Mark Armstrong

Nieman Storyboard Best of 2025: Your favorite stories of the year (Part 1) - Nieman Storyboard We asked, you answered — here are some of your favorite stories, books, and podcasts

I'm proud to be among terrific company contributing to @niemanstoryboard.org Best Stories of the Year series.

Nieman Storyboard Best of 2025: Your favorite stories of the year (Part 1) - Nieman Storyboard We asked, you answered — here are some of your favorite stories, books, and podcasts

Was glad to participate in @niemanstoryboard.org's year-end best of package! I picked stories from @defector.com / @laurentheisen.bsky.social and @thelocal.to / @nickhunebrown.bsky.social.

Thank you for taking part, Eva!

Nieman Storyboard Best of 2025: Your favorite stories of the year (Part 1) - Nieman Storyboard We asked, you answered — here are some of your favorite stories, books, and podcasts

Great list! You might see a familiar face.😌

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Part One of @niemanstoryboard.org's Best of 2025. Thanks for being a part of it, Brendan!

#booksky #podcasts #longreads

Deputy Editor, Engagement New York City, United States; Remote, United States

A special new position at @propublica.org: Come be my partner in editing our crowdsourcing and engagement reporting team! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

The 2025 gift guide for journalists Coffee (faster!), #tradwife murder mysteries, heated mattress pads, Prohibition-era video games, and much more.

ok these gifts will not save journalism. BUT they will caffeinate, entertain, feed, and snuggle journalists

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Reminder!

Photojournalist Stephanie Keith on documenting ICE and capturing a moment that became the cover of New York magazine - Nieman Storyboard Keith shares the story behind her cover photo for New York magazine’s “The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza” and the importance of photojournalism in documenting history

New @niemanstoryboard.org podcast: My conversation with photojournalist and Pulitzer finalist Stephanie Keith about her work documenting ICE at 26 Federal Plaza, which turned into this powerful cover image and story for @nymag.com.

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Listening age: 79

But my knees feel good!

Subscribe to The Truth Does Not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It Journalism + Essays + Thoughts on Writing from Leah Sottile. Click to read The Truth Does Not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It, by Leah Sottile, a Substack publication with thousands of s...

Hush was created to bring investigative reporting to all parts of Oregon. All Oregonians deserve that. Both seasons were difficult feats of reporting. I love making that show. If you want to support my independent work directly, you can subscribe to my newsletter: leahsottile.substack.com/subscribe

Nieman Storyboard podcast, Spotify Wrapped

This text from @storiesmatter88.bsky.social made my day. Thanks Ben, and thanks everyone, for listening to @niemanstoryboard.org in its first year as a podcast!

The art of dialogue: 5 conversations from great narrative stories - Nieman Storyboard From the Nieman Storyboard archives: How journalists capture dialogue between a character and friends, strangers, and themselves

"The internal dialogue is my true voice – it’s the way I talk, negotiate and process with myself. My inner voice is often at odds with what I’m doing physically or saying aloud. This is the way I navigate the world."

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#booksky #longreads #storytelling #writing

👏 Well deserved!

For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025!

And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.

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#podcasts #booksky #documentary

40 Years Later: Sade, “Promise” - Longreads "Promise" isn’t necessarily about love, or even about surrender, but about giving your heart over, repeatedly, and enduring the failures that come with the exchange.

I will never get tired of seeing Hanif Abdurraqib's writing show up at @longreads.com. Kudos @provenself.bsky.social and team on this series.

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#longreads

For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025!

And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.

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#podcasts #booksky #documentary

HELLO. IT’S ME 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Amen to that. :)

How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe - Nieman Storyboard As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent

Excited to have @mindahoney.bsky.social back this week at @niemanstoryboard.org, in conversation with the reporting team behind the serialized podcast "American Shrapnel." Thanks @johnhammontree.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social @johnarchibald.bsky.social

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Share your favorite stories (and podcasts, books, and docs) of 2025 - Nieman Storyboard Nieman Storyboard's Best of 2025. Plus: The team behind ‘American Shrapnel’ on helping sources feel safe

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org:

Tell me your favorite stories (and podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries) of 2025.

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#booksky #longreads #podcasts #documentaries

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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The art of listening - Nieman Storyboard Sasha Bonét on structuring a memoir. Plus: Pamela Colloff on getting unstuck, European Press Prize, and more

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org:

Featuring @sasha-bonet.bsky.social and @cmtapper.bsky.social, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social, @evrat.bsky.social + Charlotte mag tributes from @michaelngraff.bsky.social @tommytomlinson.bsky.social @ncrabbithole.com

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ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.

The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.

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Sasha Bonét on ‘leaving room for the story to shape itself’ and how a family home can become a character - Nieman Storyboard The writer and cultural critic breaks down her approach on interviewing, research, and story structure for her memoir, “The Waterbearers”

New @niemanstoryboard.org podcast episode! Loved this @cmtapper.bsky.social conversation with @sasha-bonet.bsky.social about her new book, “The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters.”

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#booksky #longreads #podcasts

Senior Editor, Business New York City, United States

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor.

You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!

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“I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police…I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this.”

Please read this whole thing. Before you keep scrolling. And then please share it.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc