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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 8h

Same today!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 12h

Feels good!

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks XMTR Fest for an incredible gathering in St Leonards on Sea last week.

Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.

And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

Some exciting news: Kodak announced two new types of film today, and, notably, said it would be directly selling the film to shops, sidestepping a complicated licensing agreement where Kodak hasn't had the right to sell its own film to stores

www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade

Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.

www.404media.co

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Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 10d

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find

When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...

www.psypost.org

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13d

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

www.nytimes.com

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 16d

Calling all freelance fact-checkers!

We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project.

Email Chris ([email protected]) for more details.

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 18d

"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper.

Do not let them rewrite the world.

Save all the evidence you can."

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 18d

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

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I tell you this story because I think so often we encounter archives when we are liminal, when we are in between. When we are moving or searching for ourselves or for the truth in the past, sometimes in our own past. When we are looking for a way home. It turns out teetering towards fascism is beyond liminal. If a liminal space is a train station, we seem to all be collectively in limbo, unending uncertainty on the lip of hell. In a haze of epistemological dissonance we witness the shredding of the past through a looking glass so cracked that even the history repeating itself is unrecognizable.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 22d

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 22d

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

www.aaup.org

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 28d

lol. I was also a copyeditor for a while. Believe it or not.

Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 28d

fact checking great journalists wa one of the main ways I leaned to be a journalist. I loved the job and getting to be professionally correct. And this fact checking piece in the New Yorker really get to the heart of it .
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department

Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

www.newyorker.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 28d

I love my 404 Media subscription and this piece is so illuminating and also funny! There's a real "pay no attention to the entire team of human contractors behind the curtain" energy to the folks using generative AI!

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

www.404media.co

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 28d

A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer.  
@hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline

www.niemanlab.org

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.bbc.com/news/article...

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."

www.bbc.com

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is in line with my observations around the people in podcasting/audio industry who are the most excited about LLM style podcast “innovations” are never the people who already make excellent podcasts.

Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Sep 2

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

www.wsj.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 26

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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casey morell @caseym.org · Aug 25

new NPR podcast alert -- sources & methods will look at national security news & why it matters. hosted by the incomparable mary louise kelly. check it out each thursday.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.

Tweet from William MacAskill explaining that he likes to allow Gemini to write its own short story and he was really impressed with it, and then an excerpt from the story itself, called "The Architect and the Gardener."

A quote from George R.R. Martin where he says there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners, which is very clearly the source of Gemini's "story"

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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · Aug 18

Midnight cricket party, Taughannock State Park, New York, USA on 16th August 2025 – by @kallipearl.bsky.social fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/08/18/m...

Midnight cricket party, Taughannock State Park, New York, USA on 16th August 2025 – by Kalli Anderson – Field Recordings

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Jul 15

Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences.

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