Thread by @chrisgeidner

This is exciting! A lot of what's in @benyt's story tonight is why I'm at @theappeal. While I just joined The Appeal in January, they've been doing incredible work — and we've expanded it significantly this year.

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1373809782503653376

If you haven't already, check us out: theappeal.org

One of the things I've worked on that I'm most proud of since joining The Appeal is our totally new vertical this year: The Point. @NTBaszynski is the managing editor, and has done an incredible job getting it going. I've been thrilled to be able to help: theappeal.org/the-point/

Our News team has always produced incredible, in-depth reporting, and this year is no different. The Appeal Live, which started last year as The Briefing, has had interviews with senators and city council members, covering all manner of issues you never see on the Sunday shows.

For more of News, check out the home page. For Live, which is co-produced with @nowthisnews, here's the page of back episodes, but they're streamed live on Twitter and Facebook: theappeal.org/appeal-live/

Along with @matthewferner, the editor-in-chief at The Appeal, @bcgoyette is the managing director of News — and does an incredible job somehow moving the News ship forward every week.

Live is ordinarily helmed by the unbelievably talented managing editor @SaraYousuf16 — but while she's out @LisaGluck and @jaywillis have been doing an amazing job of putting out Live's nonstop schedule of essential shows. (This week is going to be so great!)

Then, there's the Lab (helmed by managing editor @KyleCBarry, who's just fantastic), the more academic, policy wonk vertical—publishing explainers, polling memos, policy white papers, and more, working with outside experts as well as our own team members. theappeal.org/the-lab/

And, last but not least is the Political Report, run by its founder and editorial director, the one and only @Taniel. (Everyone here knows what Daniel does and how great he is.) theappeal.org/political-repo…

And all of that is to say nothing of the incredible people putting out reporting, memos, posts, and episodes — or the leadership from @thisisrobsmith, @jduffyrice, and @khudsonPDLife (in addition to the aforementioned @matthewferner). The 4 of them work constantly for this place.

11 years ago, I was just starting my coverage at @metroweekly of what would become the end of "don't ask, don't tell." I was loving every second of it. I was learning as I was going, after having spent 2 years at a newspaper in Ohio before law school.

Since then, I've learned a lot. I've fucked up a lot. I've gotten sober. I moved to @BuzzFeedNews, where I spent nearly 7 amazing years. I got to do a lot of amazing coverage with amazing colleagues (and interview Obama). I still fucked up a lot. I still had lots to learn.

Then, I left and ended up, after two years with TJC, helping this amazing group of people at @theappeal. It's an incredible melding of so much of my experience, and an opportunity to work with whip-smart people who want to make this sort of media entity work. I'm very lucky.

(I still fuck up a lot! I'm also still sober!)

Anyway, that thread went in two sort of very different directions, but it really does all fit together if you read it that way. I've been around several different types of newsrooms—and done lots of different types of work.

I'm thrilled to be where I am. Let's have a good week.