When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad,' per one staffer.

Andrew Beaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…

Remember the recent Deadspin purchase?

One of its principals, Max Noremo, is trying to buy a bankrupt local newspaper. But its local community may be ready to fight back:

fastcompany.com/91077421/santa…

me at Fast Company

Remember: Noremo has done this before. This is what he did with Gambling Times in 2018. In that case, he just bought the domain name and not the archives, according to the widow of Gambling Times’s original publisher, and then hollowed out the site.

Curious about the topic? Check out 'Reimagining dinosaurs' in National Geographic (by Michael Greshko, illustrated by Davide Bonadonna) ...

nationalgeographic.com/family/topic/r…

We're giving away FIVE copies of my new book from Phaidon and each one will be shipped with a gorgeous crystallized shell from the amazing artist Tyler Thrasher! More details and how to enter on Instagram at the link below.
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BREAKING: Police raid the home of a paleontologist searching for fossils that went missing from the museum he used to work at. They confiscated 50 items including a National Park Service fossil. Now the feds are involved.

My latest for The Post and Courier.

postandcourier.com/news/robert-bo…

AAAAAHHHH I'm so excited for this!!

Fantastic science journalists banding together in science's 'Defector moment' as Michael Greshko predicted for Nieman Lab at the end of last year.

What a lineup!

niemanlab.org/2023/12/scienc…

Massive congratulations to the writer-publishers of Sequencer, a new worker-owned science magazine!

Back in December for Nieman Lab, I predicted (read: publicly hoped) that the co-op model would make its way to science journalism. It’s thrilling to see! niemanlab.org/2023/12/scienc…

I’m glad that my poking around Lineup Publishing’s website yesterday morning could snowball into a definitive answer on who bought Deadspin. Read on:

New from 404 Media: we've been digging into the new owner of Deadspin. Came across the name Max Noremo, co-founder of a company that drives traffic to online casinos. Just got confirmed in a statement: Deadspin is becoming a gambling referral site 404media.co/who-owns-deads…

A week ago, this was me surfing the internet in the middle of the night with a hunch, spotting a few things and raising a few questions.

Now we have confirmation.

From 404 Media: 404media.co/who-owns-deads…

Ernie paved the way on this, and I’m glad Jason got it over the finish line.