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Kevin Lerner

@klerner.bsky.social
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Professor and Chair of Journalism and Sports Media at Montclair State University. I am a journalism historian, studying press criticism, and literary & alternative journalism.

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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sure, you can teach a rope, but can you teach a gigantic news organization like the @nytimes.com that they still need copy editors? (It’s corrected in the online version.)
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ends up looking something like this:
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A few weeks ago, I bought a copy of Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism edited by Noverr and Stacy. It's a 2014 book, but I thought it was not previously owned—it clearly hasn't been read. But today, while waiting for a student who was late to advising, I opened it and found this.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I love many things about this @brianphillips.bsky.social piece, including all of the many very funny parts, but also this hat tip to good editing and the kicker, which puts deserved faith in student journalists. www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
When I first read this, I 💯% thought that Johnny Storm was in East Asia, stumping for Lee Jae Myung.
Photo of a New York Times headline: “Human Touch Wins Support for President in South Korea”
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In *today’s* mail…
Close-up of a corner of an issue of New York Magazine, showing a cover date of December 16–19, 2024.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Gotta say, @theonion.com, this broadsheet size looks good on you.
Photograph of a full-page advertisement for the satirical newspaper The Onion, in the New York Times for June 22, 2025
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The state of things has devolved to the point where the Paper of Record is structuring its stories around How it started/How it’s going memes.
Screenshot of the New York Times showing bullet points for “how it started” and “how it’s going” in reference to a feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I have a text thread of journalism nerd friends who fetishize reporter’s notebooks. One of those friends is also here and shared this new addition to her collection. No photo credit b/c I’m totally sharing w/o permission. 😇 I’m too lazy to dig mine out of my backpack.
Photo of a hand holding a Columbia Journalism reporter’s notebook.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
In the end I decided to come down to my 25th reunion at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Happy to have already connected with a half dozen classmates over breakfast. Less happy that we have to have a panel about free speech and institutional integrity. But such is the world right now.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Kentucky Derby may be decadent and depraved, but at least Journalism is a clear favorite.
Screen shot of Kentucky Derby betting odds showing a horse named Journalism as the favorite.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hearing Chris Hayes on the day of the #handsoff protests. He was met with a cardboard sign from an audience member who had been out protesting.
Marquee of the Bardavon theater in Poughkeepsie, advertising Chris Hayes
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I'm floored to find out that I'm one of the eight Columbia Scholastic Press Association Centennial Alumni Achievement Award winners. Very cool to be part of this group. I love working with CSPA. This is the first award I've won from them since I was 17! precollege.sps.columbia.edu/news/cspa-ce...
Image announcing the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Alumni Achievement Award recipients: Meredith Averill, Lauren Blum, Jenny Creech, Heather Dinich, Michelle Hoover, Kevin Lerner, Aaron Sharockman, and Randy Yeip.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Kudos to the @nytimes.com editors who kept themselves amused by juxtaposing news about what’s going on in Wales with news about what’s going on in whales.
Photograph of page A5 of the New York Times for February 15, 2025, showing two headlines: “A Detour Deep in the Belly of a Whale … Well, Nearly,” and “In Wales, the Hard Right Gains Some Ground.”
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Always get the quote from the expert, even if the expert's quote is "🤷🏻‍♂️"
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Sophomore registration day is like…
Inflatable doll of Edvard Munch’s painting ‘The Scream’ wearing a Marist Red Foxes trucker cap in a professor’s office.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is 100% intentional, right? I mean, I guess if you're a Times headline writer who has to come up with the typical wishy-washy normalizing heds, you have to do *something* to amuse yourself, no?
Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads "Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited"
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #291,915!
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Ah, the old Mrs. Dalloway opening…
Screenshot of the first line of a New York Times story reading "Mr. Trump said he would spin the reporters himself."
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Huge if true.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
My favorite Tom Wolfe piece.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
This parenthetical makes type-nerd Kevin very happy. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/t...
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Thrilled to welcome @jbouie.bsky.social to Marist College tonight. Amazing job by student Emma Denes introducing him too.
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Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
A journalism historian never forgets the first time he saw a Merganthaler Linotype in person.
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