Joshua Hunt
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author of KNOCKOFF ( @SimonBooks , 2025) • writer for @NYTmag , @vanityfair , @gqmagazine , @nymag , @BW など • 元ロイター通信東京支局の記者 • 元 @columbiajourn の助教授 • Tlingit
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For
@NYTmag
, I set out to learn how a small LaserDisc company survived 40 years of technological shifts to become a "medium agnostic" arbiter of cinematic taste—with help from Wes Anderson, Josh Safdie, Jim Jarmusch & others, this is the
@Criterion
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These
@columbiajourn
students need freelance assignments, not interview requests. They are on the cusp of graduation, desperate for experience and clips, with a front-row seat to the biggest story in America—pay them to tell it!
I’m currently indundated with media requests and will have to say no to any more interviews today. Thank you for the interest, please reach out to my other j-school colleagues that were there.
However, I have tons of footage/photos for anyone who wants to license it.
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A scene made all the more romantic if you know how hard it is to get out of bed during winter in the Midwest.
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Every journalism school should have at least one professor who worked as a full-time freelancer within the past 5-10 years—someone who has made a living solely from freelance writing and can teach students how to navigate what is effectively a separate journalism industry.
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This is maybe the funniest string of non-sequiturs I've ever seen in such a short piece of writing.
After the Challenger tragically exploded, my dreams of being an astronaut were cut short.
But I did what I had to do – including hog farming – to purchase my first McDonalds in 1997.
Today, I am honored to represent
#OK01
in the U.S. Congress.
Never EVER give up.
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In June,
@GQMagazine
sent me to Naples to make sense of a complex labor crisis plaguing the very small, very exclusive world of bespoke Italian tailoring. What I learned changed the way I look at clothes and the people who make them.
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Tim Heidecker seems to have deleted his Twitter and then relaunched it in the style of this insane Clint Eastwood account called “Real the Clint.” (You read that correctly: it’s not “the real Clint,” but rather “Real the Clint.”)
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This is straight up something Karl Pilkington would say.
Olivia Rodrigo tells Rolling Stone she's really afraid of birds.
"Birds are so foreign to us — there’s not one body part that looks like ours."
Interview:
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Treating student journalists as sources at a time like this is lazy and exploitative—lazy because it's a shortcut and exploitative because what makes them ideal sources are the professional skills you're trying to avoid paying them for. Interview the non-journalists on campus!
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If you're a current
@columbiajourn
student and need feedback on a pitch, advice on how to reach out to editors, or someone to talk through your reporting with, feel free to get in touch. I'll do whatever I can to help you sell your work.
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Nothing has ever made me prouder of being a
@columbiajourn
alum than seeing students work so hard to document what so many have tried to keep you from seeing—and on the cusp of graduation, when they already have so much going on.
Appreciation post for the
@columbiajourn
journalists who have been reporting on the encampment with me since it started 10 days ago. My colleagues are talented writers, photographers, and documentarians (and just incredible humans in general).
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I'm so lucky to make a decent living as a freelance writer—despite what you may have heard, not all successful freelancers have family money or side jobs—but the deterioration of the media landscape in the past six months has really made me question what the future looks like.
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@RottenInDenmark
Yeah well following leads like that often requires actual reporting, which is not exactly a strong suit for this particular New Yorker writer.
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One last time: In June,
@GQMagazine
sent me to Napoli to look into the complex labor crisis that has thrown the world of Italian tailoring off its axis. What I learned changed how I look at clothing, tradition, and how both are made.
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One effective way of showing your concern about A.I. is to not use it.
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Is it possible the culture wars have been sustained for years by dudes who got Rogan-pilled into practicing BJJ until they suffered cognitive impairment from being "choked out literally thousands of times by thousands of people?"
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I loved
@lowtheband
from the first time I saw them, but their greatness was deceptive. Like the Melvins or CCR, they seemed like a band whose genius was tied to some secret rule book. It took years to see that this was the music of two hearts beating as one. RIP Mimi.
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It's one thing to describe standard reporting practices as "scheming" and plotting to "dig up dirt," but to do so in defense of guys who went to the H.R. Haldeman School of Journalism is truly insane.
SCOOP: In early June, days after Will Lewis announced plan to replace Sally Buzbee with Rob Winnett, Post journalists on the foreign desk began scheming a plan to dig up dirt on their publisher and his new top editor. ...
Inside the Post Coup
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Tomorrow is going to be my own personal Barbieheimer: two big stories for two different magazines, each in the works for months now, somehow published within a few hours of one another.
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When I first heard The Strokes I was like "Wow, no band has ever wanted so badly to be Television but with Mo Tucker on drums," and when I first heard The 1975 I thought something similar but with Jay Leno's Tonight Show band circa 1999.
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@yoloethics
I once interviewed a bunch of Chateau Marmont staff for a feature that eventually got killed and boy did they have stories about her.
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For the March issue of
@GQMagazine
, I went to Massachusetts to find out what’s behind New Balance’s latest hot streak—and to see for myself the moment when a pair of 990s comes into being on the assembly line.
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When a wealthy 71-year-old journalist pines for the good old days of the American newsroom it's worth remembering who those days were good for—one wonders how much nostalgia is for the "cigarette butts" and "oddball characters" versus the rampant cronyism, nepotism, and racism.
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People keep posting stuff like “hell yeah, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em” alongside those pics of Gene Hackman leaving a gas station, meanwhile he’s clearly holding an off-brand Hostess apple pie.
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My
@NYTmag
profile of
@mieko_kawakami
has been translated into Japanese by the talented
@miwakoozawa
for the May issue of
@gunzo_henshubu
literary magazine. It goes on sale in Japan later this week.
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@TaylorLorenz
Hustle culture has produced some of the most shockingly cynical young people in human history. Straight-up teenage Gordon Gekkos.
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Tired: Let's find out what Jonathan Richman thinks of the Pablo Picasso discourse.
Wired: Let's find out what Hannah Gadsby thinks of Hippie Johnny.
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Very upsetting to hear on
@WKCRFM
that NYPD are threatening to arrest student journalists—and possibly even
@columbiajourn
dean Jelani Cobb—if they leave Pulitzer Hall to continue their reporting on campus.
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A friendly reminder: if you have a full-time job at a huge publication you should not be asking a freelancer to help you out with something for free. Never!
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What a treat to open the new issue of
@GQMagazine
and find not only my latest feature on the labor crisis in Italian tailoring, but also a generous appraisal of it in an editor’s note by
@willwelch
. You can read the piece in print now or at tomorrow.
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Love getting emails that are like: "Hey, I loved this story you wrote, mind jumping on call and telling me how I can write a screenplay/make a documentary about the same exact thing without having to pay you for the rights to the story you wrote?"
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Three CNN reporters vs. Three ProPublica reporters, choose your fighter.
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I recently rewatched "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," which remains stunning, and was reminded of how, at 19, I was such a HK cinema nut that I had to see it opening night, even though I was in Reykjavík on my first ever international trip. The subtitles were in Icelandic!
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In 2013, with a single New York Times clip to my name, I started pitching Matt tech stories for New Yorker dot com. For months he responded with thoughtful critiques of every bad idea until this good one emerged and helped give me the career I have today:
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In November,
@GQMagazine
sent me to the great white north to find out how
@Arcteryx
positioned itself as the pinnacle outdoor apparel brand, and whether its recent growth is at odds with an aura of cool built on outsider appeal and functional versatility.
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See what's possible when you treat student journalists as professionals rather than sources? A magazine cover for the ages.
@gvsmith
is a genius and
@NYMag
remains undefeated.
These
@columbiajourn
students need freelance assignments, not interview requests. They are on the cusp of graduation, desperate for experience and clips, with a front-row seat to the biggest story in America—pay them to tell it!
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@spiritnght2
"The thing about Joe Camel looking like a cock is this: He doesn't even look like a fucking camel. He looks so much like a cock—you know how it's usually subliminal, where you have to find the cock? With this character, you have to find the goddamn camel." — Norm MacDonald.
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It's frustrating to see journalism schools with rich endowments relying so heavily on alumni to act as pro-bono career counselors for the significant number of graduates joining the freelance ranks each year.
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When the New Yorker publishes something spectacularly elitist and out of touch, a fun thing to do is check whether its author went to Harvard or Yale. Someday I'll tally them up in an attempt to discern which school affixes its blinkers more firmly.
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It's stunning to think that in the 10 years since I started my journalism career things have become so tough that one has to consider the moral dimension of encouraging younger people who express an interest in the profession.
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When pitching an editor I haven't worked with I use an email tracking service that pings me each time they open or forward my email. Later on, if I suspect they've stolen my pitch, I can prove they opened it, clicked on links, opened attachments, etc., and I can prove when.
seeing a publication rip off a pitch you sent them months ago 🙂 bottom tier feeling
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@BehaveUrWealth
Nope! I'm not going to dox the guy but there's a press release announcing his hiring that you can find quite easily.
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Editors: If you're looking to pay for words, images or video footage from inside the Columbia University protests, let me know and I'll connect you with some
@columbiajourn
students who have been covering the story.
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"His acting remained a lot like his murdering—he got away with it, but no one really believed him."
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Why does every magazine now have a column by one of the How Long Gone guys?
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In fact gun control has worked so well for so long in Japan that the Abe assassination required:
1. A gunman making his own firearm.
2. Law-enforcement agencies failing to protect Abe.
3. Abe failing to protect himself because he was so confused by the sound of a "gunshot."
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New York is exceptional among all of NYC's great magazines for a lot of reasons—an irresistible mix of the very best and very worst writers, treating gossip as a high-brow pursuit, etc.—but the real secret is its absurd ambition to match the pace of a daily newspaper.
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A fascinating book I was pleased to write something about for next weekend's issue of
@NYTmag
.
Sofia Coppola's signature button-ups, Hayao Miyazaki's off-white aprons, Spike Lee's sports caps and varsity jackets. How Directors Dress is a new book detailing the lives and movies of cinema's greats through the lens of their uniforms on set, in the edit, and down the red
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"Ferrari" is extraordinary. Adam Driver is great in the lead role and Penélope Cruz is maybe even better. The racing scenes are as good as you might expect, but like "The Insider," its most dramatic moments come from close-ups of faces twisted by rage and indecision.
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Each year there are students graduating from the best journalism school in America, if not the world, with little sense of how the freelance economy actually works. Knowing how to craft a perfect pitch letter is great, but it does little good if you don't know where to send it.
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Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is calling bullshit on a whole class of people here, but I can't help noticing how aptly this describes a certain brand of liberal media twitter personality.
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Credit to Joe Rogan. My guy cultivated an audience who regularly deprive their brains of oxygen, blasted them with conspiracy theories sure to tax their enfeebled minds, then started selling nootropics to "enhance" their cognitive function. A masterpiece of vertical integration.
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I just finished writing a very long, very unusual, very personal essay, and I feel like my risk of heart attack and stroke went down significantly the moment I hit "send" on the email with my final revisions.
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New graduates need to know the difference between an associate editor, an assistant editor and a senior editor, and they need to know which one they should be reaching out to; they need to know what kinds of stories editors assign to freelancers and what kind go to staffers.
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In every truly pointless story there is one sentence that explains why the reporter felt the need to write it.
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@EmmaTolkin
FWIW Oldman later said his alcoholism was at its worst during this period and that he had some regrets about this stuff.
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@nkulw
I'm on no sleep and for a brief moment I forgot McVeigh was dead and thought this was his "Hillbilly Elegy" style memoir.
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There are so few Alaska Native journalists, and even fewer opportunities for us to write longform features about our people and our communities. It's nice to see a publication making an effort to create more opportunities.
Attention freelance writers: High Country News is looking for longform feature, profile & investigative pitches about Alaska by Alaska Native and Alaska-based journalists. 1/4
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@columbiajourn
This is no longer tenable. With fewer staff jobs out there, journalism schools need to get serious about preparing students for the world as it is; they should start by hiring some freelancers who have been out in it recently enough to know.
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I can't think of anything sillier than using a pseudonym to write shit as tepid as "NYC media parties suck" and "Aimé Leon Dore is lame."
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One of the weirdest things about writing for magazines is having some truly bonkers experiences while reporting a story, but not being able to talk about them with anyone but your editor for months and months.
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"After the movie 'Heaven's Gate' dramatically flopped, my dreams of being an actor were cut short.
But I did what I had to do - including working at a Corn Nuts factory - to purchase my first Wilsons Leather.
Today, I am honored to have excellent credit.
Never EVER give up."
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My dog spends a lot of time staring out the window like some character in a Michael Mann film.
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I had a very vivid, very pleasant dream about spending time with my little sister, who has been missing for a decade and a half, and it's messing with my head more than any nightmare could.
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I interviewed Chateau Marmont staff after they were laid off in 2020, and when the story got killed I was left with nothing but tremendous Hollywood gossip. Amid dozens of celebrity villains, I recall just two guests every hotel worker loved: Patricia Clarkson and Lana Del Ray.
Patricia Clarkson on Her 'Big Choice' to Never Get Married or Have Kids: 'I've Had a Sexy-Ass Life'
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Aside from being really, really good, making a living as a freelance magazine writer has for years required a monk-like ability to ignore how badly the odds are stacked against you. You need to be able to summon tremendous confidence at will.
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My philosophy is: If your mid-life crisis ends up in the pages of the New Yorker beneath another writer's byline, you are a loser.
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Recent journalism school graduates should also know about the financial realities of freelancing, from negotiating contracts and filing taxes to making a budget and dealing with late payments.
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"We always called each other Goodfellas. Like Tommy, who gets shot in the back of the head for the Billy Bats thing, which we'll get to later. And Paulie and Jimmy, who I testify against at the end of the movie. Anyway, like I was saying, we called each other Goodfellas..."
First, the writing. The first half of the movie is a complete misdirect and a waste of time.
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It’s wild that two different Internet shows about eating chicken became regular stops on the Hollywood promotional train.
Jennifer Lawrence volunteered as tribute for my next date ! Out on FRIDAY ❤️🔥
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As the year draws to a close I want to thank the editors who helped me publish some of the best writing of my career so far, starting with
@sashagila
,
@rachelposer
and
@trapmotives
, who all worked on this
@NYTmag
profile of the great
@mieko_kawakami
.
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Only an experienced freelancer can impart to students the extent to which this work is about weaponizing your own curiosity rather than chasing the latest big idea. So why don't schools like my alma mater
@columbiajourn
excel at preparing graduates for success as freelancers?
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Whatever sort of botox situation Matt Gaetz has going on seems to be turning him into the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills character played by Bruce Campbell in "Escape from L.A."
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It's pretty wild that one of our most prominent conspiracy theorists is a Kennedy. How does the irony of that never come up in interviews? Is it mere decorum that keeps people from winding him up on Castro and the CIA and the mob?
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A little over a year ago, when my favorite uncle died, I carried my grief to the top of a mountain in Japan. The diary I kept served as the basis for this essay in issue 142 of
@believermag
, which is out today. Thanks for reading.
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@columbiajourn
One reason, I suspect, is that
@columbiajourn
measures its success in terms of how many of students find internships or full-time jobs within a few months of graduation. In this context, any recent graduate working as a freelancer is, in terms of those statistics, a failure.
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There are other ways, of course, but if your critique begins with training the thing you are critiquing to be better at what it does then maybe you are not the critic you think you are.
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“He’s a very interesting guy, the Fatboy Slim guy.”
It brings me great pleasure to report that I told Christopher Walken about his Fatboy Slim-Dune connection for the first time
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