Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
The National @scotnational.bsky.social The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland. Read at thenational.scot
The National @thenationalnews.com The Middle East. Explained.
www.thenationalnews.com
📍 Abu Dhabi | Baghdad | Beirut | Cairo | London | Washington DC
Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social International Digital Editor @meidastouch.com
MT Anderson @mtanderson.bsky.social 🇺🇸 husband, girl dad, son, brother 🇺🇸
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
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.
Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social Author: Seen, Heard, & Paid: https://amzn.to/4dXOAHv
Now: Managing Editor, @pcmag.com
Then: WIRED, NYT, Lifehacker. Forever: Yours. Recovering physicist. Always: Black. He/Him.
https://www.alan-henry.net | https://www.novawerks.net
Justin Myers @justinmyers.net Journalist, tinkerer, crocheter, parent.
Married to @juliajrh.bsky.social.
Graphics editor, @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org.
🏳️⚧️⚧🟨⬜🟪⬛, any pronouns.
Also active on fediverse/Mastodon:
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Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻♀️🎃 @karenyin.bsky.social Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. #AABB
KarenYin.com/links
VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company
Sewell Chan @sewell.bsky.social Journalist
Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me award-winning chicago journo, funky fashion enthusiast, and pink girlie™ 💖
✳️ prev: @raceandequityproject.org | vice president of the chicago journalists association | mizzou j-school alum | find me at maiamcdonald.me and @maia.pink | views are my own
Mythili Sampathkumar @mythilisk.bsky.social Hire me so I can get off LinkedIn please. Journalist. Bylines everywhere. Community media, public interest tech, politics, climate, South Asian diaspora. Collage Artist. NYC.
www.linkedin.com/in/Mythilis
www.etsy.com/shop/mskcollages
P. Kim Bui @kimbui.bsky.social That one Vietnamese American journalist. Media Consultant. JSK Fellow '24. Fiber Artist. Widow. Working on something new (stay tuned)
Alum: Arizona Republic, NowThis, Reportedly, KPCC/LAist, too many others to list.
Kim Phillip @kimphillip.bsky.social Knitter, Needle work, loves color. Loves science.
Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at The Fuller Project: journalism that catalyses change for women & gender minorities | Care deeply about stories: telling new ones, how we tell them, who gets to tell them, how they connect to, inform and serve audiences.
Adriana Lacy @adrianalacy.com ✨Boston based, always roaming
✨CEO, adrianalacyconsulting.com
✨Journalism prof at Brandeis et al.
✨penn state alum
Focus: audience engagement & research, influencers, AI. Formerly New York Times, LA Times, Axios.
📧: adriana@adrianalacyconsulting.com
Shereen Marisol Meraji @shereenmarisol.bsky.social Good listener
Joseph “Never Joe” Hernandez @joeybear85.bsky.social Director, culture Bon Appétit prev: Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, others. Cat dad
Khushbu Shah @khushbushah.bsky.social EU Editor at POLITICO Europe
Naomi Ishisaka @naomiishisaka.bsky.social Seattle Times Social Justice Columnist / Assistant Managing Editor for Diversity and Inclusion. AAJA Seattle President. www.naomiishisaka.com she/her 🏳️🌈
Yoli @yolimartinez.bsky.social Software Engineer. Formerly at WaPo, Hearts Newspapers, WSJ, The Marshall Project. and lecturer @ UC Berkeley J-School. A fan of cats, bread and journalism. Find some of my work and a link to my calendly: http://yolimartinez.github.io
Erik Reyna @erikreyna.dev Software Development Manager for Elections at @apnews.com
Past: @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com
Armand Emamdjomeh @emamd.bsky.social 💻📰🚴🎮⚔️🦞🦐🍺
Quinci LeGardye @quinciwho.bsky.social Culture Writer, Marie Claire. Storyteller. LA native. Fangirl.
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
Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social Journalist, audio producer, cat lady, native plant gardener ⚡️ Pinch hitter/fill-in anchor at KCRW ✨ Bylines: NPR, LAist, Prism, LA Public Press 💫
🌐 andreagtrrz.com
💌 andrea@andreagtrrz.com
John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social I wear many hats. 🧢
OpenNews rapscallion & co-director. 🧘
Burning up in ATX. 🫠
Queens kid at heart. #LFGM 🗽🍕
Midwest enthusiast. 🏒
"Too crazy for Boys Town,
too much of a boy for Crazy Town"
Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social Detroiter in my heart (but not currently under my feet).
Always concerned about the human condition
Niketa @niketa.bsky.social CEO/Executive Director, Online News Association. Priors: CUNY, The 19th, Twitter, CNN, ABC News & more. Brit living in Atlanta.
mike tigas @mike.tig.as currently: 👨🍼 • previously: technologist at FTC, hacker-journalist at @propublica.org, contrib at @torproject.org (Onion Browser for iOS), TabulaPDF • he/him • chicago • [personal acct]
🌐: https://mike.tig.as/
Manuelita Beck @litabeck.bsky.social Politics reporter @abc15.com in Phoenix. Diné (Navajo). Tábąąhá. Latina.
📧 manuelita.beck@abc15.com
📞 litabeck.16 on Signal
Love 🧡🖤 Flyers 🧡🖤, Kraken & Golden Knights 🏒, D-Backs & Mariners ⚾️ , Seahawks 🏈, my 🐈⬛, Star Wars, Batman, AEW, F1, romancelandia.
Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat
Signal —> kharijohnson.67
Kenichi Serino @kenichiserino.bsky.social Proud Deputy Managing Editor at Minnesota Public Radio. Please don’t make me sign up for another Twitter alt.
Fahmida Y Rashid @fyrashid.bsky.social 
emmacarew @ecg.bsky.social Panda, journalist, painter, auntie, fiber artist and iced coffee enthusiast. Sometimes I make things, sometimes I break things.
I can be found at:
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- The Marshall Project
- Media Bridge Partners
- Phish shows ⭕️
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social Co-founder of Capital B. 
Alicia Ramirez (she/her) @aliciak2010.bsky.social Texan. Journalist. Entrepreneur.
Founder of RiversideRecord.org | @riversiderecord.bsky.social.
USC Annenberg adjunct professor.
📍Los Angeles
It should go without saying, but just in case it doesn’t, reposts ≠ endorsements.
Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social Editor in chief ⌲ https://19thnews.org
Co-founder/admin ⌲ https://journalistsofcolor.us
More if you wanna ⌲ https://juliachanb.com/about
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ here for skeets and giggles
Aunt Benét @aviationqueen.bsky.social Baby Digital’s mom.
Training Director, IRE
Previously: Bankrate, Poynter-Koch Fellowship The Points Guy AOPA & Aviation Week
#avgeek #Maynard200 #quilter
Past ONA/NABJ boards.
I ❤️ Southwest Air.
Oakland/San Antonio/Baltimore
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Micaela Rodríguez @mikayrodr.bsky.social Senior Editor @ NPR and WBUR’s Here & Now.
Dhiya Gerber @dhiyagerber.com Stories. People. Outdoors. 
Mallory Carra @mallorycarra.com USC Annenberg adjunct professor. Freelance journalist/producer. AAJA-LA board member & too many other things to list.
mallorycarra.com/links
Nancy Yang @nyang.bsky.social Senior editor for audience engagement at @startribune.com. Nap advocate. Send me your k-drama recs. Always looking for spicy food. She/her.
Ann Marie Awad @anntastic.bsky.social Audio journalist, podcast person, editorial director at @indiejournalists.bsky.social. One of the people behind @coloradioclub.bsky.social. I used to host a podcast about legal weed. Just a little guy.
Richard Sima @richardsima.bsky.social Science journalist and Brain Matters columnist @washingtonpost.com. Erstwhile neuroscientist 🧠
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/richard-sima/
Ron @ronlyonsjr.bsky.social 
Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social deputy editor @billy-penn.bsky.social @whyynews.bsky.social | @aajafreelance co-director + @aajaphilly nat'l board rep | @switchboardnyc | Always curious, often hungry | RT/like=🤔🤣🤗🔖
Jishnu Nair 🦈 @jishnews.bsky.social houston-based reporter. covering spaceflight+health for the Houston Biz Journal. he/him/his. shark 🦈+tabletop 🎲 enthusiast. my stuff: https://muckrack.com/jishnews. 
Julia Barajas @juliabarajas.bsky.social Immigration reporter at NPR-affiliate LAist 89.3 FM • she/her/ella • jbarajas@laist.com
Dawnthea M. Price Lisco @dawnthea.bsky.social Managing editor, VPM News | dplisco@vpm.org | she/her, 🇵🇭, multiple sclerosis | it's dimple, like DMPL
Ashley @ashleytrawick.bsky.social Storyteller | She/her | 📍Georgia | Here to talk about any of these: 🎶🎞✍🏾🎮, crack light jokes and show kindness. Newsletter: https://hertakeworks.beehiv.com
Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social Culture & leadership coach at the intersection of emotions & work. Raised in journalism. Love journalists, cats, food, celeb goss, stories that make me 🥹
https://www.audiencibility.com
aysha khan @aysha.bsky.social editor @nextcity.org and analystnews.org
covering the path to flourishing cities and a just world 🏙️🌎
urbanism without equity is gentrification. housing is a human right. genocide is bad. nonprofit journalism is the future. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
nextcity.org/pitch
Vritti 🩼🏀 @vritti.bsky.social editing college, wnba & recruiting 🏀 (also F1) @ espn.
🏏, 🏎️, 🌶️, 🍂. Bay Area, CA-born, 2-continent kid, ABCD.
Will talk your ear off about my meniscus tear & repair.
rhymes with 'pithy'. she/her.
Sophia Chang @bysophiachang.bsky.social NYC writer - previously from the realms of public media and metro journalism, currently in the world of urban planning and social impact.
Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria @amritpalksl.bsky.social Investigative Reporter | RT≠endorsements | Got a Tip? Want to commission me? Get in touch. https://www.amritpalkaursandhulongoria.com
Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social associate producer, npr's planet money // signal: samkeslr dot 16 // proton: samkesler at proton dot me // 📸: rachel del sordo
Rubina Fillion @rubinafillion.nytimes.com Working on A.I. Initiatives @nytimes; formerly @WSJ, @theintercept, @columbiajournalism; avid consumer of coffee and novels
soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | James Beard award winner | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Tanya Ballard Brown @tdoubleb.bsky.social 
Julia Furlan @juliafurlan.bsky.social Midday host at WKNY Radio Kingston☀️
Other bylines @npr @vox @iheart
🇧🇷🏳️🌈she/her
Mayra Báez @mayrabaez.bsky.social Social media, audience, and more at @pulitzercenter.org | #Heartfulness meditation trainer
April Joyner @aprjoy.bsky.social Business journalist. Senior correspondent at LPC covering private credit. Business Insider, Reuters, and Inc. alum.
Ace Pedraza 🏳️🌈🇵🇷 @candacepedraza.bsky.social Candace Pedraza is the site editor for SideLion Report, a regular WNBA.com contributor, and soon-to-be returning writer for The Knicks Wall. Previous stops at Winsidr, Secret Base, and Law360.
Baby gorgeous and rich in waiting.
DMs open!
Andy Nguyen @andytruc.bsky.social Digital research analyst for PolitiFact. Previously: Burbank Leader/Glendale News-Press, Thousand Oaks Acorn, Patch.
The furball was Catsby.
Joe Ruiz @joeruiz.bsky.social JSK Journalism Fellow Ex: CBS News. CNN, NPR, Seattle Times. Sports fan + gamer, salsa maker, sneakerhead, dog lover. Board of directors @ SA Report.
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
Taylor Jung 鍾永春 @taylorjung.bsky.social Multimedia social justice reporter @ NJ Spotlight News/NJPBS.✌️
Russell Leung @rjleung7.cnbc.com Newsday | Northwestern Medill graduate | Let's talk climate change, AP style and Knicks | CNBC alum
https://rjleung7.carrd.co/
Grace Asiegbu @epitomeofgrace.bsky.social #Journalist
#Chicago 📍
#NABJ
igbo gehl 💅🏾
shade thrower, tea spiller 🐘
Byrhonda Lyons @calireporter.bsky.social Hella nosy @calmatters | News tip? Signal/cell 510-804-9939 | I ❤️ public records + art | @uapbinfo, #HBCUgrad, @ucbsoj | Pine Bluff-raised 🇺🇸
Maria Elena Fernandez @writerchica.bsky.social Author of “And Don’t f&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Journalist. Local news warrior @ Report for America. Miami native living in the 305 again. 💜 in Venice Beach.
Ashton Lattimore @ashtonlattimore.bsky.social award-winning journalist & author of historical fiction (ALL WE WERE PROMISED), former EIC @prismreports.bsky.social, recovered lawyer, train station popcorn connoisseur, uppity about hot cocoa
Rawan Elbaba @rawanelbaba.bsky.social Digital Producer @ PBS News Student Reporting Labs | First Gen 🇱🇧 | All things vertical video, pop culture, young people and news
Siani Colón @sianicolon.bsky.social Journalist | Newsletter Editor at City Cast Philly | Previously at Resolve Philly, Kensington Voice, Veggie Mijas
sianicolon.com
Carolyn Copeland @carolyncopes.bsky.social Managing editor @prismreports.org | NABJ member | 2024 @maynardinstitute.bsky.social fellow | SF Bay Area born & raised
Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social I was a poet but then I wanted
to get paid
worse.
I make photos for news.
@ashponders.01 on signal.
http://ashponders.com
NaBeela Washington @nabeelawashington.com Poet. Chicago Journalist. Wanderer. Corgi Mama. Art Collector. Editor-in-chief @luckyjefferson.com. Support hyperlocal news @15west.org.
I post about everything (especially my favorite shows).
In case you’re wondering..it’s pronounced [Nah-Bee-Lah].
Damaso Reyes @damaso.bsky.social 2026 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow. Award winning founding editor of The Blacklight, the NY Amsterdam News' investigative unit. Living kidney donor. Photojournalist. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Kevin Cortez @kevincortez.huffpost.com 🇹🇭 x 🇵🇷
📍 DC
http://kevincortez.info/
Shopping Editor @huffpost.com
Member @wgaeast.bsky.social
Also @mothership.blog
Ashawnta Jackson @heyjackson.bsky.social Writer and record collector. Author of SOUL-FOLK (Bloomsbury) and a forthcoming book on Black-owned record labels (WW Norton, 2027)
www.heyjackson.net
Jaisal Noor @jnoor.bsky.social Multimedia journalist, troublemaker, dog-guy. PERSONAL ACCOUNT
Albert Serna Jr. @albertpbj.bsky.social Chicano journalist | MA in chisme | FOIA and find out | Investigating things | Maricòn sin vergüenza 💅🏽🌸
Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
Shraddha Chakradhar @scchak.bsky.social Science journalist and editor. India-born Kentuckian now in Massachusetts. She/her. How to say my name: http://bit.ly/2TTMIqV
Martin Tsai @martintsai.bsky.social critique de cinéma. mots dans sight and sound, awards watch, screen anarchy, los angeles times etc.
camarade de national critics institute et power of diverse voices. membre de galeca, aaja et nlgja. il/le
ouvert au travail: martin.tsai@nyu.edu
Jacqué Palmer @jacquepalmer.com She/her Email geek, audience strategist, and product manager ☞ Did some things at @bostonglobe.com, @vox.com and @gannett.
Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social Gamer wife, higher ed/libraries journalist at AL.com. (She/her)
Anisa Khalifa @anisa.bsky.social audio journo & host of The Broadside @wunc.org. culture writer. coffee addict. co-creator of podcasts dramasoverflowers.bsky.social & Muslim in Plain Sight.
@domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social 
Yvonne S. Marquez @yvonnesm12.bsky.social ✨ independent journalist & audio producer ✨🌈 | puro 956 | from Tejas to Brooklyn | subscribe to my newsletter: queerfutures.news 💌
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