Post was founded in 2023 by a group of journalists who had spent years watching what happened when newsrooms optimized for attention instead of understanding. We decided to try something different.
We publish long-form writing on culture, technology, and urban life. Every piece is at least 1,200 words. Nothing is published unless it took real time to report and real care to write. We don't cover breaking news. We don't publish hot takes. We don't write for search engines.
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Pieces take weeks. We return to subjects. We read the research.
We fact-check. We correct mistakes publicly and promptly.
We write about people as people, not as data points or symbols.
We follow questions wherever they lead, even off the original brief.
Formerly at The Atlantic, where she was a senior editor for ten years. 14 years in journalism total. Covers culture, solitude, and how technology reshapes daily life. She founded Post because she wanted to write pieces that took three weeks without anyone asking her to make them shorter.
Spent five years as a software engineer before deciding the most interesting things about software were the humans writing and using it. Self-taught journalist. Covers open-source culture, the aesthetics of developer tooling, and what people mean when they say they want technology to be "humane."
Has reported from Brooklyn for eight years. Covers cities as living things — the way neighborhoods change, what gets lost, who decides. Her piece on the last unchanged block in Williamsburg is the most-read thing we've published.
Covers AI, algorithmic accountability, and technology policy. Previously at a public interest tech organization. Writes the pieces we're all a little nervous about before they publish and very glad about after.
Covers immigrant food traditions, the economics of the restaurant industry, and what the way a community eats reveals about who it is. Her writing moves between the intimate and the structural in a way that's genuinely difficult.
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