

Daniel Bates
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@danielgbates
Freelance journalist, regular contributor to the Daily Mail and others. Wrote a lot about the Jeffrey Epstein case



After building a passenger train between Miami and Orlando, Brightline now plans to build America’s first true high-speed rail. The line would connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas in just over two hours, a trip that can take five hours by car. cbsn.ws/4bTefBV

#Vauxhall now looks more like a Hollywood depiction of a dystopian city in outer space than that of #London. The more you watch, the worse it gets. Just because you fill something up, doesn't mean it isn't empty.

I am deeply concerned by the @scott_mills story, following his sacking by @BBC. Mills was allegedly investigated by the Metropolitan Police, with a file handed to the CPS who decided there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. If an individual can be investigated, cleared of prosecution due to insufficient evidence, & still face professional ruin, then we are entering dangerous territory. Institutions must be very careful not to substitute due process with reputational expediency. Justice cannot operate on suspicion alone, nor can fairness be preserved if allegations—untested in a court of law—are treated as proof. We must ask ourselves: are we upholding justice, or quietly dismantling it?



.@semafor profiles the New York Post Runners -- the backbone of the storied newsroom. “In a day and age where AI is taking over,” the @nypost is “still doing basic journalism every day,” @liaeustach says. The runner offers a dynamic, and distinctly analog, example of what a human does best, and what LLMs can’t do at all — knock doors, form a connection, catch a vibe. semafor.com/article/03/29/…

YouTube staffers deliberately aimed for 'viewer addiction,' killed safety tools for kids: court docs trib.al/N4dG1ON

My first staff job was for a local newspaper chain at the height of old Gothamist and Gawker—and our rule was no aggregation, no chasing. We had to hit the streets, talk to people, sit in on meetings and proceedings, and find our own stories. That's how real journalism gets done.









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Disney launched a new ad where a dad and son share a night time walk on a cruise ship, across an entire lifetime. Every parent needs to hear this: the moments feel small until they’re gone. Put down the phone. Spend the time. It’s the only thing they’ll remember.


An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.