'... reading through the trial transcript or looking through a case file ... things that don't mean anything to you on the first, second or even third pass ... once you've understood the case, you start making connections that you wouldn't have otherwise,' says Pamela Colloff.

Russell 'Texas' Bentley found fame & meaning as an information warrior for the Kremlin in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic where he had spent the last 9 years. Then, Russian soldiers kidnapped & murdered him last month. My story in Texas Monthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

I can't stop thinking about this Lauren Larson story about writer's block and the dark side of success.

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The only time I unironically use 🚨 in the Nieman Lab Slack is when new work from Rachel Aviv drops. On her reporting methods and why her new blockbuster The New Yorker article is banned in the U.K.
niemanlab.org/2024/05/imposs…

Make time for this remarkable piece of investigative reporting and narrative journalism, by Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti in NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2024/05/16/mag…

High praise for Mike Hixenbaugh's new book, THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS. Publishers Weekly calls it 'a meticulous debut exposé' and 'a vital work of reportage.'

Given that magazines are now read almost exclusively online, is 'cover story' still a term that has any meaning? What about 'front of the book'? It's interesting to think about how we conceive of this real estate now.

this story has everything: a sex strike, ad planes, a hammer chase, thrown eggs, tragedy, extortion, jewish divorce: thecut.com/article/why-ul…

This year will be a bad one but at least a lot of people are going to read Alice Munro

Sometimes, courage and resilience is so strong it can take your breath away. Free Evan Gershkovich now.

The NYT obit of Alice Munro is a useful reminder that insecurity claws at the heart of most writers.

miscarriages of justice happen everywhere, but the fact that this piece couldn't be published in the UK has me posing like this

I'm not sure how anyone accurately assesses reader metrics on long narrative stories, given that my current reading habits are: 1) start story on my laptop while working, then bookmark for later, 2) read on my phone at lunch, 3) finish by listening to audio version that night

The New Yorker has chosen to publish new pieces by Rachel Aviv and Sarah Stillman *on the same day,* so I'm giving everyone the afternoon off

New ⁦Sarah Stillman⁩ piece always a 🚨 newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Rachel Aviv on the case of British nurse Lucy Letby, convicted of killing seven babies. The evidence against her gave 'an impression of mathematical clarity and coherence, distracting from another possibility: that there had never been any crimes at all.' newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

My The New Yorker Postscript for Steve Albini, who made music feel closer, truer, & more raw, & who was unmatched in his crusade against corporate greed & the slow annihilation of the creative spirit. A soldier: newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

This is beautifully complex.
thecut.com/article/mom-he…

In 1997, LASD 'made up' evidence against 2 teens to pin a murder on them.

When the real killer -- who later confessed -- killed again LAPD pinned THAT murder on yet someone else.
latimes.com/california/sto…

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