Ryan Teague Beckwith

1 week ago | yourfirstbyline.substack.com | Ryan Teague Beckwith

We’re all journalists here, so I will try to be a little more transparent than some other Substackers about how this newsletter is doing. A couple statistics from this month: 62,000 pageviews over the last 30 days. An open rate of 37%. And 3,900 subscribers. You might recall that we hit 3,000 subscribers about three months ago. It took about a year to get those first 1,000 subscribers, then about two months for the next thousand and the thousand after that.

1 week ago | yourfirstbyline.substack.com | Ryan Teague Beckwith

What is your current job? I'm a US homepage editor at CNN, where I edit, curate and publish the homepages across web, mobile and app. This also involves handling push alerts and the occasional social post. I live in London so a lot of my work takes place during the US overnight hours. What was your first byline? The week I graduated from university I was scrolling on Twitter and saw a post from Jason Parham, who was then an editor at The Fader and has since gone on to do great work at Wired.

1 week ago | msnbc.com | Ryan Teague Beckwith

Congressional Republicans' idea of giving every newborn a $1,000 investment account is an obvious political ploy that doesn't nearly make up for the damage that President Donald Trump's other policies are doing to working-class families. The proposal is half-hearted, the amount is too small and the name of the accounts is dumb. But it's still a good idea. Under the "big beautiful" spending bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday morning, every baby born from the start of this year to Dec.

1 week ago | yourfirstbyline.substack.com | Ryan Teague Beckwith

What is your current job? I'm a staff writer at the Atlantic covering food, health, and science. Recently, I dipped a toe into podcasting as the co-host of the Atlantic show How to Age Up. What was your first byline? My first meaningful byline was in the University of Toronto's college paper, The Varsity. It stands out because it marks the time that I realized that science journalism could be a career.

2 weeks ago | yourfirstbyline.substack.com | Ryan Teague Beckwith

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