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Chicago pope

20 years in the making!

Sara Bareilles, Love Song. All-time grocery store banger.

AEJMC friends, I'm running for AEJMC PF&R Committee. If you see a ballot link in your inbox and can take a minute, I'd appreciate your vote!

Tough day for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Can't ever really re-watch much of Curb Your Enthusiasm at this point.

Herren volk shit

1 week ago

Chasing points before the 4th quarter rarely pays off

Chasing points before the 4th quarter rarely pays off

The House is Great

35 years ago today... a brand-new record for 1990.

Greathouse. In the middle of our street.

In the arms of Angeli

Merry Christmas 2024

Fun time of year where I am punished with roughly 20 emails per hour from every company I've ever divulged my email for a $5 discount.

I get why journalists are reticent to try to port a following to a new platform—I was, and I still post my work everywhere—but if your career is predicated on people clicking your links and engaging with your work, this site is the only one not actively working against that.

How Innovation Keeps an Activist Ugandan News Site Ahead of the Government www.cjr.org/world/how-in...

What will a second Trump term mean for the Freedom of Information Act www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/what...

Another great starter pack 👇

The United States now has: • 45,020 reporters • 275,550 public relations specialists For every reporter, there are now six PR people. (data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

To be clear, it's not just the government who is an increasing threat to independent journalism. Rich people—from Peter Thiel to Elon Musk to Maury Blackman—are doing their best to sue news organization's out of existence.

Hard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I don’t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.

2024’s other big loser? The mainstream media. Is there any path forward? www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Bad News: Legacy media must compete against a choose-your-own-adventure reality www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

If we want meaningful oversight of a second Trump administration, the lame-duck Congress needs to act quickly to pass the PRESS Act, which will protect journalists from government surveillance and from court orders to reveal their confidential sources. #1A #journalism

Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK.  mashable.com/article/elon...

Welcome to all the new folks incoming. I hope this means people are cutting The Bad Place loose. I've got a starter pack for folks either in journalism/mass comm academia or who are adjacent to it. Some great folks here, and if you'd like to be included please @ me!

DePaul men's basketball 2-0. Next one matches last year's win total!

Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity www.cjr.org/opinion/wald...

Gannett’s gag order on local journalism -- orders no presidential endorsements firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/gannett...

Loss of jobs in newspapers is the single largest drop in all industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Percentage wise, the industry’s losses are the fourth greatest among OEWS sectors, on par with manufacturers of cassette tapes and DVDs. www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/medi...

Great to have Greg Pratt on campus this evening talking about his book on the Lori Lightfoot administration.

34 years ago tonight

My ★★★ review of Ad Astra on Letterboxd boxd.it/7AjMCP

We should bring back #FollowFriday on here tomorrow like Twitter days of yore. Accepting follow recs.

30 years ago today

Are we at a tipping point over here?

19 years ago....

Happy FOIA Day

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