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RECENT CLIPS
For a full archive of my work from Axios, click here.
NEWS WRITING
A 2012 exclusive on African pirates hijacking Western ships using formal letterhead to deliver their demands …
A 2010 feature on Klingon opera – the first time, as far as I know, the Klingon language ever appeared on the Reuters wire …
A 2,500-word special feature reported (8 interviews), written and published in ~30 hours after Hurricane Irene …
An exclusive born of the WikiLeaks data on U.S. commercial efforts overtaking diplomacy – and the story was featured on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” …
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCING
Linda Gaudino’s Emmy-award winning documentary on climate change …
El Minuto, the first ever daily bilingual social media news show …
The Debrief, NBC New York’s audio/video podcast that won multiple local Best Podcast awards (NY AP, NY State Broadcasters, etc.).
THINGS I’VE CREATED
Hedgehog.com‘s main Channel, an editorial site for which I created the Editorial Guidelines and Style Guide, hired the staff, built the Trusted Sources list and wrote about a third of the headlines.
GHOSTWRITING
Hedgehog CEO John Matze’s Feb. 2024 Op-Ed in Fortune on the logic behind launching a new discourse-focused social media platform.
Hedgehog CEO John Matze’s March 2024 Op-Ed in Newsweek about the DOJ antitrust suit against Apple.
https://www.newsweek.com/apple-brought-justice-departments-antitrust-lawsuit-itself-opinion-1883300
Hedgehog CEO John Matze’s March 2024 Op-Ed in DC Journal on the human flaws underlying AI models.
Hedgehog CEO John Matze’s May 2024 Op-Ed in The Miami Herald (and other McClatchy papers) comparing recent campus protests to the J6 riots.
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article288429027.html
Hedgehog CEO John Matze’s June 2024 Op-Ed in The Hill about banning kids’ access to social media.
Hedgehog CEO John Matze’s July 2024 Op-Ed in Raw Story about Truth Social and Donald Trump’s use of social media.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/truth-social-explains-donald-trump/
Ben Berkowitz 