Sarah Scott Scire
sounds like “skeery.” @niemanlab.org deputy editor. following digital journalism, political science, books, the NBA ☘️
🔗 sarahscire.com 📥 sarah_scire@harvard.edu 📱 scire.99 (Signal)
- from curiousity at acquisiton to the "democracy dies in darkness" days to "a complexifier for me" to mandates for the opinion section. @laurahazardowen.bsky.social made a timeline of Bezos statements about @washingtonpost.com. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/some...
- "If Lewis’s editors had radical ideas about the Post’s sports section—how to break it, how to modernize it, how to write a Wizards gamer somebody would actually read—those ideas never reached the ears of the writers I spoke to."
- Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
- one million questions about local news is a lot. but it's still a tiny fraction of overall usage. OpenAI has said ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/chat...
- in the same post, OpenAI acknowledges the relationship between big tech and news orgs has been “defined by tension” and says it wants to take "a different path" than its peers. “A thriving, independent media sector isn’t just compatible with AI; it’s essential to it."
- “The journalists who flocked here over the past few weeks are people I have run into while on assignment in hot spots all over the world. Now they were in my home city.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/minn...
- “This is, honestly, just what it is often like to cover technology — you are writing about stuff that is directionally correct, way too early, and barely works.“ @caseynewton.bsky.social on Hard Fork this week (context was moltbot/ai)
