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Nicole CarpenterNicole Carpenter is a reporter covering the business and culture of the video game industry, and Save Spot is her personal newsletter, where she'll share her work weekly.
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How I break news from legal documents
Hi, folks,
Today I’m going to talk about breaking news from legal documents. This has become a bigger part of the work I do over the past year or so; months before Vox Media laid off the Polygon staff, the company paid for me to receive PA...
From interview to story: Putting together a story about sex game censorship
Hi, folks,
Today, I’m publishing the full interview I did with New York University Game Center director Naomi Clark for a story that was published on Game File last week. That story, Crackdown on sex video games goes wide, alarming develop...
How I pitched the stories I wrote this week
When I first started freelancing before I got a full-time position at Polygon, my favorite thing to do was to take off during the day — without letting anyone know — to bring my dog, Major, to the park. We’d sit in the grass and watch peopl...
Lies of P, unusual problems in AI, Roblox lawsuits, a Venba copycat, and more
Hi, folks!
Thank you all for the support in subscribing to Save Spot. I’m excited that so many of you are excited to keep up with me while I continue to freelance. It’s been a challenging week personally — got some bad news about my should...
Welcome to Save Spot
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Hi, folks.
Welcome to Save Spot. I’m Nicole Carpenter. I’m a reporter who has covered the video game industry for 10 years. The last six of those years I’ve spent at Vox Media’s Polygon, a leading video game and entertainm...
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Nicole Carpenter is a reporter covering the business and culture of the video game industry. She lives in New England with a horde of Squishmallows.
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