The Longform Lowdown

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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Introducing Blood Vines

I have a new podcast series out today.

Feb 5 • 

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November 2024

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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June 2024

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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April 2024

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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January 2024

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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October 2023

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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September 2023

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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May 2023

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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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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March 2023

Coming soon

Welcome to The Longform Lowdown. What can you expect? Back-stories behind some of the narrative or investigative journalism I’ve pursued over my career…

Mar 24, 2023 • 

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