“At age 82, three years before she went viral, Mom typed a few notes for anyone who might write her obit. At the end, she wrote: ‘This is more than anyone would want to know. Any obituary should leave out the frills underlined in color.’ Those frills included her 22 AP state writing awards.”

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

Can someone please build an AI tool that will read all your social media feeds, filter out the ads and garbage, and repackage it in a custom feed that aggregates content from across these services while providing users full control over how it is all displayed?

I wrote this piece for the Local News Impact Consortium, which tries to make sense of what everyone is talking about when they’re throwing around terms like “landscape scans,” “needs assessments,” “ecosystem analyses,” or “asset mapping.” www.localnewsimpact.org/2025/09/01/a...

I wish more people appreciated the importance of attention w/ regards to news. Being more transparent about ___, covering more stories on ___, or quoting the right/wrong people… lots of reasons these things matter for quality of journalism but if no one is paying attention, it won’t increase trust.

Being a faculty member at a university has never been a big part of how I define my identity and I mostly haven’t had much patience for battles over faculty governance. But THIS from the president and general counsel of Harvard’s AAUP chapter really resonates… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/o...

I missed this news before (but suspect we'll see more announcements like this in the coming months): "The department also hopes to resume admissions for the fall 2027 class. However, no new applications will be accepted this cycle." www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

This seems very very bad

Interesting how far ahead of other public media sites @mprnews.org is in their online reach with @laist.com in second (also under nonprofit parent org APMG).

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

We’re hiring a junior colleague in AP @au-spa.bsky.social Please share broadly & questions can come to me! (I’m chair!) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

Attention Patrick Soon-Shiong, Jon Stewart, and anyone else who needs reminding: No, the Green Bay Packers are not a realistic business model for your local newspaper www.niemanlab.org/2022/08/no-t...

Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Among the many things outrageous in this story, what kind of nonprofit news organization forces its own journalists to sign “non-disparagement and confidentiality agreements as a condition of severance?”

Sure was terrifying enjoying the orchestra the other day in a Minneapolis park…

This is ridiculously fun.

If you can read only one thing this morning, let it be this from the wonderful @dannagal.bsky.social

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

The truth about Mark Zuckerberg’s macho-man makeover https://on.ft.com/4kP4U09

📘 Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2025 Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism By @benjamintoff.bsky.social, Ruth Palmer & Rasmus Kleis Nielsen cup.columbia.edu/book/avoidin...

Using original survey data from April, @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I demonstrate three key themes about public opinion about Medicaid: 1) people support the program -- including across red (74%) and blue (78% states) {thread}

So honored and grateful to have received The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the #ICA25 @icajsd.bsky.social for a paper with my colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Trust in News Project: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

Congrats to @benjamintoff.bsky.social, @ruthiepalmer.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, whose book, AVOIDING THE NEWS received the 2025 International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award! bit.ly/49sXnyE @icahdq.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social #ICA25 #ICA2025

Next up is another @icajsd.bsky.social panel: @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow @meagandoll.bsky.social presenting new research we conducted with @cydneygrannan.bsky.social around audience perspectives on live journalism events (conducted w/ the @texastribune.org)

Happening now: @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social MA student extraordinaire @cydneygrannan.bsky.social doing a masterful job presenting work from their thesis on source tracking at @icajsd.bsky.social More info here: linktr.ee/cydneygrannan

Some of the best, most creative public polling in America is coming from @gelliottmorris.com's substack. Everyone should be asking more open ends like this one. This is a call to subscribe, and also to every other public pollster to up their game. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-appr...

Very happy and honoured to have received The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the #ICA25 Journalism Studies division. The article was led by the amazing @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and based on data from The Trust in News Project from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social

🚨 The Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition! 📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social

Two #ICA25 presentations from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social researchers today. 1. For the early risers, me @felixsimon.bsky.social @waqasejaz.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on what variables are associated with positive/negative attitudes towards the use of generative AI in news in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇰🇦🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷

Two DFL lawmakers and their spouses shot in targeted shootings by someone impersonating a police officer, FOX 9 reporting.

Come work with me & my Big Brain, Big Heart colleagues as part of @propublica.org's Local Reporting Network! Got an idea for a must-read local investigation that could make a difference in your community? We want to know about it! Deadline: 5 p.m. ET July 21 Reporters selected will start Oct. 1

The crash in India of a Boeing 787-8 passenger jet carrying 242 people bound for London has resurfaced concerns about safety in the skies. What questions do you have about the crash, general air safety or Boeing?

It’s such a pleasure having @aimeetwoee.bsky.social join us at the University of Minnesota for the AI Spring Summit! dsai-hub.umn.edu/news/ai-spri...

Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

Metaphor for the moment

PLEASE SHARE: We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team. We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration. Come work with our great team! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Can think of a dozen or so journalism studies research projects that could be done with these data… (Attn: enterprising grad students looking for a dissertation topic!) www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/proj...

Yep. This is what we called for, too: www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

Also: I assume Harvard will try to sue fast and fix things, but the cruelty this letter unleashes *today* will induce lasting fear and panic not just on the 6800 international students at Harvard, but also on all international students in this country, even if there is a swift TRO. Why stay here?

University of Minnesota graduate student Doğukan Günaydın, who has been in ICE custody for nearly two months, will be released today following an order from a federal judge. Written by @bzosiad.bsky.social

Postdoc alert! Please share!

Good work, @andrewtangel.bsky.social 👇

And just like that, over a year of work from our team is out in the world! Our latest @pewresearch.org data essay, part of the Pew-Knight Initiative, explores how Americans decide what "news" means to them – and how it fits into their lives in the digital era. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...

Some news! Today, I launch Strength In Numbers as an independent, data-driven news website devoted to rigorous and transparent political analysis. On Wednesday we'll have our first poll, with a high-quality, non-partisan sponsor. Please share, and join us: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/building-a...

My contribution to this collection is a mood. www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

AP-NORC and NYT polls out today just brutal for Trump. Negative on every issue. 60%+ say his first 100 days have been chaotic and scary. Net immigration opinion underwater by 25 points with independents, plurality saying he has "gone too far" with deportations... Not a popular POTUS

New Minnesota Journalism Center report just published on the @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social website on how Americans are thinking about news organizations’ growing use of generative AI. Bottom line: AI remains abstract to most people and a source of considerable anxiety. hsjmc.umn.edu/news/2025-04...