The Dispatch. Thinking out loud.
Essays, newsletter issues, and notes from the road. Where the ideas get worked out in public before they turn into coverage. Everything here also goes out by email.
What Two Weeks Look Like
Twenty-seven new pieces in two weeks, a ninth country, the Nigeria desk written up, and two interviews where the camera was pointed at me.
Read it →A Brief From Maceo
ETHConf, a hundred voices in Denver, what is coming out of the Nigeria residency, and the honest arithmetic of running independent media five years in.
Read it →More coming. Essays on what this moment in money actually is, notes from the field, and video where the writing is not enough.
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