Kate Pickert

Author of Radical: The Science, Culture and History of Breast Cancer in America. Journalism prof @LoyolaMarymount. Formerly of @Time

[Kate Pickert @KatePickert]

Important study (and story). Lowering the cancer death rate isn’t just about more science. It’s about better access to the latest drugs, better education of patients and doctors and less shame around diagnosis. Heartbreaking to read that so many patients lives were cut short.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“More than half of patients with metastatic lung cancer don’t receive life-extending treatments, like chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy, a new study found.” https://t.co/4r1RaDISYD

[Bryan Walsh @bryanrwalsh]

.@voxdotcom Future Perfect is hiring three fellows.
If you want to spend a year writing about the biggest stories the media is missing — AI, global health, animal welfare, catastrophic risk — apply by May 12. Fellowships begin in July, remote option. https://t.co/4h1QY2x1V8

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NEWS: NPR receives $113M toward digital transformation and to offer stations greater services as the loss of federal funds takes a big bite out of budgets.

$80M from philanthropist Connie Ballmer
$33M from anonymous donor

My initial story:
https://t.co/4utjEOR0Un

More to come

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: When you look at CNN, "The New York Times," ABC fake news, NBC fake news, they report things that they know are false. It's almost treasonous. The NYT’s circulation is way down. I’m proud to report that.

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

This is a must-follow on here, part of an increasingly active rapid response by the NYT to mischaracterizations of our reporting>

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” https://t.co/PWlEpcXVHd

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

All the President’s Men turns 50 today.

This famous “six‑minute shot” is a masterclass in phone acting and pure technical nerve.

Director Alan J. Pakula and cinematographer Gordon Willis pull off a single, unbroken slow zoom: from a wide, humming newsroom to a tight close-up on Redford. No cuts. No safety net. Tension builds in real time.

Redford carries it with typical quiet confidence. Six minutes of note-taking and talking into a phone, no flashy “Oscar clip.” He even flubs a name (“McGregor” for “Dahlberg”), corrects himself naturally, and Pakula keeps it because it feels authentic.

The background is part of the story. As Woodward hones in on his phone call, everyone behind him huddles around a TV watching Senator Tom Eagleton resign. The contrast is deliberate: they chase the “obvious” headline, while the camera drifts past them to Woodward, and the real story.

To hold Redford and the busy background in focus early on, they used a split‑diopter lens, then had to ease it out as the camera moves in. A technical tightrope. The timing of both actor and cinematographer is spot on.

As Woodward closes in on the truth, the world literally falls away: the newsroom blurs, the noise fades, and we lock into his obsession. It’s one of cinema’s great moments: Redford doing almost nothing—and somehow everything at the same time.

What makes this shot brilliant is the contrast it carves between Redford and the newsroom around him. The visual language does the talking: he’s locked in, disciplined, driven, all focus and fire. He stands apart because the work matters more than anything else.

[Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan]

This is honestly the perfect way to start your morning. Also if you ever need a lottery ticket, ask this guy to buy it!

[Kate Pickert @KatePickert]

Is this...defamatory?

[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

Or…
It’s a news organization that figure out how to replace classified and display ads

[Dylan Freedman @dylfreed]

"I can't believe you left big tech to pursue a career in journalism."

The journalism:
https://t.co/9Vx3nMj5Fo

[Kate Pickert @KatePickert]

I'm teaching this remarkable piece of work today to my Introduction to Journalism students. Huge thanks to @micarosenberg and @propublica for this important story. https://t.co/lZhR1mGoYT

[Brittny Mejia @brittny_mejia]

Don Lemon was released and just gave a statement to reporters outside the courthouse.

“I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court.”

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

So many ironies.

NYT, WaPo (and NPR and others) gave up Pentagon passes rather than sign a restrictive media policy that cast them as a security threat.

It didn’t stop them from learning critical information, which they handled responsibly as they so often have.

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

There’s something obvious and also not-so-obvious about mega-scoops like this. The obvious: Despite everything, the MSM still matters. A lot. 

Thread time:

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says. https://t.co/M1eYR8m5NP

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Here's how the passing of Prop. 50 will shift your congressional district left or right, according to a Times analysis of recent election results prior to Nov. 4
https://t.co/v7VWNG7uP9

[Student Press Law Center @SPLC]

The Student Press Law Center's Gary Green spoke with @jaketapper @CNN last night about the ongoing student media censorship issues at Indiana University and how student journalism everywhere is under attack.

https://t.co/9aPa0pj7y7

[ErikWemple @ErikWemple]

What's going on in local news? "[W]renching retraction, inspirational creation and unceasing transformation," says just-published Medill report on the state of the industry. Must-read all the way. https://t.co/E2X1ndtKYb

[Kate Pickert @KatePickert]

Journalism

[ProPublica @propublica]

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
https://t.co/uppVsbFjhW