Last year I began to raise alarms about to potential for the federal government to start arresting journalists for doing our jobs,knowing that the historic Black press had faced this.Today, Don Lemon is in fed custody after a bogus arrest for bearing witness.Resharing from March 2025: bit.ly/45F4LH2
My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
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A portion of this touches on what I wrote about in a newsletter earlier this year. This is through the lens of the historic Black press: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
These are terrifying times. Corporate media is caving utterly. Support non-profit media, public media, local media, and the last few old MSM companies with good owners.
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I’m really sad to see the AJC end its print editions. Newsprint is so special. I engage with paper in a way I engage with the physical book. And there’s nothing like seeing your byline in print…
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Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.
Screenshot of a journal article titled “Occupational Activism of Outsiders within: How Journalists of Color Work Toward a More Expansive News Ecosystem”
This article examines the storytelling values, critiques, and practices of journalists of color in public radio, a historically white dominant industry. I draw on 83 interviews with people of color employed in public radio to analyze their stated values and how they use their position to disrupt the white racial frame that shapes the industry's genre in accordance with said values. Interviewees highlighted a commitment to make more stories that would resonate with their communities of origin; further, they expressed a commitment to exposing existing, majority-white public radio listeners to a more diverse set of news stories through their storytelling. Their “outsider within” status leads public radio employes of color to recognize the white racial frame of public radio storytelling and organizational resistance to change. Given the mismatch between their values and the organization's white racial frame, public radio employes of color engage in values-centered occupational activism. Specifically, they find newsroom allies, reframe stories to make it through the white racial frame, and in some cases, directly challenge authorities to ensure a more diverse set of news stories make it on air. This form of values-centered occupational activism promotes a more expansive and diverse news ecosystem, both in newsroom culture and in the broader public sphere.
In my latest for Work and Occupations, I show how POC in public radio expand the stories available on the airwaves, due to their connections with and commitment to underrepresented communities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
No one's taking this "objectivity as strategic ritual" thing more seriously than Murdoch is right now. Logan Roy didn't even have this in him.
(I am on the market. See y'all at ASA!)
I can't even begin to express how meaningful "Whiteness as a Credential" has been in helping me contextualize how the three generations of journalists in my study navigate the constantly changing shape of objectivity. I appreciate your support, and I'm excited and grateful to continue this work!
There are timely dissertations, and then there is @chadrhym.bsky.social’s in-process work on race and objectivity in the media.
(Also, he’s on the market).
The WAPO Style section has planted its flag in journalism's epistemic contest, and you're laughing?
When I lose the energy to finish my dissertation, it's #moments like these that will keep me going for an eternity and beyond. This is what it's all about, y'all. This is what we do it for.
The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
Rupture --> Recoupling --> Turmoil/Epistemic distress; wash, rinse, repeat... good lord, it feels like we're looking at 2020 in a mirror, just faster and nastier
The objectivity-myth incarnate
When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.
I told everyone to stop fooling with this monkey’s-paw art of prediction thing!!!
and yet @chadrhym.bsky.social called the Tom Cotton op-ed one day early.
I’m so glad the bigwigs decided airing calls to have the army kill protesters was vital enough to kill NYT’s public editorial policies.
Steven Cheung & @StevenCheung47 Talk shit, get hit. Brian Stelter & @brianstelter • 16m BREAKING: Terry Moran is out at ABC News. "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post - which was a clear violation of ABC News policies - we have made the decision to not renew," an ABC spokesperson says. 2:06 PM • 6/10/25 • 9K Views
The White House Communications Director reacts to the news that Terry Moran has been pushed out at ABC News.
“Talk shit, get hit.”
The fact that Terry Moran was at the end of a contract cycle — I'm told his deal was set to expire on Friday — made it easier for ABC to take swift action. Full story here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...
Okay, given the source ( @tomscocca.bsky.social ) I assumed this had to be a parody, but the WSJ did indeed just publish an op-ed by Tom Cotton called "Send In the Troops, for Real"
what the hell
Breaking News Pentagon sending hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to backstop National Guard as Trump escalates feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom noW
I feel like maybe the framing of Trump sending the military to put down protests as a "feud" between Trump and Newsom is a little weird?
Anddddd time to revisit Tuchman's (1972) Objectivity as strategic ritual
