Lauren Wolfe
@laurenwolfe.bsky.social
Journalist. Former NYU J-school prof, current and forever dog parent. Editing at CPJ. Chills.substack.com
I’m sorry in advance for making you angry, too. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/trump-caps...
Trump Caps Refugee Intake at Inhumane Low
And plans to pretty much only let in white South Africans.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’m sorry in advance for making you angry, too. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/trump-caps...
What I loved most from today's #NoKings protests were all the kids. All the parents teaching their kids that a free America means an America without an absolute ruler, and with the protections of the Constitution in place. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
'Donald Trump, Big Fat Chump'
Photos from a “No Kings” protest in which the kids were the standouts.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What I loved most from today's #NoKings protests were all the kids. All the parents teaching their kids that a free America means an America without an absolute ruler, and with the protections of the Constitution in place. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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…And two more photographers slammed to the ground by ICE agents.
It seems like the modicum of accountability served to the ICE agent reinstated yesterday is being taken out on the free press in a fresh wave of violence.
It seems like the modicum of accountability served to the ICE agent reinstated yesterday is being taken out on the free press in a fresh wave of violence.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
…And two more photographers slammed to the ground by ICE agents.
It seems like the modicum of accountability served to the ICE agent reinstated yesterday is being taken out on the free press in a fresh wave of violence.
It seems like the modicum of accountability served to the ICE agent reinstated yesterday is being taken out on the free press in a fresh wave of violence.
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Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
To officially accuse a state or warring party of genocide requires that certain extremely high thresholds are met. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/gaza-the-w...
Gaza: The Worst of All Crimes?
History repeats itself.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To officially accuse a state or warring party of genocide requires that certain extremely high thresholds are met. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/gaza-the-w...
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Appalling - but unsurprising - news from Georgia today.
#MziaAmaglobeli sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.
Mzia is a tenacious journalist & a visionary publisher. I am proud to act as international counsel. I & my Georgian & international colleagues will now be taking urgent steps to #FreeMzia.
#MziaAmaglobeli sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.
Mzia is a tenacious journalist & a visionary publisher. I am proud to act as international counsel. I & my Georgian & international colleagues will now be taking urgent steps to #FreeMzia.
August 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Appalling - but unsurprising - news from Georgia today.
#MziaAmaglobeli sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.
Mzia is a tenacious journalist & a visionary publisher. I am proud to act as international counsel. I & my Georgian & international colleagues will now be taking urgent steps to #FreeMzia.
#MziaAmaglobeli sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.
Mzia is a tenacious journalist & a visionary publisher. I am proud to act as international counsel. I & my Georgian & international colleagues will now be taking urgent steps to #FreeMzia.
The reality of how Russia is adopting out Ukrainian children has been made bare — and it is chilling. New: chills.substack.com/p/russias-on...
Russia’s Online ‘Slave Catalog’ of Ukrainian Children
‘This is real child trafficking in the 21st century.’
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August 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The reality of how Russia is adopting out Ukrainian children has been made bare — and it is chilling. New: chills.substack.com/p/russias-on...
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Major piece about my new film "The Atomic Bowl" (now streaming on PBS) today from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Nuclear fallout, from 1946 to today. thebulletin.org/2025/07/a-ne...
A new documentary highlights one of the most surreal events of World War II: The “Atomic Bowl”
A new documentary that began airing on PBS this month highlights one of the most surreal stories from World War II: the "Atomic Bowl."
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July 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Major piece about my new film "The Atomic Bowl" (now streaming on PBS) today from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Nuclear fallout, from 1946 to today. thebulletin.org/2025/07/a-ne...
Memories of miasmic clouds of Drakkar Noir surrounding adolescent boys at high school lockers pervade my nightmares. But right now, I am on a quest, and scent is my happy place. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/an-exquisi...
‘An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, but individual, detached, with no suggestion of its origin.’
Finding my own Proustian madeleine.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Memories of miasmic clouds of Drakkar Noir surrounding adolescent boys at high school lockers pervade my nightmares. But right now, I am on a quest, and scent is my happy place. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/an-exquisi...
As of today, we've counted a massive number of arrests of journalists in the Palestinian territories since the start of the war: 90. 84 of them are Palestinian. cpj.org/2023/10/arre...
Arrests of Palestinian journalists since start of Israel-Gaza war - Committee to Protect Journalists
Since the start of the Israel-Gaza war, an unprecedented number of journalists and media workers have been arrested — often without charge — in what they and their attorneys say is retaliation for the...
cpj.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As of today, we've counted a massive number of arrests of journalists in the Palestinian territories since the start of the war: 90. 84 of them are Palestinian. cpj.org/2023/10/arre...
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He was in the first ICE plane full of immigrants being sent to the most brutal El Salvador prison. The Court ordered the plane to turn around- return to the USA so that the Immigrants could have the hearing they are entitled to. Trump refused. No due process for Andry or any of the immigrants
July 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He was in the first ICE plane full of immigrants being sent to the most brutal El Salvador prison. The Court ordered the plane to turn around- return to the USA so that the Immigrants could have the hearing they are entitled to. Trump refused. No due process for Andry or any of the immigrants
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Please lets not forget Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador. He came to the US to escape bullying in Venezuela, his homeland . He has committed no crime. His family is unable to contact him. They worry for his safety. So should we all
#FreeAndryRomero
#FreeAndryRomero
July 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Please lets not forget Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador. He came to the US to escape bullying in Venezuela, his homeland . He has committed no crime. His family is unable to contact him. They worry for his safety. So should we all
#FreeAndryRomero
#FreeAndryRomero
The bananacake is really bananacaking today
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The bananacake is really bananacaking today
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What Journalists Get Wrong About ‘Objectivity.’ New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-journ...
What Journalists Get Wrong About ‘Objectivity’
Objectivity has long been the sacred cow of journalism. But it’s time we rethink what it really means.
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June 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
What Journalists Get Wrong About ‘Objectivity.’ New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-journ...
Goodbye to Bill Moyers. We've lost a trailblazer and a critical voice in this hellscape www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91
He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.
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June 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Goodbye to Bill Moyers. We've lost a trailblazer and a critical voice in this hellscape www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
What Journalists Get Wrong About ‘Objectivity.’ New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-journ...
What Journalists Get Wrong About ‘Objectivity’
Objectivity has long been the sacred cow of journalism. But it’s time we rethink what it really means.
chills.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
What Journalists Get Wrong About ‘Objectivity.’ New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-journ...
Some broadcasters, like CNN, aired Trump’s full remarks. Others, like ABC 7 in Chicago, censored his use of the f-word, either bleeping it out or removing it entirely. Several split the difference, airing the word on certain news shows but not others. www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
News outlets don’t usually publish the f-word. Then came Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire rant. - Poynter
Some censored the word in text, but not in video. Others published it in full.
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June 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Some broadcasters, like CNN, aired Trump’s full remarks. Others, like ABC 7 in Chicago, censored his use of the f-word, either bleeping it out or removing it entirely. Several split the difference, airing the word on certain news shows but not others. www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
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Plus: @ncrabbithole.com with @tommytomlinson.bsky.social on the "strange minutiae" of North Carolina, Erika Hayasaki talks to freelance writer Sheon Han, and @laurenwolfe.bsky.social on working with interpreters.
June 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Plus: @ncrabbithole.com with @tommytomlinson.bsky.social on the "strange minutiae" of North Carolina, Erika Hayasaki talks to freelance writer Sheon Han, and @laurenwolfe.bsky.social on working with interpreters.
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My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Remembering William Langewiesche, and a conversation with @franklinleonard.bsky.social about the power of "Based on a true story" in Hollywood.
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Remembering William Langewiesche - Nieman Storyboard
Plus: The Black List's Franklin Leonard on journalism and Hollywood, and finding stories ‘in the strange minutiae’
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June 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Remembering William Langewiesche, and a conversation with @franklinleonard.bsky.social about the power of "Based on a true story" in Hollywood.
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/06/20/r...
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/06/20/r...
Xavier will find happiness anywhere
June 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Xavier will find happiness anywhere
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Lauren Wolfe on the no-popularity contest for journalists:
Get comfortable not being liked. You’re not writing for praise. You’re writing for clarity — and sometimes for history.
@laurenwolfe.bsky.social
Get comfortable not being liked. You’re not writing for praise. You’re writing for clarity — and sometimes for history.
@laurenwolfe.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Lauren Wolfe on the no-popularity contest for journalists:
Get comfortable not being liked. You’re not writing for praise. You’re writing for clarity — and sometimes for history.
@laurenwolfe.bsky.social
Get comfortable not being liked. You’re not writing for praise. You’re writing for clarity — and sometimes for history.
@laurenwolfe.bsky.social
Being neutral isn’t always noble. Sometimes, it’s complicity dressed up in politeness. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...
How to Report the Truth When No One Wants to Hear It
What I’ve learned as a journalist in hostile, high-stakes places — when power lies, and people still need the truth.
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June 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Being neutral isn’t always noble. Sometimes, it’s complicity dressed up in politeness. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...
How to Report the Truth When No One Wants to Hear It
What I’ve learned as a journalist in hostile, high-stakes places — when power lies, and people still need the truth. chills.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...
What I’ve learned as a journalist in hostile, high-stakes places — when power lies, and people still need the truth. chills.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...
How to Report the Truth When No One Wants to Hear It
What I’ve learned as a journalist in hostile, high-stakes places — when power lies, and people still need the truth.
chills.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
How to Report the Truth When No One Wants to Hear It
What I’ve learned as a journalist in hostile, high-stakes places — when power lies, and people still need the truth. chills.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...
What I’ve learned as a journalist in hostile, high-stakes places — when power lies, and people still need the truth. chills.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...
I am both cheered and disheartened by a new, sweeping study about the news and how we consume and perceive it. On Chills: chills.substack.com/p/americans-...
Americans’ Distrust of News Hits an All-Time Low
But burnout won’t prevent an authoritarian government from continuing its crackdown on the press.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am both cheered and disheartened by a new, sweeping study about the news and how we consume and perceive it. On Chills: chills.substack.com/p/americans-...
Signs we are becoming a police state: Australian writer
@alistairkitchen.bsky.social was denied entry into the United States after border officials at LAX searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org/2025/06/aust...
@alistairkitchen.bsky.social was denied entry into the United States after border officials at LAX searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org/2025/06/aust...
Australian writer questioned, deported from US after report on pro-Palestinian protests - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports that Australian writer Alistair Kitchen was denied entry into the United States after border officials...
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June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Signs we are becoming a police state: Australian writer
@alistairkitchen.bsky.social was denied entry into the United States after border officials at LAX searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org/2025/06/aust...
@alistairkitchen.bsky.social was denied entry into the United States after border officials at LAX searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org/2025/06/aust...