the camera work is so bad the lighting is awful the technical work is terrible -- but the people are fantastic!

contributed to @nytimes on access to ketamine on cornell university's campus. nytimes.com/2026/10/05/nyreg…

With no disrespect to my many many friends who continue to do excellent journalism at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has made abundantly clear that he cannot be trusted to own the flagship paper of the nation’s capital. Follow @washingtonsun

The officer who had been one of the city’s highest paid employees was found to have made disparaging comments about a murder victim a the scene of the crime, and spent hours loitering in the break room while collecting unearned overtime.

Yep. As much as people like to wave their hands around about "new media," so much of said media (especially the political kind) is just reading articles out loud.

people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...

The death of local newspapers is a disaster that will really play out in the decades come to come, especially with declining media literacy. The thing here is that a lot of jabrones lump everyone in "The Media" together. "The Media" can technically consist of multi-million dollar ESPN takesman, a crime reporter from the Grand Forks Herald and an NFL podcaster. But the person covering crime or local politics for say the Lexington Herald-Leader isn't some CNN anchor making millions or some high-profile political columnist. It's almost always a regular Joe or Jane who lives in the community they cover and makes just enough to pay the bills. Sure, some online and independent sites will fill in some gaps. But if you are a young person and you see this, why on earth would you enter the local news profession given the annual drumbeat of layoffs and AI eventually covering some of this stuff? Smart young people will rightfully flee to anything safer, which is everything else. A disaster.

hey for no reason whatsoever just sharing this little tidbit about the last time McClatchy did layoffs journalism is not really dying. it's being stripped for parts by people who have never cared about it miaminewtimes.com/news/mccla…

Just re-sharing for fun one of the extended emails I got from Theranos’ crisis comms firm in response to my reporting. This is what it is like to be a journalist. Hollowed out newsrooms battling PR firms, law firms & huge company budgets.

whenever i tell latin americans that im a journalist theyre like wow so cool :) and whenever i tell americans that im a journalist they’re like. So you enjoy being a villainous scoundrel? A cowardly leech on society? Are you RECORDING me right now?

If he couldn't be bothered to write it, why should any of us bother to read it

The WSJ is an astoundingly good paper. Its editorial pages, run separately, are very conservative and have cachet. One way to strip them of that pretty quickly is to suggest any piece could have been generated by the same algorithms that create unicorn pictures on WhatApp's AI.

How America’s Courts Fell for a Con Man. In her new book, Catch the Devil, reporter @pamelacolloff traces the life and crimes of a mendacious jailhouse informant and exposes the systems that allowed him to walk free. thenation.com/article/societ… @thenation #JamesDailey #deathpenalty

47 people took the Wyoming bar exam in July 2025. 9,931 took NY.

*slowly puts 2666 paperback back into my jacket pocket*

Fabian Schmidt has been on a roller coaster of emotions in the year since he was detained by ICE for two months. Read my latest to hear about the German-American green card holder's journey and how he thinks about it today. newhampshirebulletin.com/202…

Attn: People who are nostalgic for the Good Old Days of mid-century news media The 1950s news media was pathetic. Corrupt, stupid, gullible, craven, and incredibly pathetic. Reporters for some of the largest news organizations didn't just publish Joe McCarthy's slander verbatim. They collaborated with him to drive the Red Scare because it was good for newspaper sales and career advancement. They even went out to drink whiskey with McCarthy to brainstorm better ways to drum up anti-communism and helped him write his speeches. via Halberstram's THE FIFTIES

This is a great explanation from @meredith_levien on why we need AI to stop stealing the work of journalists

No notes. In barely a minute, NYT CEO absolutely nails how the major AI companies have taken the work of journalists and created substitutive products harming journalism. The stakes are high. The claims are strong. Pay attention.

UPDATE: Florida's temporary "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades may be closing down as federal immigration enforcement ramps up. @AGJamesUthmeier clarified the site was a fast-acting state mission to support local sheriffs, but it was never intended to be permanent. "When it was first conceptualized, the federal government had not yet devoted money and resources [...] It was never expected to be a long term thing"

A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that. wired.com/story/future-of-tr…