Proud to be the one Colorado Buffaloes alum. Slightly annoyed that rival Nebraska has two

Football. Parade. Shooting.
America, in three acts.

From the Sunday The New York Times. My thanks to those in Kansas City willing to share their perspective

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Don't tell my editors. (But I think they know.)

Thanks to everyone who reached out about this. Nice to be reminded that there are people concerned about how journalism is done.

The good people at Harvard's Nieman Storyboard (@JacquiB) and Chip Scanlan asked me to detail the writing of Ghosts on the Glacier, from small lines to big themes.
If you're into journalistic sausage making... niemanstoryboard.org/stories/john-b…

Ha, thanks, Vinod Sreeharsha. I had two meetings this week with aspiring journalists (tough week to be optimistic, but let's go!) and told them both: Do not plan your path. Be willing to consider the unimagined when it presents itself.

🙏

Carissa Moore is one of the best surfers of her generation. At 31, still capable of world championships, she is (soon) stepping away from competition into something harder, scarier.
My thanks to her for such honesty in the face of the unknown.
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Thank you. Never too late. And let’s re-up the gift link (which expires every so often) to the story itself: nyti.ms/47Kve4S

Thanks so much, Abigail

Thank you, Lindsay

Oh go on

Thanks to the many, many readers who took time away from family, movies and other holiday cheer to spend more time with our story than almost any other at the The New York Times this year. A 🧵…

Thank you, Bruce

Catching up on the longform I missed this year, and in the 'never-did-I-think-I-would-be-so-breathlessly-scrolling-to-find-out-the-fate-of-camera-film' camp I must add John Branch's fantastic 'Ghosts on the Glacier.'

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