🔥. There's a YouTube Channel here with past sessions (and presumably this year's will be there after the fact, as well). www.youtube.com/@cambridgedi...

🤔 Is it bad that my big takeaway from this is that future archeologists would be able to tell if you regularly skip leg day?

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Sunday sillies: There should be a hell panel as well? edition.

I live across the street from a retirement community. It would be a lot for some of them to go protest downtown. Limited parking, long walk/lots of standing. Got home this afternoon: scores of them on the sidewalk with signs. They won't be on the news, but I thought you should know.

Stay sharp out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/b...

Do you live in the yellow? News deserts are areas that don't have access to credible local media. That matters for how the community can resist fake news. This week's UnSpun Journal Club breaks down a paper that explains. Find it here or where you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod

And my students wonder why I give 0s if there's a fact error...so long credibility. If you are going to royally screw up, don't do it in the big type! (My guess is they wrote a headline for each outcome in advance and pulled the wrong one. Common practice. Inexcusable mistake).

I am doing some experimenting with some short-form video. Anyone want to be my free focus group? What do you think?

Session on AI strategy starting with this. Does anyone listen to stuff like this?Screen

Here at the NC Local News Summit with @nclocal.bsky.social and @ncopengov.org listening to a session on structuring investigations. I'm struck how similar this is to qualitative research. Filing. Tagging. Field notes.

Interesting session on covering elections, with information from the head of the county elections office. Extreme transparency is the watchword: All meetings are open to the public Actions like evaluating absentee ballots: open to the public There's a place to record the meetings if you want

I was a judge for @ncopengov.org Sunshine Awards, and was glad to see this win. Seriously great in-depth reporting. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Quotes from keynote panel: "We literally have to fact-check every image and video that comes out of this administration" "Don't use the word hallucination. Use the word error." "AI is trained on years and years of unethical coverage" "I find myself thinking "that would be funny if it were true"

Up first at @nclocal.bsky.social summit: Keynote on AI in journalism from @alexmahadevan.com You can find information on AI and journalism from an ethics perspective here: www.poynter.org/ai-ethics-jo...

Excited to be here with @nclocal.bsky.social for the NC News & Information Summit! Pictured is Laura Lee reading a proclamation from @joshsteinnc.bsky.social for April 9 National Local News Day. Local news MATTERS. It's the glue for our community and our democracy.

The takeaway here: know the affordances of your tools and how to use them safely before you apply them to do important things. I get that with "knives are sharp". DO we know that with AI support tools? CAN we? WILL we try if we are hurrying? www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

I looked at attending this, until I saw the price tag!

Hoo boy. So, this is not great for several reasons. 1. Most readers get all of the information from the headlines. www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

"US leads worldwide decline in academic freedom. Academic freedom has declined more quickly in the United States than any other country in the past year, but it is a significant contributor to a worrying global trend of continuing decline in academic freedom, according to a new report."

The future of misinformation isn’t just about platforms. It’s about whether your town still has a newsroom. In this week's UnSpun Journal Club, I look at a paper on how local news outlets can be effective at stopping some kinds of fake news. Here or where you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod

From @macfarlanenews.bsky.social (good newsletter!): "Election security experts (including one with whom I had coffee Friday) are worried of something pernicious: That the SAVE ACT failure will seed arguments of election denialism down the road." (Don't despair | keep reading | share this thread)

Then again, perhaps I am just salty because I was not selected for impersonation...

This reads to me like "We'll build a poorly executed version of you (to eventualy replace you), and you should be grateful because exposure."

Academics sometimes do research involving collecting sensitive data from human participants. Usually, review boards have accepted password-protected devices as a reasonable security for this data during the project, but also many academics have only one such device and thus travel with it.

#SundaySillies Post-MAHA health education edition.

Advice I'd give someone who asked: Bashing other people makes YOU look bad. This is particularly true for the dead, who aren't around to hear your insults. How small you must feel to have to get that last dig in.

I'm being a bad podcaster by not promoting my current episode. BUT: In light of the Nexstar/Tegna merger makes my episode on independent journalism even more relevant. redcircle.com/shows/56c050...

More news for journalism: apnews.com/article/cbs-...

I'm being a bad podcaster by not promoting my current episode. BUT: In light of the Nexstar/Tegna merger makes my episode on independent journalism even more relevant. redcircle.com/shows/56c050...

So, the plan is invest in AI. Audience doesn't like it. Invest more in AI? I'm no business savant (I had to look up what a skunkworks is), but... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

Interesting piece on Gen. Z, work and AI. IMO, we've done this group of young adults wrong in many ways, not the least of which is not listening to them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have a big lie joke. It's very funny. It's very funny. It's very funny. It's very funny. It's very funny.

I have a data viz joke, but it's pretty graphic...

I have a journalism joke, but it's a long story.

Disinformation is everyone's problem.

This year matters. @jagolinzer.bsky.social does a nice job of breaking down (with receipts) the follow-on risks of disinformation. It even ends with a bit of hope. Give it a read, and remember, you do have agency. You don't have to be a victim. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

From Baghdad Bob to Trump suggesting war coverage was treason: The first version of a war story is rarely the final one. Understand how governments describe war and journalists cover it. More on this week's UnSpun. Here or where you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod

African swallows (NOT European)

🤔It must be so easy to give speeches and press conferences when you do everything off-the-cuff and aren't tethered by the truth. I feel like journalism's response to this of "turn on the camera and fact check later" hasn't been meeting the moment.

Interesting stuff! A little evidence that, at least on the other place, socially harmful content is rewarded. Full post is in the Alt text.

From the start, the thing missing from conversations about AI in communications is the audience. There's an assumption that people will want/pay for whatever content is produced, so whatever is the cheapest way to create that content is the superior business strategy. futurism.com/artificial-i...

#SundaySillies: Day starts at 6, but otherwise pretty accurate.

Interesting stuff! A little evidence that, at least on the other place, socially harmful content is rewarded. Full post is in the Alt text.

When it comes to the battle against misinformation, no one is coming to save us. It's up to us. Here's why and what you need to do. open.substack.com/pub/theunspu...

Controlling the narrative is a key part of authoritarian grabbing of power. Democracy requires a shared narrative and both the liminal time between free and controlled press and the completely controlled press cause big problems.

Today in #DetectingDeception: Watch out for hasty generalization. "Many people," or "Everyone," or "Liberals," or "Conservatives" as the start of a sentence is likely overstating what a group thinks based on a noisy few. 5 Tweets/Skeets/... (even emotional ones) does not equal a movement.

From the start, the thing missing from conversations about AI in communications is the audience. There's an assumption that people will want/pay for whatever content is produced, so whatever is the cheapest way to create that content is the superior business strategy. futurism.com/artificial-i...

1. Working with young people 2. Key lime pie 3. Hiking

I'd like to switch my service from narrative to documentary, please. I'm over these central casting guys.