Nisha Chittal
@nishachittal.bsky.social
VP, development & chief of staff, @vox.com
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Thrilled to be part of the Sulzberger program alongside so many impressive newsroom leaders! Can't wait to get started.
🗞️ Announcing the 2026 Sulzberger Fellows! Led by Corey Ford, these 28 newsroom leaders will spend 20 weeks driving projects that strengthen their organizations and the wider media ecosystem.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Thrilled to be part of the Sulzberger program alongside so many impressive newsroom leaders! Can't wait to get started.
So excited to welcome Astead Herndon to Vox and excited to see what he will do in video, audio and more! www.vox.com/press-room/4...
Astead W. Herndon Joins Vox as Host and Editorial Director
The New York Times political journalist and host of “The Run-Up podcast” is joining Vox
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October 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So excited to welcome Astead Herndon to Vox and excited to see what he will do in video, audio and more! www.vox.com/press-room/4...
"This suggests that the common sense read of the indictment — that it’s an authoritarian overreach by an authoritarian president — is also the correct one." www.vox.com/politics/462...
The gaping hole in the James Comey indictment
The DOJ’s case is authoritarian — and shockingly sloppy.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"This suggests that the common sense read of the indictment — that it’s an authoritarian overreach by an authoritarian president — is also the correct one." www.vox.com/politics/462...
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well." www.vox.com/politics/461...
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well." www.vox.com/politics/461...
I think I subscribe to too many newsletters
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think I subscribe to too many newsletters
"The phone sets the pizzicato of Americans’ daily lives... It has bestowed on us an infernal mental itchiness, and it whispers, ceaselessly, to take a break from whatever else we’re doing and look at the phone again." www.theargumentmag.com/p/youre-bein...
You're being rude. Put away your phone.
New manners for a post-smartphone society
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September 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"The phone sets the pizzicato of Americans’ daily lives... It has bestowed on us an infernal mental itchiness, and it whispers, ceaselessly, to take a break from whatever else we’re doing and look at the phone again." www.theargumentmag.com/p/youre-bein...
"But now the American political system is crumbling, and many of its tools for containing political violence lie shattered. This probably will not be the event to break America, but we have to consider the possibility that it may be." www.vox.com/politics/461...
Our country is not prepared for this
On the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk — and the threat to democracy it created.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"But now the American political system is crumbling, and many of its tools for containing political violence lie shattered. This probably will not be the event to break America, but we have to consider the possibility that it may be." www.vox.com/politics/461...
So thrilled to welcome Christina Vallice to Vox as our new head of video! www.vox.com/press-room/4...
Vox Announces Christina Vallice Joins as Head of Video
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So thrilled to welcome Christina Vallice to Vox as our new head of video! www.vox.com/press-room/4...
"The real problem, I realized, was the guilt that came with granting myself the luxury of spending three and a half hours doing something that would not, in any tangible or measurable way, improve my life." www.vulture.com/article/atte...
How I’m Fixing My Broken Attention Span
The infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?
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June 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"The real problem, I realized, was the guilt that came with granting myself the luxury of spending three and a half hours doing something that would not, in any tangible or measurable way, improve my life." www.vulture.com/article/atte...
"The transformation of America, from democracy to Frankensteinian amalgam, has been in the works for decades." www.vox.com/politics/407...
The real reason Trump is destroying the economy
Trump is imposing ruinous tariffs because American democracy is no longer strong enough to stop him.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"The transformation of America, from democracy to Frankensteinian amalgam, has been in the works for decades." www.vox.com/politics/407...
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Some exciting news from Vox
Vox has a new tagline, a new mission statement, and a great new perk for members.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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What a sentence: Linkedin is "a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
You’re passionate. Purpose-driven. Dreaming big, working hard, making it happen. And now they’ve got you where they want you.
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February 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What a sentence: Linkedin is "a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
not sure how 2015 college grads are bosting a decade of work experience on LinkedIn when last I checked 2015 was only 5 years ago
January 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM
not sure how 2015 college grads are bosting a decade of work experience on LinkedIn when last I checked 2015 was only 5 years ago
a few weeks late to this piece but it really is interesting to reflect back on what a massive legislative achievement NYC's Pre-K for All was at the time, and why 3K hasn't gone nearly as well nymag.com/intelligence...
The Miracle of Universal Pre-K
Ten years in, Bill de Blasio and his allies explain how they did it — and what future mayors could learn from their success.
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January 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
a few weeks late to this piece but it really is interesting to reflect back on what a massive legislative achievement NYC's Pre-K for All was at the time, and why 3K hasn't gone nearly as well nymag.com/intelligence...
"Boredom is when you do the things that make you feel you have life under control. Not being bored is why you always feel busy, why you keep “not having time” to take a package to the post office or work on your novel. You have time—you just spend it on your phone." open.substack.com/pub/embedded...
You might just have to be bored
Or: How to fix an attention span.
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January 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"Boredom is when you do the things that make you feel you have life under control. Not being bored is why you always feel busy, why you keep “not having time” to take a package to the post office or work on your novel. You have time—you just spend it on your phone." open.substack.com/pub/embedded...
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In the first edition of our new daily newsletter, @patrickcreis.bsky.social explains Trump's attack on birthright citizenship and the larger significance of the maneuver. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/pUa5O5
The Logoff: Trump attacks birthright citizenship
Our new daily newsletter tackles one big story every day.
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January 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In the first edition of our new daily newsletter, @patrickcreis.bsky.social explains Trump's attack on birthright citizenship and the larger significance of the maneuver. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/pUa5O5
More on The Logoff, our new newsletter:
“The idea is to present political news in a deeply accessible way... A multi-hour Twitter doomscrolling session doesn’t leave me with a better understanding of what’s going on."
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“The idea is to present political news in a deeply accessible way... A multi-hour Twitter doomscrolling session doesn’t leave me with a better understanding of what’s going on."
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Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness
"A daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life."
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January 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
More on The Logoff, our new newsletter:
“The idea is to present political news in a deeply accessible way... A multi-hour Twitter doomscrolling session doesn’t leave me with a better understanding of what’s going on."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...
“The idea is to present political news in a deeply accessible way... A multi-hour Twitter doomscrolling session doesn’t leave me with a better understanding of what’s going on."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...
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From smarties Sigal Samuel and @mbolotnikova.bsky.social: Some morally nuanced advice on how to think about flying and travel amidst the worsening climate crisis. www.vox.com/future-perfe... @vox.com
I care a lot about climate change. Does that mean I can never ever fly?
My extreme self-sacrifice is making me resent my friends who fly all the time.
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January 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
From smarties Sigal Samuel and @mbolotnikova.bsky.social: Some morally nuanced advice on how to think about flying and travel amidst the worsening climate crisis. www.vox.com/future-perfe... @vox.com
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The single most unconstitutional thing Trump did yesterday, explained www.vox.com/immigration/...
The single most unconstitutional thing Trump did yesterday, explained
The president cannot unilaterally repeal parts of the 14th Amendment.
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January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The single most unconstitutional thing Trump did yesterday, explained www.vox.com/immigration/...
"It’s an order that will test just how willing the federal bureaucracy and the courts are to defend against unlawful Trumpian behavior." www.vox.com/policy/39586...
The Trump executive orders that threaten democracy
Amid the flurry of executive orders on Day 1, these could prove the most damaging to the republic’s health.
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January 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"It’s an order that will test just how willing the federal bureaucracy and the courts are to defend against unlawful Trumpian behavior." www.vox.com/policy/39586...
The prevailing belief among legal experts is that ending birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment, that there is not enough support in Congress to pass one, and that Trump’s proposed executive order would not hold up in court. www.vox.com/policy/38609...
The law is clear on birthright citizenship. Can Trump end it anyway?
The Constitution guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born in the US. Trump wants to take that away.
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January 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The prevailing belief among legal experts is that ending birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment, that there is not enough support in Congress to pass one, and that Trump’s proposed executive order would not hold up in court. www.vox.com/policy/38609...
"When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps. The first is Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy, and insincere. The second is Rally Trump." www.vox.com/politics/395...
Trump’s real inaugural address started when the teleprompter stopped
During an impromptu speech after his formal inaugural address, the new president revealed what really animated him: revenge.
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January 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps. The first is Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy, and insincere. The second is Rally Trump." www.vox.com/politics/395...
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if you are unfamiliar with the phrase "Schedule F" today is a good day to read about it
here's @awprokop.bsky.social
www.vox.com/politics/361...
here's @awprokop.bsky.social
www.vox.com/politics/361...
J.D. Vance’s radical plan to build a government of Trump loyalists
“Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
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January 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
if you are unfamiliar with the phrase "Schedule F" today is a good day to read about it
here's @awprokop.bsky.social
www.vox.com/politics/361...
here's @awprokop.bsky.social
www.vox.com/politics/361...