The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Wildfire veterans furious at DHS claim that raided crews were not firefighters www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

The Washington Post Will Ask Some Sources to Annotate Its Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/b...

The Danger of an Unrestrained President to the World www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Reporter Is Detained by ICE After Reporting on Immigration Protest www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

My interview with TVW, the public affairs network for Washington, aired on TV last night! If you are interested in how local news contributes to increased civic engagement and reduced political polarization, check it out! It’s on TVW's YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/watch?v=a085...

Had such an interesting and expansive conversation with Inside Olympia show host Austin Jenkins on TVW today! Grateful for the opportunity to speak about the importance of local news to civic engagement and democracy.

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

Grateful for the opportunity to talk about the Murrow local news ecosystem report and my Carnegie Fellowship in-studio at Komo 4 this morning. Morning News Co-anchor Holly Menino was kind and apologized she couldn’t give me a tour afterward because she needed to go interview William Shatner (!).

On this World Press Freedom Day, I’m glad to see our Murrow report detailing the local news crisis in Washington and the implications for civic life and democracy, debut on the front page of the paper: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025....

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

I am thrilled to announce that I have been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow! This prestigious and generous fellowship will support my research assessing how local journalism fellowships may reduce political polarization & strengthen civic engagement. #CarnegieFellows news.wsu.edu/news/2025/04...

Glad to see this story by Northwest Public Broadcasting about our project mapping the local news ecosystem in Washington state. Local news is essential to civic engagement and democracy and needs continued (and more!) support from citizens, organizations, and civic leaders for it to flourish.

In other news, Der Spiegel found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Literally all he did was quote someone. Defining criticism of the government as treason is what authoritarians do. Turning a publicly funded news outlet into a state media propaganda machine is what authoritarians do.

Judge orders Trump administration to pay millions in USAID funds www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Just in: Travis LeBlanc and Ed Felten, two of three purged members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, have just sued the Trump administration, challenging what they say are illegal terminations and asking a court to reinstate them.

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

Journalism teachers, did you know the Freedom of the Press Foundation has a FREE digital security curriculum for J students? Get it get it get it. J Students, if your teachers won’t get it, self-organize and teach it to each other. freedom.press/digisec/g…

6. We’re knee-deep in investigations right now, and we can use your help. Here’s how you can get involved: ✅ Share our stories to spread the facts. 💰 Give if you can to support fearless reporting: propub.li/3ELBwYx 📢 Submit a tip to help us uncover new leads: www.propublica.org/tips/

This is a very important story by @charliesavage.bsky.social — it lays out how the Trump admin is effectively circumventing judges’ orders to keep federal spending frozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

The FAA is "already challenged by understaffing", and that the decision to cut staff was "unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month" www.bbc.com/news/article...

More evidence-framing dynamics: "They’re running the ‘Twitter Files’ playbook against the entire U.S. gov't. The claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out-of-context communications."

From The Spokesman Review - WA Secretary of State warns that federal gutting of cybersecurity agency puts elections at risk www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Yay! My new book is displayed at Annenberg Penn! Pretty cool to be featured next to so many scholars I admire. 😍

My new pub with @acadianjprof.bsky.social and @journoscholar.bsky.social is out now in Journalism Studies!

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 At times, innovations just don't work the way they're intended. In this piece, @journoscholar.bsky.social, @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social and I argue that journalists rely on audience collaboration to assess innovations. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HXVAD...

If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...

Fascists always seek to remake arts and culture because these are the spaces that incubate freedom of expression, liberation of identity and openness of mind.

This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Booz Allen fires contractor who prepared an assessment warning Treasury not to let DOGE access payment system www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Crap crap crap. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

Who works at DOGE? Our new tracker: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The proposed cuts to the US National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and NOAA would decimate American science. Perhaps naturally, a “post truth” movement, powered by bullshit, is going to be “post science” as well.