Drazen Jorgic

Honoured to have won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with my incredible Reuters colleagues. pulitzer.org/node/2025-puli…

@megbasham Folks who've never done real investigative reporting -- or weren't on the inside of the actual investigation they're commenting on -- often don't understand how long investigative journalism can take. Especially when it's a story that has been deeply buried for decades. 1/

@ioangrillo Great read! Well done pal

Psyched to make my debut in the New Yorker with this profile of the bloody life and (grim) legacy of El Mencho "He was ruthless taking over business” Chicago cocaine king Margarito Flores says. His corrido goes: “They say I'm very violent, It’s true, why should I lie about it?”

I really want people to see the story above the story here, which is that whether you're reading Citrini, or listening to Jamie Dimon at a cocktial party, the conversation about AI is a marketplace of competing science fiction narratives. That's not to say I think the technology is a parlor trick. But rather that the level of uncertainty is so high, and the quality and supply of real-world, real-time information about AI's macroeconomic effects so paltry, that very serious conversations about AI are often more literary than genuinely analytical. And I think that observation sets up another important point: I feel lucky to be able to have conversations about the frontier of AI with executives and builders at frontier labs; economists at AI conferences; investors in AI; and other AI folks at off-the-record dinners where important truths can theoretically be shared without risk. I can't emphasize enough that "nobody knows anything" is about as close to the reality here as three words are going to get you. Nobody what's going to happen this year, or next year, or the year after that. There is no secret cigar-filled room of people who have unique access to some authentic postcard from the future. When you drill down underneath the bluster, the boosterism, the fear, the anxiety, what's there at the bottom is genuine uncertainty, a vacuum into which storytelling is flooding. The frontier labs don't really know what they're building exactly, and economists don't really know how to model the thing they claim they're building (genuine recursively self-improving AI agency isn't really analogous to something we know about). I wish more people talked about and thought about this subject thru that sort of lens: We're trying to model the economy-wide effects of a technology whose properties the frontier labs can't even really describe yet. Whatever you think about AI today, be prepared to change your mind soon.

Absolutely horrific. If this was being done to people with a public profile and a voice like journalists, I dread to think what ordinary detainees were subjected to. theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…

One of the best in the business! Can't speak highly enough of Yeganeh...

Devestated for my Washington Post colleagues. Brilliant, world-class reporters. Rivals would be mad not to snap them up.

Fascinating to see Canada's leader talk about the US like this. Unimaginable only 12 months ago...

The anaemia of HM Govt’s line on Venezuela simply reflects the realities of the UK’s strategic position - specifically, one of extreme relative dependence on the US, from nuclear tech to spy satellites. That dependence, in turn, reflects naïveté on both the left and right. 1/8

This is can be explained by Mexico’s dual economy. A modern, formal, tradable sector coexists with a largely informal, domestic, non-tradable sector with very low total factor productivity. Heavy regulation, combined with weak security, crime, and extortion, creates frictions that only large firms can absorb. Smaller firms respond by remaining informal, which in turn widens the productivity gap. Over the past seven years this problem has intensified, as policy has encouraged capital misallocation and institutional choices have aggravated, rather than reduced, the security constraint.

I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing I’ve ever done. One of the most beautiful pieces you’ll read all year, or any year. Free access for all. ⁦@FT⁩ ft.com/content/cc77c2…

Grim

Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud.

They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections, ProPublica found at the camp. propublica.org/article/kenya-…

Great spy-like story on how the Venezuelan opposition leader escaped the country... Also loved this line: "Getting bombed by the U.S. was a constant worry."

A fascinating investigation! How a ‘dark fleet’ of tankers helped a Mexican cartel build a fuel-smuggling empire By Reuters colleagues @stefanieyaa @shariqrtrs @SEisenhammer reuters.com/investigations…

@sethharpesq Why does Amazon allow this? Have you had an explanation? It seems blatantly illegal.

The entire US economy is now a stack of casino chips piled onto AI, which has zero profitable commercial applications or benefits to humanity and can only produce this kind of trash and other freakish nuisances

Excited to get my hands on Shadow Cell, the thrilling new book by former CIA operatives @EverydaySpy & Jihi Bustamante, a husband and wife duo hunting a mole within the agency. Probably the closest you'll get to real-life Mr and Mrs Smith... publishersweekly.com/9780316572149

At the start of this decade, US was 33% richer than UK. By the end of this decade, it will be 43% richer...

CIA ayudó a 'cazar' a Ovidio: 🚨 Así son sus operaciones encubiertas en México, según Reuters radioformula.com.mx/nacional/CIA-a…

Hoy @Draz_DJ publica en @Reuters un artículo —basado en sesenta entrevistas— sobre la presencia de la CIA en México en los últimos años. Gran reporteo de largo alcance. reuters.com/investigations…