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Associate Teaching Professor of Journalism at Ball State Univ • Media Psychologist • Former photo editor & photojournalist at The Virginian-Pilot.
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We are kicking off Shoot for Good Muncie soon! Follow our journey and witness all the random acts of kindness. #sfgmuncie #sfgmuncie2025 #shootforgood #photography #photographyproject #photodocumentary #volunteer #communityservice #volunteerism #actsofkindness #muncieindiana

Sure. What could be more transparent than inviting a reporter to sit on your war planning? You blustering morons are the fucking poster children for open government.

DONG GOOD WORK & DOCUMENTING GOOD WORK

LINK to livestream of the event: bit.ly/BSU_NPPA_And... 5PM EDT• MAR 26, 2025 • TC121 / Teachers College • Ball State Univ • Andrea Bruce is a prominent American documentary photographer, educator, and writer whose work focuses on social issues in the aftermath of war, democracy, and human rights.

I drive 8 to 10 hours a week to the university in my commute - the media I consume is always aimed at making that time more productive. Although my students say driving with me and my podcasts is a drag. 😆

Watching the “pre-game” in Indy…

Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom." — Publius Syrus

Anybody in media psychology, as well as journalism and journalist education, needs to be reading this book. www.audible.com/pd/B0CT49S3V...

If you are not ashamed today to be an American you are no more than a cretin, a moron, or both. Our leaders are simply trash. And the self-loathing that any decent citizen feels from knowing this is entirely earned. We elected them.

This. This. This. Watching incredulous as American journalism cuts its own throat over some shards of access that will then be snatched back piecemeal regardless. The gutlessness and stupidity is simply astonishing.

Mulligan with her dingo, Zelda.

Checking to see if anyone in Baltimore feels safer this morning because ICE is on the job. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...

Why hasn’t Ukraine held elections since the war began?

NPPF: Robin Rayne received the 2024 Alan Hagman Grant, ($6,000) for Disability Redefined—Stories From the Front Lines, highlighting the realities of living with a disability in the South. • Finalist Ann Hermes received a $1000 grant for Your Local Newsroom, exploring the decline of local newspapers.

Highly recommend www.audible.com/pd/B0CT49S3V...

Our Shoot for Good Muncie PR/Social Media team working after class planning for our project documenting volunteerism and pro-social work in April.

A group of investors led by Elon Musk says it is offering about $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, escalating a legal dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found.

Land of the free, and home of the brave. (📷 Rebecca Noble/Reuters. A minor collects agents' names and badge numbers as his uncle and grandfather, who are documented immigrants but have prior convictions, are detained by ICE agents at a Home Depot parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, January 26.)

In another benchmark for an independent, non-profit newspaper being born in a major U.S. city, the www.thebaltimorebanner.com just added obits/death notices. Bring on county bureaus, police blotters, listed homesales and a word jumble. This is the only practical road home for print journalism.

Any rescue that we take in has solidly hit a win in the karmic lottery.

Fuck

If you forgive or pretend to forget anything that happens now and from this moment forward, you are complicit. And if you are ready or quick to forgive anyone who chooses to be complicit, your soul is stained as well. Remember this is how it began.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

President-elect Trump and his family on Friday started selling a new cryptocurrency token, a potentially lucrative new business that ethics experts assailed as a blatant effort to cash in on the presidency. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

Greenland's prime minister, in response to the diplomatic earthquake set off last week by President-elect Trump's musings about taking over the gigantic island in the Arctic Ocean, said the territory would like to work more closely with the U.S. on defense and natural resources.

#JOBALERT via Jamie's List: Executive Producer, Audio – ProPublica. Pay Range: $150,000 to $175,000.

Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82. With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Been a great Week 1 - I’m always awed by the potential of our students.

My obligatory first BlueSky post - from my Indianapolis front door earlier this week…