Luke Winkie
Nieman Lab
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Past articles by Luke:
Is there a future for video games journalism?
The world’s power brokers are investing desperately in the games industry, but games media is another story entirely. → Read More
The New York Times’ most popular recipe is…Old-Fashioned Beef Stew?
"All of your other piddly recipes are just David in the face of beef stew. It keeps trucking." → Read More
Pageviews, assemble! Why there’s no escaping the Marvel Cinematic Universe online
In 2022, few pop-culture brands move the needle, so newspaper blue-bloods and recipe sites alike rally around Marvel Cinematic Universe content as their last stand. → Read More
What Is the Raw Meat Diet and Why Are Men Obsessed With It?
When health questions collide with a macho fantasy, r/RawMeat happens. → Read More
“Puzzles pair well with reading the news”: Why news outlets are getting into games (again)
"Some subscribers would rather game than sift through the wreckage. Can you blame them?" → Read More
Amateur Peloton Porn Is a Wild Ride
Enamored with the way their fit new bodies look after training on the beloved stationary bike, people have started making incredibly specific NSFW content using only their mounted steed, a camera and the will to sweat → Read More
I’m the PlayStation 5 Scalper Making Sure You Can’t Get One for Christmas
Well, I can get you one, of course, but you’re gonna pay → Read More
The Gift Guide for the Music Fanatic Who’s All About Vibes
Sit back and relax with these perfect presents for the audiophile and connoisseur in your life. → Read More
Can CRISPR Help Engineer a Species of Men With Honkin’ Dicks?
It’s being used to edit out problematic genes for everything from Alzheimer’s to blindness — why not use it to snip out the genes that prevent men from having 12-inch dongs, too? → Read More
So You Wanna Have Sex After a Hernia
Twenty-seven percent of men will experience a hernia. One million will have surgery for it. Almost none of them will ask about sex after hernia surgery. → Read More
Scenes From the Great Post-Lockdown Return to Partying
Americans are going hard at bars and clubs around the country—sometimes too hard. → Read More
Female video game journalists on what to do when the mob comes for you » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Remember 98% of the time the people harassing you are not attempting to engage with your work in good faith." → Read More
Indie Video Games Have Finally Embraced the Tabletop Scene
Video games like 'Monster Train,' 'Slay the Spire,' and 'Gordian Quest' use decks, cards, and dice rolls to stake their claim. → Read More
How Stat survived, and thrived, during the craziest year in health reporting history » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Our Chartbeat dial went past the maximum. It went all the way around again." → Read More
Pour One Out for Tourism — With Your Virtual Argentine Sommelier
Tourism might be dead, but a sommelier’s audience has never been more alive — and willing to shell out for a wine tour 5,000 miles away. Are we toasting to an industry savior? → Read More
Millennials Are Mourning a Fallen ’90s Icon: Sit-Down Pizza Hut
In our youth, the Hut worshipped at the altar of casual dining. Now that it’s takeout only, we’ve lost an important slice of pre-pandemic life → Read More
Trump’s presidency is ending. Is the reign of Newsmax and OAN just beginning? » Nieman Journalism Lab
"The audience is not loyal to Fox. It wants to get its fix of identity-confirming news. It will go where it can get it, and avoid where it can't get it." → Read More
How I Gave In To Temptation And Started Boosting In World of Warcraft Classic
Months ago, I wrote an elegy for the lost traditions of World of Warcraft Classic for Kotaku. After a long hype cycle touting it as a perfect recreation of the game’s provincial culture in the mid-2000s—those halcyon days before it was thoroughly brutalized by Blizzard’s egalitarian approach to server identity, difficulty scaling, and mobile game-like progression—I was disappointed to see that… → Read More
The Death of the Ron Swanson Guy
In the Obama era, a generation of white guys donned a hipster lumberjack uniform, growing beards to fill a hypermasculine void in their souls. Have they given up the ghost? → Read More
Regifting Should Be Perfectly Acceptable
We’ve been brainwashed into buying more gifts, when something from a Christmas past could be totally fine — for someone else → Read More