The Three Scales: How to determine if a job is the best fit for you

How To Do Important Reporting On A Delicate Topic Like The Cornell Daily Sun’s Coverage Of A Gang-Rape Lawsuit (A Throwback Post)

Amazing Advice For First-Time Job-Seekers In Media From A Person Who Hires A Lot Of Them

Will The “Final Battle” Ad Shape Who “Wins The War” During The Midterm Elections?

The Dartmouth Provost Used AI To Write His Opinion Pieces. When The Student Newspaper Called Him Out, He Replied With An AI-Written Statement (A Throwback Post)

For Stanford, DEI stands for “Don’t Edit It”: University uses AI to add a Black student to its Dining Advertising

Six Important Things That Got Lost In The Story Of The SIU-Edwardsville Communication Director Who Filed A Police Report Against The Editor of The Student Newspaper

How to break through with good breaking news coverage

The objects people own can help us tell the best stories if we take the time to ask about them

The basics of lead-writing: Tell me what happened. (A Throwback Post)

The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s AI department co-opted a staffer’s byline for a story. Head Honcho Chris Quinn still thinks AI is our salvation.

Starting the school year with lessons from 5-year-olds

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is “Insider:” A Deeper Look at The Athletic’s Postmortem on The Dianna Russini/Mike Vrabel Scandal

What People Who Love Your Video Podcast Content Hate About Your Video Podcasts (Part I)

Writing Tips in Sarcastic-Poster Form

UW-Oshkosh PR folks want to “coordinate the appropriate response” whenever the media wants a faculty comment

What employers will likely ask you at a job interview and how to avoid killing your chances with your answers (A Throwback Post)

Indiana University Releases Its “IU Media School Task Force Report” Five Months After The Media School Ran Roughshod Over Student Media’s Rights

ASU’s use of AI to build classes from faculty Canvas course materials has instructors saying “WTF?” (A Throwback Post)

An Open Challenge for Writers of “Graduating Staffer Says Goodbye” Columns in Student Newspapers

Kash Money: FBI Director Patel sues the Atlantic over claims he’s a drunk (and what journalism students should learn from this situation)

Good Night, Dan Bice. You were truly an inspirational investigative journalist.

I Scream, You Scream, but When Stephen A. Smith Screams, He Makes $40M A Year: Understanding how our “hot-take culture” took hold of us

Donald Trump’s casinos went bankrupt because he funneled all the money to Michael Jackson, so Jackson could expand Neverland Ranch and protect kids from Jeffrey Epstein, who also tried to turn kids in...

The Joke’s on You: Three reasons why student media outlets should never, ever publish April Fools editions (or similar pranks)

Cherry Hill school district sues journalists for filing too many public records requests

Help me help you help your students: Exploring Mass Com is up for a second edition

The Anchoring Bias, The Leak and The Scoop: Why First Is Often Considered Best

Good Night, George Kennedy. My life would never have been what it is without you.

When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Pound Cake: Afroman beats Adams County deputies in defamation case

Please Share Your “Peak Chutzpah” Moments With Me

FCC Chair Brendan Carr and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threaten media for not being polite, kind lapdogs

How to cope with stress and burnout as student journalists and journalism students (A Throwback Post)

The Popularity and Perils of the Police Blotter

When it comes to getting quotes, go buy flowers instead of buying flour

Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Custom GPTs

“It’s not a riot. It’s a large, prolonged disturbance.” Working through fact-checks and BS-checks (A Throwback Post)

The Junk Drawer: Hump Day Edition

Reuters editor Jaimi Dowdell talks about the data team’s recent look at AI failures in medical procedures, how to do deep-dive stories and the importance of growth through discomfort as a journalist

UNC policy allows the U to record classes without telling professors or students, while students aren’t allowed to record at all

Cleveland Plain Dealer honcho Chris Quinn writes off criticism of his AI passion project as “uninformed outrage,” while still being wrong about almost everything, including college journalism programs

Cleveland Plain Dealer honcho Chris Quinn took time out of his busy schedule to crap all over journalism schools about their views on AI, despite not actually knowing their views on AI

You can call ‘This is How a Child Dies of Measles’ an act of ‘creative non-fiction,’ but where I’m from, we call it ‘lying’