Mark Armstrong

I have a new song out! It features some of my favorite artists in both Seattle and NYC. Here's more backstory on “The Sound.” markarms.com/2026/06/12/n... #indiemusic #seattlemusic #seattle

Recently paid tribute to my Seattle music hero: Chris Cornell’s “Disappearing One,” live with the Strong Arms at @timstavernseattle.bsky.social

For our Friday newsletter at @niemanstoryboard.org, we have a special guest edition from Erika Hayasaki on mentorship and Miriam Pawel's new book, "California Dreams." niemanstoryboard.org/2026/10/09/p... #journalism #longreads

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: The student journalists who broke the Cornell sexual assault story. Plus: lessons for journalists and writers from @gillianbrockell.com @tommytomlinson.bsky.social and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/10/02/o...

Nikole Hannah-Jones's essay about the school she chose for her daughter launched conversations everywhere. Chana Joffe-Walt has been talking with Nikole as she prepared that essay. She also talked at length with Nikole's daughter. Hear their conversations in our new episode, out tonight.

Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @sethwickersham.bsky.social shadows Sean Payton (by @brendanomeara.bsky.social). Plus: @nhannahjones.bsky.social, Erika Hayasaki, and the Stringer Awards. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/25/u... #longreads #journalism

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Thanks to @niemanstoryboard.org for featuring In the Dark’s latest investigative audio series, “The Journey”! @newyorker.com

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @ajmacadam.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the newest season of "In the Dark." Plus @alexanderchee.bsky.social on Annie Dillard, and @mdbell79.bsky.social on sequences in storytelling. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/18/h...

“What is it you want to lie about?” Sari Botton joins @markarms.bsky.social on @niemanstoryboard.org to talk memoir, personal essays, and the fears that come with telling your own story.

A thrill an honor to be interviewed by my friend and @longreads.com founder @markarms.bsky.social for @niemanlab.org Storyboard. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/11/a... www.instagram.com/p/DdJb_M3x4L...

“People are so concerned about whether they’re going to be a likable character if they tell the ugly truth. [But] that’s what makes you a likable character. It makes you someone that people can relate to. It means you’re just human.” — @saribotton.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/11/a...

Photos from my visits to Union Square in the days after 9/11.

My latest newsletter and podcast for @niemanstoryboard.org: Stories from 9/11, and my conversation with @saribotton.bsky.social on giving yourself permission to write personal essays. Photo by me, from the candlelight vigils in Union Square, September 2001. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/11/p...

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

For the @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: Tell me the 9/11 #longreads #podcasts #documentaries that continue to stick with you.

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

California is about to do something really cool for local journalism: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: An end-of-summer reading list featuring @newyorker.com @gillianbrockell.com @texasmonthly.bsky.social @prospect.org @mallarytenore.bsky.social @wudan.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/04/s...

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

California could generate up to $40M a year for newsrooms through credits tied to journalist headcount, @hanaatameez.bsky.social reports for @niemanlab.org.

saw this and was like gee this sounds like stuff I've heard from @mattdpearce.com and, well,

"Time passing has a way of showing you which stories have staying power, which stories might have some universal ideas or insights embedded in them. My favorite place to look for stories is unresolved events in the past,” said @willjames.bsky.social of @kuow.org.

What makes a narrative podcast hold together? @markarms.bsky.social talks with Will James about “We Keep Us Safe,” source care, cross-newsroom collaboration, and finding the larger idea inside a story.

It was an honor to be on the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast and talk with @markarms.bsky.social, who was very good at unleashing my rants about how audio journalism needs to change. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/08/28/t...

This week's @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: My conversation with @willjames.bsky.social on the making of the @npr.org @kuow.org @seattletimes.com investigative podcast, "We Keep Us Safe." Plus: @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @longreads.com niemanstoryboard.org/2026/08/28/t... #podcasts

My Friday @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: Mallary Tenore Tarpley speaks with Yiyun Li about her Pulitzer-winning memoir, "Things in Nature Merely Grow." Plus: @katemckean.bsky.social on building a platform as an author. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/08/21/t... #booksky #longreads

In the latest @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, @markarms.bsky.social talks with Shoshana Walter about reporting on addiction, recovery, and the criminal justice system with care. 🎧 Listen today. 

For this week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast I sat down with Pulitzer finalist @sho-walter.bsky.social, author of "Rehab: An American Scandal," on writing about addiction and recovery. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/08/14/j... #podcasts #longreads

Thrilled to share my latest @niemanstoryboard.org podcast conversation, with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social. We talked about the intersection of storytelling and investigative journalism, and experimenting with new forms. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/31/p...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @notus.com on a national civics contest controversy, plus: @jackelhai.bsky.social @cyndizaweski.bsky.social, @mallarytenore.bsky.social, @propublica.org, @longlead.com niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/24/a...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson: "Magic happens when we create inviting, people-centered public spaces — a car-free Pioneer Square, Pike Place Market, our new Waterfront Park, Seattle Center — and give people reasons to gather and shop there. Let’s do more of this across neighborhoods citywide..."

"I had an outline that my book editor had approved. It all looked good on paper, but there were years, really, of changing the structure, recalibrating what the storytelling was." @pamelacolloff.bsky.social in conversation with @markarms.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/17/h... #booksky

Excited to kick off Season Two of the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast this week with @pamelacolloff.bsky.social, discussing her new book “Catch the Devil.” niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/17/t... #booksky #longreads #podcasts

Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/

"We try to focus on craft here at Storyboard, but the medium always shapes that craft, and these platforms create their own unique storytelling opportunities and constraints." niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/10/s...

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.

Cannot wait. Congrats @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! #booksky

Excited to have a guest post from @mallarytenore.bsky.social for this week's @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter. It includes a reminder and link for the Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism, which is accepting applications until July 12. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/03/e... #journalism

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Remembering @newyorker.com's Mark Singer, plus: Susan Morrison, @timherrera.bsky.social, @anandwrites.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/06/26/r... #longreads #booksky