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Colin Kinniburgh @colinreports.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still catching up after being mostly tuned out of energy news this summer… This is a really well done profile by @alexhannaford.com heated.world/p/the-influe...

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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 17/09/2026

Such a great workshop on navigating immigration data w/ @austinkocher.com and @documented.org in NYC. So many good takeaways for immigration reporting 👀 ... and a long-awaited catch up with my old Ochberg trauma journalism Fellows Maria Arce and Jeremy Young

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 16/09/2026

His debut novel sparked a ferocious bidding war, then questions over AI brought the deal crashing down. Jerry Falade denies using AI to write the book, and many believe that as a Black writer, he found a level of scrutiny others might not have faced. Story: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

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I lost my $2m book deal because people mistook my African dialect for AI

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026

Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”

A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW | It’s so blatant… WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMAN? REFORM UK’S NEW ‘INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM’ FRONT REVEALED The story of a reporter infiltrating the migrant boats is a piece of propaganda designed to give Farage a new version of the same old story. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/who-watche...

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Who watches the Watchman? Reform UK’s new ‘investigative journalism’ front revealed

The story of a brave reporter infiltrating the migrant boats is a perfectly tooled piece of propaganda designed to give Nigel Farage a new version of the same old story.

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 17/08/2026

Democracy Isn't the Only Thing That Dies in Darkness: So Does Your Bank Balance. Listen to my interview with @ericsteinman.bsky.social about starting a news org today. Subscribe for free: deadliners.substack.com/p/democracy-...

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Democracy Isn't the Only Thing That Dies in Darkness: So Does Your Bank Balance

Why it's vital that we fill these 'news deserts'; at the very least, your taxes will go up if we don't.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 09/08/2026

The Town That Took on ICE. My #longform story in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:

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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.

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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've watched this person's following grow in an alarming way. To those familiar with it, her language has always signaled conspiracy theorist. I think many see her content and don't realize what her views are. Great work @alexhannaford.com heated.world/p/the-influe...

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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 30/06/2026

Can Kids Save the News? KidScoop founder Vicki Whiting explains how bringing newspapers into the classroom teaches kids to separate fact from opinion and build lifelong reading - subscribe for free & listen at deadliners.org

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 16/06/2026

I first met Tom and Pat Gish back in 2004, about 30 years after the fire that should have ended their newspaper story. For today’s Deadliners newsletter, I chatted to their son, Ben, who shares what it takes to keep a defiant family newspaper legacy alive. deadliners.substack.com/p/it-still-s...

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"It Still Screams": Reporting from the Coal Seams of Appalachia

Ben Gish, editor of Kentucky's Mountain Eagle, shares what it takes to keep a defiant family newspaper legacy alive

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

NEW | On events in Belfast and the people exploiting them… RADIO ELON: MUSK & FRIENDS ARE TRYING TO FOMENT A RACE WAR AND THE MEDIA IS HELPING THEM In Rwanda, the tool of choice was the airwaves, today it's social media. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/radio-elon...

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Radio Elon: Musk and friends are trying to foment a race war and the media is helping them

In Rwanda, the tool of choice was the airwaves, today it's social media.

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 09/06/2026

One of America's oldest college papers, a university that wanted it gutted, and a professor who wouldn't play along — in a First Amendment fight that went national. Listen to this week's interview on the Deadliners Podcast at deadliners.org (Sign up for free) #journalism #firstamendment

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 02/06/2026

Listen to my interview on how starting a print magazine in 2026 isn’t such a bad idea. Subscribe for free at deadliners.org

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 21/05/2026

In 2003, Angel Resendiz — the Railroad Killer — confessed a murder to me on Texas Death Row. The man convicted of carrying it out has spent over 9,000 nights in prison. New evidence shows he didn't do it. New episode of Dead Man Talking: open.spotify.com/episode/64rJ...

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17: Dead Man Talking: An Update

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 19/05/2026

Rob D’Amico edits a 100-year-old print newspaper in Marfa, Texas — three hours from the nearest airport. Since 2005, 3,500 local papers have closed. For the Deadliners podcast, we talked economics, revenue, and why print isn’t dead. deadliners.substack.com/p/rattlesnak... #journalism

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Rattlesnakes and Revenue Streams

Rob D'Amico on the reality of running a borderlands newspaper

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 14/05/2026

The freelancer who flew to a war zone with no money and is now a Livingston Award finalist. The Scottish editor who launched a magazine on a shoestring. The tech pioneer who says the golden age of journalism is ahead. Sign up for Deadliners: deadliners.substack.com #journalism

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Deadliners | 𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚍 | Substack

Deadliners is the essential dispatch for journalists navigating a chaotic industry— a weekly rotation of sharp analysis, exclusive interviews, and podcasts. Click to read Deadliners, by 𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚍...

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 12/05/2026

Anna Conkling was 24, spoke no Ukrainian or Russian, and was heading into a war zone largely on her own dime. Four years later she's a Livingston Award finalist, still finding the stories nobody else is telling. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-real-c... #journalism #journalists #ukraine

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 05/05/2026

Deadliners.substack.com - on today’s podcast, I speak to Jack Wright, the Scottish journalist who washed up in America and made a town famous…

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 04/05/2026

After he became burned out by the New York magazine world, Jack Wright quit his job with no savings and no plan. After running a bar, he hit rock bottom, so he did the only thing he knew how to do: he launched a magazine. Listen to my interview, out tomorrow: deadliners.substack.com #journalism

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𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚍 | Substack

The essential dispatch for the journalist who refuses to be replaced. A weekly rotation of sharp analysis, exclusive interviews, and podcasts on how journalism can thrive in the age of AI. Brought to ...

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 02/05/2026

Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Bobby and niece of JFK, was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and told me why we must focus on school shootings and gun violence more broadly. 1.9 million dead since 1968. My piece for @independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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I was in the room for the attempt on Trump’s life – this is what people are missing

The life of Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Bobby Kennedy and niece of JFK, has been irreparably shaped by gun violence. She was there when President Trump was the target of another attempted political...

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 29/04/2026

Excellent dissection of The Daily Mail’s obsession with Meghan Markle by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social “It consistently argues that no one is interested in her while expending considerable energy on ensuring that her every move is reported.” open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

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The Daily Mail’s dangerous obsession with Meghan

The paper’s malice towards the Duchess of Sussex is boundless, and its stories about her are entirely in bad faith. Why does it do it? The answer’s depressingly simple

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 28/04/2026

The Golden Age of Journalism Is Ahead, Not Behind Us: The author of The Story of Stories on why independent journalism, the death of editorial aristocracies, and subscriber models all add up to a surprisingly hopeful moment for the craft deadliners.substack.com/p/the-golden...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This was so fun! @alexhannaford.com is a gem I first met when I was just a cub reporter intern at the Texas Capitol, and last year @thebarbedwire.com ran an excerpt of his book about Austin. Love full circle moments. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-journa...

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The Journalism Jobs AI Will Kill First

Olivia Messer wrote 30 stories a day at The Daily Beast. Now the Editor-in-Chief of The Barbed Wire, she explains which roles are most vulnerable — and why investigative reporting isn't one of them

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 21/04/2026

I interviewed my pal @oliviamesser.bsky.social for the Deadliners Newsletter about journalism in the age of AI, the mistakes national media makes in Texas, and her mission @thebarbedwire.com to build newsrooms that actually serve the communities they cover. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-journa...

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 14/04/2026

My interview with Dr. Craig Robertson of the the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is live. It's our first proper dispatch for the Deadliners newsletter, and it's free for everyone to listen to before the paywall drops next week. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-death-... #journalism

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 13/04/2026

The Death of the Newsroom (As We Know It.) My interview with Dr. Craig Robertson on how young people today will dictate the future of news consumption, published tomorrow on deadliners.substack.com

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 08/04/2026

Earlier today, Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life, admitted killing eight women. Back in 2012, I visited Gilgo Beach to write about the search for the the Long Island Serial Killer for GQ magazine www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gq-c...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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What Was Actually in the Mueller Report

There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 19/03/2026

Red states receive far more in federal funding relative to what their residents pay in taxes, while blue states tend to be net contributors - ironic, since Republicans advocate loudly for reducing federal spending, yet their constituents benefit most from it. www.businessinsider.com/states-most-...

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The 10 states most reliant on federal funding — and the 10 least

A new study ranked US states based on how reliant they are on federal funding. See which states round out the top and bottom of the list.

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 17/03/2026

How will the chaotic and extreme story of our time be retold when its primary narrator is Donald Trump? I spoke to someone who just might have the answer — my old pal Kevin Ashton whose new book, The Story of Stories has just been published by Harper. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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Trump as a hero of a revolution? How history might get today terribly wrong

He coined the term ‘Internet of Things’. Now Kevin Ashton’s new book, The Story of Stories, explores how viral memes and falsehoods from unreliable sources could shape tomorrow’s storytelling. With fe...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

How it started How it’s going @NikkiHaley edition

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is crazy. The government — or fear of the government — is editing a CBS comedy show. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social "Yesterday, Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened."

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

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Alex Hannaford @alexhannaford.com · 05/02/2026

"There has not been a permanent solution to the problem of organised crime in America at all," — Allon Lifshitz, former assistant US attorney, Eastern District of NY. My story on the mafia today. Online now and in @thetimes.com magazine this Sunday. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

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The return of the US mafia: how the mob came out of hiding

America had almost forgotten about the New York mafia until an NBA basketball betting scandal put them back on the front pages. But as Alex Hannaford reports, the city’s notorious five families never ...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Troublemaker is my middle name.

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