Me? Anticipated? Most? lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

OP-ED: A Source Thought I Was a Bot. How Can Reporters Prove They’re Human? @gbullard.bsky.social modifies his approach to reach skeptical contacts in the age of spam and scams niemanreports.org/bot-spam-jou...

This might destroy my work as a digital strategist, but I can't keep secrets. Here is the top advice I give for boosting engagement. youtube.com/shorts/CgHY_...

Here's the video I made: youtube.com/shorts/hVyk0...

Is this too much setup for a sub-60-second video encouraging book pre-orders? Nah. I want the ten people who see it to enjoy some quality.

After two years of research and writing, my book is now available for pre-order. It's a critique of technology, a brief history of chores, a critique of streaming and of the news business, and a few thoughts on what to do next. www.harpercollins.com/products/aga...

Is the Swiss ALF Hunter Thompson?

One of the saddest things in modern media is major outlets writing guides to Prime Day sales.

People like to joke "I bet you'd hate if I got your book on an e-reader or ordered it online." There's only one way to find out. Order it now for 25% off and see how I react.

Really I guess there's nothing stopping me from doing this.

My book critiquing technology isn't out for a few more months, so I'm going to release this picture now and get ahead of the scandal. Yes, I use computers and always have.

People like to joke "I bet you'd hate if I got your book on an e-reader or ordered it online." There's only one way to find out. Order it now for 25% off and see how I react.

My feeds are so full of cable news clips, I realize I have no more sense of anything as a "show." It seems like CNN is just that panel with Scott Jennings and Fox is just The Five all day long?

"Convenience happens to be capitalist ideology. If art must take the shortest route to its effects, we've submitted to that ideology. Yet art can be enormously inconvenient! Art can luxuriate. Wander. Its distance from the prerogatives of the powerful is precisely where its force of resistance lies"

I've been saying video podcasts look bad, especially when clipped. This is an example. For staging: it's cluttered; the mic cable is just hanging there; the book spines aren't facing a camera. For framing: we're too far away (this is meant for a phone screen) and the host's legs are cut off.

This was absolutely part of the cultural shift. In the 2000s, the money guys started referring to the work that creative people made as "content" (under the ugly phrase, "user-generated content"), such a grim framing that we pushed back, saying only financiers would think of creativity that way...

After two years of research and writing, my book is now available for pre-order. It's a critique of technology, a brief history of chores, a critique of streaming and of the news business, and a few thoughts on what to do next. www.harpercollins.com/products/aga...

🤖 A Source Thought I Was a Bot. How Can Reporters Prove They’re Human? Journalist @gbullard.bsky.social modifies his approach to reach skeptical contacts in the age of spam and scams niemanreports.org/bot-spam-jou...

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 This week: 🚢 @kyivindependent.com reveals Russia’s shadow fleet is using Elon Musk's Starlink 🦬 A European bison rewilding success 🧀 The foot-and-mouth in Cyprus: Impact on farmers & halloumi lovers? Listen: www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...

Tying together two of my favorite movies, the modern state of media, and the contempt inherent in the way many people are practicing politics.

Good morning, let’s go the moon ___ Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902)

On The World 🌎 today: 🌐 @joshuacoe.bsky.social: USS Ford arrives in Croatia as US prepares for ground war 🌐 @hannahchanatry.bsky.social: Underwater livestream in Greenland gathers evidence of climate change 🌐 @joyhackel.bsky.social: Pope Leo admonishes war advocates Tune in 📻 bit.ly/3xyRRfD

Tying together two of my favorite movies, the modern state of media, and the contempt inherent in the way many people are practicing politics.

This is hell. www.youtube.com/watch?si=Z7n...

Around the world, women broadcasters are creating radio programs that challenge discrimination, expose sexual abuse, and tackle taboo topics, reports @gbullard.bsky.social. niemanreports.org/women-radio-...

Around the world, women broadcasters are creating radio programs that challenge discrimination, expose sexual abuse, and tackle taboo topics. #MsReads via @niemanreports.org

For Nieman Reports, I wrote about women-run radio stations around the world, specifically in Afghanistan, Uganda, Syria, and the U.S. niemanreports.org/women-radio-...

Still, don't say "Bill Paley is rolling in his grave." We are writhing in the hole he dug for posterity.

It's an extra good time to support us, we're in the last week of our campaign to be able to expand our newsroom to meet this moment: 51st.news/bigplans

Matt’s store is a treasure!

This is a great book.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 2025 was the most violent year for journalists in three decades. Hear where, and why, reporters and media personnel are under threat lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Checking the notes and citations of my manuscript. I remember doing this before the age of citation managers. How did people do this before word processors?

Hard to believe, at one point a bunch of people were paid yearly salaries to watch and reflect about how they felt about movies. And some of the writing was pretty great.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Look no further.

I’m careful with “genius”—I’m even careful with “artist”—but Catherine O’Hara was both and we scarcely deserved her.

This was inspired by seeing someone using Excel on their phone. What are we doing here?

Being anti-phone is cool. But what about being pro-desktop? I love having a big screen, a solid keyboard, and not being able to take it with me anywhere.

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

“Vertical video is a format of necessity that rewards users’ inattentiveness…Instead of making something worth the mild inconvenience of rotating a phone, posters go for whatever is safest, easiest…It’s a design choice that sacrifices artistry so users don’t have to use their wrists.”

Lovely little reflection on breaking the death grip of Instagram and our appified attention spans from @gbullard.bsky.social.

I wrote about snails, Switzerland, and fitting in for the NYT Magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/m...

I wrote about snails, Switzerland, and fitting in for the NYT Magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/m...

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC

It's amazing how many tricky problems of writing can be solved by moving a paragraph, then deleting it.

Podcasting

Humbly presenting to the void: today is new album release eve. Tomorrow you can get hear my second piano trio "Payne Hollow," inspired by Harlan and Anna Hubbard who lived deliberately on the banks of the Ohio. Recorded by local group NouLou Chamber Players. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...