Behind the Blog: Our Second Anniversary Party!

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we have a slightly shorter than usual entry from the gang, with some party pics and musical selections from the night.

SAM: We’re all still recovering, processing, and floating on the overwhelming support and encouragement we felt from everyone who came to the second anniversary party last night. Thank you again to our sponsor for the evening, DeleteMe (get 20% off with them here as a thank-you to our community with code 404media) and farm.one for being awesome hosts, and especially thank you to everyone who came, cheered us on from afar, and made the last two years possible. 

Emanuel is headed home this morning and sent us a voice note, and he sounds like he screamed for three hours straight last night. Jason is also headed home, and said he might need to lay down on the airport floor. Signs of a great party if you ask me. 

If you couldn’t make it in person or want to recap, we’re publishing the live podcast soon.

Here are some highlights from the night: 

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We just published our second anniversary reflection where we go into a lot more detail about what we’ve accomplished with your support and want to do next. Read it here.

JOSEPH: I just want to thank everyone who came out to our party last night. It was really mindblowing how many people came, but also how engaged everyone was about the work, journalism, tech, and so much else.

The music playing was my playlist which I put together, which some people may have hated but I think it worked :)

Spotify free won’t let me scroll entirely through the list so here are some select tracks. Back on Monday with scoops. Thank you. 

Cosmos los Cerdos

Teffa - EP

City of Glass Live

Extant