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Ann Marie Lipinski

@amlwhere.bsky.social
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Journalist. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Nieman Nation for life. Give me all the pencils.

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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I grew up on the Michigan/Canada border when no one was more beloved in my hockey-loving family than Gordie Howe. The ugly feud between our countries insults his name. Can’t wait to cross the Gordie Howe International Bridge in honor of Mr. Hockey & workers like these guys www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'An iconic moment': Workers in symbolic Gordie Howe bridge photo reminisce as bridge opens | CBC News
On June 14, 2024, the structural steel of the two sides of the Gordie Howe International Bridge was connected. A photo was taken showing two iron workers — one American, one Canadian — shaking hands. ...
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Imagine sharing a byline with Homer.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I recently read an AI-generated podcast transcript that converted “ChatGPT” to “chachi pizza.” And we rely on it to get the hard stuff right? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
SCOTUS has "ensure[d] that we will never get to parity, that we will never get to adequate representation that reflects the diversity of this country ... we are now on a fast track to go backwards and to have a white male dominated leadership structure in this country." 19thnews.org/2026/04/supr...
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Supreme Court decision could undo decades of gains by Black women lawmakers
In a scathing dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the court's conservative majority has completed its "demolition" of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“Stunning that one of the nation’s highest officials is more concerned with his personal vanity than with accurate reporting of briefings during a war in which Americans have lost their lives.”
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 06/02/2026
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“The way to feel today is to be angry at the people who run the Washington Post. We live in a timeline where (Jeff Bezos’s company) paid $40 million reportedly for a Melania doc & today the Post laid off people who cover the Middle East” @bryancurtis.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Press Box
Sports Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker and Joel Anderson catch you up on the biggest media stories, from sports to politics and everything in between.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/02/2026
Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Such welcome news. Armed Only With a Camera, the film about the late Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed while covering the war in Ukraine, is nominated for an Oscar. An extraordinary film about an extraordinary filmmaker.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
" The total number of student news programs in the country that distribute work to local outlets is now roughly two hundred and fifty. "... the addition of a student-run paper is a lifeline for community news." via @columjournreview.bsky.social
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How students are trying to save local news.
Across the country, university programs are filling gaps in the coverage.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
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“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
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rickkogan.bsky.social @rickkogan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A good man gone. Bruce Dold, former Chicago Tribune editor and 'consummate newspaperman,' dies at 70. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/b...
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Bruce Dold, former Chicago Tribune editor and ‘consummate newspaperman,’ dies at 70
Bruce Dold juggled journalism and business interests in a dual editor-publisher role as the industry grappled with declining revenue and downsizing.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Post walk through the snow globe that is Chicago. Beautiful ❄️
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“It's a painful reminder to countries tempted by the idea of solving a nation’s problems through populism and authoritarianism. It's easy to believe that handing absolute power to one person is the easiest way to fix things, but our history, the story of the world proves that that is impossible.”
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Nuzzi was great at precisely what was incentivized (by the media and power). New York Magazine didn’t hire her despite her personality-driven, access-heavy approach—they hired her because of it. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Fall with the Feds in Chicago: 2 people shot, 1 fatally. Rubber pellets, pepper balls fired into crowds. Neighborhoods enveloped in noxious gas, sickening residents & police. Chokeholds used at least 5 times. 8 car chases. Force used in at least 76 incidents. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Excellent from @reuters.com "MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream" (we wish more Reuters journalists joined @bsky.app ) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“.. A Chicago police officer reacts as they detain a man (not pictured) during an argument with residents after an immigration raid by federal law enforcement agents at the Little Village neighborhood, in Chicago, Illinois.” @reuters.com
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This story *is* the Blues. Rest in power, Koko. chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...
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'Queen of the Blues' Koko Taylor's prized possessions — including a Grammy — sold at Chicago flea market
A treasure trove of her items were put on sale for dirt cheap after a junk dealer's random purchase of the contents of Taylor's storage locker in Orland Park.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Why the WashPost, WSJ, and NYT all hate Mamdani. Excellent piece from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
paragraph of why establishment news outlets don't like Mamdani.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow. Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/10/2025
FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
After a “warrantless operation in a largely Black community” the government has given no accounting of who remains in custody or what happened to the children who “haven’t been seen by residents since.” Harrowing account of military raid on Chicago. digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...
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Sun, 10/19/25
Distrust and anger deepen after raid
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“Here’s some news for you…You’ll never break Chicago!”Endless stream of #NoKings protestors shut down streets surrounding Grant Park.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"The day before our departure, one reporter placed signs throughout our soon-to-be-vacated spaces that read Journalism is not a crime. As soon as members of Hegseth’s staff saw the signs, they tore them down." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document…That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.”
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Folks, see the details local journalists post about breaking news events when verifiable info is limited. ⤵️ Name of agency. Location. Time. Source. Context about local area and confirmation by local Rapid Response group. Stop sharing accounts that solely post "Holy Sh*t, ICE!" with dramatic video.
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 09/10/2025
If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish. Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.

Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 09/10/2025
Update: Chicago journalists and press groups won a temporary restraining order today, restricting federal agents’ violent tactics in response to protests outside an ICE facility in Illinois.
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Journalist shot with pepper balls at Illinois ICE facility protest
Journalist Raven Geary was shot in the face and shoulder with pepper balls by federal officers while reporting on protests …
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is a Chicago Sun-Times photo of federal immigration agents marching through downtown Chicago Sunday. A top border agent told a reporter they were making arrests based on “how they look.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"I’ve had people tell me they're afraid to go on the air, and after 40 years on the air, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that." A new report from @newsisout.bsky.social asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/loca...
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Local LGBTQ+ publications are facing a drop in ad dollars and a rise in safety concerns, new report finds
A new report from News is Out, a national collaborative of queer news publishers, has mapped local LGBTQ+ publications across the U.S. The first comprehensive report of its kind, “The LGBTQ+ Media Map...
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Brutal assessment of ESPN as “image-fluffer.” “By chasing dollars, ESPN is betraying the very fans on whose passion it built its success, trading away its journalistic credibility for a diminished status as the glorified Pravda of the modern American sportscape.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
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ESPN has discarded brilliant journalism for squirts of memebrain swill | Aaron Timms
Influencer creep symbolizes a broader rot at the heart of the broadcaster as it attempts to stop interrogating the very sports it covers
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Superb choice. Eduardo’s commitment to saving and strengthening journalism is unparalleled.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This won’t end with talk show hosts.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“A passion for democracy still burns brightly for millions of Americans that can’t easily be extinguished. Nowhere is that more true than in a city of light called Chicago. If Trump’s Department of War is serious about staging its 1st battle on the shores of Lake Michigan, it picked the wrong fight”
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María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The documentary on HBO from October 21 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I was last in Little Rock two years ago for Brent Renaud’s funeral. This visit, his hometown turned out to celebrate an HBO documentary and foundation honoring the life and work of the journalist, the first American killed in the war on Ukraine.
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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 23/07/2025
📝 In her final column for Nieman Reports, Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social reflects on her 14 years as curator of the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social. niemanreports.org/ann-marie-li...
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Nieman’s Fertile Soil - Nieman Reports
Ann Marie Lipinski reflects on 14 years as curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Stark warning from the AFP journalists association "Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger" www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
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AFP journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation, warns journalists' association
'We have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded, prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing colleague die of hunger,' says French news agency's journalists' association - Ana...
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Arkansas black apple isn’t common in Cambridge, Mass., but Brent Renaud wasn’t common either. I worried about the little sapling, thin like Brent and planted in his honor in the Nieman Foundation garden. But today I checked on the tree and was rewarded with these two tiny apples. Proof of life.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A woman who grew up in the US & China knew firsthand that journalism and narratives helped “readers in both cultures to better understand one another.” She now honors her mother and great grandfather with a fellowship for journalists from China,Taiwan and Hong Kong nieman.harvard.edu/liang-zhou-n...
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Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship established at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism - Nieman Foundation
A gift from the Endeavor Foundation will support journalists who work in or are from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a nation is weakened" Powerful words from Pope Leo who says defending free and ethical journalism is "a duty for all who aspire to a strong and participatory democracy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Pope commits to weeding out church sexual abuse, praises role of press in democracy
In first public comments on topic, Leo XIV has now signaled zero tolerance for sexual abuser priests
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