Selected Writing
~ essays, interviews, & fun ~
Are libraries the future of news? Nieman Lab.
What Friends Are For. Flaming Hydra.
Trapped on the Million-Dollar Staircase. Flaming Hydra.
What I Saw in the Dark. Flaming Hydra.
Media Future is Now. Flaming Hydra.
A Talk with Barbara Smith. Flaming Hydra.
Pay the Journalists for the Journalism. Flaming Hydra.
Delight in The Time of Decline. Flaming Hydra.
Hidden Gems of Upstate New York. Flaming Hydra recommends.
“We Support Cuomo” Aerial Banners. The Drift.
The Rumpus Interview with George Saunders. The Rumpus. Selected by Longreads as one of the Top Five Longreads of the Week.
The Rumpus Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar. The Rumpus.
A Brief History of Witch Hunts, Real and Imagined. Mother Jones.
~ media x capital ~
*my newsletter on media & capitalism is here.
Mediaquake: Internet for the People. A Q+A with Ben Tarnoff. Popula.
Mediaquake: Justice Begins with Media. A Q+A with Brandi Collins-Dexter. Popula.
Mediaquake: What Alternative Idea Is Big Enough to Take On Big Tech? A Q+A with James Muldoon. Popula.
Mediaquake: The Long View of Media Reform. A Q+A with Carla Murphy. Popula.
Mediaquake: Inviting the Community to Make the News. A Q+A with Darryl Holliday, City Bureau. Popula.
Mediaquake: Big Money Media is Older Than You Think. A Q+A with Victor Pickard. Popula.
“In the ‘journalism crisis’ just a capitalism crisis?” Popula.
Separating Quality News from Quality Opinion. Authored by me, with contributions from Nancy Ancrum, Karen Attiah, Maria Bustillos, Sewell Chan, Elena Gooray, and Arwa Mahdawi. NewsQ.
Our Opinion: Recommendations for Publishing Opinion Journalism on Digital Platforms. Written by Subramaniam Vincent and Patricia Lopez with David Agraz, Leona Allen Ford, Jon Allsop, Rochelle Riley, and Rebecca Traister; edited by me and Connie Moon Sehat. NewsQ.
~ reporting ~
New York Public Media Will Lose At Least $57 Million in Federal Funds After Congressional Cuts. New York Focus.
What New Yorkers Want From Local News. New York Focus.
Akwesasne Mohawks work to hurdle obstacles to boost voter turnout. North Country Public Radio.
How Donald Trump is Remaking the Federal Courts In His Own Image. Mother Jones.
Senate Republicans Set to Move Forward with Judicial Nominee Rated "Not Qualified." Mother Jones.
How Chuck Grassley Made It Easier for Trump to Confirm More Federal Judges. Mother Jones.
This Republican Keep Humiliating Trump's Judicial Nominees. Mother Jones.
Trump Judicial Nominee Who Starred in That Embarrassing Viral Video Drops Out. Mother Jones.
Prepare to Welcome One of the Guys Behind Bush's Torture Memos to the Federal Bench. Mother Jones.
These Charts Show How White, Male, and Conservative Trump's Judicial Nominees Have Been. Mother Jones.
Trump Wants Wendy Vitter, Who Thinks Planned Parenthood Kills 150,000 Females a Year, to Be a Federal Judge. Mother Jones.
~ & plenty more! ~
Watch This Federal Judicial Nominee Evade Questions About Whether Planned Parenthood Kills 150,000 Females a Year. Mother Jones.
Kids Have Always Led the Way for Progress. The Push for Gun Control is No Different. Mother Jones.
This is How Many Billions of Dollars Each of the 15 Richest Families in America Will Save If We Repeal the Estate Tax. Mother Jones.
Trump Just Screwed the Millions of Americans Addicted to Opioids. Mother Jones.
Dodge Freaked Out When Someone Made a Video of What MLK Really Thought About Capitalism. Mother Jones.
Sessions is Taking Away Workplace Protections for Transgender Employees. Mother Jones.
Women in Arizona State Prison Would Have to Work 27 Hours Just to Get a Box of Tampons. Mother Jones.
A Federal Court Just Made a Big Decision About Transgender Rights. Mother Jones.
"You Need to Calm Down" and Other Degrading B.S. Women Hear from Doctors. Mother Jones.
This Olympian-Turned-Lawyer is Fighting to Prevent Another Larry Nassar. Mother Jones.
How Two Filmmakers Convinced RBG to Let Them Film Her Workout. Mother Jones.
This New Crime Podcast Blows Open a 26-Year-Old Murder Case. Mother Jones.
US Scientists Just Edited a Human Embryo for the First Time. (Yes, People Are Freaking Out.) Mother Jones.
How Polluted Is Your Drinking Water? Mother Jones.
Berkeley Calms as Counterprotesters Declare Victory. Mother Jones.
Berkeley High’s extraordinary response to ‘lynching’ threat. San Francisco Chronicle.
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