Isha Marathe

Kerrygold connoisseur 🧈@Reuters, The Insurer; Former @AmericanLawyer; words in @bonappetit @DigBoston @BINJreports

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana's new congressional map that added a second majority-black district, holding that it constitutes a racial gerrymander.

The Court narrows its previous interpretation of the Voting Rights Act.

[Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker]

Dan was an old-school newspaper man — perpetually outraged, skeptical of power, giddy for scoops, slyly hilarious, bad at emotion. But I loved him so much. He charged 10% of your story and made it 90% better. And he changed my life, by believing in me.❤️‍🩹https://t.co/UU0X2ZIcjs

[Isha Marathe @IMarathe]

!!

[Variety @Variety]

Why are TV pilots making a comeback in the streaming era?

The idea of shooting a test episode before committing to a full season is back in fashion during these belt-tightening times. Falling episodic budgets and lower overall production have pushed executives to rethink how they approach pickups.

“I think that what we all learned with this adjustment to a slightly different volume is being a little bit more steady and focused on these bets that we’re making to really set ourselves up for long-running success,” says Simran Sethi, president of scripted programming at Hulu Originals.

https://t.co/AXH8wVqc4F

[Isha Marathe @IMarathe]

Thanks a million to @liiarla and @lgbtconnors for your views and all our chats on soap; to Elke Weissmann and Christine Geraghty, who have studied women in soaps and brought their insight into academia for their time; and for lots of media and queer theory that informed the piece

[Isha Marathe @IMarathe]

Thx x10 @DuncanLindsay for such thoughtful edits and creative freedom

Foraying into culture for a sec, it’s been a long time and this one is special, a dive into why #corrie couple #swarla have gained intl cult traction, the reasons prescient for media and queer stories on tv 🧶

[Duncan Lindsay @DuncanLindsay]

Really fab piece by @IMarathe for @MetroUK

How #Swarla became a global phenomenon

(no wedding spoilers inside)

#Corrie

https://t.co/PGQdwZ4ues

[Isha Marathe @IMarathe]

But at heart, the #swarla fandom is a story of queerness, of how powerful the mundane can be for viewers who have too often watched themselves as othered, whether via trauma or loss, how stripping that burden can create intense, unlikely devotion in a strained tv market

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: An open-source project called DeFlock has mapped thousands of license plate reader surveillance cameras all over the world. See if they're in your city. They also need help mapping more

https://t.co/C4eXQiskDH

[Isha Marathe @IMarathe]

Solid reporting by @JasJWright

[Jasmine Wright @JasJWright]

NEW: A detailed look inside the “flawless” campaign, not the MAIN reasons why Harris lost but they certainly didn’t help
- missing fundraising deadlines (unbeknownst to Harris) to now in debt
-fierce criticism of a insular campaign leadership

Buckle up:

https://t.co/v4moSWSrD4

[Steve Mills @smmills1960]

NEW: Reporters for @propublica will be covering many aspects of the Trump administration. Find out right here what they're interested in and how you can contact them with tips and story ideas. We want to hear from YOU!

https://t.co/wNUaUV8VO7

[Daniel Lippman @dlippman]

SCOOP: OpenSecrets, the nonpartisan money-in-politics research nonprofit, laid off 10 employees yesterday due to financial difficulties. Much of the research team were among the casualties, which constituted around a third of the group’s total headcount. https://t.co/agT13qJyeD

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Newsrooms: Trump takes office in 104 days. If you haven't started scouting for a good religion reporter yet, then you're already behind on one of the biggest stories of the next decade.

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NYT tech guild announces it walks off the job - their members help power a lot of the digital elements readers turn to daily… and especially on big moments like Election Night

[Lizzie Presser @lizziepresser]

At 6 months pregnant, Nevaeh Crain died after trying to get care in three emergency room visits in Texas.

She was 18.

with @Ksurana6:
https://t.co/Wf3PDhMPGI

[Timothy Cama @Timothy_Cama]

I hate Halloween in DC. What do you mean you’re the ghost of Chevron deference?

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Thanks to @CopyrightOffice, McDonald’s franchisees now have the right to repair their own ice cream machines.

In March @FTC filed a comment in support of this change, and we’ll keep using our tools to protect people’s right to repair.

https://t.co/vzLV15dUEk