Katie Benner

I can’t believe that something I thought died years ago in fact just died… @elitanjourno & @MikeIsaac on the Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse nytimes.com/2026/03/19/tec… via @nytimes

Someone built a Google translate for Linkedin 😭

"Nearly five years." Investigative journalism takes years and years. The investment is immense, and always worth it, and, in the era of "hot takes" and ephemeral "content," rigorously reported journalistic work is needed more than ever. We must keep supporting investigative journalism. From @mannyNYT, lead reporter of the blockbuster piece on Cesar Chavez ⤵️

This is the work that can’t be replicated by AI or pursued by a reporter with a Substack. It requires time - during which a reporter isn’t producing a lot of copy. Building trust with sources so you can tell sensitive stories, that’s a process that doesn’t scale.

I wrote for @bw about the Epstein files and capitalism's credibility problem. Its hard to have faith in business when the world's leading businessmen look so craven, and so dumb. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

Oh my god. From @DoloresHuerta --> @dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@dolores_huert…

We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵

The Situation Room by Polymarket is opening, allegedly, this Friday in Washington, D.C. “Imagine a sports bar… but just for situation monitoring…” - OK who's taking bets on where this will be... popville.com/2026/03/the-si…

Scoop: As The Washington Post gutted metro and sports, the Baltimore Banner quietly secured the domains DCBanner.com and TheDCBanner.com, as competitors look to capitalize on the vacuum in local coverage status.news/p/washington-p…

I’ll never forget when J. Edgar Hoover did a keg stand with Team USA after they won gold in men’s hockey in 1960.

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by DOJ show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

The message discipline of this man on the street talking about private equity owning homes

A day with a new @pamelacolloff story is my personal snowday/christmas. This is a really remarkable, wrenching one nytimes.com/2026/02/22/mag…

🚨Huge story this evening🚨 Jeffrey Epstien paid private detectives to remove equipment from his home and store them in secret storage units across the US. Search warrants reviewed by The Telegraph suggest US authorities never raided the lockers, raising the possibility that they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Kash Patel responds: x.com/Kash_Patel/sta…

A source sent me this video of FBI Director Kash Patel partying with the US Men's Olympic Hockey team.

appears in the files exec stands by him to "not cave to the mob" invokes ire from outsiders alienates rank and file insiders three weeks later after news cycle moves on, he leaves, reminding everyone again about it incredible how this was handled at every possible turn

Apparently running old stories in the print edition of @washingtonpost wasn’t an error but a new strategy for filling the paper with no staff. Take this Retropolis column today:

This is absolutely nuts. The British Columbia school shooter's ChatGPT messages weren't just flagged by the automated system, but **a dozen OpenAI employees reviewed and debated them** wsj.com/us-news/law/op…