So grateful to @AliVelshi for sharing our reporting—and for continually keeping abortion rights in the spotlight on his show. Read the full story on Abortion, Every Day.

A few people have questioned the relevance / investigatory chops of 60 Minutes in replies to this thread. So I put together a list of major recent investigations that had massive impact in the discourse and even created new policy....

pretty decent encapsulation of the last few years on here

AI is clarifying the market dynamics of media. Can we use that clarity to think about what we need to build even when the market won’t? Francesco Marconi's fascinating AI journalism manifesto, journalism things I love, and the work we need to do next: linkedin.com/pulse/who-build…

Always always read @JessicaValenti at Abortion Everyday but this one is particularly important: One of the country's most influential anti-abortion groups has come out in favor of a bill that would jail women who have abortions. jessica.substack.com/p/the-m…

Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro coverage is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local governments and institutions honest. Eight of my 20 years at the Post were spent on Metro, which was the heart and soul of the Post under the legendary @dongrahamdc1. The undertakers now running the paper have all but wiped out the metro staff, leaving just 12 reporters, according to reports, to cover a region of 6.5 million people. We had twice that many journalists in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting, every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings. When county officials wasted taxpayer money, raised taxes on overstretched homeowners, gave sweetheart zoning deals to developers who filled their election coffers, we were there. When teachers who sexually abused students were quietly transferred to other schools to do it all over again, we were there. We were there for the more uplifting stories too, the cops who broke a cold case, the educators who turned around a struggling school, the residents who rallied to help neighbors in trouble, the student athletes who won the big game, the entrepreneurs who started something new. Our friend @SariHorwitz who has won more Pulitzers than I can count, wrote so movingly online about the Post (facebook.com/share/p/1AZLTTD…). To recognize how indispensable local coverage is, you need only look at her holy-shit investigations of a broken child welfare system, rampant police shootings and the corporate-fed opioid crisis, stories that opened eyes and led to change. Democracy is not just what happens at the White House and the Capitol but in our own backyards. The Post has just turned the lights down at home too.

one of the most unbeatable director runs ever

Federal law enforcement enters North Center daycare takes person into custody

Mariam Dagga, our freelancer who was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, had bylined this powerful piece on malnourished children in Gaza just last week apnews.com/article/palestini…

“The Israel-Hamas war has been one of the bloodiest conflicts for media workers, with at least 192 journalists killed in Gaza … according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Comparatively, 18 journalists have been killed so far in Russia’s war in Ukraine”

The United States is abetting a world-historic atrocity nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world…

We're thrilled to welcome Jonathan Thornton as our new Chief Philanthropy Officer! civicnews.org/news/civic-new…

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

This impressive, but somehow every time I've tried ChatGPT is also completely baffled (although consistently confident in its wrongness) by Wordle...

As every political junkie in America watched the Donald Trump-Elon Musk alliance shatter into a million X-shaped pieces, consider what was assumed and baked into the news coverage and commentary 👀

Empirical research finds Americans from across the political spectrum don’t believe false claims that @PBS is “propaganda” or biased. In fact, many of us trust public media because it’s publicly funded: current.org/2025/06/study-sh… Public media is a public good. Don’t defund PBS.

Some news in this AM's @ReliableSources: @JessicaValenti, author of the Abortion, Every Day newsletter, is adding a full-time reporter to her team. @kylietcheung is the publication's first full-time editorial hire.

💫 Big news! 💫 Abortion, Every Day has hired its first-ever reporter: @kylietcheung. This is a huge step for the newsletter, and I couldn't be more thrilled to welcome and work with this brilliant reporter. Find out more about Kylie and what's next for AED at the link in my bio.

New Yorkers consistently report information gaps on key local topics: satisfaction that doesn't live up to the importance they place in having quality information about each.

*To serve a community's information needs, we need to measure them.* That's the core idea because of Civic Info Needs Census. This week, we published a report on the info needs of residents of New York City: