Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
@caitlincm.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Idaho. Media historian interested in small(er) publications and regional print culture.
Celebrity gossip/pop culture enthusiast. Wisconsin alum x3.
Celebrity gossip/pop culture enthusiast. Wisconsin alum x3.
Might be drinking the Lake Superior kool-aid today (or maybe it's the influence of the gales of November), but honestly, "does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turns the minutes to hours?" is a brutally well-written lyric.
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Might be drinking the Lake Superior kool-aid today (or maybe it's the influence of the gales of November), but honestly, "does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turns the minutes to hours?" is a brutally well-written lyric.
Honestly, nothing makes me more homesick for Wisconsin than the month of October.
October 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Honestly, nothing makes me more homesick for Wisconsin than the month of October.
Today is the Monday-iest of Mondays.
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Today is the Monday-iest of Mondays.
This last two-hour stretch of an eight-hour drive with a toddler has been made possible by the Spotify playlist "Johnny Cash Train Songs."
May 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This last two-hour stretch of an eight-hour drive with a toddler has been made possible by the Spotify playlist "Johnny Cash Train Songs."
See also: birth announcements, wedding announcements, graduating announcements, meeting notes from associations. These small items can be just as important from a community-building standpoint as more traditional journalism.
April 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
See also: birth announcements, wedding announcements, graduating announcements, meeting notes from associations. These small items can be just as important from a community-building standpoint as more traditional journalism.
To say I'm emotionally invested in this race for donors is an understatement.
We're neck and neck! Let's leave Comm Arts in our dust. Help us be the first to 200 now! buff.ly/oFtBl4W
April 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
To say I'm emotionally invested in this race for donors is an understatement.
Multiple organizations -- both large and small -- whose work makes arts and culture programming more accessible have sent out emails stating that their finances have basically been gutted due to this action. Communities nationwide will feel this.
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
nhalliance.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Multiple organizations -- both large and small -- whose work makes arts and culture programming more accessible have sent out emails stating that their finances have basically been gutted due to this action. Communities nationwide will feel this.
The 13th Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium is focused on media coverage of women's sports and kicked off with a panel of media experts and professionals, including keynote speaker Christine Brennan. It's a packed house for a great discussion on how we're still falling short in covering women athletes.
March 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The 13th Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium is focused on media coverage of women's sports and kicked off with a panel of media experts and professionals, including keynote speaker Christine Brennan. It's a packed house for a great discussion on how we're still falling short in covering women athletes.
Incredibly excited for the 13th edition of the Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium next week (and in the middle of March Madness, no less).
I’ll be joining Christine Brennan & Madison Campos on March 25 at the University of Idaho Library. Our panel starts at 12:30 p.m., followed by Christine Brennan’s keynote at 5:30 p.m. at the Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium in the Vandal Ballroom: www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/c...
March 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Incredibly excited for the 13th edition of the Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium next week (and in the middle of March Madness, no less).
"I think I have conquered jetlag," she said after a 22-hour travel day, arriving on campus without keys and a computer, and almost walking into a moose.
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"I think I have conquered jetlag," she said after a 22-hour travel day, arriving on campus without keys and a computer, and almost walking into a moose.
Each time I teach our media campaign capstone course, I love witnessing the professional transformation of students as they work with a client (often for the first time) to create a campaign. This past fall, the university followed the development of one campaign: www.uidaho.edu/news/feature...
Bear necessities
Creating a communications campaign for the Moscow School District wasn’t just meaningful for the “Vandal Vision Agency” — advertising students Kevin Eldredge and Lillie Esson and public relations stud...
www.uidaho.edu
February 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Each time I teach our media campaign capstone course, I love witnessing the professional transformation of students as they work with a client (often for the first time) to create a campaign. This past fall, the university followed the development of one campaign: www.uidaho.edu/news/feature...
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🚨New Publications🚨
In Journalism Studies, @amnadler.bsky.social and I argue that right-wing news is competing with journalism over the cultural authority to tell the “true” story of public life.
For journalism scholars and practitioners alike, a🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1080/1461...
In Journalism Studies, @amnadler.bsky.social and I argue that right-wing news is competing with journalism over the cultural authority to tell the “true” story of public life.
For journalism scholars and practitioners alike, a🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1080/1461...
Competing for Cultural Authority: Journalism Studies Must Account for the Right
Recent technological and political developments have caused researchers to reevaluate journalists’ relevance vis a vis other forms of media production, with some calling for a “decentering” of jour...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚨New Publications🚨
In Journalism Studies, @amnadler.bsky.social and I argue that right-wing news is competing with journalism over the cultural authority to tell the “true” story of public life.
For journalism scholars and practitioners alike, a🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1080/1461...
In Journalism Studies, @amnadler.bsky.social and I argue that right-wing news is competing with journalism over the cultural authority to tell the “true” story of public life.
For journalism scholars and practitioners alike, a🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1080/1461...
Reposted by Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
Thinking once again tonight about my grandfather, who laid communications cable as the push from Normandy to Berlin progressed in 1944, and how completely we have lost the plot as a nation.
January 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Thinking once again tonight about my grandfather, who laid communications cable as the push from Normandy to Berlin progressed in 1944, and how completely we have lost the plot as a nation.
Reposted by Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
January 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
There was no better cure for Wisconsin homesickness than tuning into a Brewers baseball game and listening to a multi-inning description of eating a bratwurst with sauerkraut on a pretzel bun.
Summer evenings aren't going to be the same.
Summer evenings aren't going to be the same.
Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Popular Sportscaster, Dies at 90
Uecker turned his meager baseball career into humorous fodder covering games on TV and as a commercial pitchman.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
There was no better cure for Wisconsin homesickness than tuning into a Brewers baseball game and listening to a multi-inning description of eating a bratwurst with sauerkraut on a pretzel bun.
Summer evenings aren't going to be the same.
Summer evenings aren't going to be the same.
Family bathrooms that do not have toddler toilet covers or toddler-sized toilets are not, in fact, family bathrooms.
December 30, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Family bathrooms that do not have toddler toilet covers or toddler-sized toilets are not, in fact, family bathrooms.
Grades in, commence toddler potty training.
December 17, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Grades in, commence toddler potty training.
The final presentations from my media campaigns capstone students are some of my favorite parts of the end of the semester. This year had the added bonus of one client tying directly into some of my recent research, since the campaign focused on the community perception of public schools. (1/4)
December 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
The final presentations from my media campaigns capstone students are some of my favorite parts of the end of the semester. This year had the added bonus of one client tying directly into some of my recent research, since the campaign focused on the community perception of public schools. (1/4)
This is the content I've been looking for on this site.
BECAUSE MAYBE YOU NERDS HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY:
A thread of of currently active or Cyber Monday academic press sales.
Add more if you got ‘em.
A thread of of currently active or Cyber Monday academic press sales.
Add more if you got ‘em.
November 30, 2024 at 10:41 PM
This is the content I've been looking for on this site.
Holidays in Colorado mean half of your family decides to forgo Thanksgiving because the mountains got almost three feet of snow.
November 27, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Holidays in Colorado mean half of your family decides to forgo Thanksgiving because the mountains got almost three feet of snow.
This week has big "what day is it" energy.
a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is asking what a week huh ?
ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is asking what a week huh ?
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:57 PM
This week has big "what day is it" energy.
Reposted by Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem.
I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem
www.usermag.co
November 18, 2024 at 4:49 PM
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem.
I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
Was starting to write a pointed letter to the editor about a recent column in my local newspaper that mischaracterized the Wilson Administration, but decided to join this site instead.
November 14, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Was starting to write a pointed letter to the editor about a recent column in my local newspaper that mischaracterized the Wilson Administration, but decided to join this site instead.