The Longform Lowdown
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ChatGPT is Exposing Everything Wrong with How High Schools Teach Writing
We’ve all heard the concerns that generative AI, like ChatGPT, will rob future generations their abilities to write or think critically. Remember the panic of late 2022? Within weeks of OpenAI unveiling its chat bot, universities and high s...
Introducing Blood Vines
A question I’m sometimes asked, especially by young journalists, is where I find stories. I wish I could give an easy answer, that there was a story fairy who visited me in my sleep, or that I knew of some “Black List” like Hollywood has fo...
Human or AI Voice Agent? On the Phone, It'll Get Increasingly Hard to Tell
This image? Also obviously created by A.I.
I originally scheduled this post to go out a week ago, but then postponed it because, you know, the Election. Not that anyone is less distracted now. But for those of you who could use a reprieve...
Let Them Call it "Content"
A curious thing happened when I became more active on LinkedIn starting a year ago. As I connected my way around that strange, careerist website, numerous recruiters messaged me to commend me on my “content” and to ask whether I would also...
Beyond the Archive: Debriefing a Story With its Subject Twelve Years Later
The author, age 22 and pictured in grey with a buzz cut, sitting with rescuers in base camp. Photo credit: Morgan Hartley
I consider it both disconcerting and a badge of honor that my journalism career has managed to outlast some of my fav...
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