gustafson tells @greenwell.bsky.social how his students refused their school's demands for advanced review of their investigations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Love this comment, @greenwell.bsky.social: “It’s a move that can pay off and put you on every Main Street in America, or it can collapse spectacularly.” (huge fan of “Bad Company” -- brilliant writing) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/d...

I wrote a Businessweek feature in January about the slow death of this very American form of education, focusing on one small college that's trying to avoid Hampshire's fate by turning away from liberal arts. (gift link)

I’m reading @greenwell.bsky.social’s chapter about how private equity parasitized local papers in Bad Company right now, really nauseating.

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It’s absolutely disingenuous to ever pretend that this was a party issue rather than a patriarchy issue www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

This man is mad at me because I dared take him to the vet for his annual vaccines. The vet, I might note, called him the cutest pug she had ever seen and gave him an entire lick mat full of Easy Cheese, AND YET.

Elon took me to a game where it was 40 degrees and the Mets blew a late lead to lose 7-1, a perfect evening. The "Let's go Knicks" chant in the concourse summed up the state of things quite nicely.

So @greenwell.bsky.social is going to be recording the dingus of the week podcast tomorrow and if you have any dingii you think she should hear leave a voice memo!!! memo.fm/dingus

Suing your employer to stand up for student journalism is high on my personal list of badass activities, so it was an absolute joy to interview Eric Gustafson, who did exactly that — and won.

@charleylocke.bsky.social's and I ask our freelancing students about a couple journalists they admire, so I was curious to write out the whole list (minus us). Some good taste in this group! Multiple votes for @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @jmooallem.bsky.social @pablo.show

If you want a deep understanding of how "making things worse is extremely profitable," read @greenwell.bsky.social's book, Bad Company: www.megangreenwell.com/book She explains how private equity does exactly this, and IMO, gAI is operating from a similar playbook, where bad outcomes = big profits.

me on day six of writing a magazine story, having fully lost sight of whether it’s a work of genius or a total train wreck. (does anyone but me watch Culinary Class Wars? I love how insane it is.)

lol whoops sold out our class out again even though I’m told there’s no future in freelancing? you can sign up here if you want to beat the rush to the next one.

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A lil' personnel news from Megan Greenwell Inc.: As of today, I'm officially a contributing writer at Businessweek. I'll be reporting several narrative features a year for the magazine, while still writing elsewhere, podcasting, teaching, etc. I'm extremely freaking thrilled!

I have many thoughts on this ambitious, smart Baffler package, not all of them positive, but it's fascinating to me that it appears to be a huge topic of conversation on X yet has generated zero discussion on Bluesky. Do I have to start a freelancers' Discord or some shit...

A Gen. Z-er I know told me she “puts Taylor Lorenz to shame,” screen time-wise, so I demanded she show me and, well.

I wrote about what's behind the recent chaos in American air travel, starting with a mid-air collision over the Grand Canyon and ending with @greenwell.bsky.social's ultraviral photo of Loafing ICE Tweens

mind-boggling how good Boo is at writing a nutgraf that doesn’t FEEL like a nutgraf, so you’re never pulled out of the narrative. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

@greenwell.bsky.social just finished Bad Company and wanted to say thank you for such a well written and informative book. I’m terrible at understanding finance in general, but I loved how you went about detailing how Private Equity inflicts so much damage. Great read, despite leaving me furious.

I'm texting with a freelance writer friend about how she needs to bet on herself—advice I learned from *another* freelance friend. writers, may I suggest betting on yourself by snagging the *last spot* in me and @greenwell.bsky.social's class on building a freelance career flyingsolofreelancing.com

Gonna chip into as many of these as I can today. Fellow cis pals, join me? Helping people who need it is a good way to at least temporarily fend off despair!

Eleven years ago today, I was wondering why this hot doctor was wasting my time on Tinder when he lived 7,000 miles away, and now he lives in my home and is just constantly fetching my water bottle for me when I forget it in the other room. 💜

sorry to my haters who hope the ICE Teens Situation™ would get me banned from the skies.

if the article about the Fortune bro has made you despondent about making it as a journalist without “writing” stories with AI, @charleylocke.bsky.social and I have *two spots left* in our next six-week class about building a freelance career.