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David Roberts has been chasing a fascinating, hopeful story for 20 years. "I don’t know why everybody else makes it boring."
The clean energy journalist's hack for building a massive audience with his newsletter Volts: "Find your fellow freaks and get their loyalty."
May 20
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In reexamining “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, Elliot Williams shows how the tabloid playbook works, even today
The first book by the CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor explores the 1984 shooting that split New York — and turned fear into a winning…
May 13
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Parker Molloy
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Scouring public files, Roger Sollenberger uncovered huge, unreported news. Then he started digging even deeper
"It’s all right there." The independent journalist explains how he broke massive stories that big newsrooms missed.
May 6
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April 2026
“I’ve lived through the definition of insanity”: David Sirota on covering the plots for power in the United States
In the new season of his podcast “Master Plan,” the journalist explores the role of fairness and transparency in journalism, but rejects the idea that…
Apr 29
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Leading the polls: How G. Elliott Morris uses journalistic independence to his advantage in measuring public opinion
In his "Strength in Numbers" newsletter, the data journalist asks questions that competing, mainstream pollsters can’t.
Apr 22
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"They’re not interested in press freedom." Margaret Sullivan on journalism's billionaire barons and the Substack upstarts out-hustling them.
Someone once called her New York Times position "the worst job in journalism." Now she's watching the watchdogs from the outside.
Apr 15
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Parker Molloy
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Ibram X. Kendi has chronicled the history of America's racist ideas. Here's why he's still "uncommonly hopeful."
A scholar with journalism roots, Kendi seeks to explain why people worldwide are embracing racist conspiracy theories and authoritarianism in his latest…
Apr 8
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Kelly Kimball
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Journalism as “an act of public service”: Joi Lee on the responsibility of reporters to witness and document injustice
The international journalist and documentarian explains how ICE’s Minneapolis surge challenged her “to exercise this American privilege and this…
Apr 1
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March 2026
Cracking the bro code: Jasper Craven on how toxic masculinity propels America’s military academies
His new book, “God Forgives, Brothers Don’t,” explores the role military education plays in stoking America’s lust for war.
Mar 25
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“Is this the last summer before the war?” Thomas Dworzak captures the resistance to Russia's reach
In Long Lead's "Border Line War," the Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak traces the new Iron Curtain, from Arctic Norway to the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Mar 18
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Parker Molloy
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Getting personal on the red carpet: How Anthony Breznican gets Hollywood to open up
In the age of media training, the longtime entertainment reporter shares his creative approach to generating in-depth celebrity interviews.
Mar 11
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"A particular kind of masochistic joy": Jelani Cobb on what it feels like to be a journalist
The author, New Yorker writer, and dean of Columbia Journalism School witnesses journalism from all sides.
Mar 4
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Mark Yarm
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