Kester Alleyne

He/him. Mild-mannered newspaper editor, word lover and world traveler. Tweets are my own and retweets do not necessarily mean an endorsement.

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” - D. Elton Trueblood

Bless this man - doing the Lord’s work in NYC

(h/t @CBSNewYork)

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

Media news: The @chicagotribune’s next managing editor will be Stacy St. Clair, a widely respected journalist and hands-on leader who listens and pushes and nurtures. I love ragging on editors but we have a great team of leaders here and I am excited to see what the future holds.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff and taught us a lot about the future of AI agents. WSJ’s @JoannaStern tested it all out.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@atrupar How how HOW is this not parody???? How?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

On this day in 1847, the first issue of the Chicago Tribune was published. Happy 178th birthday! #chicago

[Paul Kane @pkcapitol]

At a time when my news org & many others are targeting copy editors, a salute to those awesome colleagues who catch our mistakes and oftentimes write insanely great headlines like this one:

A Streetcar named retire …

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

They've rebranded having multiple jobs as "polyworking"

[Kester Alleyne @KesterAlleyne]

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[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

happy *circling back after the new year* day to all who celebrate

[WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw]

A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe

https://t.co/1FxL2NtHoN

[Kester Alleyne @KesterAlleyne]

The Passion of George Santos https://t.co/2J9CjdtmqX
Fantastic writing!😂😂😂😂

[Kester Alleyne @KesterAlleyne]

“Ghost newsrooms”—newspapers that have little to no on-the-ground presence in the localities whose name they bear—increasingly dot the American media landscape https://t.co/4uyfIiZctf via @WSJ

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

The most deeply reported story so far on Trump's second term immigration plans. w @charlie_savage & @maggieNYT. Here's a gift link so you can read it without an NYT subscription: https://t.co/WcArEuVcrd

[Kester Alleyne @KesterAlleyne]

What Is the Right 401(k) Contribution Rate? https://t.co/IUVTaUPxcC

[Mack Liederman @mack_liederman]

A South Loop Walgreens has moved most items behind counters with only 2 aisles left for customers to freely walk.

One customer called the redesign "racial profiling."
https://t.co/KY3yW7moKH

[Morningstar, Inc. @MorningstarInc]

John Rekenthaler investigates how retail and professional investors alike walk this fine line. https://t.co/vtDPhummic

[Kester Alleyne @KesterAlleyne]

Despite the ease of the internet, some people refuse to stop clipping out newspaper articles to snail mail to grown children—a parental, “Aha, I told you!” https://t.co/gVKkxX8UOc via @WSJ

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

"Some businesses deserve sympathy when they land in bankruptcy. Then there’s Envision."

Column by @hiltzikm: https://t.co/lBOu9Blzgy

[Ann Marie Lipinski @AMLwhere]

Seeing the word “titan” in a lot of Sam Zell obits, but the legacy also includes his disastrous newspaper stewardship. It featured financial and moral bankruptcy and caused great civic damage. This investigation by the late David Carr tells an ugly story. https://t.co/c9ItVlz0l4

[Nieman Foundation @niemanfdn]

“The Price Kids Pay" wins the 2022 Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. Congratulations to @Jodiscohen at @propublica and @jsmithrichards at @chicagotribune for investigating a loophole that allowed police to ticket children for minor misbehavior. https://t.co/rG4lhja1rJ

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: The U.S. demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or face a possible ban of the app in the U.S. https://t.co/LZoE0zfIXt