Authors

Claire Wentworth is an investigative journalist with a reputation for asking the questions everyone else considered asking and then didn't. Trained in a city she describes as "formative" and a newsroom she describes as "character-building," Claire has spent fifteen years covering politics, power, and the surprisingly thin line between the two. Her work has appeared in outlets known for their editorial independence, and one outlet known primarily for its parking validation. She has been cited in three parliamentary reports, subpoenaed once, and fact-checked by someone who later admitted he hadn't read the piece. Claire joined The Pressive in its second year, which she maintains was a deliberate choice and not at all related to the timing of her divorce. A firm believer that good journalism is uncomfortable for everyone involved — including the journalist — she brings to The Pressive a methodology built on sourcing, skepticism, and the quiet confidence of someone who already knows how the story ends. She is currently not working on a book.

John Press is an award-adjacent journalist with over two decades of experience covering stories that needed to be covered by someone. A graduate of a university with a reputable-sounding journalism program, John has contributed to publications you've definitely heard of, and a few you haven't — which he'll tell you were "ahead of their time." Known for his incisive questions and his willingness to ask them, John has interviewed world leaders, minor celebrities, and at least one person who turned out to be the wrong contact entirely. His work has been described as "thorough" by his editor and "a lot" by his ex-wife. In 2019, John launched The Pressive — a media venture built on the belief that good journalism shouldn't have to be free, but probably should be readable. The Pressive distills everything he's learned about the craft into a format accessible to anyone with ambition, a Wi-Fi connection, and a healthy suspicion of the mainstream press. When he's not reporting, John is working on a book he'd rather not discuss yet following the advice of his publisher, his lawyer and his publisher's lawyers.

Kenji Mura is a technology and business journalist who has spent a decade covering the companies that shape how people work, spend, and occasionally panic — a beat he chose deliberately and has since come to understand more personally than intended. Based in Tokyo and previously in San Francisco for long enough to develop opinions about both, Kenji writes about startups, platform economics, and the recurring human instinct to describe software as a revolution. He approaches each story with the enthusiasm of someone who still believes it matters and the skepticism of someone who has been to too many product launches. His work has been translated into six languages, paywalled in three, and summarized without credit in at least one newsletter that he reads anyway. At The Pressive, Kenji covers the business of media itself — who funds it, who shapes it, and who benefits from the confusion between the two. He is the youngest member of the editorial team, a fact that is mentioned more often than he would like and less often than his editor seems to think. His book, The Polite Disruption, was published last year to genuine excitement, a brief appearance on a list that matters, and a paperback edition that came out six months later with a subtitle nobody agreed on. He is told a second printing is likely. He has been told this for some time.

Marcus Okafor is a foreign correspondent and culture writer who has reported from four continents, three conflict zones, and one press conference that he maintains was more dangerous than the conflict zones. Born and raised in Lagos, educated elsewhere, and currently based somewhere that changes depending on who's asking, Marcus has built a career on the conviction that the most important stories are the ones being told in the wrong language to the wrong audience. He has spent the last decade attempting to fix this, with mixed but interesting results. His reporting on media, identity, and the economics of attention has appeared in publications with strong opinions about their own importance. He has won recognition from two industry bodies and been politely uninvited from one press trip, for reasons that remain officially unspecified. At The Pressive, Marcus covers the intersection of journalism, technology, and the slow, unglamorous work of getting things right — which he argues is underrated as a beat. Marcus has been working on a book for the better part of two decades — a fact well documented by his wife, his colleagues, and at least three friends who have stopped asking. The title has changed eleven times. The current title is What We Meant When We Said Progress. The previous title was The Boom Floor. Before that, Just Listen. He considers the titling process part of the research and he's very proud to share the new title when he finds one.

Mina Seo is a data journalist and researcher who has spent the better part of a decade turning spreadsheets into stories and stories into things people actually read, which she considers the harder part. A former analyst at an institution whose name carries weight in certain rooms, Mina came to journalism sideways — through numbers, then context, then the uncomfortable realization that context is a form of opinion. She has since made peace with this. Her work focuses on economics, policy, and the gap between what governments measure and what they mean. She has been cited approvingly by people she disagrees with, which she accepts as an occupational hazard. At The Pressive, Mina brings a precision that balances the editorial team's more impressionistic tendencies — a role she did not apply for but has come to occupy by default. Her book, The Legible City, was published in 2022 to strong advance praise, moderate sales, and one review that confused her with a different Mina Seo entirely. The correct Mina Seo has not commented.