Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Fresh off the debut of a new trailer for Suicide Squad, director David Ayer hit Twitter early Monday morning to comment on the reports that his film was undergoing reshoots to add more humor to the mix. ”[Suicide Squad] ‘reshoots for humor’ is silly,” Ayer wrote. “When a studio loves your movie and asks what…
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two 19-year-old women who were Southern University students and members of the school’s athletic program were killed during a shootout early Sunday outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex, police and university officials said. Police arrested one of two men suspected in the shooting. Ernest Bernard…
Some time ago, I was invited to sit on a journalism panel and speak to Temple University grad students in journalism about the changes in the profession. The discussion focused on 1) the demise of newspapers, 2) online vs. traditional journalism and the most important question of all: Is a career in journalism worth it?…
This story is the final installment of What The Hell Happened In East New York? a co-production with The Big Roundtable, that that seeks to answer that question in two parts. The first is a four-episode podcast that chronicles Kevin as he unravels the issues with East New York, and ultimately, himself. The second is this:…
paging_filter Online publishing start-up Slant News is shutting down, sources confirmed to POLITICO Media. The publishing platform, founded in February last year, paid freelance writers 70 percent of the advertising revenue generated by the articles that they wrote for the site. Slant was co-founded by Amanda Gutterman, the former special projects editor for The Huffington…
An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it out. The acreage is…
Photo Credit Henning Wagenbreth AT HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all would get a cheery email from the boss saying, “Team, just letting you know that X has graduated and we’re all excited to see how she uses her superpowers…
In a letter dated May 31, 1960, Flannery O’Connor, the author best known for her classic story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (listen to her read the story here) penned a letter to her friend, the playwright Maryat Lee. It begins rather abruptly, likely because it’s responding to something Maryat said in a…
Let’s start by stating the obvious: I agree with Bernie Sanders on almost every policy issue at the macro level. I do, in fact, think the game is rigged for millionaires and billionaires. I like peace. I think his proposed reforms for criminal justice will do more for black and brown people than anything any…
Perhaps you missed it because you have a life, but celebrated American journalist Gay Talese found himself in the outrage buzzsaw last week when the 84-year-old author failed to quickly state that he was influenced by scads of amazing lady-writers. Oh my, the tears that were shed! The garments torn! How dare the author of “Frank…