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Pam Maples

@pammaples.bsky.social
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Sr. Managing Dir, JSK Journalism Fellowships @ Stanford. Past: reporter/editor @dallasnews @newsy @STLtoday & some other local news orgs that are no longer with us. jsk.stanford.edu

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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Dianne Reeves @ SFJazz last night. So much joy in that room.
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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Big win for local news: California commits $15 million in renewed funding for its Local News Fellowship Program. The funding will support new reporting and editor-level fellows, along with sustainability training. Learn more: journalism.berkeley.edu/15-million-t...
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California expands historic commitment to local journalism fellowships
This commitment will fund another infusion of California Local News Fellows — the nation’s largest publicly funded journalism initiative based at UC Berkeley Journalism — and will expand the program t...
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stevenwaldman.bsky.social @stevenwaldman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Today @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social and @muckrack.com released a major new study on the number of local journalists per 100,000 people. The local news crisis is more severe and widespread than we thought.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/07/2025
care > punishment
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"
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Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles “Show of Presence”
Leaks from military's LA deployment reveal Coca Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry, sweaty guardsmen, and abject failure
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just scrolled the court dockets to see if there was any new interesting filings for this evening’s talk. We’re gonna have to break some news at my panel, #ire25
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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Hello #IRE25! I'll be presenting tomorrow on a panel about localizing data for investigative reporting. @cephillips.bsky.social, Samantha Sunne and Nicole Lewis are all on the panel as well! Not to be missed. schedules.ire.org/ire-2025/ind...
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Feeling very fortunate that I'll get to spend 9 months with these fabulous journalists.
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Quite something.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 27/04/2025
This week we spoke with @conplnk.bsky.social & @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social on reporting on transnational organised crime and how they found a hidden side to one of Irelands most notorious cartel bosses. On podcast platforms search 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat' to listen back. rss.com/podcasts/bel...
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"Tracing a Drug Cartel" with John Mooney and Connor Plunkett | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
This week we spoke to John Mooney and Connor Plunkett about their investigation into the Kinahan cartel. We discussed the considerations you need to make when reporting on large scale operations and h...
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Strong story ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/04/2025
Trump vowed to use the DOJ to reward allies and seek retribution against perceived enemies. As interim U.S. attorney for D.C., Martin has dismissed all outstanding Jan. 6-related cases while firing more than a dozen prosecutors in his office.
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The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings,…
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Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. (Very short answer: Prepare your devices to be boarded) www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/04/2025
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:
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Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these…
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/03/2025
As major public flagship and private universities fall like dominoes to the current regime, bolstered by billions in endowments but no strong adherence to espoused principles, smaller schools such as LMU in Los Angeles have this to say:
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Next up...Harvard... www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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ED, HHS, and GSA Initiate Federal Contract and Grant Review of Harvard University
ED, HHS, and GSA Initiate Federal Contract and Grant Review of Harvard University
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'll have an "ask me anything" (AMA)-style livestream this Wed, Apr 2nd, at 2pm Pacific Time! Join me then to ask whatever is on your mind in weather, climate, or wildfire realm. (I will also briefly discuss recent & upcoming CA weather.) #CAwater #CAWx youtube.com/live/edG...
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Weather and climate office hour 04/02/2025: Ask me anything about weather, climate, and wildfire! - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Trump's comments imply he has no idea what is in the damning Signal text chain that was leaked to Jeffrey Goldberg. Trump says Pete Hegseth, who texted the attack plans, had "nothing to do" with it: "How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with it." (He had everything to do with it.)
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
And it's only Wednesday ...
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yes.
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Wesley Lowery exits Investigative Reporting Workshop and American University following student complaints. www.cjr.org/news/wesley-...
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Wesley Lowery Exits Investigative Reporting Workshop and American University Following Student Complaints
Lowery said he left voluntarily and denied any impropriety or wrongdoing.
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Playing with FOIA: Pushing back on DOGE’s lack of transparency, by @sarahgrevy.bsky.social of @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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Playing with FOIA
Pushing back on DOGE's lack of transparency.
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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/03/2025
Materials on the Arlington National Cemetery website highlighting the graves of Black and female service members have vanished. The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.
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Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Soldiers, Women in Military and Civil War
The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 10/03/2025
Columbia University pushed out professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social because of her pro-Palestine advocacy. She joins @premthakker.bsky.social to discuss the systematic free speech crackdown at Columbia and across the US. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...
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RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A few spots left! Women in Journalism Workshop is $75 for professionals, $50 for students. Includes 2 meals a day, a reception and other fun surprises! We learn data security, self-defense, leading change in your newsroom and more. bit.ly/wij25
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🎓 Columbia University! @badiucao.bsky.social and I are looking forward to our YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION lunchtime talk this Tuesday, March 11th. Kind of the 🤨 right time to show up on campus to discuss resistance. 🔗 Registration required: bit.ly/columbia-revolution
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is a terrific opportunity to be part of leading Bellingcat's expansion in the U.S. I had the opportunity last fall to spend 2 days immersed in the Bellingcat global community of researchers & citizen journalists and it was incredibly inspiring. www.on-ramps.com/jobs/3408
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Bellingcat US | Executive Director
Bellingcat is an independent community of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists who pioneered open source investigations tools. With precision and perseverance, Bellingcat exposes everyt...
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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 01/03/2025
Journalists, get training with IRE this spring. We have virtual events and in-person workshops coming up in Missouri, Utah, and of course, our data journalism conference in Minneapolis next week. Join us. www.ire.org/events/
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Events Archive - Investigative Reporters & Editors
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
An annotated directory of how-to guides, exemplary journalism and policies — plus a cool online game rjionline.org/news/resourc...
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
U.S. journalists who are working on applications, the deadline clock is ticking — 1 pm PT tomorrow! We don't accept late applications.
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J. David McSwane @davidmcswane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 07/12/2024
Show us your best work of 2024! The IRE Awards are now open for submissions. The deadline to enter is Jan. 15. www.ire.org/awards/ire-a...
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IRE Awards - Investigative Reporters & Editors
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
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Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media
In our interconnected modern world, education is critical in the fight against disinformation.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2024
Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.
Chart from the economist showing Elon's tweets based on time of day over time, showing him tweeting more and more and more frequently, especially after he took over Twitter. At first there's a little gap from around 4am to 10am, but it too gradually shrinks so that by now it looks like he tweets non-stop at any time of day.

Also, a picture of a mind rotting from tweeters disease.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 03/12/2024
Join us Thursday at 10am EST/4pm CET as we speak to the @cornelluniversity.bsky.social team behind @caucasushw.bsky.social . With @godin.bsky.social we'll be unpacking how you might use open source tools to monitor and assess damage to cultural heritage during conflict. discord.gg/nCrVdaUA?eve...
Header for talk. Reads: Monitoring damage to cultural heritage in volatile regions.
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Eoghan @eoghanmacguire.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I did a session for @icfjorg.bsky.social last month about how open source investigative techniques can aid reporters. ICFJ have very kindly produced a short write up and listed some useful tools ijnet.org/en/story/fun...
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Fundamentals of open-source intelligence for journalists
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) – the gathering and analysis of publicly available information found on social media, and in databases and government records – can be invaluable in situations when in...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I'm not sure how much longer our Mississippi Free Press account will post to X, but for now it makes a good case study—and a good case for why other newsrooms shouldn't fear moving to BlueSky. Look at the difference in engagement for identical posts with the same links. Left: BlueSky, Right: X 🧵
Side by side screenshots of identical BlueSky and X posts both feature the text: "Mississippi opened its public reefs for a short oyster season for the first time since 2018 after decades of natural and human-made disasters."

The BlueSky post has 2 comments, 22 reposts and 124 likes; the X post has 0 comments, 1 retweet and 0 likes
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A clear sense of what it values, and what it wants users to do with it, is a superpower for a platform. Grateful someone on the internet still values links and is backs that up with product decisions!
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
U.S. journalists: Here's your chance to learn about the JSK Journalism Fellowships & get your questions about the program & our selection process answered. Register to join us! Application deadline: Jan. 15. bit.ly/jsk-dec03
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Pam Maples @pammaples.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
One week left, international journos! Still enough time to prepare a great application, if you start now.
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John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Misinformation is a global crisis. Led by JSK alum Martina Guzmán, VERDAD (Verifying and Exposing Radio Disinformation and Discourse) helps fight back by monitoring Spanish-language radio for false and harmful narratives. rjionline.org/news/verdad-...
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VERDAD, a new free-to-use tool that helps journalists investigate mis/disinformation spread on Spanish language radio
Striving to revolutionize journalism’s ability to investigate and fight mis/disinformation.
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John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
JSK alum Kristen Muller shares powerful insights on the future of journalism. From the importance of community connection to embracing an ecosystem approach, she lays out five thought-provoking observations that challenge us to rethink the media landscape.
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Kristen Muller on LinkedIn: Several weeks ago, I left my job as chief content officer at LAist… | 65 comments
Several weeks ago, I left my job as chief content officer at LAist, Southern California’s largest non-profit newsroom. I’ve spent my time reflecting on what I… | 65 comments on LinkedIn
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 21/11/2024
it begins www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
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Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House
The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation would clear the Senate before the current ses...
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