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I think everyone's energy would be better used talking about how awful Threads is.

Canadian reporters in Raleigh to cover the Canes game try Cheerwine for the first time

Selina Wang of NBC was filming while gunshots went off outside the White House.

Since 2012, Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) has been observed on the third Thursday of May to bring about exposure and awareness to digital accessibility. Of course, for many accessibility enthusiasts, every day is a day to bring not just awareness, but action. accessibility.day

Happy and sad for @shelbyswanson.bsky.social - happy her career appears to be on a rocket ship and sad the UNC beat loses yet another talent. Congrats on the new gig!

In evaluating faculty appointments based on “return on investment,” the people running UNC-Chapel Hill (and let’s be honest most universities) show that they don’t understand the purpose of the university www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

Love baseball? Miss the days of reading through the box scores each morning, ad free? I built a thing. boxscore.email

How to be an anonymous source: "citing deference to Mr. Schlossberg’s famous family, but also concerns that he could turn his sometimes acerbic social media posts against them." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

Some fields die before women ever get a real shot, fields such as arts journalism and late night television.

Hold on. They paid the ransom?

Fear about job prospects was the main finding in a survey of 43 undergraduate students at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media about their feelings and use of generative AI. Read more from graduate student Mila Mascenik:

To CBS Radio, founded in 1927, you can add another longtime news media outlet that will meet its end in 2026. Congressional Quarterly, founded in 1945 by Nelson and Henrietta Poynter, will cease publication in its current format as CQ magazine at the end of the year.

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.” Henry David Thoreau, who died on this day in 1862

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

"Eighty-six" or "86" in a 1920 article from Topeka, KS. I see this is also OED's earliest. This knocks out NYC's Chumley's & Empire State Building theories. A new thread. cc @davidwondrich.bsky.social 1/ www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

Visiting my parents and catching up on local news.

Here's how @dukechronicle.bsky.social covered it

Possibly the best thing in Moma's current Duchamp show is this 1913 newspaper cartoon poking fun at his "Nude Descending a Staircase"

No idea who this reporter is but if that's what you're seeing ... maybe write that, rather than waiting for TMZ? nymag.com/intelligence...

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

The Mississippi Free Press got inundated with a raft of AI-generated opinion pieces—which we pay writers for—from people who don't exist pretending to be Mississippians. One of those columns made it to publication before we caught the scam. Kevin Edwards, editor for our Voices section, explains:

🦸 Happy #NationalLibrarianDay! Over 6,000 *super* librarians joined us at #PLA2026 in #Minneapolis earlier this month. Behind every program, resource, and safe space is a librarian helping people feel seen, supported, and welcome. Tell your local librarian know how much you appreciate them!

This might be my favourite Aldi dupe yet...

Time to feel old, Gen X. Pearl Jam tour posters are on #AntiquesRoadshow.

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

Six North Carolina news organizations, including NC Newsline, are suing the University of North Carolina System for refusing to release a report on its School of Civic Life and Leadership. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-ne... #ncpol

very pleased to report everyone's favorite @financialtimes.com correction today is, in fact, in the print edition too

I found a style guide for writing from the air force academy officer training program while cleaning out some folders. It’s decades old, encourages simple language, like not using “fatuous numbskull” when “jerk” will do

Daily Tar Heel editor regrets April Fools' Day issue: "We are not a satire publication like The Onion. We did not sufficiently consider how an onslaught of satirical content, from us, would be perceived in this political climate." dailytarheel.com/article/stat...

The Daily Tar Heel’s front page marks April Fools’ Day.

Happy Michael McDonald Day to all who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYQ...

The passive voice has been deemed to be among the most egregious linguistic offences to have been committed, and it is recommended that any sentence in which it is found to have been employed be subjected to the ridicule it deserves. No exceptions are to be made, and leniency will not be extended.

I’m on my fourth rewatch of the last 10 seconds of that game. How about you?

The Town of Chapel Hill announced it will no longer post or monitor its accounts on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Read more here:

The WIRED and WSJ articles about journalists who use AI also illustrate how the usage is due to ongoing cuts in training, mentorship, and copy editing. The journalists all understand editing and SEO are important, but don't want (or can't afford) to pay for that work and expertise from human beings

“Journalists ask me, what do you think about the defeat of Islamic Republic? And I tell them, what do you think about the defeat of liberal democracy in the U.S.?”

Some American newspapers in the 1960s/70s ran an ad feature called "THINGS MEN DON'T LIKE", providing an ad copy format for local businesses. The results were mixed.

I knew that you could add "-AI" to a search to avoid the slop. But there are a lot of very neat tricks here.

“From shuttered print editions to firings, student journalists clash with universities” www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educatio...

If you aren't familiar with High Point University, this deeply reported story from 2023 will get you up to speed. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

A history of typos will soon go on display at Yale: "With this exhibition, we wanted to share ways in which even small corrections can reshape meaning and authority." www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

Pentagon orders Stars & Stripes to limit the use of wire services, eliminate comic strips and other syndicated material. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2...

Music for grading on the Friday afternoon before spring break. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCY6...

I enjoy this briefly uncorrected typo (now changed to “block”) because I too have the impulse to blog first, act later

The @newsobserver.com's Robert Willett is a national treasure. On top of being a kind and wonderful colleague, he is one hell of a photographer. waltermagazine.com/community/pe...

▶️ Me, buying two boxes of Girl Scout cookies: "I thought cookie season might be over." ▶️ Girl Scout mom: "We extended it to make up for wintry weather and so many people being on GLP-1 drugs."