John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)

starting @dramasoverflowers.bsky.social year-end livestream shortly! join us at 11am ET at this link to talk about the highs and lows of 2025 K-dramaland www.youtube.com/live/vNi_my_...

in celebration of Austen’s 250th birthday today, have a listen to this story from the summer, when I traveled to New Bern, NC to hang out at a very special gathering of Janeites! www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

amazing big dig reference in this week’s episode @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Physical: Asia is the pre-olympics content I need

The Pulitzer Center’s 2025: A Year in Stories features 5 projects from our Information & AI Focus Area. These stories reveal failed AI systems, online criminal activities, & the expansion of tech companies' infrastructure into drought-ridden communities. 👉 bit.ly/YIStories25

Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. This week, our friends at @revealnews.org take you aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla for a firsthand look at what activists faced on their journey.

“Mary woke to a faint buzz [seemingly] from just beside her…A dark square hovered near the ceiling. She stared at it, motionless, until it drifted out of the room & exited through a window. If they could fly a drone to her bedside, they could see everything, she told me.” nymag.com/intelligence...

listened to this earlier and uh…fanfic writers, how do we feel about our novel-length romantic fantasies being scraped to feed bot boyfriends

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this: www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Organizations throughout the Triangle are accepting donations for immigrant families that are sheltering in place for fear of immigration agents. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

This week on The Broadside, how an immigrant from Japan became the eyes of the American conservation movement in 1920s Asheville, and the dark secrets that motivated his life’s work. Featuring documentary filmmaker Paul Bonesteel & researcher Mami Kikuchi. www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

🛒Need food in North Carolina? Use this map to find it! 1,000+ locations 🔎 Search by map or city/county 👉 Find free food resources here: nclocal.org/2025/11/12/n...

If you haven’t read this book yet, please do. it’s so good. much has been written about a small percentage of Hollywood’s most visible monsters - mostly the ones who did straight-up crime - but Mo digs much deeper on so many people who never faced justice for the lives and careers they ruined

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

"He's one of us": Muslim New Yorkers greet Mamdani's victory with pride

And then there’s Guillermo’s unequivocal stance. More of this please:

My friend @anisa.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece on the presence of serial killers in romantic K-dramas for MENT magazine a while back, and then we recorded a pod talking more about it: I'll link the article in the post below. Here's our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

if you’re in DC next Friday, come see me talk about Transcultural Kdrama at the 33rd Han Moo-Sook Colloquium at George Washington University! www.eventbrite.com/e/33rd-hahn-...

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

today on The Broadside: how a rock from western NC is key to making basically every semiconductor in the world…and why it’s important to know where all the raw materials we need for our stuff actually comes from. featuring @edconway.bsky.social www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

“What the sustained quoting of dehumanizing language makes exceedingly clear is that newsrooms are not in the habit of reflecting on past coverage, particularly when it comes to critiques of how they covered immigrants, foreigners, or foreign policy.“

This week, The Broadside tackled… what else? The Belichick effect. Big thanks to @scottdochterman.bsky.social and @themhartman.bsky.social for explaining the money-sucking machine behind college athletics. And why winning may not matter when you can’t lose in college football.

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]

say what you will about the merits or downsides of an entire publication devoted to liberalism, the dominant ideology of Western polities…but it’s just sloppy journalism to equate liberalism with “the left”. also note that the only place Semafor uses “the left” is in its headline and lede…

this is literally just racism

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”

“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...

Adopt a station allows you to donate to your local public radio station: Here's the North Carolina list. adoptastation.org/northcarolina

To state the obvious, Western journalists, writers, and filmmakers need to talk more about our colleagues being murdered in Gaza and the West Bank. You can do it from pure self interest if you want: every journalist murdered with impunity is a precedent which is headed in your direction

wow a quintessential example of ID verification data weaponized, there have been other breaches but this feels exactly targeted at the women it was supposed to protect

a hard but essential read. I’m so glad we could run this piece from Tyler, and at the same time when so many are warning of mass starvation in Gaza. as Dr. Adil Husain told @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social “This is a man-made starvation.”

feels like a particularly meaningful week to do a collab with PBS North Carolina. today on the Broadside from @wunc.org: the lore & facts on the Devil’s Tramping Ground, a bare patch of earth in Chatham Co. that’s been associated with rumors of the occult for centuries www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

I started listening to NPR when we moved to NC in 1998 and my dad would have it on in the car on morning commutes to school. we moved here here from Canada & were big on the CBC, so listening to & supporting public media in NC, too, was a no brainer.

Due to the rescission of federal funding, North Carolina Public Radio is facing a major budget shortfall (roughly $800k). @wunc.org is the largest nonprofit newsroom in the state but also home to national programming. If you care about quality journalism, please give what you can www.wunc.org/donate

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.” The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.

We have a @lopatto.bsky.social piece on the hacker who breached Columbia and acquired Zohran Mamdani's college application. It's not great for NYT to be using hacked materials originating from an anime Nazi but this part especially stuck out to me. www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

this is North Carolina service journalism

Great thread on the value of public media in state government coverage, particularly in #ncpol #ncga where there are three of us (two backed by a grant from the now-defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting) keeping tabs on everything at the state capital for audiences from Murphy to Manteo

Public media is one of those wildly imperfect, flawed, muddled institutions of American life that is far more beautiful and fortunately far tougher than people realize.

A new window for pitching audio documentaries is now open! Read more about this opportunity and find out how to pitch at the link below ⤵️ This year I’m interested in getting more pitches from writers & journalists outside the audio world. So please share with your network of freelance friends!

The North Carolina Board of Elections has formally launched an effort to collect driver's license or the final four digits of social security numbers for more than 100,000 voters who did not provide the information when they registered. www.wunc.org/politics/202...

excellent analysis and a much more convincing one than "AI is taking the jobs" - also reflects what I'm seeing in my circles