New York Focus Adds Events Manager and Managing Editor 69%

By New York Focus75%

7/24/2026, 2:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Optimism Bias, and Halo Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 46.8% saturation with 110 hits. Analysis detected 597 faulty-reasoning hits from 235 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.1% and a BS Rank of 69% (8,124 of 25,563 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.20% of the article peer group.

One of the best parts of working at New York Focus is meeting our readers and having in-person discussions about the future of New York. 
We’re so excited to announce that we will soon be doing that much more often, with the help of our new events manager, Kara King. 
Kara started at Focus this month and will be working to bring a community around our work and enliven New York civic life. 
She’ll create events from intimate member salons and neighborhood storytelling nights to public forums, teach-ins, and live journalism. 
Kara previously produced events featuring top government, business, and advocacy leaders at the Washington, DC-based outlet The Hill. 
Meet Kara and other Focus staff at our summer happy hour next Tuesday, July 28! 
And if you have ideas for Kara  events we should put on, speakers you’d want to hear from, organizations we should partner with  reach out at kara@nysfocus.com. 
We’re also thrilled to welcome Cassi Feldman as our permanent managing editor. 
Cassi has served as interim managing editor since January and has become an indispensable part of the team. 
She has previously served as editor-in-chief at Type Investigations and senior enterprise editor at NBC News Digital, and she’s also worked at newsrooms including 60 Minutes, Chalkbeat New York, and City Limits. 
Cassi would love to hear from you! 
Reach out at cassi@nysfocus.com. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
9.8%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
7.7%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
36.2%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
12.3%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
10.6%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
28.9%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
13.6%
Primacy Effect
7.7%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
28.9%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
9.8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
46.8%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
41.7%

235 words analyzed.

Analysis

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