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Today’s One Good Text is with DC Congresswoman Eleanor #DCStatehood Holmes Norton on her enthusiasm for the new season of Love is Blind. She also wades into a very local dispute: People residing in Virginia can’t say they live in DC (!) Via Semafor Principals semafor.com/newsletter/10/…

Some local news cnn.com/2024/10/04/med…

DC is headed for a chaotic lame duck -- and beyond. There are plenty of urgent deadlines, yes, but other worries, too D Sen. Murphy: “There could be a rush to get some things done. We could also have an armed MAGA militia descending on the Capitol" semafor.com/article/10/03/…

NPR's acting Chief Content Officer, SVP and Editor in Chief EdithChapin was included among 35 notable women news industry leaders the International Women's Media Foundation is recognizing to mark its 35th anniversary. So proud to be here with so many remarkable women!

Today, Semafor marks its two-year anniversary: It's been a huge privilege to have been part of so much, so quickly. Our co-founders Justin B. Smith and Ben Smith penned an essay thinking back to all that has changed — and all that will change: semafor.com/article/10/17/…

What a lovely piece by the great Gina Chua about gender and how "normal" is an ever evolving concept. nytimes.com/2024/10/23/opi…

Republican candidates have run advertisements recently “hoping to paint their more trans-accepting opponents as far outside what is normal in American society,” Gina Chua writes. “And yet, most notions of ‘normal’ have rarely been fixed.” Read: nyti.ms/3YfVlgw

Lovely, important piece by distinguished journalist, former colleague ⁦⁦gina chua⁩ - I hope you find time to read it: nytimes.com/2024/10/23/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Thoughtful — as always — writing by gina chua for New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2024/10/23/opi…

🟡 SCOOP: Policymakers in Washington have grown worried enough about chipmaker Intel to begin quietly discussing scenarios should it need further assistance, Reed Albergotti and Liz Hoffman report. semafor.com/article/11/01/…

If you read one qualitative piece on what the election feels like on the ground, make it David Weigel's semafor.com/article/11/01/…

The words "crucial" and "Waukesha" both appear in David Weigel's piece but you'll have to click through to see if they are next to each other or not semafor.com/article/11/04/…

Even the bots are herding??? semafor.com/article/11/04/…

We asked an AI polling company founded by three teens to ask its bots who they would vote for. Here's what they said: semafor.com/article/11/04/…

A huge hire for Semafor Business, and more news to come on this front.

We asked 50 of the most interesting and notable people in media/news what they were wrong about in 2024 semafor.com/article/12/29/…

Don’t miss the 2025 IIJ Freelance Conference! Live online Feb 27 and 28, with keynote speakers Celeste Headlee (NPR, PBS) and gina chua (Semafor)! Register here: theiij.com/sessions-25

I hope you'll check out my story tonight on the sprawling, private network of group chats that began in 2020 as a place for Silicon Valley leaders to talk candidly, away from progressive-leaning social media, and are now the dark matter that shapes American media and politics.

It's 19thnews' spring member drive - supporting a great newsroom that's focused on covering the key issues of our day and how they affect women and LGBTQ+ people. Please join me in helping them: the19th.donorsupport.co/page/SMD2025?f…

If ads can be personalized, how long before we get completely personalized news, created in the moment, based on what we know and what we care about - and is that a good thing or a bad thing? Some thoughts Semafor: semafor.com/article/06/02/…