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In 2012, Afghan journalist Mustafa Kazemi (@combatjourno) made global headlines when he live-tweeted a fire-fight between Afghan authorities and Taliban insurgents at a hotel outside Kabul. The method may not have been anything new, but its use by a war
In a media landscape that comprises a multitude of voices, following events across countries can be bewildering. It is often difficult to separate the voices that know what they’re talking about from those that merely like the sound of themselves.
The website for the After Party, which was launched in the United States last month, shows a bright orange bird, its wings outstretched, crackling with blue flames: the bald eagle of the United States’ Great Seal recast as a rising
In 2009, Australian journalist Lauren Williams (@Laurenwillgo) resigned from her position at The Daily Telegraph and struck out for the Middle East. Her plans were vague: a bit of backpacking, a bit of freelancing, a bit of well-earned adventure. “I
At the beginning of 2013, Brigid Delaney (@BrigidWD) attended a silent retreat. Bending the definition of “silent” somewhat, she tweeted the whole thing. Delaney told Crikey this wasn’t cheating. “I was literally silent,” she said. That the retreat managed to keep Delaney’s mouth shut
When The Sopranos ended its six-season run in June 2007, the controversial final sequence—no spoilers here, dear reader—became the stuff of water cooler conversations everywhere. By the time Breaking Bad came to its own conclusion last September, the very nature
Adelle Waldman’s (@adellewaldman) The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was one of the best new books I read last year. It could easily have been otherwise. The story of a young male novelist who is selfish and occasionally cruel but not at
It is difficult to sum up anyone in a sentence. With Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman), you’d be struggling with five. In the past week, he’s tweeted about bitcoin derivatives, the history of the corporation in the 20th century, the colony of