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Claire Rounkles
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Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis / MU J-School Alumni / OU Alumni /McNair Scholar / First Gen Student/ Photojournalist / Historian
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📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal
March 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Congrats to the five media historians receiving funding to support their diversity and media history research! The microgrants are sponsored by the AEJMC's History Division and AJHA as part of a collaborative effort to stimulate more diversity research in Journalism History and American Journalism.
March 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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An interesting and predictable problem.

Locals/metros eliminate wire services, state bureaus and certainly DC bureaus

They look to specialize and avoid giving space to commodity national stories.

As a result - curation and amplification of national-local policy issues goes missing.
1/ A thread about why the gutting of journalism, and local news in particular, is a main reason why we are here. And what you can do—constructively—to help.

Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS
February 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Welcome to the public domain, ON WITH THE SHOW (1929)! 🎞️ This color film survives only in black & white. A highlight is Ethel Waters singing Birmingham Bertha. 🎤🎶

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive
January 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

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December 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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A VERY preliminary list of Media, Communication, and Journalism Historians, please let me know who to add!
go.bsky.app/EzAZ2Hh
November 19, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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This is a repost that caught my attention. Does this insurance cover teachers being sued by students and parents? Or targeting by your own institutions?
Somewhere on here I saw that someone was recommending an academic litigation insurance company. Anyone have one they like?
November 17, 2024 at 5:34 PM