NEW: After weeks of top NYPD NEWS officials unleashing stinging attacks against their critics, the City Council speaker has asked a city watchdog agency to “urgently conduct” an official investigation into the department’s use of social media.
nytimes.com/2024/05/03/nyr…

That feeling when the new contracts kick in

The 63-year-old career activist among the protesters at Columbia: Andrew Keh & katie rosman on Lisa Fithian, a longtime activist and trainer for left-wing protesters whom the NYPD would later publicly describe as a “confirmed professional agitator.”
Fithian tells The New York Times did…

Interesting @fandos story, with lots of student voices, about the move towards anonymity and masking among protestors, and how it has shaped public perception of their protest actions. nytimes.com/2024/05/02/nyr…

Here is katie honan confronting Deputy Commissioner of Public Information with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that Columbia University itself sold to their students

In lighter news: a stray Instagram comment by legend Barbara Streisand puts the spotlight on an emerging, unformed upper-class etiquette:
When is it okay to notice that your friends are on Ozempic? nytimes.com/2024/04/30/sty…

'In the battleground state of Georgia, some Black entrepreneurs are frustrated over the impact of higher interest rates, a source of economic anxiety.' Peter S. Goodman reports on an election challenge for Biden. nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…

At some schools, protestors have sought to explicitly ban supporters of Israel from public spaces, reports katie rosman. 'Tessa Veksler, a Jewish student at the University of California Santa Barbara was alarmed to see, at the school’s multicultural center, a sign on the door to…

'Columbia’s class of 2024 missed high school graduations and university orientation. Their freshman year passed in a haze of masks, Zoom classes and isolation.
Four years later, not much has changed.'
Douglas Belkin reports on how a generation of college students missed out on…

A probing, newsmaking interview by Eric Cortellessa with Trump for Time's new cover. Lots to chew on. time.com/6972022/donald…

Today on the Daily: a special and, we think, important episode. What would a second Trump presidency really would look like? And what kind of threat would it represent to American democracy?
A deep-dive into what we know from three of the best reporters in the country:…

The whole staff was invited!

JK 😜 Washingtonian’s own journalists weren’t invited to this journalism party either.

'Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution... was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his trial. Instead, members of the court’s conservative majority treated Mr. Trump’s assertion... as a weighty and difficult question.' Adam Liptak reports:…

Biden aides are concerned enough about the appearance of frailty that they've taken to having an entourage surround him when he walks to Marine One, 'to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait,' Axios reports: axios.com/newsletters/ax…

A smart Santul Nerkar story on how shifts in the financial landscape since 80s-era boycotts -- fewer direct investments by university endowments and the expansion of alternative investments -- complicate and frustrate divestment campaigns against Israel. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

Fwiw, I have spoken to AG over the past year about this topic & this caricature is unrecognizable. I never usually comment on media stories but this irritated me bc it's such a bs mischaracterization of his views about the importance of serious longform presidential interviews.

NPR's audience is shrinking even faster than broadcast radio in general, according to internal documents obtained by Ben Mullin & Jeremy Peters, and a push to diversify the staff hasn't generated the listenership boost some executives had hoped for. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

The battle over zaza waza: how a longtime liberal stalwart joined the battle against NYC’s illegal weed stores. Sharp report by Nicholas Fandos nytimes.com/2024/04/12/nyr…