Lots of good reporting from local media outlets, including the Star Tribune. Here's their live blog. No paywall.

“The sky is blue, the Earth is round, and Jan. 6 was a historically violent day that will forever be a stain on this country’s history. Political convenience does not change the facts.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Finished watching "Stranger Things" a few days after everyone else. I love the closing credits for the series. www.reddit.com/r/StrangerTh...

The US invades a sovereign nation and kidnaps its president and first lady and a story about it doesn't make the front pages of the four largest newspapers in NC. I know print is increasingly irrelevant but this feels like front page news, and some of the smaller "local" papers know it.

Fascinating to me that NPR is going with the Secretary of War nomenclature.

There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution elink75f.mail.breakermedia.com/ss/c/u001.o7...

New year's resolution for journalists and news leaders: Challenge numbers. When leaders describe a $6 Billion data center" ask — what's behind that number? Where does the money go? The $xB industry -- is that money to local economies, or investors? This is an almost universal miss that can be fixed.

Looking for a job in #editing? @acesediting.bsky.social is a great resource! They can support you in your job-seeking journey with a host of resources just for editors: aceseditors.org/resources/jo... #amediting #freelanceediting #publishing #editor #copyeditor #freelanceeditor #editingjobs

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1. n.pr/4scrT9d

Merry Christmas to family, friends and followers!

This time of year I always think of this deliciously unhinged photo shoot with Truman Capote & Andy Warhol for High Times magazine's 1978 Xmas issue, with Capote soused to the gills & Warhol gamely playing along as Santa. I want someone to write an extended oral history of this photo shoot alone

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

‪The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Today I saw "Al Gore" in a news story and initially interpreted it as "Artificial Intelligence Gore."

Last night I dreamt that The New York Times was hiring a handkerchief editor. Duties included guiding coverage of hankies, ascots and small designer scarves.

Rise of Skywalker, the entire theater knew it would suck ass the second it started, it reminded me of watching the Mets or Raiders collapse, everybody was actively pissed off, saying stuff like "oh god" or laughing at how shit it was. A real bonding moment

Incredible ad placement for this @politico.com story about Olivia Nuzzi's book flopping. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

UT-Dallas fired the editor of the student paper, then fired the staff when they went on strike to object, then banned their independent newspaper from campus, and now are trying to discipline the former student editor for fact-checking a letter to the editor? Glad @thefireorg.bsky.social is on this.

Editor In Chief of Quinnipiac's student paper steps back from news coverage in order to not risk her visa. "For her, the irony is sharp. She comes from a country that was once under communist rule, and she viewed the U.S. as a beacon of free expression." nutgrafnews.substack.com/p/internatio...

What photojournalist Ann Hermes does may look like nostalgia, but she’s actually capturing something else – people and places on the brink of change. That includes local newsrooms. “This is for me a love letter to journalism,” Hermes said. www.poynter.org/local-news/2...

Come work with me! Salary range $85,000-$100,000. Benefits include a union, fairly low insurance premiums and so many cat photos. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

*presses record* Idea for movie: a maverick proofreader breaks all the rules & defies his bosses by making er, clear & concise corrections, wait a minute, delete

When “yes” is the answer to a question headline.

Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s? I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research Thanks!

“I was under the impression that we were protected from being affected by any anti-DEI legislation and rulings because of our First Amendment right to freedom of press, but it appears I was wrong,” Alice Magazine Editor-in-Chief Gabrielle Gunter said in a statement Tuesday.

NYT editor takes reader questions about covering Trump. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

“Are you silently correcting my grammar?” Nah, we’re good. We all make mistakes, especially in casual conversations.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

from Woman's Way, 1970 #cheese #manfood

To try to avoid the Trump administration’s ire, Duke has instructed faculty not to speak to reporters dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day. Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great. So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.

AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.

The Raleigh holiday parade is today. Its official name: ABC11 Crossroads Ford Apex Raleigh Christmas Parade presented by Shop Local Raleigh

The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) released a new report documenting an escalating assault on faculty governance structures across the country, with state legislatures in multiple states moving to strip faculty senates of their authority and independence.

What’s going on with headline writing. From now on, I may add that statement to many that I see.

There is renewed criticism over the names of military and DHS operations, including the most recent, Operation Charlotte's Web. www.wunc.org/2025-11-16/w...

A lot of learning in today’s sports section.

I will create the internet's foremost Headline Criticism platform.

Today among the tabloids

“If you want to bully people —particularly the free press — if you want to bully them, there’s a price to pay. And that price is going to be in the millions,” said Eric Meyer, owner and editor of the Marion County Record. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Today's music for grading: "Being John Malkovich" (1999) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiY...

For non-journalists, it’s helpful to see what Standards and Practices guidelines look like. Here, for example, are the AP’s. www.ap.org/wp-content/u...

Do we want to talk about the inept spacing, or that "just lay there" should be "just lie there"?

No joke, they used to show Ivy League football on PBS.

The next mayor of New York on a lot of world fronts today

After Game 5 vs. After Game 7 It's almost as if sports commentary is an exercise of post-facto rationalizations!

"My father dropped dead. His headline lives on. "Fifty years after my father, William J. Brink, wrote the words “Ford to City: Drop Dead” on a piece of copy paper at The New York Daily News, the headline endures in the national consciousness." — Bill Brink

Do you have gift cards you haven't used that can be used to buy groceries? Grocery stores, WalMart, Target, Amazon (can order to pick up at Whole Foods), warehouse clubs This is a good time to call the social worker at your local school and see if families have need.