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A stunning story by @craigwelch.bsky.social with an equally striking comment thread, full of people who can relate to Craig, his daughter Edie and her teammates:

▪️"My daughter has your daughter's story verbatim"
▪️"After three of my teammates tore their ACLs in a single week"
▪️"I tore my ACL twice"

Every Winter Olympics I think of Surya Bonaly. I hope she is thriving.

Ruth Marcus on today's devastating cuts at the Washington Post:

"Today, people in war zones are getting e-mails telling them that their positions have been eliminated. And you know what? I bet they’re gonna file stories, because that’s what we do. It’s what we’ve always done."

A beautiful obituary for an outstanding journalist. And this passage is everything:

"Talton dreamed long ago of being a history professor. ... [But] an adviser told him that he wrote too clearly to be published academically. A journalism career quickly followed..."

Trump’s Plan to Make Housing Affordable Is Faltering President Donald Trump’s bid to put home ownership in reach for more Americans is sputtering, just weeks after it launched.

Trump promised "some of the most aggressive housing reform plans" in US history. Six weeks later, none of the policies floated by his administration have gained traction.

I didn't know Dan. But as a @defector.com reader, I felt like I did. More than once, he made my day, including the day he fact-checked quotes in a New Jersey rest stop.
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There is nothing weirder than reading your grandpas memoir and running smack into a sentence you could have written about yourself

Oof. Are you SURE it's only been a year?

If you missed @davidmcswane.bsky.social's investigation two years ago, there's no better time than to read it now. Stunning reporting. Stunning writing. It's a story you won't soon forget.
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King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding

After the flood warnings comes...this

How Epstein’s Wall Street Contacts Helped Him Build Wealth and Power The disgraced financier maintained an abundance of access across the finance industry and was willing to play hardball to secure wealth and influence.

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals
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As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.

But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.

What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.

Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:

A $9.99 Scam Put a Billion People At Risk in India’s Hyper-Digital Economy India’s push for digital IDs has sparked a bonanza for criminals.

We followed that up with a deep-dive narrative that takes you to the people behind this—the people on the other side of the phone—showing how India’s digital revolution has exposed millions to a criminal dystopia.

Reporters: Natalie Obiko Pearson and Suparna Sharma
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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

I hope you’ll check this out. We turned an investigative story about the "digital arrests" sweeping the world’s most populous country and turned it into a web comic that captures the psychological horror for victims.

The brilliant Anand RK (anandrk.art) did the illustrations.
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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

Was reading this, fully hooked and immersed into the sheer horror, while constantly thinking 'Wait, why is this so good?! Who did this?'

Until I got to the end and saw it was Anand RK, with lettering by @adityab.net and then it just made total sense lmfao.

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Death by Deadline, Part One How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

11 yrs ago, @themarshallproject.org launched our brand-new website with part 1 of a @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social investigation & our first Life Inside piece, by John J. Lennon. Since then, we've published >2,600 pieces. And still, so much work to do. www.themarshallproject.org/2014/11/15/d...

A pending story about a Philadelphia police officer stood a good chance of getting the Daily News sued, the newspaper's lawyer told Days.

Days turned to the reporters.

"He said, ‘I trust my reporters, I believe in my reporters, and we’re running with it.'"
@wendyruderman.bsky.social

Apply - True Story Award The Global Reporter Prize in Bern, Switzerland

Apply, no matter your country, no matter what language you write in. The True Story Award is for everyone, with 45 jurors from around the world. "Its aim is to make reporters’ voices known beyond the borders of their home countries and ... increase the diversity of perspectives."

Deadline: Oct. 31.

Winners 2025 - True Story Award The Global Reporter Prize in Bern, Switzerland

Last year there were 1,049 entries, from 102 countries, written in 25 different languages. The top 36 nominees convene in Bern, Switzerland, for a journalism festival that will run from June 4-8, 2026.

Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov spoke at last year’s.
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True Story Award The Global Reporter Prize in Bern, Switzerland

Fellow journalists: Please spread the word about the True Story Award, which is so much more than a journalism contest.

It honors journalism’s indispensable role in the world and works to strengthen reporters everywhere.
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From Life in Prison to the Eras Tour While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.

In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

She didn’t believe she won the Nobel — until a photographer showed up at her Seattle door That random number ringing your phone is probably junk — but not always.

When you assume that 1 a.m. call from an international number is spam, then, when the phone rings again, put it on "do not disturb" and go back to sleep.

Honoring longtime IRE member and mentor Susan Carroll - Investigative Reporters & Editors Lise Olsen writes about her friend and late IRE member Susan Carroll — and how a new fellowship program aims to honor her legacy.

This remembrance of Susy Carroll, a great investigative journalist, by Lise Olsen, another great investigative journalist, says so much about the people who do this work.

I miss Susy, and I'm grateful to Lise for finding such a fitting way to honor her work & memory.
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“Question,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.” At the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida, and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact: From: gmax <gmax[REDACTED]> To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, May 23 2008 3:22 PM Subject: Re: I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct..I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a prositute if possible

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role

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Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.

Philip Gourevitch looks back on a 9/11 photo taken by Gilles Peress:

"We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time..."

"There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors."
@pgourevitch.bsky.social @newyorker.com

UK Ambassador Told Epstein ‘I Think the World of You,’ Emails Reveal Peter Mandelson, the prominent Labour politician who was named British ambassador to the US this year, expressed steadfast support and offered to discuss Epstein’s now-infamous 2008 case with his cont...

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes

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‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’

Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History Trump’s Pick to Help Run the FBI Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Top three stories on @propublica.org right now

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

“I can see how this looks strange,” Greco's attorney said.