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Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 2h

I know 2026 feels pretty far away but there are already conferences on the calendar in the early part of the year. The 2026 Journalism WTF conference guide is now out. As more dates and details are confirmed, they will be added to the table. www.journalism.wtf/journalism-c...

Journalism Conferences 2026

Ready to think about 2026? Here's your guide to the 2026 journalism and media conference calendar. As dates and details are finalized for existing and upcoming events, details will be added to the tab...

www.journalism.wtf

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 17h

An Indiana newspaper should offer to print the IDS themselves.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

This is the last good influencer

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

Well the baseball game is over but the night is young for the 38 year olds of Bluesky, and that means it’s time to take a low dose aspirin and read about Bigfoot on your iPad for 20 minutes before falling asleep

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

The issue IMHO isn't just that CBS promoted Bari Weiss. The issue is the media ecosystem that allowed her to exist in the first plac.e

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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 15d

“The encroachment of AI systems and the erosion of the value of labor could lead to the increasing disempowerment of most humans, causing a degradation in individual well-being and purpose.”

E Pluribus Uh Oh | Leo Kim

“Pro-democracy” initiatives coming out of Silicon Valley are a sleight of hand. Platform authoritarianism is the end goal.

thebaffler.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27d

He who controls the algorithm controls your knowledge, choices, and ultimately your autonomy.

Some interesting stats from @katharinehayhoe.com highlight the difference between her experience on Threads, which has a heavy-handed algorithm, and Bluesky.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28d

Oh look.

Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 28d

By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28d

Pay attention y’all. Sinclair is really trouble.

Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 28d

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 28d

The title of this press release? "Sinclair Says Kimmel Suspension is Not Enough, Calls on FCC and ABC to Take Additional Action"

But same team, right? 🫠

TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 28d

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 28d

The actual story is not reflected in the headline:

ABC cancels Kimmel after threats to its business from Trump administration.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28d

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

www.nytimes.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 29d

Crucial to distinguish between

a) the Right claiming the Kirk murder is akin to the 1933 Reichstag fire (and demanding drastic state repression in response)

and

b) an actual comparison between the situation in the United States today and Germany in early 1933.

A few thoughts on both:

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 29d

I had a great conversation with @lincolnsquare.media about where we are today: About political violence and the Right’s desire for escalation.

But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:

Is the Right Looking for a Reichstag Fire? | Historian Thomas Zimmer joins Susan Demas

We're no longer a democracy, but not yet a dictatorship. Welcome to purgatory, or what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism."

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29d

Being a Consultant is figuring out what the people with money are willing to pay to be told and finding a way to say it that makes it sound like wisdom.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29d

For the people who say there’s no money out there

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · Sep 16

For a column, looking to chat with earlyish-career workers about whether you’re struggling to focus on work/job-searching amid…well, everything else happening in the world. Would love to talk to experts, including organizers, on actions we can take at work or beyond to help. DMs/inbox always open.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 29d

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

Business Insider and the Bots

The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.

www.status.news

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 29d

Going Solo: our accelerator for journalists launching their own venture on their own is officially HALF SOLD OUT.

10 (maybe 9?) more spots left in this cohort. Starts October 2.

projectc.biz/going-solo

Going Solo workshop — Project C

projectc.biz

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Sep 16

“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first woman to lead the celebration of the 215th anniversary of Mexican Independence.” www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...

First woman president to lead Mexico’s historic 'El Grito' celebration

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female to lead the celebration of the 215th anniversary of Mexican Independence.

www.nbclosangeles.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Sep 14

If you're frustrated with the absolute garbage pouring out of prestige media today, great time to support indie media! Consider subscribing to @theflytrapmedia.com @404media.co @defector.com @flaminghydra.com @hearingthingsco.bsky.social @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social and other fine publications!

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Sep 14

Need more indie media in your life? Follow a starter pack like this one created by @laminda.bsky.social

Independent, Worker-Owned and Reader-Funded Media

Join the conversation

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Sep 14

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · Sep 6

My friend @dansinker.com wrote a wonder piece on the eve of the occupation of Chicago.

dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

A Benediction for Chicago on the Eve of Occupation | dansinker.com

dansinker.com

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Tim Verheyden @timverheyden.bsky.social · Sep 5

The rate at which chatbots are spreading false information doubled in the last year, according to a report that NewsGuard shared first for English-speaking readers with Axios. www.axios.com/2025/09/04/p...

Exclusive: Study finds chatbots are amplifying even more misinformation

The rate at which popular AI services amplify or fail to flag falsehoods has doubled in a year, per NewsGuard.

www.axios.com

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Sep 4

Come work with me as a writer/editor/data journalist at @pewresearch.org: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Screenshot of a job posting for a writer/editor position at Pew Research Center in Washington, DC.

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