Managing editor for @Poynter. From a little town called Gasport but one of those proud Buffalonians. Perpetually sorry that I never replied to your email.
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Only the government can violate your First Amendment rights. Pin tweet.
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The U.S. publishing industry generates about $30 billion of annual revenue.
Despite all that money, and book coverage once being a core part of newspaper criticism, newspaper book coverage is disappearing. And when a community loses its book coverage, it creates a ripple effect.
Read the story: poynter.org/business-work/20…
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12 Nov 2025
Jane Pauley got the message about the power of news early on in life. At home, newspapers were a constant. poynter.org/ethics-trust/202…
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30 Jul 2025
Check out the latest episode of The @Poynter Report Podcast with my guest @cbrennansports -- who wrote the book (literally) about Caitlin Clark.
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19 May 2025
Congrats to fellow @Poynter alums @Mantzarlis and @CraigSilverman on the launch of Indicator! Raising a glass to a saner and more reasonable internet, and two awesome journalists 🥂
indicator.media/
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8 Apr 2025
Nearly half of Americans say they don’t want news from generative artificial intelligence, according to a wide-ranging study from @Poynter and the University of Minnesota on audience AI sentiment.
@AlexMahadevan on the major findings: poynter.org/ethics-trust/202…
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5 Nov 2024
During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.
The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’
Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’
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5 Nov 2024
On what looks like it will be a confusing Election Night, who can you trust when the polls close? For @Poynter & @PolitiFact, I compiled a list of trustworthy websites and X accounts for granular election returns and analysis. poynter.org/reporting-editin…
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7 Oct 2024
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The right-wing Twitter influencer formula these days involves posting a screenshot of a text from unknown friend or colleague as original source material.
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1/ Photojournalist Douglas R. Clifford has reported on dozens of storms since he began at the Tampa Bay Times in 1998. Ahead of Helene, Clifford awaited landfall from a Tallahassee hotel room, hundreds of miles from home.
Then, he got a text from his wife: “Doug, I’m scared."
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10 Sep 2024
Follow @PolitiFact's instant fact-checking of tonight's presidential debate here: politifact.com/article/2024/… (I'll be posting there, not here.)
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19 Aug 2024
I just published a piece for @Poynter weighing what makes a good party convention for political journalists. The short answer is logistics, logistics, logistics. poynter.org/commentary/analy…
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13 Jul 2024
Misinformation spreads quickly during breaking news events, like what we're seeing unfold this evening.
Stop before sharing posts about an alleged shooter or motive. Stop before sharing anything with unbelievable or unreported details. Wait for legit reporters to get the facts.
13 Jul 2024
Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.
In a statement, Trump said he is “fine” and is being checked at a medical facility.
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3 Jun 2024
My last article for @Poynter: what do horse racing journalists think of “horse race journalism?”
Thanks to @joedrape, @MHoppertNYT and @ngreenberg for talking for this!
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Gannett fired Sarah Leach, an editor overseeing 26 community papers in four states, for talking to Poynter about the company’s plan to stop restaffing small papers.
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11 Apr 2024
.@AP study finds AI is already reshaping newsrooms w/ insight from Aimee Rinehart, Ernest Kung, via @poynter: apne.ws/Mc8SCrk
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What's next for nonprofit news?
Join Poynter's @AmarisCastillo, @RickEdmonds and @INN's @JKealing on April 10 for a LinkedIn Live audio event on where nonprofit journalism stands in 2024.
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Why Report for America will no longer place journalists in hedge fund and private equity-owned publications, from @Report4America executive director @kdkleman.
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20 Feb 2024
The one where I made @telkinsjr and @AlexMahadevan tell me about OpenAI's Sora poynter.org/tech-tools/2024/…
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25 Jan 2024
I can retire now.
For @Poynter, I delved into SHATTERED GLASS, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and the film's impact on writer-director Billy Ray and the journalists who lived through the events portrayed onscreen.
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