I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
hello to journalists who would like to write a book at some point: I am part of a panel on that subject tomorrow, alongside the great @kateconger.com @rmac.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social. Ten American dollars — a steal! sabew.org/event/always...
I’ve become obsessed with the question of what kinds of reading matter to our society — why tests are more valuable than books, why books are better than fan fiction, etc. Grateful to @wired.com for letting me go long and @jonbecker.bsky.social for the smart thoughts. www.wired.com/story/missis...
WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean?
Stop Saying Kids Can’t ReadEveryone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.www.wired.coma hill I will die on is that it’s really gross to report someone’s layoff before that person has been laid off. this is someone’s actual life! getting a scoop is not worth making their incredibly shitty day worse!
The AthleticKarl Ravech, one of ESPN's most prominent voices for more than three decades, is expected to be laid off as part of the company's latest round of cuts, sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic. nyti.ms/4vJD4XJ
there is a certain type of childless person who finds it urgent to remind everyone else as often as possible that THEY are far too good for children and should not be forced to encounter them, and as a childless person myself I feel well-qualified to say that these people are losers.
Kat AbughazalehI cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????
an incomplete list of things I have had explained recently in response to me demonstrating expertise: -how private equity works -how small-college finances work -how WNBA finances work -how pitching stories works -how freelancer health insurance works -how college admissions and financial aid work
rax ‘levon honkers’ kingi think it would be pretty cool and fun to experience life as the type of writer who is default assumed to know what she's talking about when covering one of her areas of expertise. so i guess a man. the type of writer who is a man
hmm feels like there was a good book about this problem last year? BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...
Ronan FarrowPrivate equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted herThe Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”www.politico.comIn other media scandal news, a respected environmental journalist, Dillon Osleger, fabricated an High Country News feature. He has these beautiful scenes that he simply did not see! HCN says the piece was fact-checked, so either their fact-checking is woeful or he fully Stephen Glass'd them?
Investigation into ‘Pinecone Cowboys’ errors - High Country NewsNOTE TO READERS Following publication of our May 2026 cover story “Pinecone Cowboys,” we discovered that the author misrepresented details of his reporting, leading to significant errors in both the s...www.hcn.orgwait lol this is so much worse than I expected the explanation to be? they published the story based on two words, neither of which was Alito’s name??? that’s the most obviously fireable offense possible if it’s any other journalist alive????? www.npr.org/sections/npr...