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Ryan Thomas

@ryanjthomas.bsky.social

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh | Assoc. Prof. & Director of Graduate Studies, Murrow College of Communication @ Washington State University | Journalism studies, ethics, sociology of news etc | Would like to be on a beach, but probably on a committee .. more

Communication & Media Studies 59%

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 4d

One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 8d

the thing about commentators who self-brand as fearless truth-tellers is that their ideals of "free debate" always take the dullest, most predictable tacks possible www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is looking to make her mark on the network news division, launching a series of primetime town halls and debates alongside Weiss’ The Free Press under the banner “Things That Matter.”

CBS says that Vice President JD Vance, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have all agreed to participate in the town halls, with the debates set to address topics like “Does America Need God?” “Has Feminism Failed Women?” and “Should Gen Z Believe in the American Dream?”

CBS has lined up people like Isabel Brown and Harry Sisson to debate the American dream, Steven Pinker and Ross Douthat to debate the God question, and Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey to debate the feminism question.

Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas.bsky.social · 8d

This man has never encountered a tech corp whose priorities he didn’t think journalism should immediately internalize

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 11d

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social: “Journalists must address their civic, professional, even moral obligation to provide news, reporting, and information via AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/apis...

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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 8d

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 8d

20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:

Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

www.youtube.com

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WSU Pullman @pullman.wsu.edu · 9d

@pullman.wsu.edu got hit this morning by a severe wind storm. Facilities Services crews have been working hard to clean up campus! 📸: Dean Hare, #WSU Photo Services 🐾 #GoCougs

Color outdoor photo of an uprooted tree outside Beasley Coliseum

Color outdoor photo of two people cleaning up limbs and branches while a truck sits full of debris

Color photo of a tree which has fallen onto a sidewalk

Color outdoor photo of a tree cut up into pieces on a grass field with a building and blue sky and white clouds behind

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 11d

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social: “Journalists must address their civic, professional, even moral obligation to provide news, reporting, and information via AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/apis...

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 17d

This is absolutely fucking deranged

Taylor Lorenz & @TaylorLorenz
Same with Covid right now currently. This is exactly what disabled people are currently experiencing right now during the ongoing pandemic, stigmatization, people gleefully cheering their deaths on the right and the left. Yet it's totally normalized on the internet/in the media

Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter • 2d
I think most people understand the Republican response to AIDS in the 80s/90s as apathy or silence but they were genuinely quite gleeful about it

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25d

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26d

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 27d

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

www.windowscentral.com

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Oct 28

Full paper: (OA), published in special issue "Reimagining Visual Journalism Theory and Practice in the Digital Age" @tjthomson.bsky.social & @ryanjthomas.bsky.social @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reality Re-Imag(in)ed. Mapping Publics’ Perceptions and Evaluations of AI-Generated Images in News Contexts

The rapid advancement of generative AI technology has transformed the creation and dissemination of visual content in journalism, raising critical questions about its impact on news production, cre...

www.tandfonline.com

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tom @catturd2.bsky.social · Jun 2

Taylor Lorenz said WHAT about 9/11???

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · May 22

The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · May 22

Final passage by one vote, though likely the present and 2 NV were all available to them if they had been needed. It's with the Senate now

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · May 14

This is bleak reading

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onion person @junlper.beer · May 13

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

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Grungehamster @grungehamster.bsky.social · Apr 22

If Chotiner asks for an interview remember the two rules:

- Ask if you are being detained. If not, leave.
- Say you want to speak to your lawyer and nothing else.

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Murrow College @murrowcollege.bsky.social · Apr 18

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Thomas, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, on his recent publication in Poynter! @ryanjthomas.bsky.social

Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas.bsky.social · Apr 16

An incredible achievement by my brilliant colleague!

Murrow College @murrowcollege.bsky.social · Apr 16

📢 Exciting news! Jennifer Henrichsen is WSU's first Andrew Carnegie Fellow! 🎉

She'll receive $200,000 to study how journalists can reduce political polarization and boost civic engagement.

Read more: murrow.wsu.edu/news/2025/04...

#MurrowCollege #CarnegieFellows

Murrow professor named WSU’s first Carnegie Fellow

Jennifer Henrichsen is among 26 fellows receiving $200,000 to support research that enhances understanding of political polarization in the United States.

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Murrow College @murrowcollege.bsky.social · Apr 16

📢 Exciting news! Jennifer Henrichsen is WSU's first Andrew Carnegie Fellow! 🎉

She'll receive $200,000 to study how journalists can reduce political polarization and boost civic engagement.

Read more: murrow.wsu.edu/news/2025/04...

#MurrowCollege #CarnegieFellows

Murrow professor named WSU’s first Carnegie Fellow

Jennifer Henrichsen is among 26 fellows receiving $200,000 to support research that enhances understanding of political polarization in the United States.

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WSU Foundation @wsufoundation.bsky.social · Apr 16

Today is the big day - #CougsGive is finally here! 🎉 Can't wait to see the new heights the #WSU community will reach today. Visit cougsgive.wsu.edu to make your donations, and remember, no matter how big or small, your contribution makes a difference! ❤️

#CougsGive - April 16, 2025

Washington State University celebrates its 10th annual #CougsGive day of giving on April 16, 2025.

cougsgive.wsu.edu

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Murrow College @murrowcollege.bsky.social · Apr 16

Congrats to our own Jennifer Henrichsen, a member of @carnegiecorp.bsky.social's 2025 class of #CarnegieFellows! This esteemed group of scholars is researching the causes of political polarization & seeking ways to strengthen social cohesion & fortify our democracy. www.carnegie.org/news/article...

Carnegie Corporation of New York Awards Fellowships to 26 Scholars Researching Political Polarization | Carnegie Corporation of New York

The philanthropic foundation’s three-year, $18 million initiative supports interdisciplinary research into the causes of polarization and ways to mitigate it

www.carnegie.org

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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · Apr 1

💡 Need some inspiration? Check out some of our most-downloaded articles in #DigitalJournalism over the past 12 months.

🔗 Check out the full top-10 list here: linktr.ee/digitaljourn...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Mar 19

I think of this as 'everything is comms' disease. This interview looked awful because the policy is, in fact, awful. You can't do an interview about it and come across well unless your interlocutor is under-prepared!

‘Rising star’ minister dim on Labour benefit cuts
Torsten Bell has long been seen in Labour circles as a rising star, and it had been so far so good since the general election for the new MP.

He was one of the first frontbenchers of the 2024 intake and it looked as if, for the special adviser turned economist turned minister, the only way was up.

But a car-crash interview on BBC Newsnight after Labour’s £5 billion benefits cut raised stark questions about the brightness of the Swansea West MP’s future.

He has been described as arrogant, lacking empathy and out of touch for ploughing through questions from Victoria Derbyshire such as: “Are you okay with making people worse off?”

A little human touch would go a long way in helping ministers sell the “moral case” for Labour’s welfare reforms.

Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas.bsky.social · Mar 19

The way this commonly shakes out is you see a sentence that describes a finding unique to a particular study followed by (Author) or (Citation withheld for blind review). And this is somehow de-identifying?!?!?!? Make it make sense

Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas.bsky.social · Mar 19

I don’t know what journal editors are out there telling authors to remove references to their own work by replacing the in-text citation with (Author) but they need to be launched into the sun, it’s bad practice and makes the author more likely to be identified

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andy™ @andylevy.net · Mar 13

at this point amy schumer would be a better minority leader

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · Mar 1

The hypocrisy is so glaringly obvious and yet it's still worth calling it out:

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding

Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

www.washingtonpost.com