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Damon Kiesow

@damon.kiesow.net

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Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · Nov 12

Who am I following here?

People who create, develop and protect knowledge.
Who study history and democracy.
Who take a critical eye to technology.
Who monitor public health, labor, supply chains.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 1d

Rumor has it she disappeared... on an island...

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 1d

So... You are saying you gave at the office?

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 1d

Everyone knows real editors have bumper sticker sayings more like, “No self-actualization before deadline.“

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 2d

Moonnight.

The moon lights up clouds and sky framed by pitch black trees in the suburbs.

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 2d

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. This is objectivity as blinders. As irony. As surrender.

Paramount's new chairman and chief executive, David Ellison, appears to have plucked Ms. Weiss from this world to help
reclaim CBS's relevance.

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 2d

If you are living in CoMo and thinking of starting a punk band, my suggested name is "Home before Midnight."

IYKYK

Damon

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 2d

When the intent is to dismantle not to uphold.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

Definitely the experience running a little substack-subsidized blog nobody outside the fever swamps has ever read is the background needed to run an enormous, byzantine, corporate news organization. Should go great. Godspeed.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss is now officially the top editor of CBS News.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 3d

“How is your reporting increasing empathy,” Murphy said, “and building social cohesion in your communities?” www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/beyo...

Beyond pageviews: Small news nonprofits develop their own metrics to measure impact

“If you don’t decide how you’re going to measure your success, somebody else will decide for you.”

www.niemanlab.org

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 3d

It is really a Ship of Theseus question. The answer being yes, not all at once, not all the time, but more recently than not.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

Because focusing on “Is our country a fascist country?” is really a question of “How much ethnic cleansing/secret policing/enslavement/etc. can we say is acceptable?”

The answer should be “none.”

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 3d

How much to never have to watch another advertisement?

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 3d

Liverpool in 7 games: Winning goals at 27' and 83' and every other league win/loss in injury time.

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 5d

I ain’t reading all that.
Happy for you though.
Or, sorry that happened.

An Update About CNN Max
Hi Damon, Starting on November 17, 2025, the CNN Max
live news feed will no longer be available on
HBO Max.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 5d

Luckily it just grows back.

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 5d

A problem is that the most salient examples in media are not most apparently hard at work 'protecting democracy.' So a bit of cognitive dissonance in the messaging even for newsrooms doing the work.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 6d

I question if I truly need the protection of 2FA to book a haircut.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 6d

Narrator: No. No they did not.

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 6d

RIP Corporate Journalism. You had a good run.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 6d

It is a document of unconditional surrender.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 7d

Agreed. It confuses the intuition to say a pitcher can throw at “37 Celsius”

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 7d

You’ve gotta admit it’s very convenient that 100 mph is basically the upper limit for how fast humans can throw baseballs. Pretty much the best argument against the metric system

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 7d

I have found the media literacy in self-governing focused-topic niche communities (Reddit is another)to be very high, effective and fascinating to observe.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7d

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 7d

This is fascinating:

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 7d

Anthropology and journalism are close kin. Both disciplines use similar methods to engage and build trust with communities. Join us for a two-part workshop for reporters to refine existing methods and learn new ones from anthropology. Register here: bit.ly/AnthroJournoWorkshop

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 7d

TBH the story is not that "liberal arts schools are on the decline" as much as "societal shifting of educational costs to students is on the rise."

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 8d

”This is a battle for truth for trust for agency. For values and the future you want.”

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 8d

“I became a journalist because information is power.” - Maria Ressa, 2025 Missouri Honor Medal honoree.

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