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Smudge wishes everyone a cozy Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Come work with me!
The School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty member at the rank of assistant professor to begin in Fall 2026. Here's the link to the job: faculty.utexas.edu/career/165627
Faculty Careers - The University of Texas at Austin
Unleash your intellectual power by joining a world-renowned faculty that is solving the world's most urgent problems. At UT Austin, we provide you the freedom to blaze trails, follow your curiosity, e...
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July 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Should visual journalists blur the faces of people who participate in protests? Dr. Gino Canella and I wrote about this controversy and the way today's surveillance culture complicates ethical choices.

doi-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1177/1461...

Image from New York Magazine, from our sample.
So pleased to see this published. | Mary Angela Bock
So pleased to see this published. Should visual journalists blur the faces of people who participate in protests? Gino Canella and I wrote about this controversy and the way today's surveillance c...
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June 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted
Rest In Power to Ahmaud Marquez Arbery who was killed on this day 5 years ago. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 (May 8, 1994 – February 23, 2020)
February 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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(former heroin addict and apparent steroid user who now looks like a boiled catcher's mitt and sounds like someone who gargles hot tar)

"I just want Americans to be healthy!"
January 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In case you need a reminder, there is strength in being good to one another -- LOVE me some Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/150_c...
In 150 characters or less - The Oatmeal
This is based on a poem by Nikita Gill
theoatmeal.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Whew! Good thing they cancelled classes in Austin. Together, we can dig out! (JK I know Austin does not have tools or supplies for ice and snow but as someone who grew up in Chicago this is amusing.)
January 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
So pleased to see this theoretical essay published - it’s based on an idea I’ve been cooking for a long time. Images are human constructions - we have much to learn by focusing on the HUMAN. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Voice of Visual Evidence: Performance Theory, the MacGyver Factor, and Photojournalistic Authority
Historically, journalism’s claims to authority for photojournalistic work have largely rested on the camera’s technical perfection. Digital media, including AI, have disrupted this authority, as it...
www.tandfonline.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Good Morning! It’s my first day of class here in Austin. Ready to roll!
January 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries”

Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.

For no particular reason today.

doi.org/10.1080/1520...
When are Fact-Checks Effective? An Experimental Study on the Inclusion of the Misinformation Source and the Source of Fact-Checks in 16 European Countries
Despite increasing academic attention, several questions about fact-checking remain unanswered. First, it remains unclear to what extent fact-checks are effective across different political and med...
doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM