Ann Marie Lipinski
Journalist. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Nieman Nation for life. Give me all the pencils.
- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiThe Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
- “The way to feel today is to be angry at the people who run the Washington Post. We live in a timeline where (Jeff Bezos’s company) paid $40 million reportedly for a Melania doc & today the Post laid off people who cover the Middle East” @bryancurtis.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiIt’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
- Such welcome news. Armed Only With a Camera, the film about the late Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed while covering the war in Ukraine, is nominated for an Oscar. An extraordinary film about an extraordinary filmmaker.
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- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiCBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
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- Post walk through the snow globe that is Chicago. Beautiful ❄️
- “It's a painful reminder to countries tempted by the idea of solving a nation’s problems through populism and authoritarianism. It's easy to believe that handing absolute power to one person is the easiest way to fix things, but our history, the story of the world proves that that is impossible.”
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- 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...
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- This story *is* the Blues. Rest in power, Koko. chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...
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- Reposted by Ann Marie Lipinski🧵🧵 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.
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- this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...
- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiHere’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...
- “Here’s some news for you…You’ll never break Chicago!”Endless stream of #NoKings protestors shut down streets surrounding Grant Park.
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- “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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- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiI 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/...
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- 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...
- Superb choice. Eduardo’s commitment to saving and strengthening journalism is unparalleled.
- This won’t end with talk show hosts.
- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiThe 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.
- “A passion for democracy still burns brightly for millions of Americans that can’t easily be extinguished. Nowhere is that more true than in a city of light called Chicago. If Trump’s Department of War is serious about staging its 1st battle on the shores of Lake Michigan, it picked the wrong fight”
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- I was last in Little Rock two years ago for Brent Renaud’s funeral. This visit, his hometown turned out to celebrate an HBO documentary and foundation honoring the life and work of the journalist, the first American killed in the war on Ukraine.
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- The Arkansas black apple isn’t common in Cambridge, Mass., but Brent Renaud wasn’t common either. I worried about the little sapling, thin like Brent and planted in his honor in the Nieman Foundation garden. But today I checked on the tree and was rewarded with these two tiny apples. Proof of life.
- A woman who grew up in the US & China knew firsthand that journalism and narratives helped “readers in both cultures to better understand one another.” She now honors her mother and great grandfather with a fellowship for journalists from China,Taiwan and Hong Kong nieman.harvard.edu/liang-zhou-n...
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- “…the media misconstrued”
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- Reposted by Ann Marie LipinskiAmazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”
- Happening in these United States. apnews.com/article/immi...
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- Sly Stone was a towering musician, whose mixed-gender band helped define my views of what rock could look like. RIP, beautiful man. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/a...
- Watching the Tony Awards and I don’t think a single announcer has correctly pronounced “Pulitzer.” (It’s pull-it-sir, not pew-). Otherwise great show! youtube.com/shorts/5hlzx...
- “Do we want to raise a generation of Americans who have no encounters with the outside world? Who don’t learn foreign languages? Who don’t engage with anything beyond the shores of this country? And if so, what kind of future does that mean for the United States?” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...
- Photo of students and Nazi party members at a 1933 book burning outside the University of Berlin. How universities die: It happened in Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next? By William Kirby. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/o...
- Scenes from a commencement: With one word—“Welcome”—Harvard President Alan Garber drew a loud ovation from 30,000 graduating students, parents, alumni and others. When he welcomed “students from around the world, just as it should be,” the applause was thunderous.
- “unprecedented and retaliatory” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
