Deputy Managing Editor, Innovation & Development for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Michigan native, New York apologist. Journalist with time at local & global news orgs.https://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3miwqzwrdq22cThis is an incredible story given its sourcing. It gives very granular details — who sat next to who — about highly classified meetings with very few people in them. Meaning at least one meeting participant clearly informed the reporting. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZFA.tGWr.Zb6bdVZV5UED&smid=nytcore-ios-share07 Apr 2026 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwqzwrdq22chttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3mhlhrjoxqc2oPretty simple concept, albeit rare in the world. “A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/federal-judge-constitution-press-freedom.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U1A.Ee6M.Kr9NObil24Na&smid=nytcore-ios-share21 Mar 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlhrjoxqc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3mhjazkk6us2zMonths before the World Cup, FIFA is beginning to claw back the spare change it offered host cities for footing the bill. share.inquirer.com/D86lQa https://share.inquirer.com/D86lQa20 Mar 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhjazkk6us2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3metjo42gzc2qIn this probing piece, @polgreen.bsky.social makes an argument about the state of the news industry that I haven’t seen before. Essentially, that the decline in public trust coincided with journalism getting better. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.CEep.EVI1xOvZo1vq&smid=nytcore-ios-share14 Feb 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3metjo42gzc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3mecjkilkws2kHad to happen. Bizarre end to what’s got to be the most incompetent display of theoretical leadership at a news organization since, I don’t know, the Tronc era. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/07/washington-post-new-publisher-ceo07 Feb 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mecjkilkws2khttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3me3dhipcus2lOnly $5.99 on Amazon Prime.05 Feb 2026 02:23 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3me3dhipcus2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3m4yjk7pgbk2pThis is the most Philadelphia Washington has ever been. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/06/dc-sandwich-guy-trial-trump-federal-takeover/06 Nov 2025 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4yjk7pgbk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3m4tklu3d7226The Philadelphia Inquirer ( @inquirer.com ) has more than 50 journalists dedicated to election coverage today — and into tomorrow — as voters decide the next governor of New Jersey, the state of the PA Supreme Court, the Philly District Attorney and more. share.inquirer.com/qbHwn9 https://share.inquirer.com/qbHwn904 Nov 2025 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4tklu3d7226https://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lwubayggss2wThe Mets lost that day. Which makes sense, because as Jimmy Rollins said: “We couldn’t get them on the home side, because we knew what they did.” @inquirer.com wrote about those infamous steaks, said to be among the best in the city, earlier this summer. https://www.inquirer.com/food/phillies-cheesesteak-citizens-bank-park-20250515.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2025 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwubayggss2whttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lv4kjzmwkk2uThe latest edition of @willbunch.bsky.social’s newsletter kicks off with this doozy of a thought: share.inquirer.com/u3rb2T29 Jul 2025 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4kjzmwkk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lupwgnf6mc2cI recently finished a capstone project as part of a @newmarkjplus.bsky.social executive fellowship and landed on a humbling realization: journalism is an industry that thinks more highly of itself than anyone else does of it. I think that’s our fault — and fixable. https://medium.com/news-innovation-and-leadership-at-the-newmark/journalism-needs-a-rebrand-3fa1845d6a8224 Jul 2025 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupwgnf6mc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lupwgnf6mc2cI recently finished a capstone project as part of a @newmarkjplus.bsky.social executive fellowship and landed on a humbling realization: journalism is an industry that thinks more highly of itself than anyone else does of it. I think that’s our fault — and fixable. https://medium.com/news-innovation-and-leadership-at-the-newmark/journalism-needs-a-rebrand-3fa1845d6a8224 Jul 2025 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupwgnf6mc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lqfrk2c62c27This is good. I’m not sure to what extent I agree with it, but more could be said about the arrogance-feigning-as-humility speak that comes from the tech titans so regularly. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap30 May 2025 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfrk2c62c27https://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lnfy5j33z22a“Student newspaper editors said they are handling a surge of requests to take down or alter published articles, primarily from international students who fear pieces they wrote might attract the attention of ICE and endanger their legal statuses on campus.” https://www.inquirer.com/education/student-newspapers-media-ice-deportations-visa-revocations-20250422.html22 Apr 2025 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnfy5j33z22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lmb2fbyhlc2yThis is the type of nonsense that will hinder AI integration and limit its effectiveness. Companies should use AI to challenge the boundaries of what’s possible and explore how much more can be done, not to establish a floor of acceptable mediocrity. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/shopify-says-no-new-hires-unless-ai-cant-do-the-job-81c34f1e?st=WDMgkb&reflink=article_copyURL_share07 Apr 2025 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmb2fbyhlc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lkrfszbs5k22The chainsaw of government efficiency now includes indefinite closures of 425 popular campgrounds across Pennsylvania (and surely elsewhere) share.inquirer.com/koS50W https://share.inquirer.com/koS50W20 Mar 2025 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkrfszbs5k22https://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lhegligybc2hOn the lookout outside the @inquirer.com newsroom.04 Feb 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhegligybc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lfunvhvfe227Why am I weirdly here for this acronym? “The Post, in April, laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal,’ or ‘B.H.A.G.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.MwBY.EAUdfjNQsFAD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare16 Jan 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfunvhvfe227https://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lfq4sm6a222bThe Philadelphia Inquirer is hiring a team of people who will develop a distinct digital weekend edition of @inquirer.com that further engages our subscribers and broadens the audience for our journalism. This is not about just keeping the lights on. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/411905950014 Jan 2025 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfq4sm6a222bhttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lfacsdpzis2iMeta — and Zuckerberg personally — spent hundreds of millions, probably a billion-plus — on things that would be considered “pro democracy.” It bought him and the company zero goodwill, from anyone. Journalists accused him of killing journalism & politicians accused him of killing people 🤷‍♂️08 Jan 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfacsdpzis2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lf4555hxsk23It’s perplexing that this would be framed as some sort of genuine milestone. https://therighting.com/traffic-reports/bluesky-captures-more-unique-visitors-than-truth-social-in-november/06 Jan 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf4555hxsk23https://bsky.app/profile/maghielse.bsky.social/post/3lecdx3i57s2kThis is really good. https://www.inquirer.com/food/opentable-comeback-reservations-resy-tock-20241227.html27 Dec 2024 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:yefo726eljn4p7odhclwcvk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lecdx3i57s2k