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Neel Dhanesha

@neeldhanesha.com
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Staff writer @niemanlab.org, previously telling climate/science stories in text and audio at Heatmap/Vox/Audubon/Radiolab.

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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 15/04/2026
Loved talking to @knibbs.bsky.social and @dustingouker.bsky.social about the chaotic, fascinating, maddening work of reporting on prediction markets! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/pred...
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Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
"I wake up every day and I'm like, <i>this is the world. I'm still in the fever dream.</i>”
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Was delighted to speak with @neeldhanesha.com from @niemanlab.org about the prediction market beat! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/pred...
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Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
"I wake up every day and I'm like, <i>this is the world. I'm still in the fever dream.</i>”
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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest: defector.com/the-trump-ad...
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 09/04/2026
“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”
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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 01/04/2026
Excited to say I'm in great company here, along with @hanaatameez.bsky.social!
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 10/03/2026
Loved reporting this story alongside @andrewdeck.bsky.social!
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...
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I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive
RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 03/02/2026
Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
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Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one?
"If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."
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Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
this Q&A by @neeldhanesha.com about what federal agents are using in MN, is alarming, but also really interesting. The pepper spray in use today is hotter & clingier than it used to be. "Less than lethal" rounds are larger & faster, and standard eye protection doesn't protect against them.
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What a safety expert thinks journalists should know about “less than lethal” rounds and chemical irritants used by ICE
"The consideration that we make with all of our recommendations is, 'What is the safest thing you can use while still getting your assignment done?’"
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
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StraightFromThe Hut | Jake Lahut | Substack
A campaign and communications strategy newsletter, plus a home for Jake Lahut's freelance feature reporting and other notebook items (no paywalls, but pay to support). Click to read StraightFromThe Hu...
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Hi! Today @quantamagazine.bsky.social published a special issue on climate science, featuring stories about how Earth's climate fundamentally works that I needed to read after covering climate impacts for so many years. I hope you'll check it out! <3 www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
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How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
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From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck.
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 09/09/2025
One thing that struck me about my conversation with @davejorgenson.bsky.social: I think he's having...fun? With journalism? In this economy? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...
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With Local News International, Dave Jorgenson becomes his own TikTok guy
The former Washington Post video star talks about launching a new company with old colleagues, the importance of media literacy, and building a Daily Show for the internet.
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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
What it comes down to is: Should beautiful, interesting, entertaining things exist in the world, and should we spend our time making them?
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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
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The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector
This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"workers are not allowed to wear masks on the front line, even if they want to" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18/08/2025
about two months ago, i reached out to @boringstein.bsky.social to ask if they'd be open to talking about the incredible videos they were making for Zohran Mamdani's election campaign it turned into a much bigger story than i expected
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Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 31/07/2025
Shannon is one of the most talented reporters I know, I am SO excited for this book!
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
i wrote about the texas floods and climate anxiety and mercy defector.com/the-floodwat...
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The Floodwaters Are Rising | Defector
It’s easy to forget that God’s covenant is limited. God makes a solemn promise to Noah that He will never flood the whole Earth again … however. “Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life,” ...
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🫠 🫠 🫠 Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm in touch with a source in Cuomo's camp. They're all screaming and turning back into rats. Not looking good so far
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Cuomo conceded New York City baby lets go Mets baby bodega cats pizza pie I love this city
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/06/2025
Just click on this: skyviewer.app/explorer #RubinTelescope
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Explorer | Skyviewer
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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · 29/05/2025
The lovely @neeldhanesha.com talked to me about @project-push.tk.gg for @niemanlab.org! It was great fun to chat about, and really inspired me to give the project another kick. If you're interested, sign up now, and I'll be in touch soon. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/proj...
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Project Push creates an archive of news alerts from around the world
"One of the most important people in the newsroom is the person who decides that they're going to press a button that sends an immediate notification to millions of people’s phones.”
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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I know that media use the term "big beautiful bill" in quotes but it's unfortunate that this many years into covering this president we are still suckered into leading with his language and framing when covering such consequential stories
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 14/05/2025
Between this and the NY Mag piece it sounds like office hours are just two two-chatbots-in-a-trench-coat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
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lisa martine jenkins @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Important and very sad reporting from @maeveallsup.bsky.social for @latitudemedia.bsky.social, on what the hell is going on with Puerto Rico's $365-million Programa de Comunidades Resilientes, dedicated to backup power for hospitals and community housing. 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/inside-...
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Inside the political chess game of funding backup power for Puerto Rico
Modernizing the island’s grid was key to Gov. González-Colón’s campaign. So why has she pulled her support of a key resilience program?
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
kind of wrecks me that Polygon, a fully staffed, dynamic website, was sold off not as a functioning business but as an employee-less shell to be refilled with (presumably) cheap content farm material and maybe AI slop. This wasn't a limping legacy title.
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 01/05/2025
This is absolutely gutting — Polygon was one of just a handful of urls I'd type into my browser on the regular. What a baffling decision by Vox. Polygon folks, I'm so sorry and I hope you all land in great places soon. If you feel like talking about all of this in the meantime, my DMs are open.
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 29/04/2025
I went to SEJ last week and the vibes were…kinda weird! I wrote about it for @niemanlab.org: www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...
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A conference of twin crises
At the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, one question reigned: How do you cover an existential threat when your industry is facing an existential threat of its own?
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
SOURCE REQUEST 🚨 I'm working on a @niemanlab.org story about what’s come of media companies' 2020 DEI promises. How have newsrooms' DEI priorities changed over the last 5 years? What impact have DEI initiatives had on journalism/journalists? DM me here, on Signal, or email (hanaa@niemanlab.org).
Scan this QR code with your phone to chat with me on Signal.
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!
the cover of Time Magazine, with the headline "Extinct" crossed out in red above the text "This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever." by Jeffrey Kluger, and the photo of a white dog-like wolf-like animal
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here's an amazing tip sheet by @laurahazardowen.bsky.social on how the public can safely leak sensitive + important information to journalists! Please share with the federal workers and employees of shady companies in your life 😇 www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...
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How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 03/04/2025
If these tariffs fuck up kesar mango season for me I swear to fucking god
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Sarah Scott Scire @sarahscire.com · 31/03/2025
"It’s not just a drive-by where we extract information from you and then we’re done with you." @neeldhan.bsky.social wrote about the @propublica.org tips truck. unintentional puns aside — this is one of the most thoughtful and innovative engagement teams www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/prop...
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ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.
“It's funny how you can know nothing about something like LED billboard trucks and then suddenly become an expert in them."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW: The WIRED crew takes you inside the first 6 weeks of DOGE, laying out in great detail how Elon Musk installed loyalists across government who gained access to our country's most sensitive computer systems. “This is a digital coup,” one USAID source told me. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
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Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Super important and well reported read from @justcalma.bsky.social about who made American chips and the price they paid for these tiny bits of silicon that power the tech we use. www.theverge.com/features/611...
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The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to manufacture chips again — but there’s a dark, overlooked history.
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