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Matt Mansfield
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Former Medill professor and journalist. Now leading at MG Strategy + Design and M. Harris & Co. Likes design.
Cool honors from the Society for News Design for our awesome clients at @theonion.com after being away from print for more than a decade. Glad to be part of the newspaper being back!
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Matt Mansfield
Data centers and clean energy are the latest power couple.

Pairing data centers with new wind, solar, and energy storage near existing power plants can help meet growing electricity demand without increasing costs for families and others. bit.ly/4i2op3e
February 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Division Street Revisited's first episode is live now on all podcast platforms. Excited for everyone to listen!

www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...
New Podcast Revisits Studs Terkel’s <em>Division Street America</em>
A team of journalists — including Melissa Harris and Mary Schmich — follow up with the families of seven Chicagoans from Terkel's 1967 oral history.
www.chicagomag.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The wrapping paper in my December issue of @theonion.com is top notch. Reserved for the nice list.
December 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Matt Mansfield
The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...
theonion.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Reposted by Matt Mansfield
A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.
December 11, 2024 at 5:14 AM
In 1967, Chicago legend Studs Terkel published Division Street America, featuring 71 “uncelebrated” Chicagoans.

Pulitzer winner Mary Schmich and team tracked down their children and grandchildren for a new podcast.

Meet Division Street Revisited.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
December 6, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Our book Everybody Needs an Editor has been longlisted as a 2024 Non-Obvious Book Award Winner. So proud of my colleagues Melissa Harris, Jenn Bane and @markjacob.bsky.social , who led the project, and the many contributors!

www.nonobviousbookawards.com/2024/
December 5, 2024 at 5:38 PM
I love year-end lists of the best albums. This one from @nprmusic.bsky.social also includes my favorite release of 2024: "Woodland" by the great Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Their artistic partnership is an American treasure.

www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
The 50 Best Albums Of 2024
You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
www.npr.org
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Happy our team could support the launch of the new N2O Hub, which aims to raise awareness about nitrous oxide, the "forgotten greenhouse gas," in climate action.

n2oaction.org
Home - N2O Hub
The N2O Hub is working to raise global ambition and to catalyze new action addressing this oft-forgotten greenhouse gas.
n2oaction.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 AM