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Newsletter editor and audience journalist @FT & Adjunct professor @newmarkjschool

New York City
Joined February 2013
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Meyers Leonard flew to Portland to honor Damian Lillard’s return to the Trail Blazers tonight. But he also wanted to tie up loose ends. “I guess I’ve just always wondered: Did I win Portland over in the very end?” Leonard said. (Article is free) nytimes.com/athletic/7698843…
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Instant first-ballot hall of fame lede from @michelleinbklyn here nytimes.com/2026/10/19/opini…
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Actually, Going to Concerts Alone Is a Top-Tier Human Experience Despite what the gossip Instagram pages might think, attending a show alone is anything but sad. Commentary: rollingstone.com/music/music…
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a note: if you'd like to read this story without repeatedly watching footage of violent arrests, you can click to disable the videos at the top of the story
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD ⬇️
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♡ Hikaru Utada — Automatic (1998)
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New: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled. propub.li/4dGHrwr
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Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”
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Almost two years ago, the Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant Ugly Baby announced that it would be closing. Now it has returned, in Williamsburg this time, in a window-lined, B.Q.E.-adjacent space more than twice the size of its former digs. Its new menu, which comes as New York is in the throes of a Thai-spiciness rapture, is divided into three categories, in ascending order of spiciness: the Laughs, the Cries, and the Ugly. While the menu centers on spice, “Ugly Baby—both before and now—is more than just a place to show off your oh-so-manly pain tolerance, or to punish your digestive tract,” Helen Rosner writes. Read her full review: newyorker.com/culture/the-fo…
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Today would've been the 40th birthday of SOPHIE.
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I hit the streets for @ABC News to document how spots around the World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan have evolved in the 25 years since 9/11. See more then & now photos: abcnews.com/US/911-now-photo…
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many thanks to @AllisonPDavis for her time and care in writing this profile. she's an excellent writer and I was grateful to spend this time with her.
When the writer and actress decided to adapt ‘East of Eden’ for TV, she knew it would require her to confront her grandfather Elia Kazan’s complicated legacy. vulture.com/article/zoe-kaza…
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Thinking about all the impacted journalists at McClatchy today. That includes reportedly 1/4 of the Charlotte Observer newsroom. Please. Support. Local. Journalism. thecharlotteledger.com/p/cha…
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The teams that oversee push notifications have quietly become some of the most important people in the newsroom: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Chapel is one of the best beat reporters in the country. Nothing unfair about this question that everyone is curious about.
Full response from Dabo here:
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During the 2024 U.S. Open, a 19-year-old man from Amish country bet $100 on a women’s singles match. When the bet started to go bad, he did something dumb & dangerous that touched on every disturbing trend in sports & American society. Column: inquirer.com/sports/a/us-ope…
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Not @Gill_Gross personally witnessing his outrageous US Open prediction go down in flames 😭 (Sorry, Gill! I couldn't help it 😅)
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As a recent Syracuse alum and current member of the Young Alumni Council, I never quite understood why the school was so eager to build all of these new dorms and housing to expand campus while I was a student, while also showing real concern for the future enrollment situation given the looming demographic cliff Add in the unforeseen international student shock and this is what you end up with The school did a real attempted crack down on greek life, and has struggled in sports, which just adds gasoline to the small fire that started burning around COVID time Syracuse offered me a good amount of scholarship money, and Newhouse/Maxwell are both highly regarded programs for what I wanted to study. It was a great experience that I cherish and that’s why I stay involved myself But I hope the school is getting real that the geographic and cost challenges are going to get worse, not better Great work from DO alum @Roshan_f16
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Juliana Huxtable
With Dolly Parton dead, who is now the most universally beloved woman in America? Is there one? Nobody really cares about like, Oprah, Julia Roberts, or Jennifer Aniston anymore.
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