Transforming TV news is a seductive siren. It’s exciting to launch things, it’s really hard to build things that last. I’m always rooting for new ideas and reinvention but have seen a lot of smart, ambitious people humbled by this process.
new @NewYorker column, on the rise of hyperlocal neighborhood email newsletters, solo shoe-leather operations telling you what's going on on your block.
In Brooklyn alone there's the Carroll Gardens Times, the Court Street Journal, the Grand Army Gazette, the Boerum Bulletin...
Lovely interview with the author of a new biography about Justin Townes Earle, someone who's music I've gotten really obsessed with in the last few years. https://t.co/2Kb2Dx2yE0
Dave Mason, the Traffic guitarist who wrote the classic rock standard "Feelin' Alright?” and jammed with The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, and Jimi Hendrix, has died at age 79
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As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. https://t.co/XWEZr6Q0DF
An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.
Chicago four-piece Friko detail their upcoming second album, Something Worth Waiting For, and share lead single “Seven Degrees”. https://t.co/URABrkSSXt
Calling it now, the hottest trend of 2026 will be dogged pursuits.
Determined, persistent, and stubborn efforts to achieve things, refusing to give up despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement, much like a dog relentlessly following a scent.
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