Stick to the truth and everything else falls into place.Īt Puck, I found colleagues who believe in the same thing-and who gave me both the freedom to pursue this mission while giving me an ownership stake in it. 20th Anniversary Party at Michaels on Main New York City. If Trump taught journalists anything, it’s that no amount of sucking up will save you or grant you access. Julia Ioffe, Hendrik Hertzberg and Irin Carmon attend Susan Blond, Inc. And both readers and sources respect you more when you’re doing the former, rather than the latter. People know when you’re being honest and when you’re trying for a balance you don’t believe in yourself.

If I had to write one more paragraph starting with “to be sure,” I was going to kill myself. I wanted to be able to speak directly to my audience in a clear and honest voice, to write candidly about what I saw happening around me without contorting myself into an artificially disembodied posture of false objectivity. Previously, Ioffe was a US politics, national security, and foreign policy. There’s a reason I’m no longer at those places, but at Puck: freedom. Meduza's Ivan Kolpakov says Putin believed his own huge propaganda narrative about Ukraine as a failed state. Julia Ioffe is a founding partner and Washington correspondent at Puck News. You may remember me from such publications as The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. Hello! I am Julia Ioffe, Puck’s Washington correspondent.

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