karenho.bsky.social
Art crime and business reporter at ARTnews. Owner of a floofy dog. Canadian. Doomscrolling Reminder Lady. Confidential tips can be sent to kho at ARTnews.com or karenkho.45 on Signal
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TL;DR: Not a lot of opportunities for feature writing in 2025 due to ongoing crisis at paragraph factories so reporters need to make them count more than ever. It's also important to talk to different people about the features to help identify any reporting gaps; ethical or structural issues.
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Also worth noting how many reporters are being laid off, still unemployed, underemployed, and/or struggling to earn enough on freelance wages. There are fewer and fewer chances even for full-time staff to write and produce features (anything 1200+ words), including at major national publications.
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The Jennifer Pan case was heavily covered by local and national media in Canada, so I had to constantly think about why my version of the story was worth putting in writing, and what would justify anyone finishing all 5,600 words.
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I guess I should mention how my very first magazine feature was about a woman I went to high school with who tried to murder her parents. It also took me two years to report and I turned down participating in a Netflix documentary about the case: torontolife.com/city/jennife...
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I have read some really great profiles, and some really bad ones. I aspire to avoid the latter for my own work. The last thing I want is one of my stories to become an example of poor media ethics, like Grantland's "Dr. V's Magical Putter" in 2014: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2015/01/03/a...
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Here's an example of a profile I wrote in April about a 90-year-old Korean artist who worked in obscurity for decades before her work was suddenly shown at the Venice Biennale last year, and what drives her to keep working: www.artnews.com/art-news/art...
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Producing a detailed, comprehensive profile requires a lot of resources (multiple interviews with sources, research, fact-checking). While my work isn't for everyone, two fundamental goals of my work are not wasting my readers' time or insulting their intelligence. No one has to read my stuff.
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When was working on a profile of Jay Smooth for CJR, I remember telling a prominent Black journalist at a conference I was worried about what Black Twitter would say, and they replied "the fact that you worried about that is a good thing": www.cjr.org/special_repo...
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All of these are particularly awful?
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another day I am cursed with literacy
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Smart outlets are especially great for people with ADHD, sleep deprivation or memory issues because you can set electronics and appliances to turn off/on on various schedules, scenes, and even to look like you are home while on vacation to deter theft.
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I have a friend I call sometimes to get me through the packing process before international flights; one of the versions of parallel play for adults I use for tasks I dread or have avoided tackling until deadline.
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I also tend to productively procrastinate through cleaning
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According to the most recent update of the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index, Elon Musk's total net worth fell $33.9 billion yesterday after the 15% decline in Tesla's share price, increasing his losses this year to $97.9 billion: www.bloomberg.com/billionaires...
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I'm trying to think how "it"s good to make both sides mad" would work for topics like pay inequality, maternal mortality, rising cases of measles, child labor in the US, radiation poisoning, or food and drug safety.
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I hate how tediously re-teaching myself to sew is the most affordable way to build the linen wardrobe of my dreams, but there are worse problems in this economy.
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I have worn them without ironing first and they look fine. I also know how to sew, but considered the time and cost of making one versus supporting a small, women-owned ethical business, and buying from the latter made more sense.
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Any of us could have paid for this! I guess I am going to Michael's after work and picking up patterns before they jack up the prices even further.
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A DOLLAR?!!!
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The brand is Zuri! The dresses are not cheap, but they have an ethical, vertically integrated manufacturing process, are well-made, have a high resale value online, and you can wear them as a duster and a skirt too: www.shopzuri.com
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Yes! Some of the prints are not my taste, but I love how they all attract positive attention yet are still "work appropriate".
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They have stores in San Francisco and NYC, and sell them online here: www.shopzuri.com