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Carla Murphy

@carlamurphy.bsky.social
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journalism strategist; former journalism prof at a public school; civic media organizer @NewsFutures; digital media literacy advocate; former social justice-communities reporter. 🇧🇧 🇺🇲

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An important read by Rinaldo Walcott.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"My students in Newark were of color, immigrant and second-gen. I spent most of my class time demonstrating that intentionally broadcasting bad or good representations of a non-white race, culture or community is a marketing campaign; it’s not journalism." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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Immigrants, quiet rebellion and “the media”
How new Americans relate to U.S. journalism’s single stories about ‘community’
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Online commenter shuts down FBI agents.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thanks!
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Join me online starting in August in my News Futures community of practice, "Repurpose Journalism Education for Some, as Popular Education for All" open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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Are higher ed journalism education programs maximizing or missing their civic mission?
Join me online starting in August in my News Futures community of practice, "Repurpose Journalism Education for Some, as Popular Education for All"
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"I aim to make the case that as a load-bearing pillar of democracy, my profession should be looking at methods of doing integration that are neither racial representation nor assimilation. The U.S. is not a white democracy; that’s a contradiction in terms." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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How not to democracy: racial 'representation' in journalism
Lessons from a non-white mainstream in Newark
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"I’ve been in journalism since the early 2000s. I’ve never seen the equivalent of a PSA from a coalition of news companies seeking to educate their viewership about the nation’s nearly 30-year crisis in journalism and how it harms them." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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Journalists are not the leaders that journalism needs, now
Our multicultural publics are.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Post-WWII journalism may have been the pinnacle of commercial profit. That is not the same thing as the pinnacle of the integration of journalism practice and pedagogy with purpose and democratic function." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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5 ideas for helping U.S. publics to care about journalism
But first, let's get journalism to demonstrate care for them.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
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The Chaotic Good Giggle Goddess 🌞♐️ @beeyaaaaaaahh.blacksky.app · 06/02/2026
it is 6:38a on a fri in Feb 2026 & i must be accosted w pics of famous Black ppl as apes bc shitheads elected Racism for president. is reposting it rly necessary? can’t you do the journalism thing? describe it & tell me to click a link if i wanna see. & i wont click. cuz i dont wanna see.
cardi b lookin at you like wtf
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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Tenure was designed in part to protect truth-tellers from reprisals; but today, at the highest echelons of the ivory tower, it is a credential one earns mainly through dedication to private interests. " www.aaup.org/issue/winter....
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The Underclass Is in Session
What do we see when we view the structure of academic labor as it is, not as we wish it to be?
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/01/2026
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Same. Even now the cleaner jokes when she arrives: "Did you clean before I got here?" She just laughs at me. I do love coming home to a clean place.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Trump’s Fight With Minnesota Is About More Than Immigration
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"Truthiness is an interesting puzzle for immigrants and the native-born Americans who love to love immigrants. I think they love each other’s forgetting."
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Cue Marcus Aurelius to Maximus in the movie, Gladiator: “Commodus is not a moral man. You have known that since you were young. Commodus cannot rule. He *must* not rule."
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"Listening in" is not part of the cultural common sense of our steward-elite. open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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Can elite culture produce democratic journalism?
How a pluralist nation listens in
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Cavalrysword @cavalrysword.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Comedian Jimmy Carr with a great insight. Debate vs deliberation. www.youtube.com/shorts/c7Kwg...
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Less debate, more deliberation. #jimmycarr #hecklers #crowdwork #standup #heckles
YouTube video by Jimmy Carr
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Expecting students to plug local news gaps isn’t sustainable for students, communities, or journalism objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/stud...
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Students plugging local news gaps isn’t sustainable for students, communities, or journalism
Carla Murphy on how expecting college students to “fill the gap” in local news without addressing institutional power may reify inequities.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
PITTSBURGH'S Public Source

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike
After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom.
They return as union organizing continues throughout the region.
Stephanie Strasburg
November 24, 2025Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/11/2025
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
ProPublica spent almost a year chronicling Vought’s rise from the mailroom of the U.S. Senate to his perch as one of the two or three most influential players in the current administration behind only Trump and, arguably, Stephen Miller. www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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Who Is Russell Vought? How a Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-Chief
Reporter Andy Kroll explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trilli...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
www.dailytarheel.com/article/opin...
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Column: Information is the most human thing you can study
"This detective work, this human ability to read between the lines and see what’s missing as well as what’s there, is the real work of information and library science. The information is all the littl...
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"I also aim to help move the discourse around media, pluralism and democracy beyond interventions at the level of content. Our media infrastructure now disappears “place” in storytelling, at scale." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...
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How I talk About the American Mainstream
Why "place" matters for truth-telling about our nation
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I know people on here are scandalized that someone might classify a public school teacher as "working class" because she might have a masters or even PhD in education but can we agree it's at least as weird to call the guy who owns the local Wendy's franchise "working class" because he has a GED?
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Love this.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2025
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w
Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Exactly this
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/09/2025
Amid billionaires taking over the whole society, Democratic pundits & operatives have launched a billionaire-funded Abundance movement, a billionaire-funded Substack & a billionaire-funded think tank. We have to understand this as all part of the oligarch takeover of whatever remained of democracy.
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Andrew Losowsky @losowsky.com · 12/09/2025
It's unjust to group academics @CarlaMurphy.bsky.social, @jnelz.bsky.social, @suerobinsonuw.bsky.social, @taliastroud.bskysocial, & @andreawenzel.bsky.social, as each has their specialties and projects, but their collective rigor provides the framing and evidence that all our work desperately needs.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Saw these new (to me) teethy turnstiles to stop fare beating -- and thought about this era's quiet disappearance of, say, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or a Lina Khan.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Journalism, democracy and “pluralist sight”
The challenge for journalism in a new century
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
One of my deeply held beliefs is that if we could condition people to accept how chance affects their lives, they’d be much better equipped to recognize how systemic things impact them.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/07/2025
The reason this isn't going away is because the US is home to far more survivors of childhood sexual trauma than anyone wants to admit or who have been steeping in silence, shame, anger and quiet isolation. They identify with those victims in ways they sometimes barely realize and they are PISSED.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My approach to surviving these days…
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
He's such a "city kid". Which is a throughline for all of us I don’t care if you're from Bensonhurst, Gun Hill Road or South Side Jamaica.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart." During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I think your guidance also applies to (what remains of) journalism. It makes sense for tech to corner the market in knowledge-creation. It doesn't make sense for journalism and academia to cede their foundations.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
An exceptionally dark 4th of July this year. I am rapidly losing my relative “optimism” about the short-term future of U.S. democracy and society. Perhaps the most depressing part is that it is being dismantled so easily by a rather incompetent force.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
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