Alex Hannaford
@alexhannaford.com
Journalist: Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, GQ, etc. | Book: Lost in Austin (Harper Collins) | Podcasts: Dead Man Talking & Huddled Masses | alexhannaford.com | Media consultancy: nofiction.com | Newsletter: deadliners.substack.com
Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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Trevor Parsons@dartmouthcommon.bsky.social · 6d agoThis well-researched, thoughtful piece is essential reading for anyone fighting for #ClimateAction By @alexhannaford.com for the digital publication, Heated. You don't have to be a paid shill for big oil & gas to disrupt the march towards renewables. heated.world/p/the-influe...
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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d agoFantastic @alexhannaford.com piece here at @emorwee.bsky.social's Heated - profiling an anti-solar influencer. This is SUCH a common story: a project planned near someone rich, influential, or both and that person gets radicalised against all wind, all solar, all batteries etc
I've watched this person's following grow in an alarming way. To those familiar with it, her language has always signaled conspiracy theorist. I think many see her content and don't realize what her views are. Great work @alexhannaford.com heated.world/p/the-influe...
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
heated.world
The New America Dream? Leave America and move to Europe…. web.archive.org/web/20260718...
Meet the US citizens moving to Europe to escape Trump’s American nightmare
Once the haven for those seeking a new life, the politics of cruelty and the stain their president is leaving on the American consciousness are proving too much for record numbers of US citizens. Alex...
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How The World Gets its News: Dr. Craig Robertson on how online trends are reshaping how we stay informed open.substack.com/pub/deadline...
How the World Gets Its News
Dr. Craig Robertson reveals the key findings from the Reuters Institute’s 2026 Digital News Report and how online trends are reshaping how we stay informed
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Can Kids Save the News? KidScoop founder Vicki Whiting explains how bringing newspapers into the classroom teaches kids to separate fact from opinion and build lifelong reading - subscribe for free & listen at deadliners.org
I first met Tom and Pat Gish back in 2004, about 30 years after the fire that should have ended their newspaper story. For today’s Deadliners newsletter, I chatted to their son, Ben, who shares what it takes to keep a defiant family newspaper legacy alive. deadliners.substack.com/p/it-still-s...
"It Still Screams": Reporting from the Coal Seams of Appalachia
Ben Gish, editor of Kentucky's Mountain Eagle, shares what it takes to keep a defiant family newspaper legacy alive
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NEW | On events in Belfast and the people exploiting them… RADIO ELON: MUSK & FRIENDS ARE TRYING TO FOMENT A RACE WAR AND THE MEDIA IS HELPING THEM In Rwanda, the tool of choice was the airwaves, today it's social media. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/radio-elon...
Radio Elon: Musk and friends are trying to foment a race war and the media is helping them
In Rwanda, the tool of choice was the airwaves, today it's social media.
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One of America's oldest college papers, a university that wanted it gutted, and a professor who wouldn't play along — in a First Amendment fight that went national. Listen to this week's interview on the Deadliners Podcast at deadliners.org (Sign up for free) #journalism #firstamendment
Listen to my interview on how starting a print magazine in 2026 isn’t such a bad idea. Subscribe for free at deadliners.org
In 2003, Angel Resendiz — the Railroad Killer — confessed a murder to me on Texas Death Row. The man convicted of carrying it out has spent over 9,000 nights in prison. New evidence shows he didn't do it. New episode of Dead Man Talking: open.spotify.com/episode/64rJ...
17: Dead Man Talking: An Update
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Rob D’Amico edits a 100-year-old print newspaper in Marfa, Texas — three hours from the nearest airport. Since 2005, 3,500 local papers have closed. For the Deadliners podcast, we talked economics, revenue, and why print isn’t dead. deadliners.substack.com/p/rattlesnak... #journalism
Rattlesnakes and Revenue Streams
Rob D'Amico on the reality of running a borderlands newspaper
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The freelancer who flew to a war zone with no money and is now a Livingston Award finalist. The Scottish editor who launched a magazine on a shoestring. The tech pioneer who says the golden age of journalism is ahead. Sign up for Deadliners: deadliners.substack.com #journalism
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I spoke to one of the doctors raising the alarm about Trump’s mental health www.independent.co.uk/us/trump-hea... @the-independent.com #Trump
Trump’s mental decline is alarming – I’m one of 36 doctors asking for an intervention
As the president takes to social media for AI meme splurges while his prolonged war with Iran devastates the global economy, Alex Hannaford talks to one of the medical experts sounding the alarm and s...
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Anna Conkling was 24, spoke no Ukrainian or Russian, and was heading into a war zone largely on her own dime. Four years later she's a Livingston Award finalist, still finding the stories nobody else is telling. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-real-c... #journalism #journalists #ukraine
Deadliners.substack.com - on today’s podcast, I speak to Jack Wright, the Scottish journalist who washed up in America and made a town famous…
After he became burned out by the New York magazine world, Jack Wright quit his job with no savings and no plan. After running a bar, he hit rock bottom, so he did the only thing he knew how to do: he launched a magazine. Listen to my interview, out tomorrow: deadliners.substack.com #journalism
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Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Bobby and niece of JFK, was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and told me why we must focus on school shootings and gun violence more broadly. 1.9 million dead since 1968. My piece for @independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I was in the room for the attempt on Trump’s life – this is what people are missing
The life of Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Bobby Kennedy and niece of JFK, has been irreparably shaped by gun violence. She was there when President Trump was the target of another attempted political...
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Excellent dissection of The Daily Mail’s obsession with Meghan Markle by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social “It consistently argues that no one is interested in her while expending considerable energy on ensuring that her every move is reported.” open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...
The Daily Mail’s dangerous obsession with Meghan
The paper’s malice towards the Duchess of Sussex is boundless, and its stories about her are entirely in bad faith. Why does it do it? The answer’s depressingly simple
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The Golden Age of Journalism Is Ahead, Not Behind Us: The author of The Story of Stories on why independent journalism, the death of editorial aristocracies, and subscriber models all add up to a surprisingly hopeful moment for the craft deadliners.substack.com/p/the-golden...
This was so fun! @alexhannaford.com is a gem I first met when I was just a cub reporter intern at the Texas Capitol, and last year @thebarbedwire.com ran an excerpt of his book about Austin. Love full circle moments. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-journa...
The Journalism Jobs AI Will Kill First
Olivia Messer wrote 30 stories a day at The Daily Beast. Now the Editor-in-Chief of The Barbed Wire, she explains which roles are most vulnerable — and why investigative reporting isn't one of them
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I interviewed my pal @oliviamesser.bsky.social for the Deadliners Newsletter about journalism in the age of AI, the mistakes national media makes in Texas, and her mission @thebarbedwire.com to build newsrooms that actually serve the communities they cover. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-journa...
My interview with Dr. Craig Robertson of the the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is live. It's our first proper dispatch for the Deadliners newsletter, and it's free for everyone to listen to before the paywall drops next week. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-death-... #journalism
The Death of the Newsroom (As We Know It.) My interview with Dr. Craig Robertson on how young people today will dictate the future of news consumption, published tomorrow on deadliners.substack.com
Earlier today, Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life, admitted killing eight women. Back in 2012, I visited Gilgo Beach to write about the search for the the Long Island Serial Killer for GQ magazine www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gq-c...
7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
What Was Actually in the Mueller Report
There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
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Red states receive far more in federal funding relative to what their residents pay in taxes, while blue states tend to be net contributors - ironic, since Republicans advocate loudly for reducing federal spending, yet their constituents benefit most from it. www.businessinsider.com/states-most-...
The 10 states most reliant on federal funding — and the 10 least
A new study ranked US states based on how reliant they are on federal funding. See which states round out the top and bottom of the list.
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