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Sarah Scott Scire
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sounds like “skeery.” @niemanlab.org deputy editor. following digital journalism, political science, books, the NBA ☘️

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“There is a set of populous countries, generally where traditional media are under pressure and social media use is high, where news creators are having a significant impact"

@hanaatameez.bsky.social wrote up a fascinating @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news...
These countries include US Brazil South Africa India Nigeria Kenya Thailand and Indonesia.
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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fun to see a huge and energetic crowd for Lina Khan at Harvard last night. she gave the Stone Lecture on Economic Inequality.

clearly a very popular figure across disciplines — audience questions were from doctor, nurse, computer scientist, labor economics PhD student, worker rights advocate, etc.
Lina Khan answering audience questions with Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics signage behind her
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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approaching autumn
woodsy walk with browning ferns, man in orange, and dog in orange
September 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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no place like Fenway 🥲 we just booed a pitcher for tying his shoe
August 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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peak subscription portent?
model wearing a purple sweatshirt that says "Unsubscribe"
August 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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no @niemanlab.org newsletter this week. we’re taking our late summer break. 🎣
Gone fishin’ sign
August 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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The @washingtonpost.com also has it, but in a more both-sides-y way. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump has portrayed crime in the nation’s capital as out of control, although D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser disputes that characterization, noting that violent crime has declined for the last two years after a sharp post-pandemic spike in 2023.
August 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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It's in the @wsj.com coverage. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Violent crime in the city was down 35% last year from 2023, Justice Department data show, the lowest in over 30 years. The data showed a decline in homicides, robberies, armed carjackings and assaults with a dangerous weapon.
August 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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It's the second graf in @nytimes.com coverage www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Mr. Trump has claimed that crime is “totally out of control” in Washington, even though officials announced in January that violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low.
August 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Looks like the story was updated. Does "according to an analysis conducted by Newsweek using AI" sound better than "Newsweek asked ChatGPT"?
"according to an analysis conducted by Newsweek using AI."
July 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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confirmed: my dog looks v handsome in photos taken with this app
A handsome dog (curly brown with white spots on chest and feet) standing on a dirt road.
July 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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very fun night of food and art (organized by @soleilho.com) after the first day of #srccon25. ‪

@artsmia.bsky.social ‬
portrait painting from “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” detail shot of painting showing black and white bunnies, adidas sneakers, green pants Nick Cave work (silver Soundsuit sculpture) in foreground a heavily embroidered textile work
July 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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spent the last week eating nothing but fried seafood and ice cream in Maine so would take some healthyish food recs as well 🌝
fireworks over a yard and ocean as seen from a porch ocean as seen from rocky shore at dusk. a boat in foreground
July 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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okay
clearly a puppy; he is quite small but has big white paws.
June 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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sigh. the link goes to a @newsday.bsky.social piece about Michael Cera's fake Norwegian accent. (no noses mentioned.) www.newsday.com/entertainmen...
AI Overview saying "Yes, Michael Cera wears a fake nose in the movie The Phoenician Scheme."
June 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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don't miss @joon.bsky.social on what greedy leagues and private equity are doing to sports.

one of the best things I've ever read in @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
Increasingly, access to cultural life is paywalled. Sports is one of the last activities that can still be a shared American experience that cuts across class, race and geography, unfolding live, unscripted and in real time, in the real world with real people. But instead of uniting us, it’s been carved up. The wealthy can sit courtside, stream everything and pass down season tickets like heirlooms. For everyone else, belonging is for sale.
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"Did legacy media fail in its Biden coverage? Not if you ask them!" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

great reported column by @erikwemple.bsky.social
Such was the grind of Biden age coverage. Contrary to what you may have heard on X, there was a great deal of it across legacy media outlets, including those mentioned above and many others. Much of it, however, shared a sameness of formula, a mush of polling numbers, historical references and other staples of contemporary political analysis: Stuff with minimal prospects of breaking through the noise. “I do think it’s hard to keep writing that Biden is old,” says a White House reporter.
June 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"There is this vague belief that the drive to automate is inevitable, unavoidable, and this belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
"This was the scattershot process that set the Industrial Revolution turning: minor, staggered investments in machinery by small manufacturers, all revolving around the examples set by large factory owners. Incidentally, it is what set later industrial revolutions turning, too. As David Noble, a historian of twentieth-century automation, wrote, "Managers feel they must automate because 'everyone's doing it,' out of fear that they will be undone by more up-to-date competitors (a paranoia encouraged by equipment vendors). There is this vague belief that the drive to automate is inevitable, unavoidable, and this belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.""
May 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"We didn’t get that headline ["DA POPE!] from an AI agent ... We ended up with a decidedly Chicagoan, decidedly human front page that captured the moment of joy and surprise. That’s the kind of work we want to be known for."
A week before the book list, the Sun-Times went viral for another reason: our cheeky front page announcing the new pope with a gleeful headline that read “Da Pope!” The pope’s brother was snapped proudly holding the Sun-Times newspaper up. That picture went around the world. We didn’t get that headline from an AI agent. We got it from a bunch of editors making jokes with one another in the newsroom, and then a bunch of editors and reporters arguing about the best way to present the news of the day to our audience. And so we ended up with a decidedly Chicagoan, decidedly human front page that captured the moment of joy and surprise. That’s the kind of work we want to be known for.
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Peng didn't answer this question when asked by @status.news in January www.status.news/p/business-i...
I'm also curious: Can you disclose how many subscriptions BI currently has and what percentage of the business is reliant on them versus other streams of revenue, such as advertising? I’m not going to share exact numbers, but we’re seeing meaningful growth in subscriptions. We’re getting much better at converting casual readers to loyal readers to subscribers, both because our journalism is more targeted to our core audience and our operations are more effective. For example, we launched a new paywall that utilizes A.I. to make smart decisions about who to paywall and when, and it’s driving over 75% more new subscribers than our old one.
May 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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“Inaction is fruitless”

🍌 spotted in Cambridge, MA
May 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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this seems like the kind of criticism a public editor could reasonably respond to — but NYT hasn’t had one since 2017
May 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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photo editors may be safe from Google Gemini
Please find original image below …. Without any alternations to the face. (Pic is missing a head.)
May 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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this is New Hampshire for “don’t speed”
Highway sign says “it is not a race”
May 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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scoops 🍨 (Tina Brown to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social)
What advice would you give the next generation of editors-in-chief trying to make a splash in 2025? The same as in my generation. It takes three big news scoops to start to turn a magazine around. There is simply no other plan to bring a magazine back to life. It has to be a must-read, can’t-miss, you feel-dumb-if-you-haven’t-read it. Cf. The Atlantic.
May 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM