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Halftone
About

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Halftone is a magazine about how things are actually run: the budget line, the water truck, the piece of software nobody chose. Every piece is reported in the place it happens and photographed there too.

18 stories · 4 desks · published since June 11, 2026

Masthead

Editor

Linnea Holm

Linnea Holm edits Halftone. She spent eleven years as a picture editor before taking the masthead.

Mira Halvorsen · Technology

Mira Halvorsen writes about infrastructure, from undersea cable to municipal software.

Correspondent

Dessie Okonkwo · World

Dessie Okonkwo reports on migration and borders. She has filed from fourteen countries for Halftone.

Rafael Viana · Politics

Rafael Viana covers budgets, procurement and the slow parts of government.

Soo-jin Pae · Health

Soo-jin Pae reports on clinics, caregiving and the economics of both.

Staff photographer

Arun Pelletier

Arun Pelletier has photographed for Halftone since the first issue.

How we work

A story is assigned when a reporter can get to where it happens and stay long enough to watch the thing work or fail. We do not run pieces written off a press release, and we do not run pieces without pictures.

Figures printed in the rail beside an article carry their source on the line below them. Where a figure comes from a body that has an interest in it, the line says so. Where we could not confirm a number, it is not in the rail.

Corrections are made on the page itself, dated, with the original wording kept in the note. A correction that changes what a piece concluded is also printed in the next issue's newsletter.

Pictures

Every photograph on this site is credited beside it. Nothing is staged and nothing is composited; adjustments are limited to exposure, contrast and cropping.

The pictures in this demo were drawn rather than photographed: generated placeholders standing in for the real thing while the theme is being set up.

Contact

Pitches, corrections and rights enquiries go to the editor, Linnea Holm. Letters about a piece should name it; we print a selection in the newsletter.