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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · 7d

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Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Zotero update supports in-app EPUB reading. I repeat, the Zotero update supports in-app EPUB reading!!! Has anyone tried this yet?

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Aug 21

1.) WTH!?!
2.) What brand were the chips?

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Aug 21

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

Breaking News
1m ago
A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag.

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Aug 14

The mystery. The sophomoric humor. The shade thrown on Brookline at the end. This story has everything!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...

Conan O’Brien saw it and an unauthorized sign says it: The Zakim Bridge may look like part of male anatomy - The Boston Globe

It’s not clear who put up the sign, which looks quite official and at least somewhat expensive to make.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Huge thanks to @aejmc.bsky.social's leadership team and staff for guiding us all through rough times!

AEJMC @aejmc.bsky.social · Aug 6

AEJMC president, Teresa Mastin, and AEJMC president-elect, Bey-Ling Sha, welcome #AEJMC25 conference participants to San Francisco!

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Aug 6

En route to #AEJMC25 with Big Feelings about the many threats to journalism, education, science and civil society. It's a gloom as thick as the wildfire smoke we punched through during takeoff from BOS.

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Leaving BOS in a bit and really feeling this.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · Aug 5

I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Fascintaing reminder of how certain innovations - in this case lens technology used in lighthouses for more than a century - shapes industries and societies. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/s...

A Voyage to Bring Norway’s Lighthouses Into the 21st Century

www.nytimes.com

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Jul 27

All of this. Zotero FTW!

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Jul 20

My post is from several years ago and was imported from Twitter, but thank you for checking in.

Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Jul 14

Coffee and local news are two of my favorite things, so it was a pleasure to talk to The Christian Science Monitor about how a midcoast Maine local newspaper is building audience trust by opening a community cafe. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

‘Fresh brewed news’: Community café offers locals a chance to sip with reporters

It’s no surprise that news outlets are struggling for both dollars and trust. In Camden, Maine, a local newspaper opened a café to welcome in the community.

www.csmonitor.com

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Jul 3

Out. Of. Office.

Photo of a stupidly giant bag of Kirkland kettle potato chips and an open novel propped on my lap. The background includes green deck chairs, a dock and lake water.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · Jun 30

As programs recognizing LGBTQ+ people are cut, an Ohio archive is doing what queer Americans always have: preserving their own history.

‘It’s proof of our existence’: This lesbian archive is recording history as it's erased

As the Trump administration cuts programs recognizing LGBTQ+ people, this Ohio archive is doing what queer Americans always have: preserving their own history.

19thnews.org

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Jun 26

He loves laundry day but refuses to learn how to fold.

A Chocolate Lab on top of a pile of clean laundry on a brown couch.

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Jun 24

It’s hot.

Car thermometer reading 103 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · May 22

New at Media Nation: CJR was said to be working on a story about Wesley Lowery. It finally drops — and it is horrifying. dankennedy.net/2025/05/22/c...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · May 12

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

www.loc.gov

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

www.science.org

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · May 9

Souter and I grew up (at different times) in the same tiny New Hampshire town. When my eighth grade class visited Washington, D.C., he hosted us at the Supreme Court. I don't remember what he said, but he was incredibly kind.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/n...

Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a New Hampshire Republican who became a reliable liberal vote, has died - The Boston Globe

Souter became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench. He died at his home in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court said.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · May 9

The student journalists were filing reports from the scene, and it appears they were transparent about their press affiliations. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

The WKCR and Spectator journalists respectively broadcasted and published their reporting Wednesday. The radio station shared “A Comprehensive Update Regarding the Student Action at Butler Library” over the air at 9 p.m. based on the reporting the three WKCR reporters had collected while in Butler, while Spectator published seven stories on the demonstration, two of which were written by Sukkar and all of which she contributed to as a reporter.

Sukkar identified herself to Public Safety as student press throughout the protest. On Thursday afternoon, Grinage notified Sukkar, Lahr, and Gamble via email of their interim suspensions. At 2:41 p.m., Gamble received the first interim suspension notice of the three Barnard student journalists, with Lahr following at 2:51 p.m. Sukkar received her notice just over two hours later at 4:59 p.m.

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thank you, President Aoun! huntnewsnu.com/86480/campus...

President Aoun joins more than 320 university leaders in joint statement condemning Trump administration ‘overreach’ - The Huntington News

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun joined more than 320 — and counting — U.S. higher education leaders in signing a joint statement denouncing the Trump administration for “endangering American hig...

huntnewsnu.com

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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · Apr 8

A federal judge ruled that the Trump White House must admit the AP's journalists to news events - ruling its exclusion was "unlawful."

Almost two hours later, two AP journalists were rejected from the WH pool to cover a Trump speech.

My NPR story:
www.npr.org/2025/04/08/n...

Judge orders White House to allow AP access to news events

U.S. Judge Trevor N. McFadden rules the White House cannot deny the Associated Press access to news events because the wire service continues to use "Gulf of Mexico" rather than "Gulf of America".

www.npr.org

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Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social · Mar 24

What was that about her emails? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

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