Tristram Korten

Jul 18, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Tristram Korten

In 2005, Steve McDaniel was on a research trip to the Arctic studying cold climates as an analog to Mars. One day, as he scanned the frosted landscape, a splash of bright orange crossed his vision. He trudged over the ice to investigate. “I thought the rock I walked up to was painted by a geological survey team,” he recalled. Instead it was a lichen-covered boulder, and it sparked McDaniel’s fascination with a lifeform so hardy it could survive anywhere. McDaniel is a Texas native and polymath.

Apr 19, 2024 | floridatrident.org | Tristram Korten

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, best known for his “Wheel of Fugitive” videos to publicize suspects at large, will be a featured speaker at a conference this month in Orlando held by a group that was banned from training law enforcement agencies in at least nine states last year. The group, Street Cop Training, is a private for-profit company that provides in-person and online seminars for law enforcement officers.

Apr 19, 2024 | rb.gy | Tristram Korten

Posted on Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, best known for his “Wheel of Fugitive” videos to publicize suspects at large, will be a featured speaker at a conference this month in Orlando held by a group that was banned from training law enforcement agencies in at least nine states last year. The group, Street Cop Training, is a private for-profit company that provides in-person and online seminars for law enforcement officers.

Apr 15, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Tristram Korten

Posted Monday, April 15, 2024 12:00 am It wasn’t the biggest story I broke in Miami. But it left its mark. In the fall of 1998, I was the first reporter to write about a federal investigation targeting Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Tony Martin.

Apr 12, 2024 | cjr.org | Tristram Korten

It wasn’t the biggest story I broke in Miami. But it left its mark. In the fall of 1998, I was the first reporter to write about a federal investigation targeting Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Tony Martin. The DEA was looking into him on allegations of laundering the money of a convicted Miami drug trafficker and neighborhood pal. I was a few months into a new job at the Miami New Times, the Magic City’s alt-weekly, and wrote the story after a source tipped me off.