An assigning editor on the New York Times Opinion section has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing right now

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Next week, so many boxes of How I'd Fix Atlanta's Season Two zine will show up on my porch.

Starting now, 175 copies are available for pre-order. To reserve your copy, Venmo $25 to [@]austinlouisray, including your snail mail in the note.

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When I got fired a year ago, I started telling people I was going to become a boat captain. It was a joke, but I said it so many times it actually happened. Please tell your Tampa-bound friends who like some stories with their saltwater. capnbenjamin.com

If you missed it last month, heed Sarah's advice and listen to this really excellent show from the Campside Media kitchen, hosted by two tremendous journalists -- Ken Bensinger and jessica garrison

“The show’s seven episodes contain a novel’s worth of character development and intrigue. However ethically murky the F.B.I.’s methods were, they make for a very good podcast.”

Sarah Larson, incisive as always, on the new season of Chameleon: newyorker.com/culture/podcas…

Thanks to Sarah Larson for writing about 'The Michigan Plot,' which she says “delves into a truly tangled web of it all'
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Great piece of reporting and writing by David Peisner - an ostensibly local story that is really national in all sorts of different, important ways

Me when my editor asks me to condense my opening paragraph by four words

Renegade FBI agents; a legendary activist in the crosshairs; a personal journey for a journalist who pries apart his past & explores his own process — @MosiSecret's great new podcast RADICAL, worth a careful listen! Campside Media Matthew Shaer Josh Dean podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rad…

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put 3 billboards in every county in america telling them how many news outlets that county had 20 years ago vs today

🥈🎥 The Best Sports Documentary Podcast Silver Award goes to…
Sports Explains the World Wondery 🏆👏

On today's #CloserLookWABE with @WABERoseScott: Journalist & Author Antonia Hylton Antonia Hylton explores the abuses of a Jim Crow-era hospital and shares the first-hand stories of its patients at 1pm & 7pm on @WABENews & WABE.org #mentalhealth

A thread about FBI misconduct in Atlanta during the 90s. The FBI was working with an informant who we connected to 11 killings, and who was allegedly responsible for 50 homicides. We uncovered this during our reporting for the podcast, Radical. Campside Media Tenderfoot TV

Very little about living in Atlanta fills me with more rage than the regular cancellation of school because the breeze is a little damp

Last year, I started to ask myself why it felt like EVERYONE had forgotten how to drive. Turns out I was not the only one with that question. And the answers – well, they're not particularly heartening.

On the cover of NYT Magazine on Sunday and online now: nytimes.com/2024/01/10/mag…

From @tenderfoottv and Campside Media comes a new true crime series, an Atlanta story of violence and the struggle for power in America. Radical premieres 12.5. Listen to the trailer now on @applepodcasts. loom.ly/r5hLt_s #truecrime #newpodcast #radicalpodcast

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new breed of modern ghost stories, Run, Fool! with our partners Campside Media and Ballen Studios! Out of the terrifying mind of Rodney Barnes, Run, Fool! is a collection of harrowing tales guaranteed to make you scream. Listen now!

This first episode of Run Fool! Is available now! open.spotify.com/episode/6RAPIh…

Big news with some of Atlanta's best content creators Campside Media Matthew Shaer Donald Albright Payne Lindsey Tenderfoot TV. Doc and podcast on Cop City coming soon. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…