Reading List

pCJR · Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast   There’s a famous scene from the final season of The Wire—y’know, The One With the Newspeople—where cub reporter Alma Gutierrez, new to the show’s (thinly) fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun, receives a crash course in the paper’s lofty lexical standards: “Gutierrez!” her editor shouts across […]/p

Q&A with James Muldoon

The Psychology of your 20’s is ranked higher than Call Her Daddy and The Daily.

pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p

Musk spent $2 million building a satire startup — then he left, and it all fell apart.

Come for Josh's rant on the future of the internet, stay for his conversation with Vincenzo Natali, director of 'Cube,' 'Splice,' and your favorite episodes of 'Hannibal,' who has taken on William Gibson's reality-bending book 'The Peripheral' and turned it into electrifying TV. The two discuss how horror is in our DNA, his creative relationship with AI, and the difficulties of turning 80's sci-fi into modern art. Discussed: Ray Harryhausen, math that kills you, "big" iPads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BuzzFeed stock has plunged more than 60 percent this year.

Twitter is losing its most active users and turning into a porn-and-crypto fest as "interest in news, sports and entertainment" wanes, according to Reuters' Sheila Dang, who saw internal research from the company. Also check out "What happens to journalists after Twitter?" and &…

Ken Barcus, longtime Midwest bureau chief on NPR's National Desk, has died at age 67. He took great pride in countering stereotypes of the Midwest and in mentoring scores of young reporters.

A weekly look at the future that’s already here. Listen to the trailer of our new tech podcast.

The notion that capitalism metabolizes dissent is no longer theoretical but embodied in the architecture of its most profitable corporate technologies.

How long are top-performing podcasts? And how often do they release episodes? We reveal the data that will help you find the right balance for your new show.

What I learned in year two, and what comes next

Both advocacy groups and political leaders tend to assume that misinformation persists on social media because the platforms are unwilling to get rid of it—a gross and unhelpful oversimplification. Some of the largest technology companies in the world spend tens of billions of dollars each year ...

A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.

The video platform is finally dedicating real resources to growing its podcast offerings.

The partnership has not issued a new fact check since 2020. It only fact checked Schmitt once and found the claim it was looking into to be “mostly true.”

"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."

Early coverage sidestepped conversations about the unique kinds of gendered racism that a Black girl from a working-class California neighborhood might face on the professional tour.

Future News 134

One of the world’s most powerful news outlets has a new mandate — which happens to sync with the views of one of the world’s richest men.

A collection of articles about Decade In Review from The New Yorker, including news, in-depth reporting, commentary, and analysis.

From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

Many mass killings receive relatively little news coverage in the U.S.

Greetings, reporters! I have a different one for you today - something to keep on top of all your social media feeds. This is a new (to me at least) tool called Inoreader. There are lots of feed aggregators out there, so you might ask, why this one?

"We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other community-building, life-affirming activities."

The deadline is July 11th

Who has sent us more unsolicited commercial email than anyone else?