The music stopped around 8:45 p.m. Saturday as the news spread through the party at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. Hosted by the newsletter platform Substack, the party was attended mostly by journalists. When they checked their phones, they saw that there had been gunfire at the Washington Hilton,…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Politicians in Washington and the reporters who cover them have an often adversarial relationship. But on the last Saturday in April, they gather for an irreverent celebration of press freedom and the First Amendment at…
When John Lantigua, a retired journalist in Miami Beach, checked his email one recent morning, he was glad to see an invitation. “It was like, ‘Come and share an evening with me. Click here for details,’” Mr. Lantigua said. It appeared to be a Paperless Post invitation from someone he once worked with at The…
