Susan Minichiello
@susanmini.bsky.social
I write newsletters @ The News Literacy Project. Mama to one 👦🏼. Former journo: susanmini.com
I’m also a:
🍲 Thai foodie
🌸 gardener
🐶 dog lover
📚 library nerd
I’m also a:
🍲 Thai foodie
🌸 gardener
🐶 dog lover
📚 library nerd
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Great internship opportunity to work with my awesome colleague @susanmini.bsky.social & her team on taking NLP's impactful newsletters to the next level!
#Interns
#EduSky
#Interns
#EduSky
📢 Students: NLP is looking for a Newsletter Intern for the spring semester!
👀 In 15-20 hours per week, the person in this position will
directly impact many thousands of educators & hundreds of thousands of students across the U.S.
🔗 Learn more / apply: go.newslit.org/NewsletterIn...
#Internship
👀 In 15-20 hours per week, the person in this position will
directly impact many thousands of educators & hundreds of thousands of students across the U.S.
🔗 Learn more / apply: go.newslit.org/NewsletterIn...
#Internship
Position: Newsletter intern, January to June 2026 - The News Literacy Project
We are seeking a Newsletter Intern who can help monitor trending news literacy topics and create newsletter content in support of our work teaching young people how to be savvier consumers of informat...
go.newslit.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great internship opportunity to work with my awesome colleague @susanmini.bsky.social & her team on taking NLP's impactful newsletters to the next level!
#Interns
#EduSky
#Interns
#EduSky
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📰 This week's edition of The Sift covers 2 big #journalism stories with ideas for discussing them with students:
- A majority of news outlets rejected the new #Pentagon press policy
- #Indiana University accused of censoring the student newspaper
🔗 Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift20Oct2025
- A majority of news outlets rejected the new #Pentagon press policy
- #Indiana University accused of censoring the student newspaper
🔗 Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift20Oct2025
The Sift: Journalists exit Pentagon - The News Literacy Project
Journalists reject the Pentagon’s new press policy, people swapping smartphones for dumbphones, and an AI-generated opossum scared off by Halloween decor.
go.newslit.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📰 This week's edition of The Sift covers 2 big #journalism stories with ideas for discussing them with students:
- A majority of news outlets rejected the new #Pentagon press policy
- #Indiana University accused of censoring the student newspaper
🔗 Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift20Oct2025
- A majority of news outlets rejected the new #Pentagon press policy
- #Indiana University accused of censoring the student newspaper
🔗 Read & subscribe: go.newslit.org/Sift20Oct2025
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In this week's edition of The Sift newsletter:
✨ OpenAI's new social app Sora: Context + discussion questions for the classroom
✨ The impact of AI-generated videos of doctors, journalists + other professionals
🔗 Read & subscribe:
go.newslit.org/Sift6Oct2025
#EdTech
#AILiteracy
✨ OpenAI's new social app Sora: Context + discussion questions for the classroom
✨ The impact of AI-generated videos of doctors, journalists + other professionals
🔗 Read & subscribe:
go.newslit.org/Sift6Oct2025
#EdTech
#AILiteracy
October 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In this week's edition of The Sift newsletter:
✨ OpenAI's new social app Sora: Context + discussion questions for the classroom
✨ The impact of AI-generated videos of doctors, journalists + other professionals
🔗 Read & subscribe:
go.newslit.org/Sift6Oct2025
#EdTech
#AILiteracy
✨ OpenAI's new social app Sora: Context + discussion questions for the classroom
✨ The impact of AI-generated videos of doctors, journalists + other professionals
🔗 Read & subscribe:
go.newslit.org/Sift6Oct2025
#EdTech
#AILiteracy
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In this week's issue of The Sift:
✨ How confusion spread online after Charlie Kirk's death
✨ Daily Do Now slides with First Amendment Q's + more
✨ The decline of global press freedoms
👉🏾 Read & share with a teacher friend: go.newslit.org/Sift15Sept2025
#EduSky
#EdTech
✨ How confusion spread online after Charlie Kirk's death
✨ Daily Do Now slides with First Amendment Q's + more
✨ The decline of global press freedoms
👉🏾 Read & share with a teacher friend: go.newslit.org/Sift15Sept2025
#EduSky
#EdTech
The Sift: Confusion, rumors follow Charlie Kirk killing
Confusion online after Charlie Kirk’s death, global press freedoms decline to lowest levels in 50 years, and wellness influencers sharing conspiracy theories.
go.newslit.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In this week's issue of The Sift:
✨ How confusion spread online after Charlie Kirk's death
✨ Daily Do Now slides with First Amendment Q's + more
✨ The decline of global press freedoms
👉🏾 Read & share with a teacher friend: go.newslit.org/Sift15Sept2025
#EduSky
#EdTech
✨ How confusion spread online after Charlie Kirk's death
✨ Daily Do Now slides with First Amendment Q's + more
✨ The decline of global press freedoms
👉🏾 Read & share with a teacher friend: go.newslit.org/Sift15Sept2025
#EduSky
#EdTech
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Share The Sift with a #teacher or three in your life!
Kudos to the awesome team of @hannahcov.bsky.social @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social @peteradams.bsky.social @susanmini.bsky.social @lourdesvenard.bsky.social & others on a tremendous first issue of the school year.
Kudos to the awesome team of @hannahcov.bsky.social @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social @peteradams.bsky.social @susanmini.bsky.social @lourdesvenard.bsky.social & others on a tremendous first issue of the school year.
🚨 Educators: Don't walk but run to that subscribe button because ... The Sift is back!
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
⤵️ Read & subscribe
#NewsLiteracy
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
⤵️ Read & subscribe
#NewsLiteracy
The Sift: AI & social media impact on teens
How social media and AI affect teens’ mental health, tips for news avoidance, a roundup of Taylor Swift rumors, Joe Rogan’s climate misinterpretation, and a Mountain Dew ban rumor debunked.
go.newslit.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Share The Sift with a #teacher or three in your life!
Kudos to the awesome team of @hannahcov.bsky.social @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social @peteradams.bsky.social @susanmini.bsky.social @lourdesvenard.bsky.social & others on a tremendous first issue of the school year.
Kudos to the awesome team of @hannahcov.bsky.social @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social @peteradams.bsky.social @susanmini.bsky.social @lourdesvenard.bsky.social & others on a tremendous first issue of the school year.
Reposted by Susan Minichiello
🚨 Educators: Don't walk but run to that subscribe button because ... The Sift is back!
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
⤵️ Read & subscribe
#NewsLiteracy
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
⤵️ Read & subscribe
#NewsLiteracy
The Sift: AI & social media impact on teens
How social media and AI affect teens’ mental health, tips for news avoidance, a roundup of Taylor Swift rumors, Joe Rogan’s climate misinterpretation, and a Mountain Dew ban rumor debunked.
go.newslit.org
September 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🚨 Educators: Don't walk but run to that subscribe button because ... The Sift is back!
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
⤵️ Read & subscribe
#NewsLiteracy
💡 Featuring our popular Daily Do Now slides, RumorGuard examples + top news literacy topics, this week's edition explores:
- AI & teens' mental health
- News avoidance & more
⤵️ Read & subscribe
#NewsLiteracy
After a summer hiatus, The Sift newsletter is back!
Each weekly issue has:
• Updates on news literacy topics
• Ready-to-go teaching slides.
• Classroom-ready discussion prompts
• Teachable examples of viral misinfo
Check out the first issue of the school year:
newslit.org/educators/si...
Each weekly issue has:
• Updates on news literacy topics
• Ready-to-go teaching slides.
• Classroom-ready discussion prompts
• Teachable examples of viral misinfo
Check out the first issue of the school year:
newslit.org/educators/si...
The Sift: AI & social media impact on teens
How social media and AI affect teens’ mental health, tips for news avoidance, a roundup of Taylor Swift rumors, Joe Rogan’s climate misinterpretation, and a Mountain Dew ban rumor debunked.
newslit.org
September 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
After a summer hiatus, The Sift newsletter is back!
Each weekly issue has:
• Updates on news literacy topics
• Ready-to-go teaching slides.
• Classroom-ready discussion prompts
• Teachable examples of viral misinfo
Check out the first issue of the school year:
newslit.org/educators/si...
Each weekly issue has:
• Updates on news literacy topics
• Ready-to-go teaching slides.
• Classroom-ready discussion prompts
• Teachable examples of viral misinfo
Check out the first issue of the school year:
newslit.org/educators/si...
Spent the day working on the first issue of Scroll Smarter,
@newslit.org's newsletter for families. So excited for it to come out next week!
Here's info + subscription form (it's FREE 😀): newslit.org/scroll-smart...
@newslit.org's newsletter for families. So excited for it to come out next week!
Here's info + subscription form (it's FREE 😀): newslit.org/scroll-smart...
Scroll Smarter
Our free monthly newsletter gives parents and caregivers quick, helpful tips to make sense of today’s information overload. You’ll get smart, family-friendly tools to help your kids think more clearly...
newslit.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Spent the day working on the first issue of Scroll Smarter,
@newslit.org's newsletter for families. So excited for it to come out next week!
Here's info + subscription form (it's FREE 😀): newslit.org/scroll-smart...
@newslit.org's newsletter for families. So excited for it to come out next week!
Here's info + subscription form (it's FREE 😀): newslit.org/scroll-smart...
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🔥 Got any burning #NewsLiteracy questions?
Send 'em our way & they may be answered by our team of educators & journalists in Scroll Smarter, our NEW family newsletter.
➕ If your question is picked, you’ll win some NLP swag!
🔗 Submit yours: go.newslit.org/QuestionsNLP
Send 'em our way & they may be answered by our team of educators & journalists in Scroll Smarter, our NEW family newsletter.
➕ If your question is picked, you’ll win some NLP swag!
🔗 Submit yours: go.newslit.org/QuestionsNLP
August 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🔥 Got any burning #NewsLiteracy questions?
Send 'em our way & they may be answered by our team of educators & journalists in Scroll Smarter, our NEW family newsletter.
➕ If your question is picked, you’ll win some NLP swag!
🔗 Submit yours: go.newslit.org/QuestionsNLP
Send 'em our way & they may be answered by our team of educators & journalists in Scroll Smarter, our NEW family newsletter.
➕ If your question is picked, you’ll win some NLP swag!
🔗 Submit yours: go.newslit.org/QuestionsNLP
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NPR and PBS are the two most recognizable recipients of money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But the recent Republican-backed cuts to public media will hit outlets in poorer and more rural areas of the country the hardest.
What Happens to Public Media Now?
Republican-backed funding cuts go way beyond NPR and PBS. Radio and TV stations from Alaska to the Allegheny Mountains may never be the same.
www.newyorker.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NPR and PBS are the two most recognizable recipients of money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But the recent Republican-backed cuts to public media will hit outlets in poorer and more rural areas of the country the hardest.
NLP has an awesome new newsletter in the works!
Scroll Smarter will provide tips and tools for families as they navigate the news, social media & AI.
It only comes out once a month, so it won't clog up your inbox.
Please share widely with all the parents and caregivers in your life!
Scroll Smarter will provide tips and tools for families as they navigate the news, social media & AI.
It only comes out once a month, so it won't clog up your inbox.
Please share widely with all the parents and caregivers in your life!
🫠 How can families understand & navigate today’s overwhelming information landscape together?
👋🏽 Introducing Scroll Smarter, our NEW monthly family newsletter coming Sept. 9!
Learn more & get on the list: newslit.org/scroll-smart...
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#AcademicSky
👋🏽 Introducing Scroll Smarter, our NEW monthly family newsletter coming Sept. 9!
Learn more & get on the list: newslit.org/scroll-smart...
#EduSky
#AcademicSky
Scroll Smarter
Our free monthly newsletter gives parents and caregivers quick, helpful tips to make sense of today’s information overload. You’ll get smart, family-friendly tools to help your kids think more clearly...
newslit.org
August 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
NLP has an awesome new newsletter in the works!
Scroll Smarter will provide tips and tools for families as they navigate the news, social media & AI.
It only comes out once a month, so it won't clog up your inbox.
Please share widely with all the parents and caregivers in your life!
Scroll Smarter will provide tips and tools for families as they navigate the news, social media & AI.
It only comes out once a month, so it won't clog up your inbox.
Please share widely with all the parents and caregivers in your life!
One of my favorite Sift issues is the yearend roundup we do!
Always fun to see what news stories and resources educators reading this newsletter enjoy the most. Most clicked story this year was about how memes are used to spread misinfo + tips for countering them.
More here:
Always fun to see what news stories and resources educators reading this newsletter enjoy the most. Most clicked story this year was about how memes are used to spread misinfo + tips for countering them.
More here:
The Sift: Final issue: Top clicks in 2024-25
A roundup of the most popular stories and News Literacy Project resources in The Sift newsletter for educators during the 2024-25 school year, including topics like AI deepfakes and misinformation.
newslit.org
May 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
One of my favorite Sift issues is the yearend roundup we do!
Always fun to see what news stories and resources educators reading this newsletter enjoy the most. Most clicked story this year was about how memes are used to spread misinfo + tips for countering them.
More here:
Always fun to see what news stories and resources educators reading this newsletter enjoy the most. Most clicked story this year was about how memes are used to spread misinfo + tips for countering them.
More here:
Soooos good! If only they could've included "Let's run away together" too! Such a fabulous musical.
The delightfully unhinged musical of the cult classic film gets the Tiny Desk treatment.
Death Becomes Her: Tiny Desk Concert
The delightfully unhinged musical of the cult classic film gets the Tiny Desk treatment.
www.npr.org
May 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Soooos good! If only they could've included "Let's run away together" too! Such a fabulous musical.
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
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⚠️ The past year was the first time the global state of #PressFreedom was categorized as a “difficult situation” by @rsf.org in its annual index of 180 countries.
🔎 Read our special issue of The Sift that lays out 3 ways to teach about this important topic: go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
🔎 Read our special issue of The Sift that lays out 3 ways to teach about this important topic: go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
The Sift: Special issue: Teach about press freedom
This special issue of The Sift newsletter honors World Press Freedom Day by sharing three ways for educators to teach about press freedoms.
go.newslit.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
⚠️ The past year was the first time the global state of #PressFreedom was categorized as a “difficult situation” by @rsf.org in its annual index of 180 countries.
🔎 Read our special issue of The Sift that lays out 3 ways to teach about this important topic: go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
🔎 Read our special issue of The Sift that lays out 3 ways to teach about this important topic: go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
Reposted by Susan Minichiello
#Educators: Don't miss today's special issue of The Sift dedicated to press freedom featuring:
- A breakdown of the just-released @rsf.org index
- Teaching slides with 5- to 10-minute exercises to do
- Dig Deeper think sheets, a reading list ➕ more!
🔗 go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
#PressFreedomDay
- A breakdown of the just-released @rsf.org index
- Teaching slides with 5- to 10-minute exercises to do
- Dig Deeper think sheets, a reading list ➕ more!
🔗 go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
#PressFreedomDay
The Sift: Special issue: Teach about press freedom
This special issue of The Sift newsletter honors World Press Freedom Day by sharing three ways for educators to teach about press freedoms.
go.newslit.org
May 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#Educators: Don't miss today's special issue of The Sift dedicated to press freedom featuring:
- A breakdown of the just-released @rsf.org index
- Teaching slides with 5- to 10-minute exercises to do
- Dig Deeper think sheets, a reading list ➕ more!
🔗 go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
#PressFreedomDay
- A breakdown of the just-released @rsf.org index
- Teaching slides with 5- to 10-minute exercises to do
- Dig Deeper think sheets, a reading list ➕ more!
🔗 go.newslit.org/Sift5May2025
#PressFreedomDay
Excited to be at the Newsletter Conference today!
May 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Excited to be at the Newsletter Conference today!
Really sad to hear this.
This is my local paper. I worked here for a few years & am a longtime subscriber. Reading the printed Sunday paper is part of my family’s weekend routine. Having a robust, locally owned paper was a source of pride for our community.
I hope the paper doesn’t get gutted 😥
This is my local paper. I worked here for a few years & am a longtime subscriber. Reading the printed Sunday paper is part of my family’s weekend routine. Having a robust, locally owned paper was a source of pride for our community.
I hope the paper doesn’t get gutted 😥
Sonoma Media Investments, parent company of The Press Democrat, sold to MediaNews Group www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...
Sonoma Media Investments, parent company of The Press Democrat, sold to MediaNews Group
The company has a wide presence in California, including the San Jose Mercury News and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
www.pressdemocrat.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really sad to hear this.
This is my local paper. I worked here for a few years & am a longtime subscriber. Reading the printed Sunday paper is part of my family’s weekend routine. Having a robust, locally owned paper was a source of pride for our community.
I hope the paper doesn’t get gutted 😥
This is my local paper. I worked here for a few years & am a longtime subscriber. Reading the printed Sunday paper is part of my family’s weekend routine. Having a robust, locally owned paper was a source of pride for our community.
I hope the paper doesn’t get gutted 😥
Reposted by Susan Minichiello
This #AAPIMonth, learn about Asian American & Pacific Islander journalists from U.S. history with our @flipboard.com collection: bit.ly/AAPIJournali...
AAPI Heritage Month Media | @NewsLitProject | Flipboard
During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are shining a light on influential AAPI journalists and news media throughout U.S. history.
bit.ly
May 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This #AAPIMonth, learn about Asian American & Pacific Islander journalists from U.S. history with our @flipboard.com collection: bit.ly/AAPIJournali...
Reposted by Susan Minichiello
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
Check out today’s issue of The Sift newsletter!
From #measles misinformation to today's national election in #Canada to Russian propaganda spreading in the U.S., this week's newsletter covers the biggest stories - all from a news literacy standpoint.
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The Sift: Measles rumors | Canada’s news void
Measles misinformation spreading rapidly, how partisan accounts have capitalized on the Facebook news void in Canada, and debunking a false rumor about The Simpsons predicting the pope’s death.
newslit.org
April 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Check out today’s issue of The Sift newsletter!
Reposted by Susan Minichiello
🔷 TikTok debuts fact-checking 'Footnotes'
🔷 What if algorithms didn't decide what's popular?
🔷 How are mass layoffs threatening Freedom of Information Act requests?
🔗 Read The Sift for these stories, discussion prompts & much more: go.newslit.org/Sift21April2...
#EdTech
#TLSky
🔷 What if algorithms didn't decide what's popular?
🔷 How are mass layoffs threatening Freedom of Information Act requests?
🔗 Read The Sift for these stories, discussion prompts & much more: go.newslit.org/Sift21April2...
#EdTech
#TLSky
The Sift: TikTok’s Footnotes | Fake missing child scam
How mass layoffs threaten public records requests, pushing back against algorithms, debunking false missing child posts, TikTok’s new Footnotes and climate misinformation online.
go.newslit.org
April 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🔷 TikTok debuts fact-checking 'Footnotes'
🔷 What if algorithms didn't decide what's popular?
🔷 How are mass layoffs threatening Freedom of Information Act requests?
🔗 Read The Sift for these stories, discussion prompts & much more: go.newslit.org/Sift21April2...
#EdTech
#TLSky
🔷 What if algorithms didn't decide what's popular?
🔷 How are mass layoffs threatening Freedom of Information Act requests?
🔗 Read The Sift for these stories, discussion prompts & much more: go.newslit.org/Sift21April2...
#EdTech
#TLSky
🙏🏽 thank goodness. RIP Selena 💜🤍
BREAKING: Texas board denies parole for Yolanda Saldívar, who was convicted of killing Tejano music icon Selena in 1995.
The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole
Yolanda Saldívar, who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez, has been denied parole by a Texas board.
bit.ly
March 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🙏🏽 thank goodness. RIP Selena 💜🤍