Katherine Long
"Warmly,"
Journalist at the WSJ, via Business Insider and The Seattle Times. katherine.long@wsj.com. Send tips on Signal: longka.38
- New: The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island. www.wsj.com/world/greenl...
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
- I briefly deactivated my X and Bluesky accounts on the advice of our security team. Back now. Still reporting.
- I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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- I hope Alan is doing well! I think of him often!
- This is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you. My email address is katherine.long@wsj.com and I'm on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.
- Quick career update: Today was my last day at Business Insider. I'll be starting at the Wall Street Journal later this month. See you all at my new byline soon!
- Here's how @thenewsham.bsky.social and I used public records to confirm the existence of an FTC investigation! Law enforcement agencies are very private about investigations. Records pertaining to investigations are exempt from FOIA. But we found a back door. www.businessinsider.com/publishing-d...
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View full threadWhen we asked the FTC about these contracts, it wiped the company names from the public portal. But when I FOIA'd for the scope of work statement for the Publishing.com contract, it showed clearly that the FTC had opened an investigation into the company.
- I can't see the FTC messing up like this again, but if it does, well, we'll be watching for it. Major h/t to Jack Poulson, who used this same technique to find an FTC investigation into the location-tracking data broker Venntel. jackpoulson.substack.com/p/ftc-opened...
- During the course of an investigation, agencies sometimes hire expert witnesses. Those contracts are recorded in contracting databases like usaspending.gov and the Federal Procurement Data Service.
- Typically, the public-facing descriptions of those contracts are bland: They just say things like "EXPERT WITNESS." What we found was that an FTC employee appears to have screwed up and put the name of some companies under investigation in public-facing contract descriptions.
- Hard mode: name a FEMALE non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring. I saw someone say Granny Weatherwax, but I have not read so I can’t be sure. The only other woman I saw was Princess Leia and I’m sorry but that woman would be a dark emperor in a heartbeat & the galaxy would be well-run.
- Amelia Bedelia
- Meet me and @thenewsham.bsky.social on Reddit for an AMA about our Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Alice in Chains story. www.reddit.com/r/popculture...
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- Should I have called him Mr. F Baby?
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- I did not know this!
- Some readers have zeroed in on this sentence in our reporting: "Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions." I'm going to share the text he sent, but first some backstory...
- “Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions.” www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
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- Assuming makes a defamation case out of you and me
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- ngl I laughed
- “Mystery women” being a line item has me on the floor.
- Lil Wayne received an $8.9 million grant from a little-known pandemic-relief program. Here's how he spent it: www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
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- It's real! bsky.app/profile/klon...
- Lil Wayne received an $8.9 million grant from a little-known pandemic-relief program. Here's how he spent it: www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
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- I followed up. He said I'd reached the "wrong Dwayne." (Remember, we found this email address in exhibits to a lawsuit, showing his manager had been using it to send him business documents.) I sent this exchange to Lil Wayne's publicists. They didn't respond.
- Read our story. It's been a blast to report. www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
- A couple weeks ago, we were doing another round of phone calls, trying to confirm that the musicians we'd named were aware of our reporting. I realized the email address we'd found for Lil Wayne was hooked up to iMessage. So I texted it.
- Here's how he responded.
- We didn't do this to harass people, but because celebrities are protected by a thicket of support staff. We needed to be sure (to the extent possible) the celebrities at the core of our story knew what we planned to publish. This is, like, Journalism 101.
- In exhibits to a lawsuit, we'd found an email address for Lil Wayne that the star's former manager used to communicate with him. We sent our findings to that email address, in addition to Lil Wayne's publicists, but didn't hear back.
- “Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions.” www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
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- We spent weeks seeking comment on this story to make sure the musicians we named were aware of what we found. We sent multiple emails to publicists, managers, and attorneys. We called, texted, and left voicemails. We even mailed our list of questions to Chris Brown's house.
- idk man there are a lot of drones in new jersey, I think it's possible that people are just having a good time in the friendly skies (map is all FAA-certified drone pilots in NJ)
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- It’s planes. The explanation is it’s planes
- New, w/ Grace Kay: Meet Omead Afshar, Tesla's "final boss on the way to Elon," who became a loyalist for the vehicle company after a near-fatal car crash in his early 20s. www.businessinsider.com/omead-afshar...
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- nearing levels of peak seattle public comment
- moon and lenticular cloud over mt rainier
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- 👀
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- sometimes it’s just the fastest way home
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- I changed my mind we need more AI
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- Lisan al ghaib, the spice must flow
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- dfw-ass question
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- Fewer than half the current number of us states were around by 1824
- Judge’s live-in girlfriend represented a prison healthcare company that got his sign-off on a sweetheart bankruptcy deal giving families of prisoners who died in the co’s care just $5,000 — while executives slipped away with the co’s assets. They call it the Texas Two-Step.
- NEW: Meet Nadine Arslanian, the real Real Housewife of New Jersey. A friend said she's a "normal person." An ex said she "liked nice things." Or is she someone who "does whatever she wants" and then leaves others to "pick up the pieces"? www.businessinsider.com/nadine-arsla...
