if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

We're looking for a new EIC at @chicagoreader.com, so if you know a great candidate, tell them to apply! (To be clear, I have nothing to do with the hiring process.) chicagoreader.com/about/career...

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

🧵 NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night. Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.” She’s a constituent. Not a threat. Fascism again.

Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

An important, eloquent and deeply upsetting piece by @elgendy95.bsky.social who I was lucky to teach while he worked on his upcoming book. After years as a political prisoner in Egypt, he faced the same risk in the US and had to flee. Such an enraging loss.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

This is big -- and decades overdue. Adoptees fought hard for this. ... "Like luggage" :( www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 @propublica.org is looking to hire a reporter for our joint investigative unit with @texastribune.org Get all the details, including salary range, and apply here 👇👇 job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Jim Acosta just powerfully announced on air he is leaving CNN with the words: "It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant." He added, "Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope." Amen. Jim will be missed.

Do you want to write ambitious, impactful stories about how politics and advocacy shape health care? STAT is hiring a Washington correspondent: www.statnews.com/careers/wash...

NEWS: More than 400 WashPost journalists - including some of its most distinguished reporters & editors - have sent plea to owner Jeff Bezos to intervene. This petition was sent last night and disclosed by NPR. While not citing CEO Will Lewis by name, it casts a harsh light on his leadership/more

Each of these is a small joy to read. I got to write about Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower on Tuskegee. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...