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RMIG Head, Derek Moscato, is running for @AEJMC Publications Committee! You can vote for Derek, who has demonstrated his leadership & commitment to the organization and field, from now until Mar. 29. Read more about Derek in the Election Profiles or here: chss.wwu.edu/moscatd

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Red and blue states alike recognize the need for journalist-source confidentiality. Let's hope Idaho's shield bill gets across the finish line.

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Voting opens for AEJMC Teaching Committee! As a WSU professor with award-winning teaching, Hollywood Reporter-featured courses, and LIFT fellowship experience, I want to advance AEJMC's teaching mission and pay forward the support I received. Your vote would be appreciated!

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This was our "hypothetical" in my Media Law class on Wednesday... Glad to see the Associated Press standing up for itself and the American people.

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It is fascism. Calling it "an aggressive flexing of power" fluffs the Führer. Call this what it is, Baker. It is fascism. #BrokenTimes Trump 2.0 Heralds an Aggressive Flexing of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Kendrick really proving that ridicule is praxis

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Sullivan, Branzburg, the Pentagon Papers, and more. Great overview of Trump's war on media www.cjr.org/political_pr...

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If you're looking to add to your reading list, consider @jennicjul.bsky.social 's debut novel! Jen is a great friend, colleague & brilliant scholar of English & creative writing. Available for presale w/discount codes at booksellers like B&N- code PREORDER25 www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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One of Donald Trump’s biggest donors is looking to the Supreme Court to limit tough press coverage of the MAGA leader’s administration.

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So many journalists, librarians, and organizations are working with courage and conviction under this authoritarian state. Consider recognizing one with this award.

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Now is a time we need to support each other in academia across disciplines, across universities: Those in fields not under attack, need to help those who are under attack Senior faculty need to support junior faculty Privileged faculty need to support marginalized faculty #academicsky

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once again, please read the @wired.com guide on protecting yourself from government surveillance…

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NEW: US government websites are disappearing in real time, including sites for the US Agency for International Development, foreign assistance, neglected diseases, and children in adversity. We analyzed more than 1000 .gov websites to track what's been taken down—and what's next. wrd.cm/4aFMs5A

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The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days. The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years. ‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades. So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?

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The worst thing about press/tv/media knuckling under like beaten dogs is that there is a massive potential market for content that tells Trump or Musk to go fuck themselves. You want clicks? Engagement? Views? Step the fuck up, put on your big boy pants, and do your fucking job. You will make $.

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We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️

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Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

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The Librarians: Chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools - ‘Civil rights fight of our time’. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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The book I am working on now historicizes this pattern that has been decades in the making — showing how monopoly power and commercial imperatives overwhelm public interest protections time and again.

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ABC’s $15MM payoff to Trump was bad enough, but at least in that case there was an error (a minor one) at the heart of the suit. If CBS settles this bullshit case, it’s a catastrophe for the network - and the news business. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

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Fantastic piece out by @beccalew.bsky.social today about how technofascism was always a part of, and goal of, Big Tech and Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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🚨New Publications🚨 In Journalism Studies, @amnadler.bsky.social and I argue that right-wing news is competing with journalism over the cultural authority to tell the “true” story of public life. For journalism scholars and practitioners alike, a🧵(1/6) doi.org/10.1080/1461...

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Delighted to have been interviewed by the Decentered Media podcast about the history of public media in the US and UK. The conversation included a comparative discussion of the two systems.

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This is just unbelievable. #WxSky #journalism www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/m...

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My former PhD program in Communications at Columbia is hiring an open-rank professor, with a particular interest in scholars of: STS; media law and policy; media history; global media; journalism studies; race, gender, and media; and/or social media and public life. Link: apply.interfolio.com/162364

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Announcing an open search for a position in Columbia’s Ph. D. program in communications “We are particularly interested in candidates pursuing pioneering research agendas in: Science, Technology, and Society (STS); media law and policy; media history; global media….” apply.interfolio.com/162364

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If not for North Carolina Republicans' extreme (and should-be-illegal) gerrymandering of their state, Democrats would have eked out a narrow majority in the US House. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...

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PEN America responds to action taken today by the Department of Education dismissing complaints about book bans and referring to them as a “hoax”: "All students deserve to see themselves and the world around them reflected in the books shelved within their public schools.“ pen.org/press-releas...

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As information out of the US government is increasingly corrupted by Trump and his cronies—facts removed, accounts distorted, lies promoted, etc.—it’s increasingly important for people/orgs outside govt to record and preserve factually accurate information. The war on truth is accelerating.

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M. Aubrey Studebaker, you produce such brilliant research! It has been a privilege to have been able to read your work over the past few years. Now, seeing your manuscripts in print, such a testament to you as a person and scholar. And congrats to Amy as well!

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Work with my awesome friend Max at Oregon. Deadline: Feb. 28 🎮

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Lawsuits to shut down DOGE, since it violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act "by giving private individuals roles in the government decision-making process without the public access the law requires" www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie

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Makes sense, Larry Ellison has always had his finger on the pulse of the social internet. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44779/tiktok-ban-deal-trump-oracle

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ICE is trying to deport Native American people to Mexico. This one from the Mescalero Apache Tribe. That's right. People indigenous to the United States, tribal members. ICE is trying to remove them from the US. This is the second verified incident I've heard about. We were here 1st. #ICE

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Music in Orbit is now available for pre-order, with the option to buy through @ucpress.bsky.social now available. Everything is happening. www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

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If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

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"The case will be decided by eight justices, as Justice Amy Coney Barrett plans to recuse herself. No reason was given for her decision." www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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🎉Congratulations to doctoral students H. Dat Tran and Uyen Diep on their latest publication in Newspaper Research Journal! #ScholarshipFirst #Research #GeauxManship🎓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The 1st 4 days: 👏States sue Trump over birthright citizenship 👏California refuses to allow immigration enforcement in schools 👏Danish politicians literally tell Trump to “f**k off” And tonight: 👏Mexico refuses to allow deportation flight to land Trump is a weak bully. Resistance is everything.

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Stories of this happening to people should be on the front page of every paper, constantly on every chronic, etc. This isn't what even most Trump voters intended to vote for, and when that becomes clear to Trump, he usually backs down.

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New at SCOTUS: the steady chipping away at the church-state wall could culminate in its dismantlement in this case asking whether states can directly fund religious education

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BREAKING: SCOTUS takes up two new matters, including a huge case over whether explicitly religious schools can be excluded from a state’s charter school program. In this case, the Oklahoma Charter School Board wants to fund the school, and OK AG Drummond, a Republican, is fighting the Board.

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Friends, please share this opportunity with your contacts in broadcast news. This is an excellent opportunity to work in new facilities among fantastic colleagues/supervisors in UK's JAM School and wider College of Communication and Information. Lexington is a wonderful place to live.

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