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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · 26d

Congrats @losowsky.com and what a star you are for taking your moment and sharing 💐 with this great list of folks doing community-centered work ✨

Andrew Losowsky @losowsky.com · 29d

When I learned that I had been chosen for ONA’s Impact Award this year (awards.journalists.org/awards/impac...), for centering community voices, my first response was to think of at least a dozen others they could have also chosen.

Impact Award - Online Journalism Awards

The Impact Award honors a trailblazing individual whose work in digital journalism and dedication to innovation exhibits a substantial impact on the industry, regardless of their tenure in…

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 24

ICE isn't just tearing families apart--they're also extorting them.

According to the article, the pastor's family is being charged $50 for each 20-minute phone call he makes from detention. And it would likely cost them at least $10,000 for a release on bond.

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · Jul 23

ICE detains a pastor in Easton, Md., who has been in the U.S. for 24 years and has no criminal record, the Star Democrat reports. www.stardem.com/news/local_n...

Easton minister detained by ICE

EASTON — A beloved Easton minister was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, taken to Salisbury and is now at the Baltimore ICE detention center where he is

www.stardem.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jun 22

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 22

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

Analysis: US strikes mark a stunning demonstration of military might and presidential power

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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · Jun 15

Appreciating this take on yesterday’s protest in Philly not only because my favorite small human makes a cameo. Thanks @willbunch.bsky.social

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Jun 15

It didn't just rain on Trump's militarized birthday parade in D.C. Man, it poured

I went to No Kings in Philly and saw how the flag is mightier than the tank, as a people's army of red, white and blue called No Kings trumped U.S. autocracy on Flag Day

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

At ‘No Kings,’ millions of Americans show the flag is mightier than the tank

From Philly's flagship protest to San Diego, several million 'No Kings' protesters trumped a president's birthday parade.

www.inquirer.com

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · Jun 9

If anyone is having trouble following my (increasingly long) thread tracking incidents where police assaulted journalists at protests in Los Angeles this weekend, it's also in spreadsheet form here. This is the more organized version I've been sending to lawyers, agency chiefs, electeds, etc.

California Press Rights Tracking Doc (Consolidated)

docs.google.com

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · Jun 9

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend.

The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law.

Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow.

Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

I recognize this is an exceedingly difficult time and for many of you this is a crisis on several levels. I respect those challenges and I don't consider press rights superior to the rights of others. However, all other rights depend on press rights. We cannot allow them to be chilled. This was explained by civil rights icon and longtime congressmember John Lewis:

"If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."

Democracy cannot function without an informed public. The public cannot be informed without a free press. It is your shared responsibility to ensure press are able to do their job. Several of you have been supportive over the years and I thank you for that. But your support is now needed more than ever. Please ensure your teams are aware of these egregious violations and ensure you take all possible steps to protect the press, and thereby the public and our country itself.

Sincerely,
Adam Rose
Press Rights Chair
Los Angeles Press Club

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Joy Mayer @mayerjoy.bsky.social · Mar 4

How do we talk *to* and *about* people we disagree with? And how should journalists be thinking about that? I'm looking forward to lessons from this conversation. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Dignity Index: Scoring political speech, making change. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join Hearken for a presentation and Q&A with Tami Pyfer of The Dignity Index, an initiative aimed at changing the way we think about and speak to others with whom we disagree. The Dignity Index is an ...

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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · Feb 28

News Over Noise 302 is here! We talk to @andreawenzel.bsky.social about local news experiments and their significance to communities: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/cre...

Creating Equitable Newsrooms that Connect with Communities - News Literacy Initiative

Once upon a time, Americans turned to trusted news organizations to learn about their shared reality. Today, the media people consume as “news,” fractures t

newsliteracy.psu.edu

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Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · Mar 3

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway. @propublica.org

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...

www.propublica.org

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · Feb 17

One advantage to the current political moment is that it brings into focus larger power structures that are typically invisible or mystified. A billionaire-owned media system is a policy failure and a threat to democracy.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Feb 17

thehill.com/media/514849...

Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order

The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group …

thehill.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · Feb 17

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for
Black youth.
"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Feb 17

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk.

Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️

thehill.com/media/514849...

Who’s
running
this
country:
Donald Trump or
Elon Musk?
Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our
livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself.
The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your
Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk

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Center for Local News @centerforlocalnews.bsky.social · Feb 13

"I’ve always said that journalism is the first draft of historical fiction, because there are so many perspectives that are left out of reporting." — @meredithdclark.bsky.social

www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/ligh...

“Lightning in a bottle”: Meredith Clark on Black Twitter’s journalistic impact, legacy — and writing its “obituary”

"No matter what the technology is, we're going to be using it."

www.niemanlab.org

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Feb 14

Trump and Musk are currently dismantling wide swaths of the federal government, in flagrant violation of the Constitution.

The New York Times is asking the tough questions.

NYT Headline: Without Pennies, What Becomes of Penny Loafers?

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · Feb 13

In the hour between this screenshot and now, we've lost two more characters. This page now refers to "LGB persons." No Q, no plus.

It also appears to be a site-wide replacement, as the search hasn't caught up with the new pages.

We're viewing erasure in real-time.

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ijoc-usc.bsky.social @ijoc-usc.bsky.social · Feb 13

Check out our lineup of book reviews published in January at ijoc.org:

The Wuhan Lockdown by @guobin-yang.bsky.social
Antiracist Journalist by @andreawenzel.bsky.social
Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa by Allen Munoriyarwa & Admire Mare
Fandom is Ugly by @melstanfill.bsky.social

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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · Feb 13

And 📣stay tuned journalism research folks 📣 we hope to recruit a postdoc to start fall 2025! ✨

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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · Feb 13

Delighted to share this long time in the making @tukleincollege.bsky.social effort in collab w/ @jillianbauer.bsky.social & @letrellcrittenden.bsky.social which we hope will support engaged research & community-centered journalism projects klein.temple.edu/news/2025/02...

Reimagining Journalism: Klein College Launches Center for Community-Engaged Media and Names First Director

klein.temple.edu

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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · Feb 5

Appreciate this report from Media Cymru & hope BBC & others dig in and take on board their recommendations on reporting from the lens of communities in forms community members want 👉

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · Feb 4

"“If you ask people ‘are you interested in your place in the world? Do you want to understand the world?’ Everyone says yes. But if you ask ‘does status quo journalism help you do any of those things?’ They say no."

The BBC asked marginalized groups how it could do better. They didn’t hold back.

"They're going to the shop for sense-making, I think. And there's nothing on the shelf."

buff.ly

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · Feb 5

Well, yes

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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · Feb 4

Hey @icahdq.bsky.social journalism, communication, media folks: we are organizing another round of scholar matchups w/ aim of chipping at disconnects between ‘global south’ & ‘global north’. You don’t have to come to conference. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... cc: @magdakon.bsky.social

ICA Journalism Studies: Scholar Matchmaking

Welcome! This initiative is meant to help break down some of the barriers we tend to experience as scholars, researchers, and teachers. We hope to chip away at disconnects between Global South and Glo...

docs.google.com

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Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social · Feb 4

Journalism folks: know anyone working to connect research & practice? @icahdq.bsky.social Journalism Studies is accepting applications for its Public Engagement Award. Cc: @magdakon.bsky.social Deadline March 21. www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

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Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jalexa1218.bsky.social · Jan 30

The media is too quick to use Republican buzzwords - “politically correct,” “DEI,” “critical race theory” - these all mean the same thing and @karenattiah.bsky.social is right. Be clearer with your questioning.u

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Jan 30

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:

"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"

And see what happens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30

REPORTER: Are you saying this crash was somehow was the result of diversity hiring?

TRUMP: It just could have been

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Waqas Ejaz @waqasejaz.bsky.social · Jan 28

Pub alert 📣🤩

Our latest climate change & news audiences report is out, with insights from 3yrs of survey data across 8 countries.

Despite the worsening climate crisis, climate news consumption & attitudes have remained remarkably stable - a pattern we term "climate perception inertia."

For more👇

Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Jan 28

How audiences follow news on climate change?

This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · Jan 28

Tomorrow would be a very good opportunity for DC news bureaus to send people from the public health, science policy, and defense beats to the White House press briefing instead of the usual White House correspondents.

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