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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"even if we could rebuild every newsroom that has disappeared, we would still have a problem: a community can have professional journalism and still remain disconnected from its historical, community-centric knowledge base" www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/the-... Must-read on The Library Newsroom Project!

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The Library Newsroom Project could be coming to a library near you

"Journalism can live inside the public library and allow people to take part in it together."

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I did a Q&A with @niemanlab.org! If you’re interested in this work, let me know.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The old Newmark Grad School of Journalism at CUNY gang is back together again, now at Montclair State and we are having fun and doing cool shit. Hell yus

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So excited about the possibility of bringing the Library Newsroom Project to New Jersey. Here is @terryparrisjr.bsky.social 's vision as it has evolved: jskfellows.stanford.edu/the-future-o...

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The Future of Local Journalism May Begin at the Library

A pitch for helping communities build the local information practices they need

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Also the weekend I fell in love with Milwaukee!

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Library Newsroom Project got some Japanese press! It was so cool to sit down with these folks and chat about libraries and newsrooms and how they are the same and different in our respective countries.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"In a sequel to her influential 'Library as Infrastructure', contributing writer Shannon Mattern delves into the organizing force of libraries at a time when public knowledge is under attack." placesjournal.org/article/extr... @shannonmattern.bsky.social

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Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

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Andrew Varnon @andrew-varnon.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Library newsroom? I like it.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"As this model shows its limits, 2026 will push us back toward the physical and tangible in the spaces we work, the ways we engage, and the products we create." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour... by @terryparrisjr.bsky.social

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Journalism establishes a physical presence

"2026 will push us back toward the physical and tangible in the spaces we work, the ways we engage, and the products we create."

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Part 2 of my Library Newsroom series is out. It starts in 2019, when I launched the Open Newsroom in Brooklyn libraries and tried a simple idea: put journalism where trust already lives. Libraries. I wrote about what we did and how it changed me.

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The Discovery That Changed How I Think About Local News

How early library work and one archival spark shaped the Library Newsroom Project.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"The library is not meant to be a node in the just-in-time-economy that puts a rights-restricted copy of 'Abundance' in our AirPods. It’s meant to be an accessible portal to our government, the place we go to access shared knowledge and to make meaning with others." — @shannonmattern.bsky.social

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Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

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The Discovery That Changed How I Think About Local News

How early library work and one archival spark shaped the Library Newsroom Project.

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Stories from our blocks & hallways don’t always meet an editor’s definition of news. Yet information still moves through stoops, bakeries, bodegas, parks, church basements. We turn those exchanges into a shared public record, a place where neighbors make sense of things together

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · 25/11/2025

Newsrooms in public libraries. I LOVE IT. 📚

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"There is no Substack or interactive website... We want people to hold it, touch it + seek it out... That physicality gives the work its value, adding presence to information, relationships + the neighborhood itself. This is active engagement with your neighborhood + your neighbors."

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I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.

What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works. We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously. medium.com/jsk-class-of...

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I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.

What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Each month, we meet in person and make something you can hold. It is printed and shared. It is slow by design. The main complaint is: “I can’t find the Sunset Park Sun.” I tell people to go to the library and ask for it. Walk the neighborhood; it's there. Finding it is, in a way, finding each other

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Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A promising approach!

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

this is the way.

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Golda Velez @goldavelez.org · 22/11/2025

i love this idea so much

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John Pettus @johngpettus.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I love this idea so much

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 22/11/2025

What if we thought of journalism as community service? @terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.

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I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.

What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

As a librarian working in a newsroom, this is super cool!

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Love the Library Newsroom Project by my old partner in journalism crime @terryparrisjr.bsky.social www.librarynewsroom.com This is the way.

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Your Newsroom at your library

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Libraries are the best, and I love projects that get them and more community members involved in reporting and sharing the news that people need most. Proud my students in the engagement journalism program at CUNY helped plant the sees for the Sunset Park Sun!

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Exciting to see our work in the lead image!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The anger and despair can feel all-consuming, but I'm hoping that this can be a source of encouragement — a reminder that we can support and defend these local institutions and their broader networks of solidarity

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"But we also lend ourselves to the library — committing our attention, our time, our presence at board meetings, our tax dollars and donations — enlarging the commons and participating in the political project of making an informed society." 💕

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Honored that the Library Newsroom, and the work we're doing in Sunset Park and beyond, was featured in such an important piece of work. Thank you @shannonmattern.bsky.social!

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Here’s a nicely reported piece from Ellie Brown about how public libraries are under growing political and financial threat—especially under the 2nd Trump admin—but remain essential, deeply trusted community institutions. She also highlights the Library Newsroom Project! medium.com/advanced-rep...

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What The White House Doesn’t Understand About Libraries

As IMLS grants dwindle, public libraries are having a harder time facilitating interlibrary loans and filling holes in staffing. Still…

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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 31/05/2025

Gun violence is preventable. Journalists can make a difference. The Survivor Connection is a new service intended to help those reporting on gun violence take a more informed approach by centering the survivor community.

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The Survivor Connection | Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting

The Survivor Connection is a new tool that helps reporters put the survivor at the center of their coverage.

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Just finished my MLIS at Pratt (on May 20). I’m officially a librarian now (!). Didn’t expect the Open Newsroom I launched in 2019 would lead here: LIS theory, oral history, youth civic work, neighborhood bulletins—even some urban planning. Grateful for the ideas, approaches & people I met.

Open Newsroom session in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 2019.

Library Newsroom session in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in 2025.

Presenting at the Next Library Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, on the Library Newsroom project in May 2025.

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Three things: 1. Excited to spend time thinking about how journalism and libraries can come together in deeper ways (beyond just tabling). 2. IMO this is especially timely, given the threats facing both journalism and libraries. 3. I really need a new headshot. So grateful for this opportunity!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

lol. she thinks it's a town lending library?

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We had another fun — and productive — evening in Sunset Park! We talked assignments, field guides, design, reporting. We laughed, ate dinner, and planned June’s issue. More to come. Thanks for swinging by, @shannonmattern.bsky.social!

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John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

What do these 16 journalists working on some of the biggest issues in media have in common? They’re all part of the 2026 JSK Journalism Fellowship. 👏👏 Please help us welcome them to Stanford! buff.ly/8efUD6V

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm so grateful and so excited and can't wait to meet everyone! More to come, and more to say about what I’ll be thinking about over the next year. But yes, it will involve libraries, something I’ve been thinking about for the last *five* years. jsk.stanford.edu/news/jsk-nam...

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JSK names 16 journalism fellows for 2025-26

Journalism leaders and innovators will pursue individual projects as well as opportunities for collective action that responds to accelerating threats to independent media.

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I have this dream of creating a puppet show based on our community district needs assessment reports here in NYC. Maybe this summer in Sunset Park? We need more puppet-forward journalism. shelterforce.org/2025/04/29/a...

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Art: "The Parade," Works of Social Commentary by Philly-Based Spiral Q

Puppets, banners, and more—the Philly-based group Spiral Q helps organizations respond to social issues with art.

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Public space matters. In East Harlem, safe and welcoming places like community centers played a role in reducing violence. "Experts say the community centers and resident cooperation are just as crucial in driving down shootings as law enforcement is." gothamist.com/news/how-com...

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How community activists, police and residents drove down shootings in East Harlem

A yearslong collaboration has helped reduce gun violence in the neighborhood to its lowest level since 2019, city data shows.

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A bit while ago, I found a '70s press release in the La Guardia & Wagner Archives—the official NYCHA archive—announcing winners of a tenant-led newsletter contest. I’ve been researching physical, community-led newsletters ever since. So this was awesome to read: www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2025/04...

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Linewaiters' Gazette: Early Years of the Park Slope Food Coop's Newsletter | Brooklyn Public Library

Mastheads from the Linewaiters' Gazette from various years, including latest (center) from the publication's online instance, 2025. In 2013 Brooklyn Public Library’s archive, the Bro

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I started reading @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social a few years ago in my teen engagement class at @pratt.edu. Has been required reading since. www.afterbabel.com/p/school-pol...

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 15/04/2025

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

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Terry Parris Jr. @terryparrisjr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you want to talk about the journalism pipeline, it starts here. If you want to talk about how journalism can rebuild relationships with community, it starts here too. I’ve been lucky to work with Press Pass NYC on a few things, and I deeply respect the work they do. www.cjr.org/feature-2/st...

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The Newest Reporting Recruits

A New York City program wants to foster student journalism. It’s as vexed by reader engagement as the professionals are.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Further dismantling of our public institutions.

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