Deadliners.substack.com - on today’s podcast, I speak to Jack Wright, the Scottish journalist who washed up in America and made a town famous…

After he became burned out by the New York magazine world, Jack Wright quit his job with no savings and no plan. After running a bar, he hit rock bottom, so he did the only thing he knew how to do: he launched a magazine. Listen to my interview, out tomorrow: deadliners.substack.com #journalism

Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Bobby and niece of JFK, was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and told me why we must focus on school shootings and gun violence more broadly. 1.9 million dead since 1968. My piece for @independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Excellent dissection of The Daily Mail’s obsession with Meghan Markle by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social “It consistently argues that no one is interested in her while expending considerable energy on ensuring that her every move is reported.” open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

The Golden Age of Journalism Is Ahead, Not Behind Us: The author of The Story of Stories on why independent journalism, the death of editorial aristocracies, and subscriber models all add up to a surprisingly hopeful moment for the craft deadliners.substack.com/p/the-golden...

This was so fun! @alexhannaford.com is a gem I first met when I was just a cub reporter intern at the Texas Capitol, and last year @thebarbedwire.com ran an excerpt of his book about Austin. Love full circle moments. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-journa...

I interviewed my pal @oliviamesser.bsky.social for the Deadliners Newsletter about journalism in the age of AI, the mistakes national media makes in Texas, and her mission @thebarbedwire.com to build newsrooms that actually serve the communities they cover. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-journa...

My interview with Dr. Craig Robertson of the the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is live. It's our first proper dispatch for the Deadliners newsletter, and it's free for everyone to listen to before the paywall drops next week. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-death-... #journalism

The Death of the Newsroom (As We Know It.) My interview with Dr. Craig Robertson on how young people today will dictate the future of news consumption, published tomorrow on deadliners.substack.com

Why I’m Still a Glass-Half-Full Journalist: deadliners.substack.com/p/why-im-sti... #journalism #journalist #reporting

Earlier today, Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life, admitted killing eight women. Back in 2012, I visited Gilgo Beach to write about the search for the the Long Island Serial Killer for GQ magazine www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gq-c...

7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Red states receive far more in federal funding relative to what their residents pay in taxes, while blue states tend to be net contributors - ironic, since Republicans advocate loudly for reducing federal spending, yet their constituents benefit most from it. www.businessinsider.com/states-most-...

How will the chaotic and extreme story of our time be retold when its primary narrator is Donald Trump? I spoke to someone who just might have the answer — my old pal Kevin Ashton whose new book, The Story of Stories has just been published by Harper. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

How it started How it’s going @NikkiHaley edition

This is crazy. The government — or fear of the government — is editing a CBS comedy show. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social "Yesterday, Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened."

Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

"There has not been a permanent solution to the problem of organised crime in America at all," — Allon Lifshitz, former assistant US attorney, Eastern District of NY. My story on the mafia today. Online now and in @thetimes.com magazine this Sunday. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

Troublemaker is my middle name.

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Trump is named more than 3,000 times in the files released on Friday. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Nailed it

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

How battlefield tech was used in Minneapolis. Crucial video story from the NYT www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Is Trump building peace – or a property deal on the graves of Palestinians? My latest for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

My @the-independent.com story got a mention in @theweek.com theweek.com/politics/can...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

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The whole idea that Weiss spiked the CECOT story because there wasn't an on-the-record statement from the Trump administration is laughable, as Sharyn Alfonsi notes. It's regular journalistic practice to run a story without comment, as long as you've given the source a chance, which 60 Minutes did.

Mr. Hannaford, I’ve just finished this book. Fascinating read, as someone who also moved here in his 20s and is now raising a toddler in the city. In my opinion, the strongest chapter was “Ghosts”. Magali’s story is, for me, representative of the real Austinites, an alternate version of

Tragic news about Rob Reiner. I met him and Corey Feldman 14 years ago to tell the story of the 25th anniversary of Stand by Me. For two hours they reminisced about that summer on set & Rob told me how he saw some of himself in the character Gordie LaChance. web.archive.org/web/20250910...

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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

The CEO of Palantir.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Let that sink in: One person could make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in America combined. Educators deserve better. via @rbreich.bsky.social

Willy Aceituno es un rey güey. Es obligatorio comprar sus cervezas y comidas si le ves IMO. De @charlotteobserver.com en TikTok. 💪💪💪

As the Saudi Crown Prince returns to Washington tomorrow, just re-upping my interview with Jamal Khashoggi’s widow and leaving it here: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

Searchable database of the 20,000 Epstein files. Dig in. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

The BBC is loathed by Trump, but what does an American public broadcaster look like? My latest for @the-independent.com www.the-independent.com/news/bbc-tru... #BBC #PBS #Trump

This is nuts. “so many have made the move that they are now straining the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers.”

"He'll stop the war... that's why I voted for Trump." Last year, Zohran Mamdami took to the streets to find out who New Yorkers were voting for: x.com/ZohranKMamda... (h/t @jonlaurence.bsky.social)