It’s always striking how the decline in alcohol consumption is covered as a business problem instead of a win for public health.

Journalism from @nytimes international articles since 2000 (n≈199,000) turned into a map. We see which topics were covered disproportionately. HT @tedalcorn

Yep this tracks

*stares at "home" state of Nebraska* That is accurate and depressing.

This is such fascinating analysis as says much about the NYT and how this plays into the perception of each state, as much as what it says of what goes on in each state.

I do think that even though other states are caricatured here, NJ as viewed from NY might be the most pigeonholed

Such a great use of AI. Fantastic project

Yeah yeah I’m aware of what you all think of us

Allow me, former pledge master of Penn’s 2008 Sigma Phi Epsilon pledge class and WHYY transportation reporter who now covers election administration, to take a bow.

With data from the @nytimes.com API, I analyzed all national+local coverage since 2000—224,000 articles— to see which topics in each state get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country. A portrait of how the paper of record sees America, one state per tweet, alphabetical. 👇

Earlier this month, I posted a dashboard for exploring 2.2 million New York Times articles going back to 2000. I’ve now added a way to explore all 29,000 obituaries the paper has published during that period, and it reveals a lot about who makes history.

26 years of New York Times articles in a single database with a beautiful interface. I will have to set time aside to explore this. 📊 By @tedalcorn.bsky.social

Wonderful to see a really artful/ useful application of AI tools to a news archive. (Also super cool that it started in @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Lede program …h/t @dangerscarf.bsky.social )

I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes.com coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent attention-gathering org not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

⏰ Applications are due MONDAY for the 2026 Public Health Reporting Fellowship! This opportunity will award up to $7,500 each to five mid-career journalists to support reporting projects on the intersection of public health policy & health care delivery.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The world's food supply depends on agriculture science to protect crops & livestock from disease, of which the USA was a major supporter—until the dismantling of USAID last year. My story in @nytimes.com about how wavering US support could imperil what we eat. nytimes.com/2026/01/15/s...

finally, we're living through precedented times

The movie star I most want to hear speak at length. David Marchese and Kristen Stewart out on the wire. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/m...

Strong contender for fav. headline of the year @emilyanthes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/s...

Read @tedalcorn.bsky.social on how two big @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ideas have gotten a test run in New Mexico, of all places — with lessons worth learning being surfaced along the way. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/dep...

Albuquerque police make front-page news with successful hoof-chase. Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...

GUN CITY: there’s been a nearly ten-fold uptick in New Yorkers seeking concealed carry permits since 2022, per a new analysis of NYPD data. I tracked down the city’s most prolific instructor to see what it's all about. Today in @thecity.nyc& @thetrace.org. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...

Smart take: Mamdani met voters where they were at, listened to them, centered them. To the extent he had social media “magic,” it was his “understanding that the masses are the message.”

I am looking forward to being done with an election and a lame duck disgraced mayor so that city government can get to fixing big problems out there, including this one exposed by my colleague @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social.

In New Mexico at an interim committee on Monday, lawmakers reviewed their three-year-push to raise alcohol taxes — good coverage by @sourcenm.com. sourcenm.com/2025/10/28/n... Just a few additional observations threaded below 👇

DOJ altered the Biden admin's signature gun violence prevention grant program for "Community Based" interventions to make it inaccessible to...communities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A gunmaker redesigning its products to address safety concerns does not happen even in a blue moon. The power of legal and commercial pressure: thereload.com/glock-to-red... @thereloadteam.bsky.social

Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.

Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. aid agency, committed $420 million to provide clean water in East Timor. Now, M.C.C.’s board wants to pull out of the agreement, with the project already underway. Story by grantee @tedalcorn.bsky.social for @nytimes.com. bit.ly/4oqA9zX

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

google reviews for a tailor in my neighborhood are something else

In Albuquerque, where @mayorkeller.bsky.social is cruising towards re-election, his 1st TV ad gives top-billing to his non-police emergency response dept, what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is promising for NYC. Just to say, it's possible to run on community safety. www.facebook.com/reel/1486960...

Today’s insane stat about Chinese renewable energy installation: “Every three weeks.” 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Much hue & cry at the end of USAID but Trump admin is also quietly terminating half the grants of Millennium Challenge Corp including $420 million for a water treatment system in East Timor, where nearly half of kids are stunted from waterborne illness. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

remember when we had the hatch act

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Have always thought real estate interests could be leveraged to invest *in advance* in local, evidence-based gun violence prevention strategies, since they stand to make some of the largest, most direct financial gains from safer streets. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

“I think the main thing that’s caused so much confusion is that he was always generally apolitical for the most part,” the friend told me. “That's the big thing, he just never really talked politics which is why it's so frustrating.”

Interesting to see @gabbygiffords.bsky.social & former Sen. Jeff Flake co-author this. In 2013 he broke a promise to her to support a background check bill, essentially dooming the once-in-a-generation effort. The loss galvanized her to start @giffords.org. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

The US govt. is burying a major report linking alcohol with cancer, as it prepares to water down dietary guidelines advising stricter moderation. Good review of the industry campaign to kill it, with bipartisan help (👀 @mikethompson.house.gov ). @dylanlscott.bsky.social www.vox.com/health/46008...

Inbox: The city Correction Department just announced another death on Rikers Island, the 12 this year and third over the past week. The judge overseeing the department is currently looking over candidates for a “remediation manager” role. She’s taken the entire summer and no deadline on the books.

Deaths at Burning Man are exceedingly rare, and none to my knowledge have been violent. If this turns out to be, it couldn’t occur at a worse time for the organization behind the event, which has been struggling to fundraise to keep up with its expenses. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Arkadi Gerney and I argue for maximum deterrence as our best path forward in @washingtonpost.com

Last week, I became someone who knew someone killed in a mass shooting. Here's my remembrance of Wesley, across the decades. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...

Practical and evidence-based: Johnson City, TN considers shortening hours of alcohol sales to cut crime, a strategy Baltimore has adopted with success (I reported on it last year for @thetrace.org). www.johnsoncitypress.com/news/busines...

So grateful for this opportunity, which allowed me to report on a novel anti-cancer effort in rural Kentucky. Read more: www.statnews.com/2025/07/23/c...

In politics partisan actors are often rational. However, an exception is about to occur in the form of mid-decade redistricting. Republicans and now Democrats are threatening a wave of new gerrymanders. I will skip the part about it being wrong. More importantly in our amoral age: it will not work.