Joseph Menn
Washington Post reporter covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
- Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
- I care more about the stories I’ve broken than about metrics, and eventually I will repost some of my greatest hits. But one stat I recently learned is that my stories got 2.6 million pageviews at the Post last year, which idk but seems like a lot for a paywalled publication?
- New territory. Must read story from a colleague. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
