How a quirky article on Pink Floyd & The Wizard of Oz that I wrote in 1995, as a 19 year old, helped foster one of the first instances of internet culture crossing over to the mainstream — & has haunted my career as a legal & national security journalist. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

NEW from the Banner: A new website and our Voter's Guide to the Aug. 3 elections. We've got mayoral Q&As, video interviews, issue stories, ad stories, daily coverage, profiles of almost every district and at-large candidate and more. nashvillebanner.com/homepage/vote/

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 w/ ⁦Jonathan Swan⁩ ⁦Maggie Haberman⁩ nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/…

ok BraunBrothersReunion you sold us out completely today, instantly. we have 35 BBR Editions that did not make it to challis. we will list them on our store until they’re gone. put your name in the notes when ordering and i’ll sign as i was doing at BBR — josh backloungepublishing.bigcartel.com/product/the-mo…

Applications are open for our 2024 NYT Graphics fellowship! Do you have experience telling stories with data and visuals? Do you thrive on collaborative teams? If so, tell us about yourself here: nyti.ms/3s4RaZ6

Our $100,000 Membership Match begins TODAY, and we’re already thinking about all we want to accomplish in 2024! We're building a bigger newsroom with more reporters. Help us as we tell more local stories, cover more elections and break more local news …ville-public-media.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Jason Isbell on reshooting the cover of 'Southeastern' for the 10-year anniversary: "You can see that I’m not anywhere near as confident as what I’m trying to project. I was newly sober and navigating a set of priorities I had never accepted before." 🔗rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

Look, I know you got a lot of appeals today. If you give to the Banner, your donation will be doubled thanks to some generous folks who want to support independent journalism.

I've moved into a brand new role at the Los Angeles Times: News and Culture Critic. I'll be doing more of what I love - riffing on media, news and pop culture in real time - but through a wider lens. Shaping the role as I go because I'm a chaos junkie. Buckle up latimes.com/about/pressrel…

BREAKING on The Associated Press Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Thursday attempting to end the state’s near-total ban on collective bargaining for most public employees. apnews.com/article/wiscon…

.Universities of Wisconsin (Old) addresses demands of Republican Speaker Robin Vos over DEI positions to get funding for previously approved pay raises under wide-ranging deal that also includes admissions guarantee, ending a UW–Madison program to recruit educators of color apnews.com/article/univer…

The Nashville Banner is hiring. Our first two job listings are for an Audience Strategist ... indeed.com/job/audience-s… and a Photojournalist journalismjobs.com/job-listing/16…

Packers kicker 33rd in XP%. There are only 32 teams. And 29th in FG%. I am sure this will be fine.

With Sports Illustrated’s future hanging in the balance, Kevin Draper and I looked through decades of covers to understand what the magazine meant to readers in its heyday: nytimes.com/2024/01/24/bus…

The Nashville Banner is hiring for a statehouse reporter. This reporter will be our point person for one of our most important beats, providing accountability coverage of the state government and the people who run it. More info here: journalismjobs.com/job-listing/16…

Some personal news... After more than 26 years at the Los Angeles Times, tomorrow is my last day working with all the brilliant journalists here. My next stop -- starting next week -- is ProPublica and the brilliant journalists there.

Coming Monday ...

The world of journalism lost a true gem this week. Kim Christensen was a brilliant investigative reporter, an extraordinarily sharp critical thinker and a fantastic colleague and human being. Doug Smith with a beautiful obit. latimes.com/california/sto…

The Banner Spring membership is going on this week. Your donation goes straight to our journalism. If you want independent media, whose only job is to cover news in Nashville and nothing else, then give today. This is how we build something better …ville-public-media.fundjournalism.org/donate/?campai…

It’s going to be so cool in a few years to go back and read about the last year of my life, which @jcrutchmer has been documenting alongside the rest of the red dirt scene for @RD_unplugged. Honored to be a small part of the larger story, go pre-order the book!