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Damon Kiesow
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Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
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Maybe an under-examined aspect of 'trust in media' is that I would read this story @19thnews.org and few other places.
She detransitioned at 20. She’s still scared about her right to gender-affirming care.
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Antidisestablishmentarianism
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Have at it, friends:
Anti-Communism Week, 2005 proclamation cover page with "Communism" removed for creative purposes.
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Wow. Well I stopped reading at this strawman.
Ross Douthat: Men and women are different. That is a core premise of conservatism in the age of Trump, that liberalism and feminism have come to grief by pretending that the sexes are the same.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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You: Actually, most states allow cities to cross county borders and exist in both counties.

Me....

You: No really.

Me:
The original TikTok video of woman reacting to video of person putting every shape of block into the square hole,
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Still one of my favorite work mugs. But end of an era. Was originally the Knight Ridder bureau.
A blue McClatchy DC coffee mug.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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If you translate this into English it says:

"We are selling outrage, not journalism. Don't trust us to say anything truthfully."
Editor's note: This article previously reported on some videos that appear to have been generated by Al without noting that. This has been corrected.
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Love this turn of phrase by Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge, 1983
So far as the social sciences are concerned, any attempt to define them in some essence-and-accidents, natural-kind way and locate them at some definite latitude and longitude in scholarly space is bound to fail as soon as one looks from labels to cases
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I don’t know how to describe this style of headline and subhead except they are some species of anti-journalism.
In Utah, Trump's Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City's edge. Critics see "a prison, or a warehouse." Trump Suggests He Knows He Can't Run Again: 'It's Too Bad' President Trump has, at least for now, ruled out running for a third term, which is barred by the Constitution. He had mused for months about the idea. How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani's World View The mayoral candidate has said his education at Bowdoin College was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I had to check if they had removed the slogan. Just for consistency I mean.
WaPo editorial board: In defense of the White House ballroom Donald Trump vs the NIMBYs.
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The digital holy trinity?
CNN Huge global outage impacts Amazon, Fortnite and Snapchat
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Got ya covered:
We bring some core beliefs to bear: • News is a public good and must be sustained in some practical form. • News product management is journalism and upholds its highest standards. • The goal of news is to help communities understand themselves. • News organizations must look like their communities. • News products are built with and for readers. • News product is data-informed, not data-driven. • Anyone in a news organization can be a news product thinker.
October 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Moonnight.
The moon lights up clouds and sky framed by pitch black trees in the suburbs.
October 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha. This is objectivity as blinders. As irony. As surrender.
Paramount's new chairman and chief executive, David Ellison, appears to have plucked Ms. Weiss from this world to help reclaim CBS's relevance.
October 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I ain’t reading all that.
Happy for you though.
Or, sorry that happened.
An Update About CNN Max Hi Damon, Starting on November 17, 2025, the CNN Max live news feed will no longer be available on HBO Max.
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Maria Ressa gets a full house, including many @mujschool.bsky.social students for a Missouri Honor Medal master class.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa speaks in an auditorium at the Missouri School of Journalism.
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This is a fascinatingly political statement for a University president. Very “broken windows” theory and exactly what one gets when there is a shooting while donors are in town for Homecoming.
Further action must be taken immediately. The Columbia Police Department (CPD) does an excellent job, and they need to be supported. But, the success of crime prevention will require honest examination of current policies and practices in the city and county that lead individuals to commit crimes in Columbia without fear of consequences. Immediate actions that need to be taken during this period of emergency include: More policing downtown - CPD needs the necessary resources and support, Hiring of more security officers, Elimination of policies and practices that attract criminals to the region, Passing of a loitering ordinance, Cleanup of homeless encampments, Prosecution to the full extent of the law for crimes, And many others
September 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Acknowledged.
Filling my monitor: EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM ALERT! EST TEST TEST This is a test of the MU emergency ation system. In an actual emergency more informati e provided on the MU Alert webpage. TEST
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What a day @mujschool.bsky.social
The j-school courtyard covered in green trees and bushes with a bright blue sky.
September 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I have amazing SERP.
Google search results: Damon Kiesow at University of Missouri - Columbia Rate My Professors https://www.ratemyprofessors.com › professor 134 Kiesow is such a nice professor! He truly wants to help you as much as he can. He always asks us how were doing and is willing to stay after class for an hour ... Missouri School of Journalism's Damon Kiesow publishes first ... Mizzou School of Journalism https://journalism.missouri.edu › 2024/01 › missouri-sc... Jan 3, 2024 — “An Introduction to News Product Management: Innovation for Newsrooms and Readers” is the first textbook ever published about product management in journalism.
September 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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If you read this in the history books, what party would you think of first:

www.chron.com/culture/arti...
As first reported by the Concho Observer, this includes a blanket ban on discussions of transgender topics in classes and a requirement that faculty refer to students by their legal name and not preferred names. The new policy also requires employees to remove pronouns from their email signatures and take down LGBTQ+ pride flags or stickers that may indicate a classroom is a safe space for LGBTQ+ people.
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Really mixed results:
Trump urges pregnant women to limit taking Tylenol 37 minutes ago • By Adriel Bettelheim WsJ The Wall Street Journal What to Know About Taking Tylenol During Pregnancy 37 minutes ago • By Brianna Abbott & Andrea Petersen G The Guardian Trump due to make announcement about autism - US politics live 12 hours ago• By Marina Dunbar, Tom Ambrose & Cec... ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Trump admin links Tylenol use in pregnancy to increased risk of autism despite mixed studies
September 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Go sell your fascism-explaining elsewhere, we are already overstocked.
Jay Bhattacharya Wants to Fix Science. Is He in Over His Head?
September 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Useful.
September 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Fire.
Partly cloudy night sky frames a fire pit in a suburban backyard with people almost visible in the shadows.
September 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM