Ann Marie Lipinski
@amlwhere.bsky.social
Journalist. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Nieman Nation for life. Give me all the pencils.
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Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Nuzzi was great at precisely what was incentivized (by the media and power). New York Magazine didn’t hire her despite her personality-driven, access-heavy approach—they hired her because of it.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Nuzzi was great at precisely what was incentivized (by the media and power). New York Magazine didn’t hire her despite her personality-driven, access-heavy approach—they hired her because of it.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
Fall with the Feds in Chicago: 2 people shot, 1 fatally. Rubber pellets, pepper balls fired into crowds. Neighborhoods enveloped in noxious gas, sickening residents & police. Chokeholds used at least 5 times. 8 car chases. Force used in at least 76 incidents.
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fall with the Feds in Chicago: 2 people shot, 1 fatally. Rubber pellets, pepper balls fired into crowds. Neighborhoods enveloped in noxious gas, sickening residents & police. Chokeholds used at least 5 times. 8 car chases. Force used in at least 76 incidents.
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Excellent from @reuters.com
"MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream"
(we wish more Reuters journalists joined @bsky.app )
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream"
(we wish more Reuters journalists joined @bsky.app )
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Excellent from @reuters.com
"MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream"
(we wish more Reuters journalists joined @bsky.app )
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream"
(we wish more Reuters journalists joined @bsky.app )
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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“.. A Chicago police officer reacts as they detain a man (not pictured) during an argument with residents after an immigration raid by federal law enforcement agents at the Little Village neighborhood, in Chicago, Illinois.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“.. A Chicago police officer reacts as they detain a man (not pictured) during an argument with residents after an immigration raid by federal law enforcement agents at the Little Village neighborhood, in Chicago, Illinois.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
This story *is* the Blues. Rest in power, Koko. chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...
'Queen of the Blues' Koko Taylor's prized possessions — including a Grammy — sold at Chicago flea market
A treasure trove of her items were put on sale for dirt cheap after a junk dealer's random purchase of the contents of Taylor's storage locker in Orland Park.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This story *is* the Blues. Rest in power, Koko. chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...
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Why the WashPost, WSJ, and NYT all hate Mamdani. Excellent piece from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Why the WashPost, WSJ, and NYT all hate Mamdani. Excellent piece from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
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🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow.
Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.
Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.
ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow.
Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.
Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.
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Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
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FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."
REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."
FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."
FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."
REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."
FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."
FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
After a “warrantless operation in a largely Black community” the government has given no accounting of who remains in custody or what happened to the children who “haven’t been seen by residents since.” Harrowing account of military raid on Chicago. digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...
Sun, 10/19/25
Distrust and anger deepen after raid
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
After a “warrantless operation in a largely Black community” the government has given no accounting of who remains in custody or what happened to the children who “haven’t been seen by residents since.” Harrowing account of military raid on Chicago. digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...
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"The day before our departure, one reporter placed signs throughout our soon-to-be-vacated spaces that read Journalism is not a crime. As soon as members of Hegseth’s staff saw the signs, they tore them down."
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
www.theatlantic.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"The day before our departure, one reporter placed signs throughout our soon-to-be-vacated spaces that read Journalism is not a crime. As soon as members of Hegseth’s staff saw the signs, they tore them down."
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
“Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document…That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.”
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document…That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.”
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Folks, see the details local journalists post about breaking news events when verifiable info is limited. ⤵️
Name of agency. Location. Time. Source. Context about local area and confirmation by local Rapid Response group.
Stop sharing accounts that solely post "Holy Sh*t, ICE!" with dramatic video.
Name of agency. Location. Time. Source. Context about local area and confirmation by local Rapid Response group.
Stop sharing accounts that solely post "Holy Sh*t, ICE!" with dramatic video.
Border Patrol is terrorizing Gage Park this morning (video from Facebook, 55th & California reportedly 9:40am). SWRR reports agents are highly active and were also seen at the Pulaski orange line again: instagram.com/p/DPtwEY7DhTy
October 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Folks, see the details local journalists post about breaking news events when verifiable info is limited. ⤵️
Name of agency. Location. Time. Source. Context about local area and confirmation by local Rapid Response group.
Stop sharing accounts that solely post "Holy Sh*t, ICE!" with dramatic video.
Name of agency. Location. Time. Source. Context about local area and confirmation by local Rapid Response group.
Stop sharing accounts that solely post "Holy Sh*t, ICE!" with dramatic video.
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If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.
Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.
Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
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Update: Chicago journalists and press groups won a temporary restraining order today, restricting federal agents’ violent tactics in response to protests outside an ICE facility in Illinois.
Journalist shot with pepper balls at Illinois ICE facility protest
Journalist Raven Geary was shot in the face and shoulder with pepper balls by federal officers while reporting on protests …
pressfreedomtracker.us
October 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Update: Chicago journalists and press groups won a temporary restraining order today, restricting federal agents’ violent tactics in response to protests outside an ICE facility in Illinois.
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
This is a Chicago Sun-Times photo of federal immigration agents marching through downtown Chicago Sunday. A top border agent told a reporter they were making arrests based on “how they look.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is a Chicago Sun-Times photo of federal immigration agents marching through downtown Chicago Sunday. A top border agent told a reporter they were making arrests based on “how they look.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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"I’ve had people tell me they're afraid to go on the air, and after 40 years on the air, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that."
A new report from @newsisout.bsky.social asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/loca...
A new report from @newsisout.bsky.social asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/loca...
Local LGBTQ+ publications are facing a drop in ad dollars and a rise in safety concerns, new report finds
A new report from News is Out, a national collaborative of queer news publishers, has mapped local LGBTQ+ publications across the U.S. The first comprehensive report of its kind, “The LGBTQ+ Media Map...
www.niemanlab.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"I’ve had people tell me they're afraid to go on the air, and after 40 years on the air, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that."
A new report from @newsisout.bsky.social asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/loca...
A new report from @newsisout.bsky.social asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/loca...
Brutal assessment of ESPN as “image-fluffer.”
“By chasing dollars, ESPN is betraying the very fans on whose passion it built its success, trading away its journalistic credibility for a diminished status as the glorified Pravda of the modern American sportscape.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
“By chasing dollars, ESPN is betraying the very fans on whose passion it built its success, trading away its journalistic credibility for a diminished status as the glorified Pravda of the modern American sportscape.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
ESPN has discarded brilliant journalism for squirts of memebrain swill | Aaron Timms
Influencer creep symbolizes a broader rot at the heart of the broadcaster as it attempts to stop interrogating the very sports it covers
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Brutal assessment of ESPN as “image-fluffer.”
“By chasing dollars, ESPN is betraying the very fans on whose passion it built its success, trading away its journalistic credibility for a diminished status as the glorified Pravda of the modern American sportscape.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
“By chasing dollars, ESPN is betraying the very fans on whose passion it built its success, trading away its journalistic credibility for a diminished status as the glorified Pravda of the modern American sportscape.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Superb choice. Eduardo’s commitment to saving and strengthening journalism is unparalleled.
I’m honoured to take on my new role as Director of Editorial of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, which combines digital strategy, editorial responsibilities and a new reporting project to explore some of the most pressing issues facing journalism today
Full announcement below
Full announcement below
Eduardo Suárez, appointed Director of Editorial of the Reuters Institute
Under his leadership, the Institute’s original reporting and digital footprint has grown substantially. In his new enhanced role, he’ll create an in-depth series on journalism.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Superb choice. Eduardo’s commitment to saving and strengthening journalism is unparalleled.
This won’t end with talk show hosts.
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This won’t end with talk show hosts.
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.