BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Your favorite stories, books, podcasts, and documentaries of 2025. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/18/n... #booksky #longreads #podcasts

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Die besten erzählten Recherchen im Jahr 2025, ausgewählt vom Nieman Storyboard. Sehr viele starke Texte, Podcasts, Bücher – und ich durfte auch zwei Empfehlungen beisteuern. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/18/n...

Thanks for including me, Mark!

Here's Part 2 of @niemanstoryboard.org's Best of 2025, as selected by the community. Thanks to everyone who shared their favorite stories, podcasts, books, and documentaries. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/18/n... #booksky #podcasts #longreads #documentary

Cool to be asked to contribute to @niemanstoryboard.org's best of 2025: niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/18/n...

A must-read as always from @danyelsmith.bsky.social.

Delighted to see that @markarms.bsky.social included one of my picks in the Best of 2025 list (Part One) posted over at @niemanstoryboard.org. Everyone should read THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, written by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social about the working homeless. And the rest of these stories as well!

My Creative Wrapped 2025 markarms.com/2025/12/16/m...

I was so happy to contribute to @niemanstoryboard.org's "Best of 2025" roundup. This whole list is AMAZING. I want to read and/or listen to every recommendation in here! niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/11/n...

I'm really honored by these kind words from @evaholland.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/11/n...

Here's part one of @niemanstoryboard.org's Best of 2025! Thanks to everyone who shared their recommendations. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/11/n... #booksky #podcasts #longreads

I'm proud to be among terrific company contributing to @niemanstoryboard.org Best Stories of the Year series.

Was glad to participate in @niemanstoryboard.org's year-end best of package! I picked stories from @defector.com / @laurentheisen.bsky.social and @thelocal.to / @nickhunebrown.bsky.social.

Great list! You might see a familiar face.😌 niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/11/n...

Part One of @niemanstoryboard.org's Best of 2025. Thanks for being a part of it, Brendan! #booksky #podcasts #longreads

A special new position at @propublica.org: Come be my partner in editing our crowdsourcing and engagement reporting team! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

ok these gifts will not save journalism. BUT they will caffeinate, entertain, feed, and snuggle journalists www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

Reminder!

New @niemanstoryboard.org podcast: My conversation with photojournalist and Pulitzer finalist Stephanie Keith about her work documenting ICE at 26 Federal Plaza, which turned into this powerful cover image and story for @nymag.com. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/12/04/p...

But my knees feel good!

Hush was created to bring investigative reporting to all parts of Oregon. All Oregonians deserve that. Both seasons were difficult feats of reporting. I love making that show. If you want to support my independent work directly, you can subscribe to my newsletter: leahsottile.substack.com/subscribe

This text from @storiesmatter88.bsky.social made my day. Thanks Ben, and thanks everyone, for listening to @niemanstoryboard.org in its first year as a podcast!

"The internal dialogue is my true voice – it’s the way I talk, negotiate and process with myself. My inner voice is often at odds with what I’m doing physically or saying aloud. This is the way I navigate the world." niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/27/a... #booksky #longreads #storytelling #writing

For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025! And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #podcasts #booksky #documentary

I will never get tired of seeing Hanif Abdurraqib's writing show up at @longreads.com. Kudos @provenself.bsky.social and team on this series. longreads.com/2025/11/20/s... #longreads

For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025! And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #podcasts #booksky #documentary

HELLO. IT’S ME 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Amen to that. :)

Excited to have @mindahoney.bsky.social back this week at @niemanstoryboard.org, in conversation with the reporting team behind the serialized podcast "American Shrapnel." Thanks @johnhammontree.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social @johnarchibald.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/20/a...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories (and podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries) of 2025. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/21/y... #booksky #longreads #podcasts #documentaries

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @sasha-bonet.bsky.social and @cmtapper.bsky.social, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social, @evrat.bsky.social + Charlotte mag tributes from @michaelngraff.bsky.social @tommytomlinson.bsky.social @ncrabbithole.com niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/14/t...

GREAT JOB ALERT! ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network. The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change. 💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000 ➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme

New @niemanstoryboard.org podcast episode! Loved this @cmtapper.bsky.social conversation with @sasha-bonet.bsky.social about her new book, “The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters.” niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/13/s... #booksky #longreads #podcasts

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233

“I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police…I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this.” Please read this whole thing. Before you keep scrolling. And then please share it.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring election week, @joeposnanski.com, @sho-walter.bsky.social, Michael J. Mooney, Vincent Beiser, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and @hrishikesh.co niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/07/h... #longreads #booksky

The question "Why does this say male/female?" means that any trans person now has to explain their entire mental health and medical history to domestic or foreign government officials. This is de facto differential treatment that no other citizen has to face.

"You think that you know what your story is, and you want them to speak to this, but they go over here to some other place entirely. Let it happen."

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

"For larger pieces I abide by the index-card method. After I’m done reporting I start jotting down every scene I’ve got, every description I have, every person I’ve interviewed, every point I want to make, onto a series of cards and lay them out on the floor."

Curious about the Nieman Fellowship? Join us for a live Q&A session to learn what it’s like to spend a year studying as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University this Friday, November 7, 1:00 PM ET.

"He pushed us to find the universal meaning in our stories. … Over the years, I’ve come to think about universal meaning in existential terms. It’s the feeling that underlies everything about why we tell, read, think, and live by stories. Who are we and why?" niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/31/s...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @tromano.bsky.social in conversation with Burkhard Bilger, plus: Dana Hedgpeth & Sari Horwitz, @saribotton.bsky.social, @gretarainbow.com, and Erika Hayasaki pays tribute to Richard Kipling. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/31/s...