Justin O'Neill
@jjoneill.bsky.social
Senior Editor @wamu.org
Previously: researching environmental toxins @ksjatmit.bsky.social / Smithsonian's Sidedoor pod / Nat Geo / NPR
📍 🍁 in D.C.
Previously: researching environmental toxins @ksjatmit.bsky.social / Smithsonian's Sidedoor pod / Nat Geo / NPR
📍 🍁 in D.C.
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Justin O'Neill
@jjoneill.bsky.social
· Feb 11
I feel like I'm Bluesky nerd official now that I've been included in a starter pack.
Here are some people I know, and others who seem interesting
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Here are some people I know, and others who seem interesting
go.bsky.app/3KhzRUB
Goodnight bears, goodnight chairs. Goodnight kittens. And goodnight Green Monster
Look inside Sheraton Boston's whimsical new Goodnight Moon suite
Look inside Sheraton Boston's whimsical new limited-time Goodnight Moon suite, which is available through Feb. 28, 2026.
www.boston.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Goodnight bears, goodnight chairs. Goodnight kittens. And goodnight Green Monster
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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I’m finishing a book about billionaires and trillion-dollar investment firms behind the news. Waking up to a blue wave, I can’t help but think Mamdani and other pols surging in a period of deepening inequality are going to face the full brunt of those media owners’ political power and wealth.
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I’m finishing a book about billionaires and trillion-dollar investment firms behind the news. Waking up to a blue wave, I can’t help but think Mamdani and other pols surging in a period of deepening inequality are going to face the full brunt of those media owners’ political power and wealth.
TIL, F. Scott Fitzgerald's name is "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald" and his dad's cousin's mother-in-law was executed for helping in the assassination of Abe Lincoln
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
How author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended up being buried twice in suburban Maryland
In WAMU’s new series Hidden City, we uncover the stories behind the history, people, and places in our region.
wamu.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
TIL, F. Scott Fitzgerald's name is "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald" and his dad's cousin's mother-in-law was executed for helping in the assassination of Abe Lincoln
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
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Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
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At a time when public radio is under attack in the United States, we lost a pioneer & icon. I listened yesterday to many archival interviews of Susan discussing what audio journalism meant to her, I found myself in awe of her lyricism & grieving an industry
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
NPR "founding mother" Susan Stamberg - who got her start at WAMU - has died
Susan Stamberg – the first woman to anchor a national nightly news broadcast, and often remembered as one of NPR’s “Founding Mothers” – died on Thursday. She was 87. But before she was revolutionizing...
wamu.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
At a time when public radio is under attack in the United States, we lost a pioneer & icon. I listened yesterday to many archival interviews of Susan discussing what audio journalism meant to her, I found myself in awe of her lyricism & grieving an industry
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
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At a time when public radio is under attack in the United States, we lost a pioneer & icon. I listened yesterday to many archival interviews of Susan discussing what audio journalism meant to her, I found myself in awe of her lyricism & grieving an industry
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
NPR "founding mother" Susan Stamberg - who got her start at WAMU - has died
Susan Stamberg – the first woman to anchor a national nightly news broadcast, and often remembered as one of NPR’s “Founding Mothers” – died on Thursday. She was 87. But before she was revolutionizing...
wamu.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
At a time when public radio is under attack in the United States, we lost a pioneer & icon. I listened yesterday to many archival interviews of Susan discussing what audio journalism meant to her, I found myself in awe of her lyricism & grieving an industry
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
My obit of Susan Stamberg for @wamu.org
In case you were wondering:
Unless the DC Council passes legislation, you won't be able to (officially / legally) get married in the District during a government shutdown, but you *can* get divorced
Unless the DC Council passes legislation, you won't be able to (officially / legally) get married in the District during a government shutdown, but you *can* get divorced
What a government shutdown could mean for D.C.
In D.C., with its lack of statehood and close relationship with the federal government, the prospect of a shutdown is particularly troubling. Here’s what it could mean for the District.
wamu.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In case you were wondering:
Unless the DC Council passes legislation, you won't be able to (officially / legally) get married in the District during a government shutdown, but you *can* get divorced
Unless the DC Council passes legislation, you won't be able to (officially / legally) get married in the District during a government shutdown, but you *can* get divorced
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The Baltimore Banner names WNYC’s Audrey Cooper as its next editor-in-chief www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
The Baltimore Banner names WNYC’s Audrey Cooper as its next editor-in-chief
The nonprofit newsroom won a Pulitzer Prize before its third birthday but is still pursuing financial sustainability. Banner news executives said to expect "an evolution, not a revolution” under the…
www.niemanlab.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Baltimore Banner names WNYC’s Audrey Cooper as its next editor-in-chief www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Spotted on the DC Metro today! @propublica.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Spotted on the DC Metro today! @propublica.org
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100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source
More than 100,000 people marched through Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, on Sept. 16, demanding that federal authorities revoke an environmental license for a gold mining project that may impact an important freshwater source. The Loma Larga mining project, run by Canadian mining company Dundee Precious Metals, borders the 3,200-hectare (7,900-acre) Quimsacocha National Recreation […]
news.mongabay.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Made a friend in the window of a Bethesda florist this afternoon
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Made a friend in the window of a Bethesda florist this afternoon
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It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.
Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast
‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.
This guy is really intense about his wooden spoons but I can't stop thinking about this weird op-ed every time I cook
I boiled my wooden spoons – and what emerged from them will haunt me for ever | Adrian Chiles
A sleepless night of doomscrolling led me to dunk my cherished kitchen utensils in bubbling water. The murky results were horrifying, writes Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This guy is really intense about his wooden spoons but I can't stop thinking about this weird op-ed every time I cook
If Sepinwall’s job isn’t safe, what hope do the rest of us have
Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:
Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
alansepinwall.ghost.io
September 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If Sepinwall’s job isn’t safe, what hope do the rest of us have
Here’s hoping
The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the U.S. by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Here’s hoping
I love DC — out at dinner, through mutual acquaintances (our young children), I struck up a conversation with a materials physicist. Not many towns let you fall into a involved conversation about materials under pressure & score you an invitation to an open house at a major science research hub
September 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I love DC — out at dinner, through mutual acquaintances (our young children), I struck up a conversation with a materials physicist. Not many towns let you fall into a involved conversation about materials under pressure & score you an invitation to an open house at a major science research hub
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Speaking of Rock Creek Park: “Rock Creek Park turns 135 this month and the National Park Service is hosting a series of Punk Rocks! special events.” www.popville.com/2025/09/rock...
Speaking of Rock Creek Park: “Rock Creek Park turns 135 this month and the National Park Service is hosting a series of Punk Rocks! special events.” - PoPville
"Boulder Bridge is an iconic landmark within Rock Creek Park. NPS Photo / Tony DeYoung" From NPS: "Rock Creek Park turns 135 this month and the National Park Service is hosting a series of Punk Rocks!...
www.popville.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Speaking of Rock Creek Park: “Rock Creek Park turns 135 this month and the National Park Service is hosting a series of Punk Rocks! special events.” www.popville.com/2025/09/rock...
"The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less, depending on length and complexity, and attach programmatic advertising to it. This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode, without factoring in overhead."
I don't have enough negative things to say about the people behind this project
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less, depending on length and complexity, and attach programmatic advertising to it. This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode, without factoring in overhead."
I don't have enough negative things to say about the people behind this project
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I don't have enough negative things to say about the people behind this project
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Wrote this up here: wamu.org/story/25/09/...
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Wrote this up here: wamu.org/story/25/09/...
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Honestly, at this point, given the state of the media industry, I think the growing number of workshops charging people to learn how to freelance or land successful pitches if you do these 7 things or make XX amount of money working for yourself or whatever is getting kind of exploitative.
September 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Honestly, at this point, given the state of the media industry, I think the growing number of workshops charging people to learn how to freelance or land successful pitches if you do these 7 things or make XX amount of money working for yourself or whatever is getting kind of exploitative.