#journalism
This past weekend, STLtoday continued looking deeper into plans to reshape the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
In print, I mapped where parishes were being subsumed and merged in #StLouis city and county — and where they weren't.
And online we charted the networks of parishes that will be sharing pastors.
#localjournalism #journalism #news #localnews #stl #religion #catholic #infographics #maps #dataviz #visualization #datajournalism
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/dom-phillips-book-how-to-save-the-amazon #Brazil #AmazonRainforest #murder #BrunoPereira #DomPhillips #journalism #legacy #Indigenous#LandDefenders #LandTheft
This is Gobinda Pokharel, Nepal's best environmental journalist. He is also a contributor for The Xylom.
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Are any Enquirer journalists involved in this walkout? Locally, I am not aware they are part of a union, but not sure who was taking part.
#Cincinnati #Ohio #Journalism #Gannett
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/business/media/gannett-journalists-walk-out.html
Meet Molly Lee, our newest work experience temp! Molly is originally from Coventry, but currently studying #journalism at De Montfort University in #Leicester. They are a geek of all things entertainment and enjoy writing local news pieces about charity events and more. Keep an eye out for her work at greatcentralgazette.org 👀
Given all the radical changes they've perpetrated on American law and society, is it appropriate to continue to refer to the "conservative" majority on the Supreme Court?
What *is* being taught in #Journalism school, anyway?
Happy Monday, #fediverse!
Here are some stories to get you started today.
Organizers in Houston are planning to protest the TEA takeover of HISD.
The demonstration will take place at the state-appointed board of managers' first HISD meeting.
Read more >>> https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/hisd-protest-board-managers-june-8-18132696.php
Read the full First Draft newsletter here: https://link.chron.com/view/6149e1b78125da14e85a7ccciva47.pjj/4d8363d1
#news #journalism #texas #houston #austin #dallas #sports #firstdraft #politics
Most of my #business #journalism isn't generalist. This piece, however, is. On its surface, we're talking lawsuits, energy utilities as political football, giants in the playground, pressure, & counter-pressure... Underneath, there's more than just what's at issue for those who invest, there's also a hell of a lot that deals with just how politics is working.
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/dom-phillips-book-how-to-save-the-amazon How to Save the Amazon will be published so Dom Phillips’ work telling the stories of rainforest defenders does not die with him #journalism #environmentaldefenders #Indigenousip #Amazon #Brazil
Brazil police charge alleged mastermind behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/05/brazil-police-charge-alleged-mastermind-behind-murders-of-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira Alleged leader of ‘transnational criminal organisation’ and a supposed subordinate have been charged over the 2022 murders of journalist and Indigenous expert. #journalism #environmentaldefenders #Indigenousip #Amazon #Brazil
Just finished “She Said,” a great look at the pair of NYT journalists who took down Harvey Weinstein.
Well acted, but what kept me into this film was the accurate depiction of how real investigative journalism is done. It makes the term “fake news” kinda laughable when you see to what lengths these two determined women go to in order to get the story right.
If you have ever wondered what happens before the ink hits the paper, watch this one.
@davidguilbault That's really racist terminology. "#journalism" 🙄🤮
Roughly 8 months ago we reported on the take over of cnn. With reporting coming out of the #Atlantic this week, we are here to say, "we told you so!"
#cnn #CalledIt #journalists #journalism #commentary #analysis
It's astonishing how many journalists seem to be unaware of the vibrant and thriving Fediverse. Despite their claims that Mastodon has failed and the Fediverse is dead, I find myself greeted with a constant stream of new posts on my feed, appearing almost every second.
Personally, I hold a strong conviction to never support or use corporate proprietary social media platforms. For me, it is a matter of moral obligation to steer clear of them.
#fediverse #journalism #mastodon #KnowBeforeYouTalk #pixelfed #fedinews
Good times.
Merciless profile of Chris Licht, the dimwit tasked with making CNN more appealing to conservatives
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/04/merciless-profile-of-chris-licht-the-dimwit-tasked-with-making-cnn-more-appealing-to-conservatives.html
#LisaLaFlamme to receive major #award for excellence in #journalism this month
https://dailyhive.com/canada/lisa-laflamme-cjf-tribute-award
"In the meantime, everyone (myself included) who is still on #Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-conservative-media-elon-musk-ron-desantis
As an aside, one thing I really appreciate about The Guardian is their willingness to call it what it is: The Climate Crisis.
#GeorgeMonbiot #Environment #ClimateChange #Diet #Food #Farming #TheGuardian #Journalism
A new read.
Part way into chapter 2. The first chapter was all about soil. I'm fascinated and have already learned so much about this understudied ecosystem. Looking forward to what else he has to share. George Monbiot is one of my favourite journalists at The Guardian. Strongly recommend his work.
#GeorgeMonbiot #Environment #ClimateChange #Diet #Food #Farming #TheGuardian #Journalism
Finally, we're going to have someone who can ask hard questions and follow up on those empty and vapid responses.
#ChuckTodd #MeetThePress #journalism #USpolitics
https://news.yahoo.com/chuck-todd-leaving-nbc-political-140117663.html
We play this silly game EVERY year with lazy headlines, and then have to spend time EXPLAINING how all this stuff really works
The Galaxy S23 Ultra Does NOT cost $469 to Make. Please Stop Lying to Your Readers and Viewers…
#tech #technology #smartphone #geek #gadgets #electronics #business #news #samsung #apple #google #editorial #journalism
"While the CNN staffing cuts and departmental restructuring may help the parent company’s bottom line, there is a growing sense that it is starting to fuel efforts by CNN rivals."
My review of Deborah A. Cohen's "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial" -- a massive undertaking, well-researched and informative.
A must-read if you want to learn more about the "Hemingrebels" (aka "the Lost Generation")...
#History #Books #Literature
#Nonfiction #Literary #Review
#Generations #ForeignPolicy
#ForeignAffairs #WorldHistory
#International #Relations
#Journalism #Global #Conflict
Good news!
"Chuck Todd leaving NBC political panel show ‘Meet the Press’"
https://apnews.com/article/chuck-todd-nbc-press-welker-88e21c5602b15b3ef298a8909f3601f2 @msnbc #journalism #4E
This is great news! Chuck Todd was perhaps the most disastrously incompetent host of any of the Sunday morning news shows. He was an utter disgrace and he had no business being on television.
https://apnews.com/article/chuck-todd-nbc-press-welker-88e21c5602b15b3ef298a8909f3601f2
Two young boys get killed by gunshots while playing with kittens in their own yard.
Sounds like "The Onion", but it isn't. To add insult to injury, quite literally, #CBS identifies them as #immigrants. They "came to America" from ...Puerto Rico!
Being an immigrant should not be an insult, but this kind of ignorance is, and it has a purpose.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boys-killed-playing-kittens-yard-jesus-perez-salome-sebastian-perez-salome-lebanon-pennsylvania/
#racism #guncontrol #journalism #journalists #news
If CNN could be more center btwn Fox and MSNBC, I can see it not being that bad. But TBH, I fear it'll go all the way RIGHT.
Thoughts?
#USA #PressFreedom #Journalism #News #Assange #Wikileaks: "All that matters in this case is that Assange was engaging in acts of journalism indistinguishable from the acts carried out every day in the New York Times, the Guardian and elsewhere. If he can be prosecuted for those acts, so can they.
It’s why virtually every single civil liberties, press freedom and human rights organization in the world has repeatedly urged the justice department to drop these dangerous charges.
Now, all newspapers know this. It’s why when the charges first came out every editor condemned them. Since then, the New York Times and the Guardian have signed a letter calling the charges “dangerous” and for them to be dropped. But that’s not sufficient. There’s not been consistent pressure on the justice department, there’s no campaigning by the newspapers, there’s no constant reminders on social media – nothing."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/04/julian-assange-us-justice-department-wikileaks
I've known a fellow now for many years - I think of him as a #friend, though all of our interaction from the start has been over IP packets. He served the #USA in #Vietnam and paid a price for it, and then went back as a #war #journalist. He mostly writes #opinion columns now, but did a lot of different #freelance #journalism things.
He's truly Seen Things no man should see. As such, his writings are sometimes hard to read. But perhaps you'd like to give it a shot.
French public television replaces traditional weathercasts with weather-and-climate reports.
#Climate #ClimateScience #Journalism #Meteorology
https://coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat-story/a-path-breaking-innovation-in-climate-journalism/
Simon Clark returns with a great revisit of an Inconvenient Truth, inaccuracies as well as ones that are consistent with the science known at the time and a lot to say about journalism and platforms.
Gore was made a target by science denial, so in general I don’t think his own grand standing would have mattered. The political interests funding denialism has deep delusional drives to discredit academia.
23 min video
Hearts and Minds Media
Voice of America and Radio Free Europe have broadcast in dozens of languages.
How’s that going in Afghanistan?
“The US tends to put things in moral frameworks that are often a distortion of what they’re actually doing,” Hannah Gurman, a scholar at New York University who has studied hearts-and-minds campaigns, says.
“It’s always obscuring the actual violence of US power in these places.
It’s always propaganda.”
“…So why are #news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?
Ego is probably the main answer to that question. A lot of journalists have built up very large followings on Twitter… It’s time to start trying, though: we can’t keep hand-wringing about #Twitter turning into a cocktail party for Nazis while stubbornly refusing to leave the room.”
#journalism #Media #socialmedia #oligarchy #extremism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-conservative-media-elon-musk-ron-desantis
I'm sorry did you say that news.com.au is Australia's leading news site?
By who's fucking measure?
Australia's least reliable news site.
Australia's biggest source of lies pretending to be news.
Australia's leading advertising arm of the RWCNJ LNP cvnts.
Australia's leading employer of stenographers pretending to be journalists whilst not having any writing skills.
Australia's only employer who tells all staff to leave their ethics at the door.
#newscorp #newscorpse #murdochisacunt
#murdoch #liar #journalism #lol
potholer54 (Peter Hadfield)
This 4-minute video got climate "denialists" very excited (and doesn't say what they think it says!)
23 min video
potholer debunks climate denialism.
This particular story may be relevant to the climatology community in some contexts. The denialists have got themselves another viral video. forwarned is forearmed.
A reminder that when authorities give themselves greater clampdown power, they'll use it against anyone they don't like
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/05/31/uk-police-detain-uk-investigative-journalist-klarenberg-and-grill-him-over-journalism-political-views/
#UK #Skwawkbox #Journalism #Fascism
Rome. A different sort of political magazine.
Uff, what a portrait. Can you recover from that?
Brilliant Text!
CEO #ChrisLicht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious #journalism. How did it all go wrong?
#TheAtlantic #News #TV #longread
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255
The final paragraph...🧐
'On Friday, Puck News reported that Licht was no longer in control of #CNN business operations. 🤠
David Leavy, a Zaslav lieutenant, was appointed chief operating officer.'
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/03/trump-cnn-town-hall-chris-licht-atlantic #trumptownhall :blobnom: #journalism
@wdlindsy and yet pathetic #journalists cling to the platform #journalism #Twitter
"... everyone (myself included) who is still on Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?
"Ego is probably the main answer to that question. A lot of journalists have built up very large followings on Twitter. Nostalgia is another factor ..."
Full article by Arwa Mahdawi at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-conservative-media-elon-musk-ron-desantis
Yesterday was a little noisy 🥳 with #Newstodon Friday and I wanted to make sure all #fediverse friends realize that investigative journalist and #typewriter enthusiast @Singernews is here among us now!
Could you give him a warm welcome? thx! #journalism #journalists #news
Dear journalists,
For the love of God, please stop calling anything that uses machine learning or data science "artificial intelligence".
It is about as accurate as calling anything that transports humans a "boat".
- Me
@jeffjarvis
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12 Print Evolves: Until 1800
13 Aesthetics of Print
14 Steam and the Mechanization of Print
15 Electricity and the Industrialization of Media
16 The Meaning of It All
PART III: Leaving the Parenthesis
17 Conversation vs. Content
18 Death of the Mass
19 Creativity and Control
20 Institutional Revolutions
#TheGutenbergParenthesis
#Journalism #Media #History #commodon @communicationscholars
Nothing beats a fresh look at the past to make sense of the present. “The Gutenberg Parenthesis” by @jeffjarvis is high on my Summer reading list. E-book offers generous portion as a free sample.
PART I: The Gutenberg Parenthesis
1 The Parenthesis
2 Print's Presumptions
3 Trepidation
PART II: Inside the Parenthesis
4 What Came Before
5 How to Print
6 Gutenberg
7 After the Bible
8 Print Spreads
9 The Troubles
10 Creation with Print
11 The Birth of the Newspaper
THE MYTH OF THE “SELF-MADE” PLUTOCRAT and its impact throughout US society, with some encouraging dispatches from places where other ideas, like mutual aid and cooperatives, are working. Well researched, wide-ranging reporting. B PLUS
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bootstrapped-alissa-quart?variant=40517189599266
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #nonfiction #history #economics #politics #journalism
Chotiner, Koppel, Kissinger: New Yorker journalist famous for skewering morally compromised people skewers Ted Koppel for befriending a war criminal
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/ted-koppel-on-covering-and-befriending-henry-kissinger
#journalism #kissinger #politics #chotiner #koppel #-
This is why I was willing to cut Chris Licht some slack right up until the Trump town hall. I agree with him here, and it’s a shame that his tenure has been such a disaster.
“Licht sought to differentiate CNN from both networks—slamming Fox News for being a duplicitous propaganda outfit, and rebuking MSNBC for trafficking in hysteria.” #journalism https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/
Happy #followfriday and #Newstodon Friday #fediverse! We're Chron, Houston's source for culture and commentary.
Here's a few of our favorite stories from this week:
🐘 First up, did you know elephants at the Houston zoo take daily yoga classes? Read more here: https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/houston-zoo-elephant-yoga-18129938.php
#introduction #news #journalists #journalism #sports #culture #animals
FB: one person likes a post linking to a Phoenix TV story about an Asian-American veteran standing up for his rights in conservative Wickenberg, AZ
Twitter: Crickets. We're still waiting.
Mastodon: Dozens share it. Many people comment and begin talking to each other. It helps that the man is on Mastodon and is participating, but the post started getting boosted long before that.
FB & Twitter are anti-social media.
Happy Friday, #fediverse!
Here are some stories to get you started today.
Everything Texans need to know about poison hemlock, an invasive plant found growing in the state that is highly toxic.
Read more >>> https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-poisonous-plant-hemlock-18128605.php
Read the full First Draft newsletter here: https://link.chron.com/view/6149e1b78125da14e85a7ccciusrg.wax/c8e14c36
#news #journalism #texas #houston #austin #dallas #sports #firstdraft #politics
It's #Newstodon Friday again, the day where #news organizations who are active here on #Mastodon show you their best work!
#JOURNALISM SUPER FRIENDS ASSEMBLE!
@damemagazine @TexasObserver @kcts9 @themarkup @thexylom @mongabay @TucsonSentinel @Chron @ProPublica
A fine example of tick-tock journalism. No, not TikTok
See https://www.politico.com/story/2009/12/the-art-of-the-tick-tock-030248
#fediverse friends! pls welcome @Singernews!
Teach him all yr good #fediverse tips and @fedifollows -- esp. about good hashtags for #journalism!
So many folks come here and feel like there's nothing going on, you know? But we can fix that! 😁
Also #typewriter folks assemble!!!
It's #Newstodon Friday again and today we have something very very special! We have 3 new or newly awakened accounts from folks in our newsroom...follow them & give them all your best #fediverse tips!
@meghansmith covers #disability and #reproductive rights and much more!
@AZITA is our #politics editor (and a funny dissector of #realitytv
@Singernews is our #investigative #journalism editor and a collector of #typewriters!
Please welcome all these folks as they make their #introduction!
Very rarely I check out The New York Times' replica edition, which is buried under stacks of menus. Prompted by a reader, I just looked, and it seems to be gone. Does anyone know what happened? #journalism
Beau with important comments regarding election and Twitter. The pigsty of the blue check mark and fake accounts presents huge problem. Nobody will even be who they seem to be. I have to wonder at individuals who do not prepare for alternatives.
4 min video
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🌱 Join us this #WorldEnvironmentDay as our editors Ramesh Bhushal, Zobaidur Rahman, Farahnaz Zahidi, Joydeep Gupta and Atika Rehman discuss the importance of environmental stories from the #HimalayanWatershed.
📅 Mon, June 5th
⏰ Set a reminder: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJpmRyLQdxE?s=20
#twitterspace #twitter #editors #stories #environmentday #webinar #discussion #environmentaljournalism #journalism #reporting #Himalayas #southasia
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#FOIFriday #transparency #openaccess #journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
#FOI reveals crimes on trains and at railway stations since the start of 2021.
There were 74 offences in Wrexham and 102 in Flintshire - with the most common crime in both being railway trespass (22 in Wrexham and 26 in Flintshire).
https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/23538447.trespassing-common-crime-wrexham-flintshire-railways/
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
An alternative to how many traffic penalties were handed out - who is getting the fines?
#FOI reveals since full enforcement started on April 1, only 34% of penalties issued by Tunbridge Wells Council were to vehicles registered in the Borough.
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
More than 3,000 West Midlands residents are facing lengthy waiting times for council-managed allotments, with some waiting over six years for a plot.
On average, residents are waiting approximately 35 months for a plot according to #FOI.
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
At what speed are those breaching the limit most likely to be caught out?
When it comes to speed cameras or mobile vans in hotspot locations, it is drivers doing between 40 and 49mph who are caught speeding most often, according to an #FOI
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/speed-limit-drivers-most-often-26987841
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
Met police are planning to cut the number of mental health callouts they attend.
21 forces that responded ton an #FOI all showed an increase since 2017.
In Merseyside, mental health-related incidents increased from 7,629 in 2017 to 28,039 last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64891572
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
The total weekly bill was £582,834 for 4,611 children, with 721 pupils getting taxis to school outside their local authority area, an #FOI reveals.
The biggest spender was Stockport at £138,515, though the highest number of pupils was 1,161 in Salford.
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
More Scottish patients are choosing to go private, #FOI shows.
In 2019-20, 1,821 patients were removed from waiting lists at the four boards after deciding to have their treatment privately instead. In 2022-23 it was 2,669, an increase of 46.5 per cent.
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
Two machine guns and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition have been lost by the Ministry of Defence in the last two years, an #FOI reveals.
The Government department admitted lethal weapons and bullets vanished in 2021 and 2022.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/machine-guns-pistols-rifle-ammunition-30085524
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
Want more tips on what to do about your Section 22 (information intended for future publication) refusal:
https://clairemiller.net/blog/2019/10/section-22-yes-but-are-you-really-planning-to-publish-the-information-in-my-foi/
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
The ICO is generally going to expect the public authority to explain the information or put it in context instead.
The number of fines may just be the number of fines, it doesn't have to say anything about the success/failure of the scheme.
So the public interest may override.
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
Bristol Council plan to release the fines data after a year: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/revealing-number-bristol-clean-air-8444974
While refusing to speed up publication because it means extra pressure on staff can be a legitimate reason, the requested information being potentially misleading or confusing is unlikely to be.
This week's #FOIFriday: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/06/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-2-6-2023-foifriday/
#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism
Turned off Javascript forever because writers can't stop embedding tweets into their publications. #Journalism
Judge orders New Hampshire Public Radio to turn over transcripts of interviews in libel case. #journalism https://indepthnh.org/2023/05/31/judge-orders-nhpr-to-turn-over-transcripts-of-interviews-in-spofford-defamation-case-for-his-review/
I had a LOT of fun writing the newsletter this week after deciding I was going to write it in the style of an LLM chatbot. Pure goofy fun.
If you think that might be fun to read, you have a few hours to sign up. The newsletter is $5/month and I depend on it to keep my independent news site running! I'd be so grateful if you'd join us!
This is intriguing to say the least. Imtiaz Patel is leaving as CEO of The Baltimore Banner, one of the most respected nonprofit startups, to take a high-level job at Gannett. #LocalNews #journalism https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/nonprofit-philanthropy/imtiaz-patel-baltimore-banner-ceo-publisher-VWFOL6HXU5GF5OS3U2ERB67FDQ/
Transgender tee shirts for toddlers? What could go wrong with scaring people with the idea that that's something.
omgggg!!! what a day! You all have awakened the MIGHTY @azita, our #Politics editor!
She is one of the very most interesting of my newsroom colleagues but she's having that classic new-to-the #fediverse situation where you log in and it feels like nothing is happening.
Pls follow her and connect her to ALL THE THINGS and of course tell her all about #FensterFreitag and #Caturday and @FediFollows!!! #politics #introduction #introductions #news #journalism
OMG! Guys, my colleague @meghansmith has arrived on the #fediverse scene. Pls give her a warm welcome & yr best #fediverse tips & follows.
Meghan has carved out a beat on #disability and #accessibility and also does A+ Instagram Reels. A short thread of Meghan's work in replies to this toot:
CNN's ratings are tanking since the Trump Town Hall. (Good, they deserve to.)
"Perhaps CNN’s leaders are new at this and didn’t know how [the Trump Town Hall] would play out; perhaps they were fully aware this is what would happen, and they allowed it to play out anyway. Either way you slice it, they don’t come out looking good."
https://newrepublic.com/article/172986/chris-licht-cnn-trump-ratings #USPol #CNN #TrumpTownHall #journalism
Cumberland County, Pa. #newspaper to cut #publication schedule in half, says it is “changing with the habits of its readers.” Depressing. #journalism
Aim that one at #press #journalism #journalists
@jayrosen_nyu Many suitable alternatives, some of which I have seen in coverage: Hard-line, hard-right, far-right, extreme right. The word "conservative" politically has lost its meaning.#journalism #USPol
The preview image on this #Reuters graphics piece had me scratching my head ... was it a graphical glitch caused by Twitter's poor image resizing algorithms (which have messed up plenty of my textmode screenshots in the past)? ... Or was it intentional?
Either way, it's kind of cool ... it's like a photo slowly becoming an Atari 400/800/XL/XE screen.
#journalism #pixelart #graphics #art #retrocomputing #newsgraphics #news
This morning on Assigned we're looking at how the sausage of extermination is being sold to the mainstream public by mainstream conservative columnists.
Jonah Goldberg wrote today in the LA Times about the upside of political violence targeting brands who advertise to the queer community.
He didn't refer to violent threats, of course. No, no, those are just "excesses" of the "anti-woke campaign." #journalism #trans
No surprise that #Succession is the show finale the mainstream political press is covering obsessively… as with #SNL, it’s a show that decision makers at these orgs think is important. But it’s not the most watched streaming show by far, nor is #SNL today a show that merits weekly recaps in major newspapers. Leaders at the #WashingtonPost and #NewYorkTimes make choices that reflect their world views — biases — by deciding what to cover and not cover. Goes far beyond TV. #journalism #USPol
It's wired in, it's blatant, and it's old news, but to me it remains pretty remarkable that the establishment press in the U.S. uses the term "conservative" to mean any action the extreme right wing favors.
The more extreme the act, the more "conservative" are the actors!
Thus, the Freedom Caucus in the House — the members of which are the most ready to let the U.S. default on its debt — are routinely described as the most conservative faction in the government.
For the millionth time… editors, the #media and #journalists… a #Tesla vehicle is, **at no time**, capable of “self-driving”.
There is no “self-driving mode”.
Publishing these terms and descriptions only serve to advance Tesla’s and #Musk’s lies and are an immense public safety hazard.
Peace! You can call me Bry, they/them. I was born in 2002, and am 21 at time of writing.
I call myself a storyteller because I do many forms of storytelling and it's a nice summary of all of them. Currently, I'm focusing on #writing, mostly #journalism. I am also interested in #theatre, the #marchingarts, #music, and other forms of telling stories.
I am #disabled in several ways. I wear ear defenders regularly, and probably need to start using some sort of mobility aid. If you wanna talk about shared experiences, it would be my pleasure!
I am #muslim, and love studying and learning about all religions. I am considering becoming a chaplain of some kind. I feel I may be able to help other queer and progressive folk who feel alienated by their religious communities.
I am also plural—the world inside our head is massive, confusing, and terrifying. We mostly present as a single individual, though. It's just what works for us/me.
I am some sort of communist, though I haven't been able to read much theory. I think living your beliefs is more important than academeizing them anyway.
I have a deep hatred of car dependent infrastructure and car culture. I try to live my life without using a car as much as possible. I guess that falls under #urbanism, though I can't think of a super clever way to incorporate that tag.
My DMs are open, if you ever want to talk! You can ask for my discord or instagram as well. I hope you find something worthwhile here!
Here's something I wrote for @JURISTnews about the fraught historic relationship between the #WhiteHouse and its press corps -- a topic I'll explore in greater depth in a book to be published next year. https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2023/05/white-house-at-odds/ #journalism #media #presidency
'Succession' and the future of social media, new from me at Popula
https://popula.com/2023/05/28/the-ourobouros-of-succession/
#journalism #succession #ourobouros #SocialMedia #twitter #mastodon