Joe Stephens

Founding Director of @Princeton Program in Journalism; Ferris Professor of Journalism; @WashPost alum. Board member Fund for Investigative Journalism

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Chuck and his team compiled a stunning recordof exposing injustice, in articles published everywhere from local startups to The New York Times.

In addition to leading IRW, I’ll be a professor at American University, the workshop’s home in Washington. I’m a damn lucky guy. 4/#

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I haven't posted much lately, so this news is a bit overdue. After 12 years at Princeton, I'm moving on.
It’s been a blast — teaching, launching the journalism program, watching our students grow into real muckrakers. 1/#

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For friends outside journalism, IRW is a pioneering investigative lab cofounded and led for many years by Chuck Lewis, the crusading 60 Minutes producer and MacArthur "genius” grant recipient. 3/#

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16 Washington Post veterans on what they would change about D.C. journalism.

@mffisher, @Joe_Stephens, @KateCohen92, @AlyssaRosenberg, @CapehartJ, @aaronwiener, @Krissah30, @Sulliview, @Milbank, @sallyquinndc, @tomsietsema and more offer their insights.
https://t.co/gjyIsNhnfl

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Legendary journalist James B. Steele recently gave a talk that's an inspiring master's class for any aspiring investigative reporters out there. @JBSPhilly @IRE_NICAR https://t.co/Ro5miy5Y7o

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A startling read from the master, @marilynt2004, and Mitchell Black. H/T to the editing powerhouse @jefftayloredits https://t.co/KVNmnCoRjI

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Good news for @washingtonpost. Veteran investigative pro @DavidSFallis named Investigative Editor.

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📢 @DavidSFallis is our new Investigations Editor. One of The Post’s most accomplished and experienced journalists, he has been behind some of our most consequential reporting, a thread: https://t.co/GpQpyJvE3v

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

AI being able to produce papers that aren't easily distinguishable from human-authored ones is potentially an extremely positive development. Even before AI, in every field I'm familiar with, the amount of published stuff exceeds the community's collective bandwidth to absorb and build upon ideas by a factor of 100x or more. Inevitably, the vast majority of what's published makes zero impact. Yet we pretend that publication itself has some value. It doesn't.

Overproduction is the #1 problem in research. Dropping the cost of production to zero will force us to stop attaching value to publication, and look for ways to identify actual intellectual value.

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@edteshome @politico Wonderful news! Congratulations to Politico!

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@ewong @washingtonpost @VikingBooks @penguinrandom @nytimes @cheneyagency @aeaglin @alorentzen @ProfileBooks @AlisonAlexanian Just terrific

[Edward Wong @ewong]

I'm grateful that @washingtonpost has named #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire one of the best nonfiction books of the year. They call my family memoir "a sweeping history of modern China from an unusual vantage point." The book: https://t.co/NJfnGjW6pI Wash Post list: https://t.co/nA6pBBQb2V

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

The future is now:
NJ’s largest newspaper, the Star-Ledger, will kill its print edition in 2025. Was once a top 12 US circulation paper. Sister paper Trenton Times too.
https://t.co/5dbnepk9N3

[Ginger Thompson @gingerthomp1]

If you feel there's something different about what's going on at the border, you're not wrong. We've got proof. Read this important report by @propublica. https://t.co/m2uz9W5Ogr

[Joe Stephens @Joe_Stephens]

Made a stop by the jungle of Tikal National Park in Guatemala last week. Magical place, with more monkeys than people.