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Molly Stark Dean
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The #NewsNerd you've been looking for:
NOW 📰 Wikimedia NYC, The New School & Women Do News;
THEN 📰 CNN, Reuters, CBS News, Fox News, Coin Desk.
If they make news, I probably worked there. 📰🤓
I'm so excited to see @pivotpod.bsky.social LIVE!
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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In Opinion | Was exercise always this miserable? “In the good old days, I went to spin class, and there was nary a number in sight,” the writer Rachel Feintzeig writes. But now, “I get on my Peloton and am confronted with a veritable dashboard of my inadequacies.”
Opinion | Exercising Is the Worst
Exercise has never been fun, but our expectations for physical performance, what it means to be healthy, and what it means to age have gotten too high.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies. n.pr/47wPCJg
Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment
A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Exclusive: Billionaire Bill Gates' foundation will spend at least $1.4 billion over the next four years to help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia access technologies for adapting to extreme weather, the organization's CEO told Reuters reut.rs/3Ll0CAP
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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One month into Bari Weiss’s tenure as editor in chief at CBS News, staffers are weathering a flurry of layoffs, shifting resources and a cultural collision with Weiss’s ideas of how to tackle the news.

Here’s a look into the evolving TV newsroom:
Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News. Here’s how it’s working out so far.
Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent

Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it
www.poynter.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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BREAKING: RFK Jr. flees the scene after Novo Nordisk Executive Gordon Findlay collapsed in the Oval Office.

Findlay is reportedly ok.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Here are the latest neighborhood-level election results for New York City’s mayor. Take a closer look at how the city’s neighborhoods and boroughs voted here. nyti.ms/4oSFG2i
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Airport CCTV footage shows the UPS cargo plane's left engine fell off during takeoff, according to investigators.
Death toll from Kentucky plane crash rises to 12, black box recovered
Airport CCTV footage shows the UPS cargo plane's left engine fell off during takeoff, according to investigators.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My plans for the night.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
My fellow Wikimedian @antisomniac.bsky.social wrote about Grokipedia: "All of this is ultimately subordinate to Grokipedia's unavoidable prime directive of neutrality: neutrality is whatever Elon Musk says is neutral."
www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...
With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press
Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?
www.techpolicy.press
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thank you Margaret Sullivan for agreeing to do a selfie with me. I'm glad you're purse is no longer missing! #NYPCJCONF25
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Two Wikipedia contributors averted a potential tragedy at a conference for the site’s editors on Friday in Manhattan when they jumped in to take down a man with a gun.
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
nyti.ms
October 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Good Guys Without Guns — Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I already thought Richard and Andrew were heroes before they nonchalantly tackled a gunman!!!! Both have been around for >20 years, work full time on wiki stuff for museums, yet STILL seem excited about wikipedia. Richard at a wiknic (wiki picnic) last year: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ri...
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I’ve seen enough, let Wikipedia volunteer editors run everything
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The pic also shows Jake Orlowitz who rushed to the stage to talk the guy down. I still think about this moving piece he wrote about his personal experience with mental health and wikipedia direct.mit.edu/books/book/4...
How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public LicenseThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding and s
direct.mit.edu
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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didn't post about this when it happened friday but..... heroes!
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM