“It’s not a riot. It’s a large, prolonged disturbance.” Working through fact-checks and BS-checks (A Throwback Post) dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/03/05/i...

If you're having kind of a case of the mid-semester blues, consider this junk drawer post the energy drink of the journalistic mind: dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/03/04/t...

Reuters editor Jaimi Dowdell talks about the data team’s recent look at AI failures in medical procedures, how to do deep-dive stories and the importance of growth through discomfort as a journalist dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/03/02/r...

UNC policy allows the U to record classes without telling professors or students, while students aren’t allowed to record at all dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/02/25/u...

Cleveland Plain Dealer honcho Chris Quinn writes off criticism of his AI passion project as “uninformed outrage,” while still being wrong about almost everything, including college journalism programs dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/02/23/c...

Cleveland Plain Dealer honcho Chris Quinn took time out of his busy schedule to crap all over journalism schools about their views on AI, despite not actually knowing their views on AI dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/02/19/c...

You can call ‘This is How a Child Dies of Measles’ an act of ‘creative non-fiction,’ but where I’m from, we call it ‘lying’ dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/02/17/y...

I've been out about two weeks after emergency gallbladder surgery, so today marks my return to the classroom, and the return of the blog for the winter semester. dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/02/16/j...

In traditional journalism, we call this lying.

Excited to see this article in print! Colorado Tech Law Review published the work @jeremylittau.com and I did on First Amendment challenges when states try to ban use of AI in political campaigns, and some other policy options when political speech bans may be struck down. ctlj.colorado.edu?p=1447

Four things to know to keep your first media writing class from sucking (A throwback post) dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/01/29/f...

“He put himself in that situation:” The reason why people can justify the shooting death of Alex Pretti dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/01/28/h...

If this stat is true, it makes me recall something I told my kid: If your main worry about doing something is that someone else might find out, you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

Random Journalistic Thoughts After The Shooting Death of Alex Pretti dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/01/26/r...

I have often thought, “I wonder if people like Kelly believe in what they are saying or if it’s that the money is so good, they convince themselves to say it.”

Want to be a better journalism professor this year? Learn how to weld dynamicsofwriting.com/2026/01/12/w...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

My usual reminder that “we’re gonna file a lawsuit” isn’t news. That’s a press release. “We filed a lawsuit and here’s the complaint” is news.

“Dr. McCoul is disappointed by the University’s unexplained decision to uphold her termination, but looks forward to pursuing her First Amendment, Due Process, and breach of contract claims in court very soon,” Reichek wrote in a statement. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/t...

If Jesus had been born in Wisconsin... first-draft.com/2017/12/24/i...

When I advised the student newspaper at UWO, we once got sued for 5 minutes over something like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Um… phrasing?

How long does it take Bari Weiss to destroy journalistic integrity? 60 Minutes. (Sorry if someone already came up with this).

A student reporter I advised once did an entire story out of “no comments” so i would imagine the head of “60 Minutes” would know that, too: advancetitan.com/news/2017/03...

The “North Star” she is navigating by turned out to be the Delta shuttle from LaGuardia…

One of the first things I would tell sources who declined to comment on a story was that the story was going to run either way, so it was important for them to speak up now if they had something to say.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

So, will CBS News killing a story for patently obvious political reasons the Sunday before Christmas still be a topic of discussion when media law & ethics class when we start up again in 3 weeks? Or will it have faded and been superseded by new and even worse horrors?

UT-Dallas fired the editor of the student paper, then fired the staff when they went on strike to object, then banned their independent newspaper from campus, and now are trying to discipline the former student editor for fact-checking a letter to the editor? Glad @thefireorg.bsky.social is on this.

Great job banging out an unplanned special issue for the UWO volleyball national championship on deadline during finals week. The Advance-Titan crew is full of gamers!!!!

Blog Post No. 1,000: A Bit of Heartfelt Gratitude to Sage dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/12/09/b...

Four Questions To Help Journalism Professors Rethink Finals dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/12/08/f...

Always read @parkermolloy.com — "The essay isn’t the point. Curth is the point. And the point after Curth will be someone else — another trans teacher, another trans healthcare provider, another trans person who made the mistake of existing in public while the machine was looking for a new target."

It’s beginning to look a lot like Cliche-mas in journalistic writing (A Throwback Post) dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/12/04/i...

Tell me how to help people with money I might not actually get: A look at the Anthropic AI lawsuit and its $1.5 billion settlement: dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/12/03/t...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts: The Rolling Stones Indigo Girls Paul McCartney Cyndi Lauper The Rolling Stones

Your AP Style Cheat Sheet Poster Has Arrived dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/12/01/y...

✨ @jeffpearlman.bsky.social is WEARING AN EXPOS CAP and TALKING ABOUT THE BILLY RIPKEN 1989 FLEER "FUCK FACE" CARD. youtu.be/hcgMH4qMVYw?...

Our representative survey of 1000+ journalists reveals: • Which journalists are using AI, how often & for what tasks • How they perceive its impact on their work & journalism more broadly • Their newsrooms' approaches to AI integration & policies reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...

It’s time for some unpleasant honesty for journalism folks based on the Olivia Nuzzi/Ryan Lizza/RFK Jr. debacle dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/24/i...

They used to have seats that didn’t crush you and serve food that was actual food. Like once we got a lobster tail on a flight. Not kidding

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

The line is “How much sizzle do we get versus how much heat do we have to take?” And if you find yourself asking that question, it’s rarely about something good.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one that didn’t give money to a man describing RFK JR and felching. And that has made all the difference.

As a scummy weasel whose mother didn’t raise me right, I’d like to offer my support to the loud, rude piggies and terrible reporters out there (A Throwback Post) dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/20/a...

Today we bring back one of the most popular features of the blog: The Junk Drawer. Dig through the post to find out about court cases involving newspaper raids, why we need copy editors and the nicest possible insult I've received in years: dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/19/t...

Breaking (or Broken) News: The pros and cons of keeping track of what’s going on in small towns via social media during the decline of legacy media dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/17/b...

Bad Teddy

I'm terrified of AI, but for sports fans, this is pretty amazing. www.instagram.com/living.cardb...

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.