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Knight Chair in Journalism, Cronkite School at ASU; WaPo and NYT alum
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This headline. This photo. Is it bad when people get what they want?

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

I would love to see the wheels turn as they try to decide between funneling taxpayer $ to their media supporters vs reaching their supposed audience www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

An incredibly stupid policy of 3 byline limit and no tag lines at the WSJ. A better idea: get rid of bylines altogether if there are too many, since reporting is a team effort. The union said it pretty well talkingbiznews.com/media-news/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 12 days ago • 424 comments

Glad to see the president using the awesome powers available to him to dictate plastic straw use. Guess they're running out of things to sign in the daily performance art part of governing

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Hear me out - some inefficiencies in gov are features not bugs. They're failsafes against failing or corrupt contractors; separate systems to prevent untrustworthy government officials from having too much power. If you distrust gov then you want this

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Job training in West Virginia, unemployment help in Wisconsin, assistance for disabled kids. It's all been thrown into disarray because of Trump's federal funding freeze. Our story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It is kind of funny to think about what a headache it is to get and maintain Special Sworn Status so that I can access a relatively small amount of completely de-identified administrative data in a cold room for use on pre-approved research projects

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This is a good time to settle down with a great read on - yes - civil servants (gift link, I think) wapo.st/4aHhMRI

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Finally got to hear part of the famous Superman series that took on the Kkk by publushing its secret words and symbols Change can come from unexpected places www.otrcat.com/p/superman-f...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The definition of sunk cost fallacy - waiting to return one small item at Whole Foods after 1st Person returns an entire shopping cart of books.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a choice: 1. Be one of the 20 most powerful public officials in the country 2. Have privacy and avoid public scrutiny for you and your spouse You don't get both

submitted 270 days ago • 0 comments

What an exceptional run Susan Chira has had leading the Marshall Project. She is an exemplary journalist and leader, mentor to so many women (very much including me!) and I cannot wait to see what she does next. Brava. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/16/s...

submitted 283 days ago • 0 comments

It's the last day of class at the Cronkite School -- and the last forever for me! Looking forward to the every-day-is- Saturday life and going home, but will miss the remarkable students I've had the privilege to mentor & my incomparable colleagues -30

submitted 305 days ago • 0 comments

I *love* this. The 19th starts a network for mutual sharing quality news. I did this years ago in NJ: embeddable news. Didn't take off. So glad it's happening here. Brava! 19thnews.org/the-19th-new...

submitted 396 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re a newsroom CEO and your reference point for “alternative storytelling techniques” is the New York Times 2012 “Snowfall” project, your newsroom is in big trouble. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

submitted 410 days ago • 3 comments

An officer overdosed on fentanyl on duty. At first, police believed he had been “exposed” to fentanyl confiscated that day. After placing some in evidence, he had actually kept the rest to use. PSA: LEOs have the same substance use rates as the general population. Drug myths are bad for them, too.

submitted 551 days ago • 2 comments

Latest pain meds inspired political outlook test: who is Roadrunner and who is Wiley Coyote ?

submitted 570 days ago • 0 comments