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cwalker.bsky.social
Denver-based investigative reporter specializing in narrative features & podcasts. Bylines in The Atlantic, NPR, Playboy, Atavist, etc. Substack: http://bit.ly/40LWQm9 Classes at Lighthouse: https://tinyurl.com/yc33tut2 Website: www.chrisallanwalker.com
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As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday. The ex-ME has a complete archive of issues going all the way back to the 1970s. If anybody knows of a library that might want to house these, lemme know.

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Wow. McConnell couldn't get a single Republican to vote no on RFK with him? Shows just how much power the "Darth Vader" of the Senate has lost in this new era

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This is a good follow-up to that Outside feature about the two climbers who died on Shishapangma racing to be the first American woman to summit all the 8,000-meter peaks. Their deaths meant a Colorado woman was was now in the running to claim that title www.5280.com/tracee-metca...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is good and bleak about how much Netflix has contributed to hollowing out filmmaking www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

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@westword.com always has its finger on the pulse. Like declaring Denver had lost its "mojo" in 2022, this brainstorm of ways to pump some life into downtown feels appropriately timed. I agree that a full-on renovation of Civic Park isn't needed right now! www.westword.com/news/how-dow...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I have a podcast coming out Feb 5 on Wondery+ (for subscribers) and May 6 for ad-supported listening. The trailer just was released today! The 8-ep show is a never-before reported tale of wine fraud, a murder, the rose craze, and how easily we can all be deceived open.spotify.com/episode/1NoD...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to the Microdose for inviting me to share what psychedelics story I'll be following this year, alongside a superb group of journalists who cover the beat including @shaylalove.bsky.social, @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, @janehu.bsky.social, my old Westword buddy Grant Stringer, and more

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Proposing a motion to rebrand all true crime done by real journalists "fact crime."

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wow

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5280 Magazine did a nice job with this layout. My latest feature is about a sensational murder in Denver 40 years ago, two dogged reporters who exposed the white supremacists behind it, and how it's all relevant with contemporary extremism and a new movie out Dec 6 www.5280.com/what-a-decad...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Great article in 5280 from @cwalker.bsky.social about the murder of Alan Berg, the book Kevin Flynn wrote about it and the movie The Order coming out soon. And I snuck in to this article too!

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Now do magazines...🫣

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The Boulder Daily Camera in...Longmont. Sigh. A sign of the times.

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In 2021, @levernews.com had the idea to send me to a fossil fuel convention to find out what oil and gas executives were saying about climate change. The most provocative guy I heard from was named Chris Wright. He's now Trump's nominee for energy secretary www.levernews.com/what-trumps-...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate all the new follows! For those who could use an introduction, I'm a journalist who mostly does magazine features and narrative podcasts. That's included THE SYNDICATE, about skydiving pot smugglers, and BALLOT TRIP, about legalizing psychedelics. I've written adventure stories (1/3)

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Starter pack for journalists, news organizations and others in Colorado journalism. Who are we missing?

submitted 99 days ago • 15 comments

Here's an interview I did with the creator of Shell Game, one of my favorite podcasts of 2024, about how autonomous AI agents are starting to use real humans' voices. It's spooky. This is also part of a pivot I'm making with my newsletter, focusing not just on my work, but also journalists I admire

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

After seeing more and more journalism, including my own, referred to as "content," I decided to dig into the history of the term. It has everything to do with marketing. My writeup on Substack

submitted 263 days ago • 1 comment

social media platforms come and go, but email is forever

submitted 347 days ago • 1 comment

This is easily one of the best longform stories I've read all year. Bravo John Branch and NYT www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 442 days ago • 0 comments

I've now been a journalist long enough that some of my favorite stories have disappeared from the web because publications have folded, merged, or redesigned their websites. Feels like a morose accomplishment to still be standing myself

submitted 468 days ago • 1 comment

Latest Substack post. After I spent months digging into rising youth gun violence around Denver, one of my takeaways is this: we need to talk about social media. open.substack.com/pub/longform...

submitted 497 days ago • 0 comments

I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse. I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.

submitted 505 days ago • 92 comments

I spent months investigating a surge in youth gun violence in Denver for this 14 page magazine package. It's a sad topic, but an important one, and the most critical voices of all are young people, who I've noticed sorely lacking in most media coverage of this www.5280.com/taunts-shoot...

submitted 509 days ago • 1 comment

The next season of Succession should be about the Republican House of Representatives

submitted 510 days ago • 0 comments

New post on my Substack about one of my most unusual interview sources, and someone who was in the news again last month. open.substack.com/pub/longform...

submitted 524 days ago • 0 comments

Here we go again...

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