Kelli María Korducki
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currently writing @businessinsider and elsewhere. previously editing @theatlantic , @guardian , @forgemag etc. 🇸🇻
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First you’re too young and inexperienced. Then you’re “difficult to manage.” I wrote about the depressing prevalence of gendered ageism at work for
@thisisinsider
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Others have made this point already, but this piece (and how ppl are responding to it) feels like a door-slam on the last 7 years’ reflexive, performative moralism—the end of a whole cultural era
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@zachsilberberg
i think it's all the places where they say "on line" for standing in a line (but don't ask me to name em!)
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I'm so sorry, but here's a thread on pitching ideas to newspapers & magazines.
Writers sometimes ask me for advice on getting their work published somewhere. I usually try to help them frame their idea in a way that aligns with the outlet. Every outlet and section has a style.
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The first influencer babies are all grown up, and they're not happy about having been being their parents' accessories for public consumption!
@kathrynfiona
wrote about it for The Atlantic!
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It's not a crisis; it's a renaissance. On Hollywood's midlife moment, for last night's
@theatlantic
Daily.
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@KindaHagi
@amy_wood
they stopped caring about those other kids in cages pretty quickly fwiw
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The best part of the Kim Cattrall guest-appearance story is Pat Field coming out of the woodwork to dress her and only her.
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Wonderful, extremely close-to-home essay by
@nicolesjchung
on the unending (literal) calculations one makes in pursuing a creative life.
Especially if said 'one' doesn't have rich parents.
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I think we needed that era, personally, but more than ready to move on
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hot take: today's twitter discourse goes to show how the culture at large hasn't collectively mourned or processed the peak pandemic era in any meaningful way, largely because of a market incentive to feign normalcy as soon as possible
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I just found out that the University of Toronto bookstore sells my little book that came out a whole five years ago, which means someone has put it on a syllabus. Surprised and moved by this.
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I've long insisted that the anti-MSG crusade is racist (bc it is!). Now MSG has the last laugh. Love this story by brilliant
@yeahyeahyasmin
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The cat is mad because we got a kitten so I gave him a jaunty little bell collar and he is SO PROUD
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When I started college in the mid 2000s, relatives begged me to change majors to something “safe.”I’m glad I stuck with English.
I wrote about AI and higher ed for
@TheAtlantic
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Have you ever been so career-obsessed that you spent years neglecting your family, friends, hobbies, and health? I have, and it's stupid. It's also, arguably, not moral, as
@SimoneStolzoff
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Sorry, self-help bros: The bots are deffo coming for your job. I wrote about why:
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More than a decade’s worth of research is inconclusive on how bad social media and smartphones ACTUALLY are for teens. But a much greater body of evidence suggests that adults perennially underestimate the judgment and resilience of young people. By me:
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Check out my new cat Jamón
Because I will never give up on using the internet for its intended purpose: pleased to announce that a new cat just dropped.
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Love a medium-stakes, not too depressing Canadian political scandal
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I think writers (me included) don't always recognize how important framing is. Meaning, communicating how the idea would be told as a story. And whether that story-structure would align with a given outlet or, almost always, with a specific section *within* that outlet.
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"The France-Morocco game brings together many spirals of personal and national histories . . . But collectively, they condense stories of movement and diaspora." -
@Soccerpolitics
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@amandafortini
i hope that this is true, but i sort of sense that we're moving into an era of skipping the injectables and going straight to multiple facelifts beginning at like age 37
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How much is the RIGHT AMOUNT to care about work? I asked, and tried to answer, this baffling question for
@thisisinsider
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I guess my point in all of this is that an idea—that is, the substance of a story—is just one factor in determining if a piece "works" for any given outlet. Redirection, even rejection, doesn't nec reflect poorly on the idea & how it was received. That is all! ✌️
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I mean no disrespect by this but I genuinely love hearing Latin America journalists who learned Spanish in school doing their Duolingo best with Brazilian Portuguese this week
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Okay but actually, someone needs to pick up the mantle of housing earnest & high-quality ~trashy journalism~ that is not a podcast or limited docuseries or (I’m so sorry) a newsletter. The situation is getting desperate!
I have an immense amount of respect for The Drift and all the other little magazines that have popped up — but they're too smart. We need a big, dumb blog for young people to write on. I'm not kidding.
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The Sp*tify algorithm has curated a running playlist for me that’s basically an hour of “we know you saw Run Lola Run at a neurodevelopmentally critical moment” and the worst thing is, it’s perfect
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It would be really nice if any of the websites for the millions of publications I subscribe to would remember that I’m a subscriber
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@RadioFreeTom
They also came of age before the midcentury invention of youth culture, at which point there wasn't much incentive (or model) for "being youthful". Today, adults *have* to be somewhat youthful in order to remain professionally relevant in many (most?) fields.
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@judysquirrels
this comedy album and similar stuff felt sooo aged and dated a few years later, because we had a robust digital media ecosystem and it was no longer a mic drop to challenge the status quo. but now that it's basically 2003 again, i'm reminded of the appeal
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Nobody comes close to Denzel. Actually nobody. The range! The handsomeness! Everyone else go home.
(Signed, a woman who just saw Training Day for the first time)
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sometimes i stop and think about how I was in my early 30s living my best life, then there was a pandemic and i came out of it as a late-30something staring down a whole new phase of life with no transition at all?
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My feed is suddenly 50% engagement-bait question-tweets from this one woman who I’m not convinced is a real person
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Mental-healthcare in America is broken—possibly even more than it seems. I wrote about why the nationwide Adderall shortage is just the latest symptom.
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Research question! When was the first time you heard someone speak negatively about marriage as an institution? (Yes it’s for a story, sorry)
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@juliadahl
The importance of pitching a story in the style of the outlet and section being pitched to. So many great ideas go nowhere because they haven’t been tweaked to fit the mold of the outlet/section and the assigning editor doesn’t necessarily see how it would work
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My perfect soulmate cat died in November and my partner and I are now trying to adopt a new companion for our second cat. For the aforementioned reasons and others, this has become comedically drawn-out and overwhelming. Tips?
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Now that NYC is cracking down on Airbnbs and the like, expect to run into a lot of coverage that completely misses the reality of who is actually running most properties. Reporting on this last year was eye-opening
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I’ve never seen anything like this. This bell collar turned him into Steve McQueen
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I was surprised by a hand painted portrait of my cat today, courtesy of a major online pet supplies retailer. This company has some of the most impressive—and phaps question-raising—customer-service practices of any company in existence. An investigative profile needs to happen!
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It's for sure the hardest part of pitching, conforming the shape of your idea to a proposed 1500-word (or what have you) snapshot. It might mean compromising your style to line up with the outlet's style. It also might mean trying to find a more natural fit somewhere else.
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Finally the universe throws fun elder millennials a gd bone
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@MollyJongFast
one of my brothers wore shorts all winter through middle school and possibly also high school. (in Wisconsin lol)
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A very cool thing about my cat is that he tucks himself in for naps like an old man
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A question for Gen X and older: Can someone succinctly explain (or point to smart writing on) the distinction between 1990s "political correctness" anxiety and today's anti-woke panic? They seem similar but not the same. Or are they the same?
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I love generational labels. I love thinking about how shared formative eras can shape us. From where I stand, it’s all harmless fun. Social researchers emphatically disagree.
Where is the truth?? My quest for answers, for
@thisisinsider
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In a world without affirmative action admissions, legacy admissions should automatically be banned everywhere too.
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I'm still using this site because the thought of manually following all of you again gives me hives :)
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I spoke with
@NOAA
experts about what's shaping up to be a (regionally) wet, hot American summer—at least, more so than normal. Read all about it in the Atlantic Daily!
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Just remembered the time Jezebel published this q&a with a no-name debut author about her materialist feminist history of breakups, published by a wee Canadian indie press. At the height of girlboss feminism, no less. Who will be that space now?
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This is gonna be so good
I am yearningly, angstfully, and lovingly writing a book about crushes
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Im sorry but explain to me the proportions of this kitten
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and it's also not about inter-generational fighting, but an example of how generational/identity rhetoric can sometimes provide a basic template for hashing out more universal anxieties online
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Not a fan of this 'new normal,' to tell you the truth
I just realized the Canadian smoke you’re experiencing in New York is completely different from the Canadian smoke here in Toronto. Ours is blown east from the 54 active fires in NW Ontario and Manitoba. Yours is blown south from the 150 fires in Quebec
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the question of who has/hasn't denounced Hamas's sexual violence is almost always deployed to argue the hypocrisy of "the left" or "progressives," with the actual women whose victimhood is ostensibly in question as an afterthought at best. it's interesting.
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There should be a term for the temporary unlocking of your Instagram account for friends who unfollowed when mad at you to refollow quietly without it becoming a thing
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@MoiraDonegan
I'm so sorry, Moira. I met Linda at a book launch event last fall—she asked if I knew you and mentioned officiating your wedding. She was warm and funny (and by far the best-dressed person in the room), and our conversation really stuck with me. She was SO fond of you <3
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I mean the industry *could* hire more Latinos of course but my point is that this is how most of the world navigates different languages. It’s about communication and not trying to be perfect. It’s nice to hear Americans doing it in public, too
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Just doing my bit to make the world a better place
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a genius tip
Great advice
One thing I'd add: Find out who's editing work you really like and pitch that editor, rather than the publication, directly
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I will never forgive myself for how enthusiastically I answered “THE BREEDERS!” to the gal making Spotify playlist song ID small talk at the co-op tonight
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Envying my pals in Toronto rn. New York City *wishes* it could do World Cup ecstasy like any block on St. Clair West.
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Love and respect to the elementary school holding its fall festival across the street, blasting Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me” (2000) on the PA system for all to enjoy
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@prshakur
Two paragraphs is the sweet spot. One graf to lay out the thrust of the argument, and a second to explain how you'll tell it (potential sources etc), why it's relevant now, and maybe a couple story examples from the same outlet that capture the vibe of what you're going for
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Solidarity is always the answer. Do with that cryptic tweet what you will!
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the truly young, people in their 20s, are still truly young. your 40s are your 40s. but covid hit us 30-somethings different. yes i said it.
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I'm still pretty sure I caught COVID last year from a public bathroom... but maybe not in the way I thought. Here's
@jdkstern13
setting the record straight on toilet plumes:
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My senior cat is so mad and sad about the introduction of a new teenaged kitten last week. I'm keeping them separated, but his stress is bringing me down (kitten is fine on the other hand, lol). Tips?
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Old Messi finally got his trophy. Like so many master craftspeople, he "showed, in a world that fetishizes youth, why the late style is quite often the greatest," writes
@FranklinFoer
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Given the predilections of this website’s leadership, I doubt many people will see this story in their feeds. Please read and share if you’re able to.
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can't wait to catch up for lost time (professional and personal, woo!) in roughly 12-16 months before i halfheartedly attempt a last gasp geriatric pregnancy. no pressure!
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This just made me, a person who does not cry, cry. But in a good way. Now stop making me talk about my feelings and read it
Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much
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@judysquirrels
@Refinery29
I didn’t even know how badly I wanted someone to write this and I’m extra glad it was you 🙏
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This is just incredibly sad
I'm hearing the Jezebel shutdown is instantaneous — staffers have already been kicked off Slack and email. Also in memo, G/O says it's laying off 23 editorial staffers across its properties, including the Jezebel layoffs.
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@bcmerchant
I get the feeling that a lot of these doomsayers have never actually tried generating anything cohesive and engaging with a chatbot. Like, by the time you’ve finessed the prompting, you may as well just write the damn thing
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I remember when my uncle got married my dad rigged together a literal ball and chain as a joke and I asked him to explain. I was 7. In retrospect this may have been… influential
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@alyssaharad
@amandafortini
i think people should do whatever they want to their faces but it struck me as off-brand in kind of a bummer way, yeah
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