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The Amphibian magazine is where our ideas surface first: essays, interviews, notes, arguments, investigations, recommendations, show updates, and strange little signals from the worlds of media, power, politics, music, psychology, and culture. Read along as the work develops.
Chicago police spent years trying to predict murder. We spent years reporting it. Amazon spent five minutes burying it
Chris Morris broke television news in 1994 and nobody noticed
The Pentagon spent $93 billion in a single month on lobster tails, king crab, ribeye steak, and a Steinway grand piano
Pittsburgh has ~40 newsrooms and little shared infrastructure. I'm going to talk about it at TEDx Pittsburgh May 29, 2026
