About The Morning News

The Morning News (TMN) is an independent webzine, published weekdays by Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack since 1999.

We strive to bring you the very best of what’s interesting on the web, from breaking news to slow-tempo analysis, personal essays and restaurant trivia, investigative reporting, weird headlines, and videos from every era of David Bowie’s career.

If it’s on the web and it makes you smarter, we’re interested.

Got a correction or a link we should consider? Email us.

The editors

Rosecrans Baldwin is the bestselling author of Everything Now, winner of the California Book Award. Other books include The Last Kid Left and Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down. His debut novel, You Lost Me There, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He is a correspondent for GQ, and he writes a weekly newsletter about beautiful things. He co-founded TMN with Andrew Womack in 1999. / roscransbaldwin.com

Andrew Womack writes a newsletter about new music and lives in Austin, Texas. He co-founded TMN with Rosecrans Baldwin. / andrewwomack.net

Hayden Higgins is a co-founder of 730DC, a daily newsletter for Washington, DC. As a freelancer, he has written about fantasy baseball entrepreneurs, how not to be kidnapped abroad, and racism in rock music, among other things. He works in sustainable development and now lives in Seattle, Wash. / hayden-higgins.com, Bluesky

More About TMN

We started as a newsletter, then we became a magazine, then we became a newsletter again. Sometime in there we published some of today’s best writers, and won numerous awards and citations. Series we published became books, and contributors won big prizes. For more of that, here are some highlights:

The Tournament of Books

Each March, TMN also hosts the Tournament of Books, “the best literary prize in existence,” an event where some of the previous year’s finest novels undergo a four-week, March Madness-style contest, and the winning author is awarded/threatened with a live rooster.

TMN alumni

Joshua Allen / TMN → fireland.com
Patrick Ambrose / TMN
Nikkitha Bakshani / TMN → nikkitha.substack.com
Matthew Baldwin / TMN → defectiveyeti.com
Erik Bryan / TMN → erikbryan.com
Graham T. Beck / TMN
Jonathan Bell / TMN → thingsmagazine.net
Nell Boeschenstein / TMN → nellboeschenstein.com
Alexander Chee / TMN → alexanderchee.net, querent.substack.com
Angela Chen / TMN → angelachen.org
Lauren Daisley / TMN
Jennifer Daniel / jenniferdanielalloneword.com
Anthony Doerr / TMN → anthonydoerr.com
Liz Entman / TMN
Michael Erard / TMN → michaelerard.com
Kevin Fanning / TMN
Eric Feezell / TMN
Leah Finnegan / TMN → leahfinnegan.com
Bridget Fitzgerald / TMN
Paul Ford / TMN → ftrain.com
Meave Gallagher / TMN → meavegallagher.com
Kevin Guilfoile / TMN
Leslie Harpold / TMN
Sarah Hepola / TMN → sarahhepola.com
Llewellyn Hinkes / TMN → investigativeeconomics.org
Jessica Francis Kane / TMN → jessicafranciskane.com
Elizabeth Kiem / TMN → elizabethkiem.medium.com
David Leite / TMN → leitesculinaria.com
Todd Levin / TMN → linktr.ee/toddlevin
Dennis Mahoney / TMN → equinoxsociety.com
Pasha Malla / TMN
Margaret Mason / TMN
Beth Milton / TMN
Kate Ortega
Nicole Pasulka / TMN → nicolepasulka.com
Karolle Rabarison / TMN
Heather Rasley / TMN → heatherrasley.com
Witold Riedel / TMN → witoldriedel.com
Clay Risen / TMN → clayrisen.com
Matt Ray Robison / TMN
Michael Rottman / TMN
Nozlee Samadzadeh / TMN → nozleesamadzadeh.com
Tobias Seamon / TMN
Choire Sicha / TMN
Mike Deri Smith / TMN
Sam Stecklow / TMN → invisible.institute/sam-stecklow
Pitchaya Sudbanthad / TMN → psudbanthad.com
Anna Sutton / anna-sutton.com
Giles Turnbull / TMN → gilest.org
John Warner / TMN → biblioracle.substack.com
Melissa Batchelor Warnke / TMN → melissabatchelorwarnke.com
Emma Winsor Wood / TMN → emmawinsorwood.com

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