Attention undergrads! @pewresearch.org has more than a dozen paid internships for rising juniors and seniors this summer in Washington, DC. Find more info here: www.pewresearch.org/about/intern... Apply here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

Many congratulations to @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social postdoc @meagandoll.bsky.social! Colorado’s journalism school is getting a fantastic new colleague and researcher!

Incidentally, the Minnesota Star Tribune is hiring a sports editor and investigative reporter. Say goodbye to the backwater of DC and come to where the action is! recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobB...

“As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago, and now I’m being arrested for that,” Georgia Fort said in the video. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

💬Journalists covering protests: Use CPJ's WhatApp chatbot to access all of our physical, digital, and psychosocial #JournalistSafety resources. 📲 Add CPJ’s chatbot using the number +1 206-590-6191, text the number “Hello” and select “protest safety resources.”

Does anyone have recommendations for how to take care of a baby during a period of intense democratic instability? Would appreciate suggestions…

“Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms—including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights. These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times.”

News audiences are very clear that they demand and expect media orgs to disclose virtually any use of AI even for fairly basic tasks (translation, transcription, summarizing). hsjmc.umn.edu/news/2025-04... Ordinarily, one might expect the federal government to abide by stricter standards…

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities and observers say the violence employed by ICE agents is getting worse. While this kind of response isn't new to immigrants, the difference is that many ICE observers are also having their basic constitutional rights violated.

I tried to turn my rage yesterday into something that brings us some light. For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about how 2020 prepared Minneapolis for the current crisis of Trump's DHS. newrepublic.com/article/2050...

“I’ve lived through COVID. I’ve lived through George Floyd. Now I’m living through this going on right now,” said Minneapolis high school senior Dulce, who asked that her last name not be used. “It’s a lot of piling up emotions.” www.startribune.com/parents-stan...

This description of Minneapolis is still pretty apt: "a Yankee with a small Puritan head, an open prairie heart, and a great, big Scandinavian body"

Statement from the Minnesota Star Tribune:

The Twin Cities' robust media ecosystem that is able to immediately push big local news national

In a new article with @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, we examine inequalities in news use in high-choice digital media environments. Drawing on ten years of survey data from six countries in Europe and the US, we compare offline and online news consumption patterns.🧵

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

For my @niemanlab.org prediction this year, I wrote about something that's been on my mind: I worry we put too much emphasis on the value of news as a source of information and not enough on what the experience of consuming it feels like to those who regularly engage in these rituals—or not.

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with an interdisciplinary team (me, @bstewart.bsky.social, and @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social). Link: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please apply by THIS SUNDAY, Dec. 14!

Organized Minnesota ICE Watchers tracking agents around the city, documenting, and publicizing their actions

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Amazing opportunity ⬇️⬇️

Among the many reasons newsrooms ought to have clear ethical guidelines around the use of AI... (cc: @alexmahadevan.com) The journalistic benefits of doing something like this (are there any?) pretty clearly do not outweigh all the negatives (i.e., confusing and annoying your audience).

Social media researcher @taliastroud.bsky.social (New_ Public and @engagingnews.bsky.social) presents our new nationwide poll results on how Americans really connect with their neighbors online — and the surprising gaps that deserve more attention. Watch here 📹

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Friends, there are several CS positions open at NYU; calling in my socio-technical researchers including HCI researchers cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/jobs...

I’ve been wondering about this as well. I think a lot of what’s argued in the piece is right although I tend to think changes in the media environment shouldn’t be underestimated. TikTok and Instagram in 2025 are VERY different platforms compared to social media of 2018.

Croptoberfest!

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

You can get a hardback copy of The Minneapolis Reckoning now for just $9 as PUP books go on sale (sale code: SAVE70). The paperback version is coming May 2026 but this is an even better deal. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

How effective are user corrections on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve effectiveness? In piece led by @sachaltay.bsky.social we find corrections have small effects, adding a fact-check unlikely to make them more effective misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-... 1/6

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion. More details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

“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…