Join @wearesfj.bsky.social for our national conference from Oct. 22-24! Speakers will include @robingivhan.bsky.social, @tomsietsema.bsky.social, Kurt Streeter, @markarms.bsky.social, Jan Winburn, Moni Basu (@evilreporterchick.bsky.social) & many more. www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2026/5/...

On Monday @freshparsley.bsky.social won the Pulitzer Prize for his feature last year about his family and the flood last year. Coincidentally, this week was our last week of print production for the June issue, featuring this follow-up story by Aaron, on the months since the flood.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Behind the scenes with Pulitzer jurors Erika Hayasaki and @mindahoney.bsky.social. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/05/08/b...

Here we go. @pamelacolloff.bsky.social #booksky #longreads #journalism

Can't wait to listen — congrats @jlussenhop.bsky.social and @propublica.org!

Being recognized for a story that honors my nephew Clay and the strength of my family means the world to me. I’m grateful to the Pulitzer Prizes committee, my dear friends, and incredibly talented colleagues at Texas Monthly.💙 @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social @texasmonthly.bsky.social

This book is so deserving. I hope everyone will read @brian-goldstone.bsky.social fantastic opus THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US.

Aaron Parsley has just won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his @texasmonthly.bsky.social story. I think about Aaron, his family, and this story all the time. So well-deserved.

Trump expelled three more people -- two Cameroonian women and one Egyptian man -- to Equatorial Guinea via an Omni ICE flight yesterday. Third-country removals to Ghana and Cameroon on the same plane also possible. First reported here: gillianbrockell.com/exclusive-ic...

My Friday newsletter @niemanstoryboard.org: More lessons from @powerofnarrative.bsky.social, Erika Hayasaki on reported essays, @emilygouldnymag.bsky.social on the internet's "load-bearing" blog posts, @naokan.bsky.social's history of New Yorker short stories. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/05/01/y...

For my fellow writers and publishing people, I went long on how mad I am about nonfiction authors not getting paperbacks + the NYT moving its nonfiction paperback list from weekly to monthly. www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

Trying to post more of my music clips on Bluesky because why should TikTok have all the fun.

This was such a fun piece to work up! Thanks to @markarms.bsky.social for letting us go wonky on sound design and ID taboos in audio storytelling.

Late to this, but @kuow.org's podcast "Adults in the Room" is outstanding. Congrats to @isolde.bsky.social @willjames.bsky.social Jeannie Yandel @podcastalec.bsky.social and the whole team. www.kuow.org/podcasts/focus

Will be updating the Third-Country Removal Tracker shortly. We knew Paraguay had a deal with Trump admin, but this appears to be the first execution of it.

"This episode was born from recognizing a pattern. Which was that people talk about being at the Shrine, and the experience of falling into a kind of hail of music. We just kept hearing that." Great new podcast annotation by @bartona104.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/23/j...

this headline is such a great example of “racecraft.” musk isn’t passively posting about “race,” he is actively writing psychotically racist agitprop www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @bartona104.bsky.social on "Fela Kuti: Fear No Man." Plus: @atrubek.bsky.social on nonfiction publishing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on access, @sidneyhillman.bsky.social awards. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/24/m... #podcasts #longreads

Save the date, NYC: Excited to join this amazing group of performers/storytellers for @saribotton.bsky.social and @oldstermag.bsky.social's Gen X Piano Karaoke Night, June 10 at Sid Gold's Request Room. www.eventbrite.com/e/oldster-ma...

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

"The new owner of CBS and the current editor-in-chief ... set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one." @postbaron.bsky.social via @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-jo...

"What you realize pretty quickly in the show is that we directly interrogate what true crime is." @leahsottile.bsky.social and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/01/22/l... #podcasts #storytelling #journalism

Thank you @alvvaysband.bsky.social for one of my very favorite songs to play live. “Archie, Marry Me” at @timstavernseattle.bsky.social

Join me from a ride from West Seattle to the two line

“I think the way that you tell people’s stories, you end up kind of making them a little bit two- dimensional if you don’t also show the internal process, their choices, their thoughts.” @nadiareiman.bsky.social

Four lessons for journalist from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social, author of LONDON FALLING: niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/09/f... via @niemanstoryboard.org

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Notes from the @powerofnarrative.bsky.social conference, plus @mallarytenore.bsky.social on writing about family niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/10/s...

Over at @niemanstoryboard.org, Emilia Wisniewski shares some takeaways from my @powerofnarrative.bsky.social conversation with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/09/f... #longreads #booksky #journalism

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

True story

"When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social via @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @mallarytenore.bsky.social on Sophie Elmhirst's "A Marriage at Sea." Plus: Joi Lee in @longlead.com, Carl Rosen in @nymag.com, and 13 years of @brendanomeara.bsky.social's Creative Nonfiction podcast. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/03/d...

I'm honored to be in this company, and deeply appreciative that @newhousesu.bsky.social chose to recognize a story that calls out the uncomfortable truth in our industry.

It was such a thrill to interview @praddenkeefe.bsky.social last weekend at @powerofnarrative.bsky.social in Boston. "London Falling" is fantastic. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

We went through more first-hand accounts from Dilley, the only immigrant family detention center. It's the little details that really stick with me—Christmas "celebrations," a girl's letter asking for help, accounts of being hidden away during congressional visits www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Every story has to be discovered twice, first in the world, and then in the author’s study. One discovers a story the second time by constructing it.” — Tracy Kidder (1945-2026)

“I know this is a time when I really need to do this job, and I need to do it well, and I need to do it with purpose. That means that I need to pace myself.” @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social (2025) niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/17/j...

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

A kind shout-out of my essay on elementary school career day by @niemanstoryboard.org and @markarms.bsky.social!

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @kerryhowley.bsky.social @nymag.com on Camp Mystic, and remembering Tracy Kidder. Plus: @leahsottile.bsky.social @mallarytenore.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/27/i...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Join me next weekend in Boston for my conversation with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social about his new book, LONDON FALLING. Plus: J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/20/p... #longreads #journalism

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

“A handful of Mr. Chavez’s relatives & former U.F.W. leaders have been aware for years about various allegations…but there is no evidence that they made efforts to fully investigate…acknowledge the victims or apologize to them. Instead, many of the women say they were discouraged from speaking out”

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration w/ @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org and @bellingcat.com

Really great reporting from @sergioolmos.bsky.social and team documenting how the same federal agents have moved from city to city over the past year to inflict violence on the public.

Enjoyed talking with @markarms.bsky.social at the Neiman Storyboard about my Shakopee/ICE story. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/13/h...

Plus: indeed! Send us your (not-typical) three-minute audio climate stories by April 6. After you devour the latest newsletter from @markarms.bsky.social and @niemanstoryboard.org of course. Details below and here: audioflux.org/circuit07