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Did a Facebook Comment Solve a 33-Year-Old Mystery of Two Missing Climbers?
"The bodies were below the last ice climb, about 300-400 meters below the top of the wall."
May 31, 2023
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ChatGPT is Exposing Everything Wrong with How High Schools Teach Writing
Or: What I wish I'd learned in my high school English classes instead of the 5-paragraph essay
Feb 26
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Chris Walker
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Introducing Blood Vines
I have a new podcast series out today.
Feb 5
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Chris Walker
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ChatGPT is Exposing Everything Wrong with How High Schools Teach Writing
Feb 26
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Chris Walker
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Let Them Call it "Content"
Jun 4, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Introducing Blood Vines
Feb 5
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Chris Walker
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Beyond the Archive: Debriefing a Story With its Subject Twelve Years Later
Apr 16, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Anatomy of a Con
Jan 11, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Human or AI Voice Agent? On the Phone, It'll Get Increasingly Hard to Tell
Nov 11, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Human or AI Voice Agent? On the Phone, It'll Get Increasingly Hard to Tell
A Q+A with the host of Shell Game, a new podcast that explores the eerie frontiers of AI technology
Nov 11, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Let Them Call it "Content"
I'm no longer going to be mad about my journalism being called content.
Jun 4, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Beyond the Archive: Debriefing a Story With its Subject Twelve Years Later
After one of my favorite features disappeared from the Internet, I reconnected with the main subject of the piece. He was glad it was gone, but not for…
Apr 16, 2024
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Chris Walker
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Anatomy of a Con
One person I interviewed told me: “If you’re trying to understand why he did it, I don’t think that’s going to be a satisfying story to write, because…
Jan 11, 2024
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Social Media + Guns Can Be a Deadly Combination for Teenagers
We need to talk about how juveniles appear to be getting guns through apps like Snapchat, as well as beefing with each other online until bullets start…
Oct 16, 2023
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Reflecting on My Conversations With The Mysterious Woman Who Stole Alan Turing's Belongings From England
Julia Turing is in the news again as U.S. authorities return items to England that they recovered in a search of her Colorado home.
Sep 19, 2023
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Was a Colorado Trucker's Kidnapping in Guatemala an Inside Job?
The backstory behind my latest narrative feature
May 2, 2023
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