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Local newsrooms need funders. But they also need to talk about their work in a way that makes sense to funders. @ninasachdev.bsky.social, @jakerznthingz.bsky.social and I broke down how the communication often breaks down: www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Thinking today about all of us with dead moms or complicated moms.

I do writing competitions for fun. In my last one, I had to write a ghost story. Six days into the eight-day assignment, my dad died. I managed to finish the piece anyway and submit. So it’s satisfying to find out my story made the top five, and I’m going through to the next round.

It sometimes feels like you can drink from the news firehose or turn away from what's happening. But there is a secret third thing. Was happy to contribute to this piece from my wonderful colleague @tonyelkins.com

What does it look like when funders "move at the speed of news"? It looks like this. TL;DR: funders can (and should) plan ahead for crises, from major news stories to natural disasters, so they're ready to respond when something happens. This is a good blueprint. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Excited for this workshop at the ONA conference next week @journalists.org We're going to be talking about: 🤔 How funders think about news organizations 💬 How to talk about your work in ways that will resonate with funders 💖 How to build a trusting relationship that will last beyond just one grant

On my way to Mississippi where I will run a workshop for local news leaders and avoid aggressive diseased monkeys on the loose, I guess.

Serious question for sports fans: how do you handle how emotional and stressful this all is and then just go about your lives for an entire season I just do not understand

I can’t tell you how discombobulating this all is as someone who mostly does not pay attention to sports and then is suddenly watching <waves hands wildly> all this

The Testament of Ann Lee made me incredibly happy … that I don’t live in the 18th century. Also, I was happy when it was over.

Uh … guys … it’s literally a five-minute walk from the Rogers Centre, which has a pretty big retractable roof.

Happy Canada Day, folks.

come, see real flowers of this painful world ~ Matsuo Basho ~ #photography #mygarden #stunday #littlethings #visualnarrative

It’s been a while but what exactly is going on in this picture

I will never get over airport rules. Just saw a man chase a glass of prosecco with a double whiskey. Sir, it’s 7 in the morning.

Suuuuuper normal ad to see on the metro. Living in DC is sometimes just bizarre.

Achievement: unlocked. I’m now friends with @historicacanada.bsky.social

Seriously, I gotta do this for Canada Day next year. Anyone in DC want in, hmu.

Aww thanks for this!

Omg the @halifaxexaminer.ca wrote about my nerdy little Heritage Minutes project. Thank you! www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Good morning

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦 (I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Is this 77-year-old Grace Jones hula hooping and belting it? Yes, yes it is.

I was THAT GUY recently and caught a mistake on the write up of a museum exhibit and “uh, actually”-ed the docent. (Anyone know knows anything about Ikkyu Sojun knows he would never “enlighten” a sex worker about “the evils of her profession.”) Once a fact checker, always a fact checker.

Spectacular Amy Sherald exhibit at the Whitney.

William Faulkner’s house, Rowan Oaks, in Oxford Mississippi.

It’s a small, rebellious, freeing thing to be indifferent to maintaining a streak.

Scenes from Canada

A private hobby is to read all stories about AI as though the I is a lowercase L and there’s this real problem with this unhinged and wildly chaotic guy named AL.

Old but ever useful www.poynter.org/newsletters/...

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Very cool thing: @404media.co offers free workshops to subscribers to teach them how to file effective FOIA requests.

Terrific and important (and free!) webinar coming up from @poynterinstitute.bsky.social April 7, 2025 1-2:15 p.m. Eastern time. Sign up here: 👇 www.poynter.org/shop/reporti...

Weird time to have an event near Washington, DC that sounds like you want to set the public sector on fire.

Astonishingly stark political shift in Canada in response to tariffs. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po...

New subscription push from Canadian media: That it's Canadian media. I've never seen anything like the patriotic surge in Canada right now.

My god, the actual panic and anxiety that an app experiences when you don't have notifications turned on.

Good evening, Bluesky, from this weird lil shrimp dude who lives in my office.

Spacing is a great little magazine. 10/10 recommend. Renewing my sub now.

Tremendous decision from Wired to make their work based on public records free. freedom.press/issues/wired...

Scenes from Mexico City.

👏 Student 👏 journalists 👏 are 👏 journalists 👏

Ten years ago, BuzzFeed’s post about The Dress – and whether it was blue and black, or white and gold – took over the internet, and our lives for a few days. It could likely never happen in the same way today. Here’s why: www.poynter.org/commentary/a...

Hey, I wrote a thing. The Dress was a light little distraction a decade ago. But it couldn’t happen now, and that says something much darker about how media works today. (BTW: the dress was black and blue.)

This is interesting, and feels largely true www.theverge.com/press-room/6...

Hey, I wrote a thing. The Dress was a light little distraction a decade ago. But it couldn’t happen now, and that says something much darker about how media works today. (BTW: the dress was black and blue.)

Give this headline writer a raise www.404media.co/email/855bf8...

Fascinating thread. I learned so much from this.