Mark Yarm
@markyarm.bsky.social
Exec editor, features & special projects, PCMag ↔️ adjunct, Columbia Journalism ↔️ bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ↔️ author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ↔️ [email protected]; Signal: markyarm.99 ↔️ https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Hey, now you can (re)read my Hairpin interview with @woolyknickers.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Hey, now you can (re)read my Hairpin interview with @woolyknickers.bsky.social!
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when the tryptophan hits
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
when the tryptophan hits
As long as we're dying on food hills: Creamed corn is good, actually.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
As long as we're dying on food hills: Creamed corn is good, actually.
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For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025!
And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.
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#podcasts #booksky #documentary
And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#podcasts #booksky #documentary
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025!
And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#podcasts #booksky #documentary
And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#podcasts #booksky #documentary
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Free link for all!
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Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington (Published 2019)
cooking.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Free link for all!
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cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
Anyone on here have a New York Times Cooking subscription? I'm looking for access to one (1) recipe. DMs are open!
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Anyone on here have a New York Times Cooking subscription? I'm looking for access to one (1) recipe. DMs are open!
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"Worse, the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where 'health and money collide,' flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear."
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Worse, the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where 'health and money collide,' flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear."
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KOKO THE GORILLA SERVING INDICTMENT TO HARVARD EPSTEIN ASSOCIATE: Felony professor.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
KOKO THE GORILLA SERVING INDICTMENT TO HARVARD EPSTEIN ASSOCIATE: Felony professor.
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Me, googling, "how does one develop charisma?"
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Me, googling, "how does one develop charisma?"
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Happy Friday to you guys
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Happy Friday to you guys
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Super Mario Bros.-ass flower (complimentary)
WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Super Mario Bros.-ass flower (complimentary)
That first Stone Roses album is impeccable.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
That first Stone Roses album is impeccable.
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Farewell to Gary “Mani” Mounfield, the bassist for the Stone Roses who later joined Primal Scream.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield of Stone Roses dead at 63 - latest tributes
The musician rose to fame with the Stone Roses in the 1980s
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Farewell to Gary “Mani” Mounfield, the bassist for the Stone Roses who later joined Primal Scream.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
"Through a representative, [Henry] Rollins 'declined with great enthusiasm' to an interview request for this article."
Greg Ginn hadn't done an interview in 13 years when I reached out. I figured he would say no, if he said anything at all. But after enlisting three Gen Z musicians to be in Black Flag with him, he decided it was time to talk. For @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
Black Flag’s Latest Reboot Has Everyone Talking (Even Greg Ginn)
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"Through a representative, [Henry] Rollins 'declined with great enthusiasm' to an interview request for this article."
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typa shit im on
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
typa shit im on
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Part 2:
“If I burned my hand on your old-fashioned radiator,” Olivia had written, “I would still yearn for your heat.”
Sadly, I raised my hand to our Georgetown townhouse’s central heating vent. Once again, I was not the note’s intended recipient.
“If I burned my hand on your old-fashioned radiator,” Olivia had written, “I would still yearn for your heat.”
Sadly, I raised my hand to our Georgetown townhouse’s central heating vent. Once again, I was not the note’s intended recipient.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Part 2:
“If I burned my hand on your old-fashioned radiator,” Olivia had written, “I would still yearn for your heat.”
Sadly, I raised my hand to our Georgetown townhouse’s central heating vent. Once again, I was not the note’s intended recipient.
“If I burned my hand on your old-fashioned radiator,” Olivia had written, “I would still yearn for your heat.”
Sadly, I raised my hand to our Georgetown townhouse’s central heating vent. Once again, I was not the note’s intended recipient.
I see Rainer Maria are playing some more dates, albeit nowhere near NYC.
Rainer Maria
Polyvinyl is an independent record label founded in the Midwest, 1996.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I see Rainer Maria are playing some more dates, albeit nowhere near NYC.
What if I suddenly became a Ween guy?
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
What if I suddenly became a Ween guy?
I couldn't find the Observer coverage of this incident, but the NYT mentioned it in February 2002:
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I couldn't find the Observer coverage of this incident, but the NYT mentioned it in February 2002:
Which reminds me of my favorite aggrieved freelancer story of all time: In the late '90s, when a writer set up a tent in the lobby of Bob Guccione's Gear magazine and refused to leave until his long overdue invoice was paid. It worked! Hero!
I'd freekin' show up in person!!
Question: If you submitted a timely, assigned piece to an editor at [very prestigious publication] and they didn't acknowledge receipt/respond to your followup emails at all for 3 weeks, would you call them on the phone? Added context: You don't have their # and have never spoken to them the phone?
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Which reminds me of my favorite aggrieved freelancer story of all time: In the late '90s, when a writer set up a tent in the lobby of Bob Guccione's Gear magazine and refused to leave until his long overdue invoice was paid. It worked! Hero!
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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