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Kalli Anderson

@kallipearl.bsky.social
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Documentary-maker, writer, sound artist Associate professor and director of audio journalism at Newmark J-school at CUNY Editor @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social kallipearl.com soundfields.org

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
thinking about potato house this halloween
a post showing a bowl of candy with a single potato in the center with the text:

Tonight kids chose potato more than 25 times, each time triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, "I GOT A POTATO!"
One kid shouted, "A potato, just like last year!" and another group said, "Oh, youre the potato house? You're legends!"

This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are given the free choice and over and over again they choose Potato. My friends, every day you are given a choice. I encourage you: choose potato
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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
FREE PODCASTING EVENT IN NYC NOV 12 I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast. RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...
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How to Run an Indie Podcast - Newmark J-School
Want to learn what it really takes to run a successful independent narrative podcast in the post-boom era of podcasting? Join Newmark J-Schools Audio Journalism program for a candid discussion about i...
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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
AI has been creeping into the news all of us read, often without any disclosure. We call for clearly defined standards for U.S. newsrooms: 1️⃣ Clearly define what counts as acceptable use of AI and publish these standards openly 2️⃣ Require AI-use attestations for all writers
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
You are the best! Of course there is! :)
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Appreciating all the yeses here…so I’d better see all of you sending big $$$ to NPR whenever we decide to do this.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/10/2025
lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Same today!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Feels good!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Thanks XMTR Fest for an incredible gathering in St Leonards on Sea last week. Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event. And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Some exciting news: Kodak announced two new types of film today, and, notably, said it would be directly selling the film to shops, sidestepping a complicated licensing agreement where Kodak hasn't had the right to sell its own film to stores www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
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Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade
Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.
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Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.
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Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find
When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 23/09/2025
Calling all freelance fact-checkers! We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project. Email Chris (chris@hellgatenyc.com) for more details.
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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper. Do not let them rewrite the world. Save all the evidence you can."
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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...
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I tell you this story because I think so often we encounter archives when we are liminal, when we are in between. When we are moving or searching for ourselves or for the truth in the past, sometimes in our own past. When we are looking for a way home. It turns out teetering towards fascism is beyond liminal. If a liminal space is a train station, we seem to all be collectively in limbo, unending uncertainty on the lip of hell. In a haze of epistemological dissonance we witness the shredding of the past through a looking glass so cracked that even the history repeating itself is unrecognizable.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
lol. I was also a copyeditor for a while. Believe it or not.
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
fact checking great journalists wa one of the main ways I leaned to be a journalist. I loved the job and getting to be professionally correct. And this fact checking piece in the New Yorker really get to the heart of it . www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I love my 404 Media subscription and this piece is so illuminating and also funny! There's a real "pay no attention to the entire team of human contractors behind the curtain" energy to the folks using generative AI!
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The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer. 
 @hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
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From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck.
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is in line with my observations around the people in podcasting/audio industry who are the most excited about LLM style podcast “innovations” are never the people who already make excellent podcasts.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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casey morell @caseym.org · 25/08/2025
new NPR podcast alert -- sources & methods will look at national security news & why it matters. hosted by the incomparable mary louise kelly. check it out each thursday.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.
Tweet from William MacAskill explaining that he likes to allow Gemini to write its own short story and he was really impressed with it, and then an excerpt from the story itself, called "The Architect and the Gardener."A quote from George R.R. Martin where he says there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners, which is very clearly the source of Gemini's "story"
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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Midnight cricket party, Taughannock State Park, New York, USA on 16th August 2025 – by @kallipearl.bsky.social fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/08/18/m...
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Midnight cricket party, Taughannock State Park, New York, USA on 16th August 2025 – by Kalli Anderson – Field Recordings
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences.
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Wish i could attend this!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds
Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 19/06/2025
Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave? The images you choose are critical to the story. The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...
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How do you photograph heat? - Climate Outreach
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks to all the friends and strangers who attended SEA CHANGE last week during Tribeca. Still riding that sunset high of making a beautiful ruckus through the streets to the edge of this island. Next stop XMTR fest in the UK in Sept!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
thanks for coming, friend!!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
No, in person only but I’ll Share some documentation and recordings after
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
So terribly sad to lose my former CUNY colleague, a journalist and generous teacher students loved and learned from. Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
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Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Join us on June 11 for a sound walk unlike any you’ve ever done before. Details and rsvp tinyurl.com/seachangeswarm
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
(Boomers and their antecedents)
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I call this the “noun” era of journalism and documentary, when boomers had fat expense accounts and made living wages selling a story 4 times over to analog outlets for which the pitch was just a single noun.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 09/05/2025
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
well done -- so deserved Tai!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Woohoo! Way to go @nickhunebrown.bsky.social and @taimhuynh.bsky.social and all the @thelocal.to super stars!!!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
oh boy
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Haha
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s honestly so weird to live in a country right next to my country where our federal election barely registers in the news cycle.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is the secret. Everyone - EV. ERY. ONE. - thinks they're The One who won't be bested by an incisive interview. As long as the journalist is polite & just... keeps... asking... smart... questions, every last person they interview will think they're the only one to ever be on top of it.
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