Staff writer for @TheAtlantic. Nonfiction book STANDOFF. Jamie.Thompson@yahoo.com
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
15 Nov 2025
Now I know why this story has been #1 at the Atlantic for so long - it’s a fantastic mystery, a tale of astounding selfishness - yet also filled with characters motivated by justice and compassion. A barn burner, by @ThompsonJamieL theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
6 Nov 2025
Police spent more than 50 days searching a lake for Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker they assumed had drowned. Then they told his wife that they’d come to believe something different. @ThompsonJamieL spoke with the people involved in the case that rattled a Wisconsin town: theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
10 Apr 2025
The Atlantic is proud to announce that “American Cowardice,” by Jamie Thompson, has won the 2025 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Read Jamie’s story, from our March 2024 issue, here: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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12 Apr 2024
So excited to listen to this @MooneyMichaelJ
11 Apr 2024
Exciting news! My first podcast, an Audible Original, is out today: audible.com/holdfast
I teamed up with @SamEifling and @trevoraaronson to tell a story about sex, money, media, power, and one of the most important free speech cases of our time.
It’s a real wild ride…
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8 Apr 2024
"He walked along a dirt road as trucks blasted him with fumes. He walked across one farm after another. He felt so hungry. At times he knelt on the ground and said, “God, can you see this?”"
Read this breathtaking Atlantic cover story from the great @mccrummens
8 Apr 2024
How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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29 Jan 2024
My latest for The Atlantic, with the great @SStossel
29 Jan 2024
Scot Peterson, the “Coward of Broward,” stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training—or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings? @ThompsonJamieL reports: theatln.tc/C2VHHaHu
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
29 Jan 2024
Scot Peterson, the “Coward of Broward,” stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training—or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings? @ThompsonJamieL reports: theatln.tc/C2VHHaHu
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29 Sep 2023
DC area friends -- come join us at Politics and Prose on Sunday to hear the brilliant @drbrianwilliams talk about his fantastic book, THE BODIES KEEP COMING. @PoliticsProse
29 Sep 2023
Sunday, join @drbrianwilliams at P&P to discuss THE BODIES KEEP COMING -- a surgeon's inside look at the trauma bay, where the violence of structuralist racism wields the wounds of a national emergency. 3pm @ Conn Ave w/ @ThompsonJamieL - politics-prose.com/brian-wil…
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
29 Mar 2022
STANDOFF is out now in paperback!
Award-winning journalist @ThompsonJamieL writes a gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of it all, who offer a nuanced look at race & policing in America. Available now:ow.ly/fE3750IsFKV
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17 Feb 2022
Thanks @buzzmagazines
17 Feb 2022
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, @burn555555 highlights some nonfiction titles that cover the topic of race in today's #pageturners. buff.ly/3HSgrIt @Deirdre_Mask @caseengaines @Ty_Seidule @ThompsonJamieL @annas_tea_ @MorganJerkins
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
8 Feb 2022
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
—Ernest Hemingway—
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
1 Jan 2022
I wrote about one of the worst years I've had and the women who help me get through it. sarahhepola.com/2022/01/01/t… Shout-outs to @ThompsonJamieL, @THEMaryoga, @pamelacolloff, @amandafortini, @SharonFGrigsby, and other people who aren't on Twitter. sarahhepola.com/2022/01/01/t…
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
8 Dec 2020
We're so excited to see our authors featured in @KirkusReviews' Best Nonfiction of 2020 lists! Including BECOMING WILD by @carlsafina, OUR TIME IS NOW by @staceyabrams, STANDOFF by @ThompsonJamieL, THE MEANING OF MARIAH CAREY by @MariahCarey, and more! ow.ly/bpOn50CFaa4
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
22 Sep 2020
Out today: @ThompsonJamieL's stupendous new book, STANDOFF. Narrative nonfiction writers, you should check out the rotoscoped storytelling Jamie uses to bring her reporting to life on the page.
Publishers Weekly calls it "spellbinding"--and it is. us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
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Jamie Thompson retweeted
20 Sep 2020
Tomorrow!! RSVP now on the Brazos Bookstore website for Jamie Thompson's STANDOFF.
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