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John Schwartz
@jswatz.bsky.social
UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him.
A quick “covering the environment“ reunion at the Texas Tribune Festival. My students ROCK, y’all.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thank you, Catherine Coleman Flowers, for an incredible conversation about social justice, environmental equity, sewage and hope at the Texas tribune festival!
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Nice hed, NYT
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Wonders of the morning commute.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
a sentence I did not expect to ever write
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I was not expecting to see a caricature of me from a 1984 comic strip by @samhurt.bsky.social in the latest issue of Texas Law Magazine, but life is full of wonders.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Great to see my former student Rushton Skinner back stateside after two years of kick-ass reporting in the British Virgin Islands. Took him to Dirty’s, of course .
Now somebody hire this guy!
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’ll try again tonight, but for now the northern lights are about as real in Pflugerville as the Marfa lights.
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’ll try again tonight, but for now the northern lights are about as real in Pflugerville as the Marfa lights.
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My grandson likes the label maker.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is what happens when you cut funding for public education.
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When you dig into the battery drawer and it’s like commerce archaeology
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is GALVESTON. The Gulf is blue! What is happening?!
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Nope
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Matchy-matchy
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This may be the most frenetic and pathetic backpedaling yet. Instead, they're going to teach it phenomenology?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
At what point did I age into being “Mr. John”? No matter. Thanks, guys.
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Here are some of the reasons that Mamdami is kicking Cuomo's butt. Well done, @nytopinion.nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Okay, Nature, you've got my attention.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Buy Ken’s book!
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thanks for speaking with my “Covering Technology “ class, Ken Belson!
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
As I prepared for my journalism classes today, I was reminded of one of the finest ledes to ever appear in The New York Times: "Sometimes a guy like Rocco Morabito just feels like hitting the road."

www.nytimes.com/1987/12/05/n...
October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Wonders of the midday run
October 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Here be dragons
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The things I felt watching June Lockhart in "Lost in Space" when I was a little kid provided my first inkling that I might be heterosexual. She made it to 100! Still sad to lose her. Ad astra.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM