Brooke Baldwin says she wants more intimacy and less one-night energy. At the same time, the former anchor is building an independent journalism project that starts shooting in two weeks.
“I don’t want less intimacy. I want more,” Baldwin wrote in a Sunday Substack post. She added, “I love being deeply known, and knowing someone deeply in return,” before drawing a sharper line for this stage of her life: “Instead I crave spaciousness — in partnership or out of it.”
America, Tell Me Everything
On Wednesday, Baldwin told The Post that she has spent the past several months developing America, Tell Me Everything. She said the project will take her around the country reporting on women from different backgrounds, and framed it as a shift after twenty-plus years in mainstream media: “After twenty-plus years in mainstream media, I’m doing journalism on my terms.”
The scope sounds deliberately broad, but the method is clear. Rather than building around one city or one lane of access, the project is designed to move across the country and gather stories from women whose lives may look nothing alike. That gives Baldwin room to make the reporting feel less like a personal essay and more like a field project with a defined editorial premise.
July 19 and Paris
The career move follows a more personal July 19 post, written on a flight back home from Paris, where Baldwin said she turned down opportunities to sleep with four different men. One suitor, she wrote, was a man who “used to run a country,” and another “literally flew in just to take me to dinner.”
She also made the contradiction plain. Baldwin said casual sex remains “very much on the table,” but that she is choosing not to pursue it right now. She wrote that she loves sex and added, “If I may be so bold, I’m pretty damn good at it.”
What changes next
“Building something of my own now” is the real business signal here, not the tabloid surface. Baldwin is moving from a public-facing media career into a project she says she will control, and the two-week clock gives the launch a near-term edge instead of a vague reinvention pitch.
What the story still does not answer is the format of America, Tell Me Everything. That leaves the project in a useful but unfinished state: the point of view is set, the reporting direction is set, and the shoot date is set, but the final shape has yet to surface.
