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madeline leung coleman
@madelesque.bsky.social
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features writer, new york magazine
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I wrote about the aid flotillas that spent all spring and summer trying to reach Gaza — and what happened when their participants were thrown in Israeli jail @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
The Flotillas Trying to Reach Gaza
High-sea solidarity missions have a long history in Palestine. They’ve always been more than a stunt.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"I remember the first time The New Yorker told me I had to do all the reporting on one trip. I felt, 'Oh, this is NOT the way I like to do business.'” I profiled Susan Orlean @nymag.com www.vulture.com/article/susa...
Susan Orlean Knows She’s Had a Charmed Career
But the longtime New Yorker writer doesn’t want to dwell on journalism’s bygone days.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I profiled the artist Coco Fusco, whose survey show at El Museo del Barrio opens today and who told me, "The idea that my professional life has been a joyride is so far from the truth" www.vulture.com/article/arti...
Coco Fusco Refuses to Be Pigeonholed
The artist gets her first U.S. survey after years of creating work that defies political orthodoxy.
www.vulture.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A lot of lawyers have told me they were shocked when the Manhattan DA brought terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione. Today, a judge threw those charges out! I wrote @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
Luigi Mangione Wins a Major Victory in Court
Prosecutors accused him of terrorism, but a judge said the charge doesn’t fit the evidence and dismissed it.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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i profiled the new york teen who's so nichely tiktok-famous with local middle school girls that they line up at her place of work to get a photo with her www.thecut.com/article/alle...
The Most Popular Girl in Soho Is a Brandy Melville Employee
Why tourists line up to watch 17-year-old Allegra Pinkowitz fold baby tees.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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"There was a student who was debating between my school or an institution in Hong Kong. I gave her the advice to come to my school. Now I’m not sure if that was the best solution." Interviewed a Chinese student about living thru US visa chaos @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
What It’s Like to be a Chinese Student on a Visa Right Now
A Ph.D. candidate in the U.S. on skipping conferences, getting an emergency travel visa to Canada, and looking for jobs in another country.
nymag.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I wrote about Caught by the Tides, the truly amazing film that Jia Zhangke made out of B-roll wow PS I love Zhao Tao www.vulture.com/article/revi...
Caught by the Tides Is an Epic Built From Scraps
Jia Zhangke’s odyssey through 21st-century China is mostly footage shot during the production of other films. The result is staggering.
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May 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I wrote about Lucien Smith, the artist and soon-to-be restaurateur who says Dimes Square is his Soho in the '70s @nymag.com www.grubstreet.com/article/luci...
Lucien Smith Gets a Job
He was an up-and-coming art star — until he quit his galleries. Now he’s reviving the legendary Soho artists restaurant Food.
www.grubstreet.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Luigi Mangione is set to be arraigned in federal court today and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. I wrote about Trump's love of executions and the obsessive, cruel, wildly expensive pursuit of capital punishment @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
Trump Wants to Execute People Again — Starting With Luigi Mangione
He executed more people in a single term than any president since the 1890s. Now he wants Mangione on death row.
nymag.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union
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January 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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5,000 @nymag.com readers & counting have told Vox Media they plan to stand with @nymagunion.bsky.social if we walk out. Tomorrow we're back in bargaining. The time for a fair deal is now. If you haven’t signed, tell Vox you support New York’s 150 union members: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
Don't be lowbrow despicable. Stand with the New York Union by refusing to cross the digital picket line.
February 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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If you love @NYMag and the work that @nymagunion.bsky.social does to make it, join our friends like Julia Fox, Anna Delvey & John Early and add your name to our pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
Don't be lowbrow despicable. Stand with the New York Union by refusing to cross the digital picket line.
January 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Despite our willingness to compromise, management has rejected our sensible proposals again and again. Enough is enough.

97% of our members have signed onto a pledge to do whatever it takes to get a deal, including a potential work stoppage.
97 percent of New York Magazine Union members are ready to walk out.
January 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I profiled Maryam Nassirzadeh and tried to answer the one question everybody asked me www.thecut.com/article/mary...
How Does Maryam Nassir Zadeh Stay in Business?
The brand once defined how downtown girls wanted to dress. Now it’s a mystery how it survives at all.
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December 20, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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We’re ready for @nymag.com management to come to the table with compensation that reflects the cost of living, relief for our overworked members, and AI job protections. A better future in media is possible!
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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What the @nymagunion.bsky.social really thinks about our company’s desire to potentially replace us with AI (TLDR, it’s not great):
Will AI Make Us Obsolete? "Not if our leaders STAND UP FOR THE VALUES New York Magazine was founded on."- the ghost of Clay Felker "I hope not! AI slop IS THE AESTHETIC OF MODERN FASCISM, tbh."- a human copy editor "Didn't we run a WHOTE FEATURE on HOW AI CONTENT SUCKS?"- confused non-artificial writer "Would you read a magazine that tells you something factually INCORRECT 10 PERCENT of the time?"- a writer who loves her human fact-checkers
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Media Workers Tell All! What the @nymagunion.bsky.social wants to tell their bosses:
What We Wish We Could Tell Our Bosses “We BELIEVE MEDIA CAN SUCCEED if you actually SUPPORT IT!” - a Vulture writer “We exist as a ROUND-THE-CLOCK CONCIERGE service for the EGO of the OLD GUARD OF PRINT JOURNALISM.”- a member who knows better than to go on record “When people who love New York Magazine ASK ME IF THEY SHOULD APPLY FOR A JOB HERE, I tell them that the burnout is crazy.”- a longtime employee “Just pay me for ALL THE HOURS I WORK.”- a social media editor
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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We also asked @nymagunion.bsky.social members what they thought about the media elite calling them “soft”:
The Kids Aren't Too Soft (We Just Have to Pay Rent) "It's easy for bosses WHO came up in a media world WITH GOOD SALARIES - or have FAMILY WEALTH -- to complain about the young folks not paying their dues."- a bargaining-committee member "I'm just LESS SERVILE than I used to be because MY SALARY HAS NOT KEPT UP WITH INFLATION." - a Curbed writer "My generation is not 'COMPLAINING.' We're DEPRESSED that there is NO SECURITY in journalism careers anymore." - an annoyed fact-checker "The idea that the kids don't want to get their asses up and work couldn't be FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. Almost everyone I know in media works MULTIPLE JOBS." - a copy editor "It would be nice to be able to AFFORD a family on my salary instead of ASPIRATIONALLY BROWSING THE STRATEGIST'S BABY-REGISTRY GUIDES."- a writer
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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As @nymagunion.bsky.social negotiates our 2nd contract, we asked our members about the most pressing issues still on the table, like what makes them lose sleep:
What Keeps Us Up At Night “Worrying that MY STORIES WON’T GET FACT-CHECKED OR COPYEDITED PROPERLY because our staff is STRETCHED SO THIN.”- a nervous writer “Events that I’m covering UNTIL MIDNIGHT that I am NOT GETTING PAID OVERTIME for.”- a very tired union member “The fact that 5 people have left my department SINCE I STARTED WORKING HERE. SO NOW I RUN 15 ACCOUNTS.”- a social media member “The fact that Vox ELIMINATED my health-insurance plan while I deal with SPECIAL MEDICAL NEEDS.”- a bargaining-committee member “The way my paychecks look PUNIER and PUNIER IN COMPARISON TO MY BILLS.”- a features writer but also everyone
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Remember in October when @nymag.com published its annual Power Issue with members of the “media elite?" Well, @nymagunion.bsky.social thought you might want to hear from media workers themselves.

Introducing our union Power Issue: MEDIA WORKERS TELL ALL!
A mock magazine cover that reads "New York Union: Media Workers Tell All!"
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM