THE CATCH, by Emily Sohn, grapples with Virginia Kraft’s legacy, but also with what it means to be a woman in sports #journalism today.
Read it here: https://thecatch.longlead.com
The SI writer who dropped by Hemingway's home uninvited was Virginia Kraft, who had more than 100 bylines at the legendary publication in the same era as Plimpton, Deford, and Blount.
So, why haven't you heard of this pioneering adventure writer?
If journalism is history’s first draft, why was one of its pioneers edited out?
Long Lead is about to drop a revision, revealing a female sports writer overlooked by time.
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Throughout this season, Garrett Graff interviews witnesses to these historic events and experts on extremism, media, and more.
LONG SHADOW connects the dots on 40 years of far-right activity, showing how ideas once on the fringe moved into the mainstream, leading to Jan. 6th.
Episode 1, "The Spark," explores how the modern far-right movement was born from the flames of a devastating tragedy—the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
LONG SHADOW: RISE OF THE AMERICAN FAR RIGHT, hosted by Garrett Graff and co-produced with Campside Media, premieres today.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts
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#podcast #uspol #rightwing #farright #waco #branchdavidians #journalism #history #longform
Podcast · Long Lead & PRX · Through a series of riveting, complex narratives, LONG SHADOW makes sense of what people know — and what they thought they knew — about the most pivotal moments in U.S. history, including Waco, Columbine, Y2K, 9/11, COVID-19, January 6, and beyond. Hosted by Pulitzer-finalist historian, author, and journalist Garrett Graff, this Peabody-nominated podcast has been called “rigorous, authoritative, and an electrifying listen” by the Financial Times and honored as one of the year's best podcasts by The Atlantic, Audible, Mashable, and The Week. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award and the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award, it has also been honored with five Signal Awards, including for Best History, Best Documentary, and Best Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact Podcast.The second season of LONG SHADOW has been added to the history program at the University of Houston and the third season has been integrated into Harvard Law School's curriculum on the Second Amendment.Season 4LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNETWhen was the last time you felt good about the internet? Today’s online landscape is a harrowing one. People screaming at each other on social media. Violent videos going viral. Cyberbullying, racism, misogyny. Back in the day, the web gave power to the people, and going online could actually be fun.LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET retraces 30 years of web history — a tangle of GIFs, blogs, apps, and hashtags — to answer the bewildering question many ask when they go online today: “How did we get here?”It’s the story of mankind’s greatest invention, a tool that gave everyone access to all the world’s information and unlocked democracy across the globe. But LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET is also about the biggest crisis facing society today: how the web's unlimited feed of data morphed into a firehose of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and lies that divided Americans over things we once agreed on, like science, diversity, and even democracy itself.Chronicling innovations, revolutions, cyber attacks, and meltdowns across seven episodes, this limited series podcast untangles the web in a way you’ve never considered before. Featuring memes and moments you know — like when the world became transfixed by the color of a dress — and others you don’t, but should — like how people sent death threats to the woman who posted that meme online — LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET both scales the heights of internet virality and plumbs the depths of social media's depravity.Within weeks of its launch in 2021, LONG SHADOW became a No. 1 history show on Apple Podcasts, and its first season, 9/11’s LINGERING QUESTIONS, won Best History Podcast at the inaugural Signal Awards. Its second season, RISE OF THE AMERICAN FAR RIGHT, was named Best Podcast at the 2024 Edward R. Murrow Awards. IN GUNS WE TRUST, the show’s third season produced in collaboration with The Trace, was nominated for a Peabody Award and awarded the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award for its coverage of America’s gun violence epidemic.LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET premiered June 24, 2025 and will release new episodes the following six Tuesdays, wherever you get your podcasts.LONG SHADOW is produced by the award-winning journalism studio Long Lead and distributed by PRX.For more visit www.longlead.com and www.longshadowpodcast.com.
👋 It's been a while.
Long Lead's next production, Season 2 of our LONG SHADOW #podcast, takes a look at the rise of the far right in the U.S. over the last few decades.
It's hosted by #journalist and #historian Garrett M. Graff and co-produced with Campside Media.
The first episode premieres Wednesday, April 12. Listen to this clip that explains what the #Waco siege meant to the far-right movement.
Subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
A grand jury indicted 21 Austin police officers on criminal charges stemming from the 2020 protests.
Read why these criminal charges are an anomaly
https://rubberbullets.longlead.com/chapter/austin-police-indicted-2020-protests
#SocialJustice #longform #LongReads #journalism #AustinPD #PoliceReform #LessLethal
Austin, Texas police officers fired 700 bean-bag rounds during social justice protests on May 30 and 31, 2020. A grand jury has indicted 21 of them on criminal assault charges, triggering a showdown between law enforcement and the law.
Tyree Talley was shot with at least 10 bean-bag rounds. Over two days, police fired nearly 700 of the less-lethal projectiles.
#Austin's #BlackLivesMatter protest response may change how these weapons are used by law enforcement.
Read his story https://rubberbullets.longlead.com/chapter/austin-police-indicted-2020-protests
#SocialJustice #longform #LongReads #journalism #AustinPD #PoliceReform
Austin, Texas police officers fired 700 bean-bag rounds during social justice protests on May 30 and 31, 2020. A grand jury has indicted 21 of them on criminal assault charges, triggering a showdown between law enforcement and the law.
Christen Warkoczewski returned to protesting after police hit her with bean-bag rounds — but she was nervous.
"Feeling like you have to choose between your safety and your ability to voice discontent, that's a terrible feeling," she says.
Read her story: https://rubberbullets.longlead.com/chapter/austin-police-indicted-2020-protests
Austin, Texas police officers fired 700 bean-bag rounds during social justice protests on May 30 and 31, 2020. A grand jury has indicted 21 of them on criminal assault charges, triggering a showdown between law enforcement and the law.
Over the past 50 years of less-lethal weapon usage, it's still unclear if it's the policing tool or the person wielding it that's the biggest danger. And little consensus has formed around balancing the right to #protest with the need to maintain #PublicSafety.
What is clear is how crucial it is for police and protesters alike to understand that “less-lethal” can still be deadly.
