While Bari Weiss faces skepticism inside CBS News, former colleagues describe her management style to Status as chaotic and abrasive—raising questions about how she’ll lead one of America’s most storied newsrooms.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

My take on Substack exploring why trust in media outlets reporting is sagging historically, and why changes like CBS News is doing, putting Trump and conservative-friendly executives in charge of a traditional journalism outlet, isn't the answer. READ: https://loom.ly/2p_hMP0

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Just a little more than three weeks left to apply for Lehigh's TT Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy opening.

facultyjobs.lehigh.edu/node/1183

It's a great job, open to scholarly approach, and seeking a real focus on media & tech, even beyond current discourse around AI.

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Just looking around at the top folks in media and politics who are my age and a little older, and realizing that one of the lessons folks in elite educational spaces were quick to learn 20-25 years ago was the power of being obsequious without immediately seeming so.

I’d buy three copies, which should get you up to 10.

Joking aside, there is an interest and market for more intellectual history of the field, despite journal directions

You can sort of see the asymmetry in media today -- when the Republicans shut down the government Republican media springs into propaganda mode, when the Democrats do it supposedly left media debates whether its the right fight.

Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital.

Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

One of genealogies of Media Studies is that many early methods began as advocacy strategies of 1940s media reform, in the attempt to change broadcast regulation to allow for more educational channels. Put differently, Media Studies originated as a research movement to build US Public Media.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

My department at Lehigh is hiring for an assistant professor of media law and policy, with an emphasis on media and tech. It’s a great gig, with a broad approach to scholarship and research agenda. Happy tonfield anuly questions. apply.interfolio.com/173289

My department at CU Boulder is hiring BOTH an Assistant Professor of Journalism AND an Associate/Full Professor of Journalism Studies. I am on the search committee for the Associate job. Happy to answer questions or direct you to the right people. Links in this thread.

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

@uam-umd.bsky.social
www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

"The moves deepened concerns among many US media critics and observers of authoritarianism that press freedoms in the US were undergoing capitulation to the Trump administration’s rightwing authoritarian leanings." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I'd put it stronger than "concern" but yes.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Mis/dis information is (and always has been to some extent) the water, not the shark. Critics of mis/dis info seem to be under the illusion that anyone has the agency to stop any of this. There's no going back to some "before time" of rational deliberation.

For no reason, here is an article I wrote in 2017, about the right's disingenuous use of free speech to target leftists. The tactic has been obvious for a decade, and it's unforgivable that orgs haven't adapted (it's almost like they agree with the bad faith).
www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...

Consider the possibility that the reason Nate Silver & Noah Smith are mad about Blueskyism is that they’ve largely failed to attain any virality on Bluesky except when they complain about Blueskyism.

This algorithm has basically defeated useful narcissism, while reviving hyperlinks.