The limits of using AI (ChatGPT) for journalistic research.

A funny @nytimes.com report about Skydance’s interest in Warner Brothers Discovery.

We're gathering a group of reporters who've covered Epstein for years tonight for one of our wine shop episodes. One of the reporters who uncovered these nauseating revelations about JP Morgan will be with us. Drop any questions you have here... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Nice to have an opportunity to reflect on my personal career-long tangle with journalism, stretching all the way back to where it began for me: Mrs. Stellavato’s journalism class in high school, and taking on our reclusive headmaster.

Anyone out there a follower of Aaron Parnas's news updates (on TikTok, Instagram, Substack, wherever)? I interviewed @aaronparnas.bsky.social and we're looking to talk to his audience for a Question Everything story -- drop in the replies if you'd be down to chat. Thanks!

As @dionnissenbaum.bsky.social told our show earlier this year after his team identified the IDF soldier who killed Shireen Abu Akleh, “If you are a legitimate journalist, and you put on your blue vest, and you're around Israeli soldiers, you have to assume that they can consider you a target.”

We’re hiring a manging editor! www.linkedin.com/posts/brian-...

Anyone else out there a sandwich caregiver struggling to make it through, like me? You might want to give a listen to the episode of Yowei Shaw's Proxy podcast we just dropped in our feed -- where she finds someone to help me be a better caretaker for my mother-in-law. Link 👇.

Researchers discovered what seemed to be a heartening finding about local journalism. But the data then suggested something more complicated -- and dispiriting. We dig into it here📒: substack.com/home/post/p-...

One thing to believe that local journalism is necessary for a functioning democracy; quite another to hear in detail how local journalists literally save lives. The latest ep. of @brihreed.bsky.social's Question Everything is essential listening. And fucking riveting. pod.link/1765799296/e...

On this week's Question Everything - four local journalists from around the country share their stories of confronting power in their cities and states. Links below. 👇

That @nytimes.com editorial board non-endorsement for mayor was bizarre.

The city of Marion has to pay for claiming a text message didn't exist. (It did.) open.substack.com/pub/brihreed...

Why this is the creepiest, most f-ed up police bodycam footage from the Marion newspaper raids: open.substack.com/pub/brihreed...

This (literally) just in from Kansas:

A TV reporter in Kansas City, @jessicamcmaster.bsky.social, hears that cops raided a tiny newspaper 2 hrs away from her. The police chief who oversaw the raids had just left Kansas City PD under questionable circumstances. So she heads to Marion to see what she can find out. Link ⬇️

Cops bust into the newspaper in their small town and seize its computers and reporting files. The publisher scrambles to figure out: Why’s this happening? Who’s behind it? Then something even more terrible happens. A story I thought I knew — but I did not. Part 1 just dropped.👇🏼

Tomorrow's episode of Question Everything is really good. Some of you will think you know the story, and be surprised; and the rest of you will straight up be like "excuse me, what happened???"

I agree!

A group of reporters just uncovered a tightly held secret: the identity of the Israeli soldier who shot and killed renowned journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022. On this week's Question Everything: the story of how they figured it out. Links 👇

Giving to public radio is a good way to combat that helpless feeling you might have right now in the face of world events...

From the Tufts Daily -- a federal judge found there was "no evidence" provided to justify Rümeysa's detention besides her op-ed. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

A judge has ordered that ICE release Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, who they have been detaining for no other apparent reason than penning a pro-Palestine op-ed in the Tufts Daily. Check out the summit we held at Tufts about Rümeysa last week: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

According to AI @pyrratech.bsky.social, right now there are chart-topping levels of violent rhetoric happening online about judges -- a twenty-fold increase from normal. We dig into that and other top narratives taking hold in dark digital corners on this week's Question Everything. Links 👇

This podcast episode had me fuming. Absolutely worth a listen.

Reporter @brihreed.bsky.social calls the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk — merely for expressing an opinion in a student newspaper — "the most egregious attack on journalism" he's seen in America. His podcast features Tufts student journalists, SPLC's Mike Hiestand and others. loom.ly/xRUyd18

So grateful to have had Akela and the rest of the pros and students who convened with us.

Right now, a student is locked up by ICE for writing an op-ed. This week, we organized a live summit with student journalists from the Tufts Daily, which published it, and pro journalists like Marty Baron, to strategize what to do about this terrifying attack on journalism and speech.

We've got a special two-parter on Question Everything this week with one of my fave reporters, David Enrich -- about a big brewing threat to free speech and the ability of anyone to criticize people in power. Part One is out now, the second one drops tomorrow.

Does anyone know who’s responsible for the Trump admin’s moves against universities? Like who’s driving and devising these policies within the admin?

The @brennancenter.bsky.social has been running war games with military and govt leaders to play out the ways this could go. What will the US Marshals do? Judges? The public? Listen to hear what they've learned and what you can do if Trump defies a court order: t.co/Q2Qt4yroNV

Last year, @bartongellman.bsky.social was running war games to prepare for a second Trump term. A bunch of listeners have been asking us to have Barton back, to find out what he’s doing now that the second Trump term is here. So we called him up. A powerful ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

It’s more important than ever to make your voice heard. You do that when you support fair and balanced journalism for Mississippi and the nation. buff.ly/PJK1S0z

Thank you, Julie, for your work on this great series AND for letting us dissect it a bit. 🙏🏼

Any questions for Barton Gellman about what he’s doing right now to fight autocracy? Talking to him in an hour and a half.

my #CopernicAffair co-host Dana Ballout and I are on Question Everything this week with @brihreed.bsky.social talking about the series and some of the more tricky editorial decisions along the way. listen where you get podcasts (then go back and listen to the rest of QE's work - it's a great show)

When should reporters say what they think? It's a personal and often fraught decision. On Question Everything, I talk to a reporter who was all set to include her personal take in a recent story. And then, just before the story was about to air, cut it. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

Did you know about what happened in Atmore, Alabama? I had a heart-to-heart with a high schooler at a BBQ restaurant about it. Link in the thread.

It's true, she was. Listen to my heart-to-heart with a high schooler at a bbq restaurant here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

Journalists jailed for an article they published. In America. How was this allowed to happen?

Am I missing something, or do these sentences not logically follow each other? He's signing an order shuttering it, but it can't be shuttered by the order? If these are the incoherences attempts to spark a constitutional crisis create, journalistic language needs to adapt quick.

Recently, an @npr.org interviewee posted a video to their 3M+ TikTok followers, saying "After what I tell you next, I can promise you you will *never* hear me on NPR again." They thought the interview had been a hot mess, and they launched into a tirade about it.

Billionaires: Not Like Us. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/j...

This week's Question Everything episode. (Listen here: lnk.to/qe22725) @kcrw.bsky.social

On Question Everything today: Ben Smith of @semafor.com tells me the story of the strange journalism award controversy whose stakes were upped dramatically this week. 🔗: lnk.to/qe21325

In a few hours, we're getting together a group of reporters who cover billionaires and tech at the wine store, to talk about what's happening right now and how to cover it. Any questions I should bring up? Lmk. @kcrw.com

Among many scary things happening, this is scary. Having reported in countries without a Times v Sullivan, we do not want to go this route.

LOVE your pod. Thank you so much. Keep going! — a recovering journo 🤓

In October, Israel arrested an American reporter and accused him of espionage. Why did Israeli authorities think he was a spy? What did they know, or think they know, about him? And what did we at Question Everything not know, as we were reporting his story? Listen here: lnk.to/qe13125 @kcrw.com