A lot of people have seized on how much work it took to find my four BAD COMPANY protagonists, so it was fun to talk to @niemanstoryboard.org about it. imo narrative work absolutely requires putting in the effort/time to find the right characters. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/m...

My Friday @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: @greenwell.bsky.social on finding your book's main characters + @mdbell79.bsky.social on dialogue, @skyepillsbury.com talks to @kalilaholt.bsky.social about "Heavyweight"'s return. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f... #booksky #longreads #podcasts

This @niemanstoryboard.org interview/annotation was one of the most fun I've done. The Q&A is mostly nuts and bolts about how I actually wrote a book, while the annotation is for the craft nerds. 🤩 I think there's a lot in here for aspiring narrative nonfiction writers!

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

At @niemanstoryboard.org, thrilled to feature a conversation + annotated book chapter from @greenwell.bsky.social's “Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.” By Carly Stern. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/m... #booksky #longreads

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Interactive storytelling with @newyorker.com's Sam Wolson, plus @phillymag.com on 50 years of "Fresh Air," @tommytomlinson.bsky.social, @columjournreview.bsky.social, @transom.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/12/t... #longreads #journalism

🚨... and we've got JOBS.🚨 We're hiring a senior producer and producers for this as-yet unnamed podcast. Come help me invent this thing! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica

Having trouble expressing the excitement I'm feeling, seeing a new Hanif Abdurraqib essay series at @longreads.com.

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

For the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, here's my conversation with Sam Wolson, the Interactives Visual Features Editor for @newyorker.com, who produced a moving interactive story about a mother and her trans teenager. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/11/n... #longreads #podcasts

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @jasonkpargin.bsky.social, @tromano.bsky.social, @christianelliott.me, @timherrera.bsky.social @rusty.todayintabs.com, @jiatolentino.bsky.social, @indiejournalists.bsky.social, @transjournalists.org niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/05/l...

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

Every time @rusty.todayintabs.com shares a #longread, my heart skips a beat. todayintabs.com/p/thursday-longreads?_bhlid=c607bc4f9efffbe8b5af638e778e80ff9e5e7c47&last_resource_guid=Post%3Ad39726ab-9d73-4725-8315-8ed4f9f3ff90

Today at @niemanstoryboard.org, @tromano.bsky.social sits down with @jasonkpargin.bsky.social about his TikTok storytelling evolution. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/04/c...

When I come across a conversation this exciting, I wish I were still teaching so I could share it with students. While listening to @niemanstoryboard.org podcast with author Dana A. Williams and Storyboard contributor Christina M. Tapper, I ordered Toni at Random from my local bookstore.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org — ten storytelling moments from the summer. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/29/1... #journalism #reporting #booksky #longreads #podcasts

Back online and resharing this great piece by Erika Hayasaki for @niemanstoryboard.org on @saragoo.bsky.social's journey to writing KULEANA. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/22/h... #journalism #booksky #longreads

A few years from now, American concentration camps will be a powerful and entrenched interest —donating to GOP politicians, hiring DC and statehouse lobbyists, seen as local job creators, pumping out self-serving propaganda, capturing regulators, and basically following the MLM path.

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: #podcasts #journalism #longreads #booksky niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/15/r...

For this week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, I spoke with @mallarytenore.bsky.social about her excellent new reported memoir, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.” Lots of lessons about resisting tidy narratives when telling stories. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/14/m...

Just arrived in my mailbox. Congrats @heyjackson.bsky.social!

The phenomenon that's sweeping across the nation! It's Pitch Club! It was generously featured by @markarms.bsky.social in the @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter. Issue 3 of Pitch Club features Kim Cross. I have journos audio annotate pitches. You read a little. Listen a little. Learn a lot!

Honored to be included, Mark! Thanks!

The 7th annual STORY Foundation Prize, judged by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, opens on August 15th. Check out all the details below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️We're looking forward to reading your stories!

I've really been enjoying the new journalism podcast from @niemanfoundation.bsky.social and @markarms.bsky.social, and this episode with Lane DeGregory had SO many inspiring tidbits about where and how to find stories: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @newyorker.com, Jane Mayer, Erika Hayasaki, @lesleymmblume.bsky.social, @vanityfair.com, @mauricenow.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, and @brendanomeara.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/08/a...

I have ordered this book after reading the NYT piece today. Thank you, Shoshana Walter, for this important work. I can't wait to read it! 🙏

Thank you to everyone who read my family’s story in @texasmonthly.bsky.social. The response in letters, emails, messages, comments, and from people I’ve met in person has been overwhelming. We are so grateful. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Most people can’t quite grasp how it feels to read this, but imagine if the federal government commanded every agency to form task forces charged with finding new ways to humiliate you. Then imagine every institution in your life not only folds but starts participating. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

"I think we're always waiting for the perfect story, and it's kind of like waiting for the perfect time to have a kid.” niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/01/a...

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring Lane DeGregory / @tampabaytimes.bsky.social, @propublica.org, @motherjones.com, @evaholland.bsky.social, @defector.com, @transom.bsky.social, and Kim Cross. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/01/a... #longreads #journalism #podcasts

"I think we're always waiting for the perfect story, and it's kind of like waiting for the perfect time to have a kid." niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/31/p...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

For this week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, I'm thrilled to chat with @tampabaytimes.bsky.social journalist Lane DeGregory on covering "hope and humanity" as a beat and how to search for stories in your community. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/31/p... #longreads #journalism #podcasts

“Writing a book taught me to be less precious about what I’ve written. A lot of shaping what you’re writing and what you’re saying comes from cutting words back until you discover what you’re really trying to say.” @sho-walter.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/25/o... #booksky

My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."

Thanks to @markarms.bsky.social for the shout out about the fun event @brendanomeara.bsky.social and I did at Elliott Bay Books last week. I wholeheartedly agree that reading books and connecting in real life is an antidote to this awful awful time.

“Writing a book taught me to be less precious about what I’ve written. A lot of shaping what you’re writing and what you’re saying comes from cutting words back until you discover what you’re really trying to say.” @sho-walter.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/25/o... #booksky

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/25/l... #longreads #journalism #booksky

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

"The bitterness is still there. The anger about what happened to him is still there.” After four months, more than 200 men sent to El Salvador have been released from CECOT and returned to Venezuela. @nlanard.bsky.social and I spoke with family members and friends waiting to be reunited with them.

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you are involved in trying to make nonprofit news sustainable, I wrote and reported this story for you! So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3) www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

Extraordinary cross-border collaborative reporting reveals harrowing details about the people sent to the prison in El Salvador.