The Lenfest Institute for Journalism @lenfestinstitute.org Solutions for the next era of local news.
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Knight Foundation @knightfoundation.org
American Journalism Project @theajp.bsky.social The American Journalism Project is the first-ever venture philanthropy dedicated to supporting a thriving local news ecosystem. We invest in and build nonprofit newsrooms that are sustained by and look like the people they serve.
Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social News and information for and with communities. Journalism person, writer, artist, photographer and maker. Co-founder of Tiny News Collective. Building carefully.org Writing at hbcompass.io Managing journalism.wtf She/her
Jacob Nelson @jnelz.bsky.social Associate professor, University of Utah
RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social Reynolds Journalism Institute team exploring practical innovation for community-centered journalism. Fellowships, programs, tools, workshops + more! bit.ly/rjiteam
Innovation hub: bit.ly/innovrji
Insta: instagram.com/innovationrji
Kat Duncan @kataduncan.bsky.social Visual journalist and editor. Los Angeleno, traveler, rescuer of dogs, hoarder of books, lover of libraries.
RJI Director of Innovation @InnovationRJI.bsky.social
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
Joe Amditis @jamditis.com operations @centercoopmedia.bsky.social | adjunct @montclairstateu (he/him)
https://jamditis.com
Andrew Losowsky @losowsky.com Community, trust & safety, journalism, tea. Posts are ephemeral.
www.losowsky.com
OpenNews @opennews.bsky.social We help journalists connect as peers to build the skills that transform their work and the relationships that transform our industry.
Find us at SRCCON: a community-driven conference we build together!
Max Resnik @maxresnik.bsky.social Building the Documenters Network @City_bureau
News Product Alliance @newsproduct.org The News Product Alliance is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting news product professionals through community building, training, and capacity building.
Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social Detroiter in my heart (but not currently under my feet).
Always concerned about the human condition
@jesikahmariaross.bsky.social @jesikahmariaross.bsky.social
Margot Susca @margotsusca.bsky.social Associate Professor of Journalism, Accountability & Democracy
📍American University, Washington, D.C.
📘Author “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy”
📜UMass, Columbia J-School, Florida State
Journalism + Design @journalismdesign.bsky.social An interdisciplinary program at The New School with a undergraduate major and a lab dedicated to nurturing a resilient free press for the future.
Find more at linktr.ee/journalismdesign
JournalismUK @journalismnews.bsky.social News, digital tools and tips for journalists and publishers from https://www.journalism.co.uk.
Letrell Deshan Crittenden @letrellcrittenden.bsky.social Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Media, Temple University
Sam Cholke @samcholke.bsky.social Audience @ Institute for Nonprofit News, formerly Medill, IL Humanities, reporter/editor in Chicago
Local News Matters podcast @lnmpod.com Exploring innovative work toward stronger journalism, better businesses & healthier communities. Hosted by @timreganporter.lnmpod.com of @coloradopress.bsky.social
The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social The political media programme on Al Jazeera English.
Sam Ragland (she/her) @samragland.bsky.social VP, Journalism Programs at @ampress working toward a healthy news world for all journalists 💥🤌 | Former PBPost editor & Poynter faculty | amateur flower arranger 💐 | Need support? 📆 calendly.com/sragland/30
ThePivotFund @thepivotfund.org The Pivot Fund disrupts and reimagines the journalism industry, ensuring equity for BIPOC-led community organizations and the BIPOC communities they serve.
Fiona Morgan @fionamorgan.bsky.social Founder, Branchhead Consulting and Director of Community Listening, American Journalism Project. Shoulder to the wheel on reinventing/rebuilding local news and civic engagement.
News Literacy Project @newslit.org We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
Trusting News @trustingnews.bsky.social Empowering journalists to demonstrate credibility and earn trust day to day. Sign up at trustingnews.org/newsletter.
The Center for Community Media @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social We a resource+advocacy center for local journalism for/by Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ & other underserved communities at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/centers/center-community-media
The Poynter Institute @poynterinstitute.bsky.social Journalism. Truth. Democracy.
We’ve been a school for journalists for 50 years. Home to the Poynter newsroom, PolitiFact, MediaWise and the International Fact-Checking Network.
Online News Association @journalists.org Strategic foresight, adaptive leadership, and connected networks for journalism professionals to thrive through change. Founded in 1999. Join ONA26, March 30–April 1, in Chicago.
American Press Institute @ampress.bsky.social We support local and community-based media through research, programs and products that foster healthy, responsive and resilient news organizations.
Simon Galperin @simongalp.bsky.social EIC jerseybee.org | CEO comminfo.org | Fellow JSK Stanford ‘22 + RJI Mizzou ‘19 | Newmark-J Social Journalism ‘16 | Journalist, technologist, organizer, immigrant ✊
Silvia Rivera @localnewsxica.bsky.social Director, Local News @macfound 📰
Occasional updates ✨ | Shares, likes, follows ≠ endorsements or grant funding 🚫 | Opinions are solely my own
Democracy Fund Voice @democracyfundvoice.bsky.social Democracy Fund Voice is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping America build a stronger, healthier democracy.
Democracy Fund @democracyfund.bsky.social Democracy Fund is a foundation working to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy that is open, just, resilient, and trustworthy.
André Natta @acnatta.bsky.social I've been a journalist, a planner, and a hotel general manager. It's always about buying the ticket and taking the ride. Bronx native. Executive director/Executive editor, @bhamwatch.bsky.social
Wendi C. Thomas @wendicthomas.bsky.social Journalist. Disrupter. Dreamer. Dog mom. MLK50.com founder. ProPublica fellow. Memphis is home. 💚💕💚💕
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social We help journalism leaders succeed in improving the access to information people need to create and sustain democratic communities.
Madeleine Bair @madbair.bsky.social Civic media junkie. Oakland native. Mother, daughter, sister, friend. Founder of @eltimpano.bsky.social '23-'24 JSK Fellow.
Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl!
🌈 melodykramer.github.io
@stevenwaldman.bsky.social @stevenwaldman.bsky.social
The Listening Post Collective @lpostcollective.bsky.social The Listening Post Collective (LPC) partners with communities to develop the locally driven news and information solutions they need to thrive!
📊 https://civicinfoindex.org
🧡 https://listeningpostcollective.org
📥 https://tinyurl.com/2hvacy3t
Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology
Borderless Magazine @borderlessmag.bsky.social We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet reporting on and with immigrants in English, Spanish, Dari and more. Sign up for our weekly newsletters!
borderlessmag.org
Lenifaye @andreafaye.bsky.social Director of Resource Organizing at Access Reproductive Care-Southeast. Queer & Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.
Durham now, Chicago forever.
https://andreafayehartrt.substack.com/
Internews @internewshq.bsky.social Internews is an int'l nonprofit supporting independent media worldwide.
Newsletter 📥 http://bit.ly/3gSVvJj
Donate 🎁 http://bit.ly/3jkcNMM
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
NEWSWELL at ASU @asunewswell.bsky.social NEWSWELL is an innovative nonprofit transforming local news to help communities and democracy thrive. Based out of Arizona State University, NEWSWELL supports community-centered newsrooms such as Stocktonia, Times of San Diego and Santa Barbara News-Press.
Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios)
Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen.bsky.social Editor of @niemanlab.org / a fun mom in Cambridge, MA
https://illberightback.substack.com/
Ebikes | Mysteries | Baking | Parent gossip | Public schools
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social I teach data journalism at the University of Maryland, run OpenElections. Fan of WBB & test cricket. Posting obscure things about campaign finance, Congress & elections.
https://github.com/dwillis
https://thescoop.org
https://buttondown.com/dwillis
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social USCAnnenberg Digital Profe, #JOVRNALISM creator, NAHJ Hall of Famer/Program Manager, CalMatters & InquireFirst board member. Chicas Poderosas #wjchat #HorizontalLoyalty he/him 🇸🇻 // I live sweat but I dream light years.
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
David Boardman @dboardman.bsky.social Journalist/educator. Dean, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University. Chair, Spotlight PA. Founding chair, Lenfest Institute. Board, RCFP, OCCRP. Ex-editor of The Seattle Times. Passion for Philly sports and Pacific NW coastline.
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net J-prof at Northeastern University. Co-leader, with Ellen Clegg, of @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.
Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social Doctor of Journalism. Law-talking guy. Chaotic good. Fan of bad sports teams. I have friends everywhere. https://schieffercollege.tcu.edu/faculty_staff/daxton-chip-stewart/
Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social Didn’t always live in Florida. Loves to travel. Taught journalism students to code. Reads novels. BritBox fan. https://mindymcadams.com/
Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social Education professor. School Law. Ed tech. Politics of Ed. #RVA #GoDuke #LetsGoVCU
(Jon is not AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check output.)
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social University of Minnesota/HSJMC Associate Professor of Media Law. I teach folks about the 1st Amendment, @FCC, @FEC& @FTC policy for a living. Otherwise talking Brewer Baseball and Fishing.
And yes, the hostile opinions re: FCC policy failures are mine.
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Emily Vraga @ekvraga.bsky.social Professor in the J-school at the University of Minnesota, studying health and political misinformation
Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social Associate prof of journalism, Montclair State University. Community engagement. Most recent prior: CUNY. WI native, beer & Packers enthusiast. Aging 🏃♀️. Author, Transforming Newsrooms w/Jonathan Groves. Must love dogs. Maplewood, NJ resident. views mine
Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Brian Creech @briancreech.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Lehigh University Department of Journalism and Communication
Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social University Professor & Editor-in-Chief of @JMCQuarterly.bsky.social. ✍️ Global journalism. 🌎 Political news reporting. 🧐 Refugee communications. ☕️ and 🍫. *NB: Views my own.
Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social Writer/speaker/journalist/professor. @kegill almost everywhere. Deep south ex-pat, she/her. Fights #disinfo. #UX #Elections geek #BookLover #BreastCancer “facts maxer”
Allison Eden @aeden.bsky.social Comm Prof|Michigan State|Entertainment media|Well-being|Morality|CommNeuro
Brian Moritz @bmoritz99.bsky.social Ph.D. Director of journalism MA online programs at St Bonaventure. Writing on Substack at Sports Media Guy. Podcasting about writing at The Other 51. Ellie's dad. Bills/Bonnies/Barça fan. He/Him/His. Print news, raise hell.
Kevin Lerner @klerner.bsky.social Professor and Chair of Journalism and Sports Media at Montclair State University. I am a journalism historian, studying press criticism, and literary & alternative journalism.
Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social Digital journalism professor 🏝️AE at Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly/ Author, “Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate” (2023) 🇺🇸🇨🇦 actively 🏃♂️🧑💻#firstgen.
Jen Lee Reeves @jenleereeves.com (she/her) Own: JustRightStrategy.com, ED: DesignWithUs.org, wrote a book w/my kid, living w/the intention to fight BS through my work.
Topics I care about: disability inclusion, education equity, journalism, well executed strat comm plans, dogs, family
Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social Quasi-jock w/semi-literary aspirations and a hint of nihilism. Fashion media prof. Summertime traveler.
Author of "The Abercrombie Age": https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680910/the-abercrombie-age/
Jared Schroeder @schroeder1stabskys.bsky.social Freedom of expression and emerging technologies.
Professor and Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies, Missouri School of Journalism.