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
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
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
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/
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)
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.
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.
Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Temple University's Klein College. Researches & collabs on projects to make journalism less harmful, more equitable & community-centered. Past: Tow Center, BBC Media Action, Internews, WBEZ, WAMU
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.
Genelle Belmas @ipsedixit.bsky.social
Nina Brown @nibsyr.bsky.social lawyer | professor | fan of democracy
Jason Martin @jasonmartin.bsky.social DePaul journalism & media law professor
Carol Zuegner, Ph.D. @carolzuegner.bsky.social Journalist/retired Journalism professor, dog owner.
Fred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social Journalism professor, longtime rimrat. Tar Heel by way of Mizzou. Framing, news practice, securitization theory, editing, cats, beer, banjos. Not all those who wander are lost, but TBF quite a few of them are really, really lost.
Erin Coyle @erincoyle.bsky.social I research freedom of expression, privacy, and journalism history.
Erik Palmer @erikpalmer.bsky.social Professor of Media Innovation, Southern Oregon University
2019-20 U.S. Fulbright Scholar, University of Ghana 🇬🇭
Learned to swim by jumping into the deep end
Erik Ugland @erikugland.bsky.social U. prof writing about media law, ethics, and policy.
Aske Kammer @handle.invalid Associate Professor @ Roskilde University. I research the structural conditions around journalism: tech, biz models, management, innovation, data. (DK/ENG)
🌐 https://www.askekammer.dk/
🔬 https://www.datafiednewsindustry.org/
📖 https://tinyurl.com/45zxn4v7
Anita Varma @anitawrites.bsky.social Solidarity Journalism Initiative lead, assistant professor at UT Austin School of Journalism and Media. Views are my own.
Damian Radcliffe @damianradcliffe.bsky.social Chambers Professor of Journalism at the University of Oregon. Father, Husband, Brit 🇬🇧 in America 🇺🇸 Interested in journalism, media, tech, travel, podcast, movie and TV tips.
🌎 www.damianradcliffe.com
📌 https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianradcliffe
Seth C. Lewis @sethclewis.bsky.social Professor, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, and Director of Journalism at the University of Oregon. I study AI and news, trust in knowledge institutions, and lots of things tech-related. Co-author, "News After Trump" (Oxford, 2021). Views my own, etc.
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka @carabyrd.bsky.social Assistant professor of practice at the Edward R. Murrow College of Comm. Research in the intersection of women’s sport, social media & branding.Cofounder of Starting Line 1928. #commsky
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Yasemin Beykont @yaseminbeykont.bsky.social Visiting Asst. Prof. At Marist University, PhD from Penn State, UWM & Istanbul Bilgi University alum, memes + critical advertising + political economy + popular culture, she/her
yaseminbeykont.com
Dr. Errol Salamon @errolsalamon.bsky.social Program Director, MSc Media Management & Senior Lecturer in Media Production, University of @Stir.ac.uk | Research: work, labour, and organizations in digital journalism and media industries | PI: Creator Labour project | https://linktr.ee/errolsalamon
Cindy Royal @cindyroyal.bsky.social Professor at TX State, teaching Web design, coding & digital product concepts. ‘13-‘14 JSK Fellow at Stanford. Live in Austin, love live music. cindyroyal.com
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com Senior Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict. British Academy Fellow. Cat dad.
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Jessica Ghilani @jesspgh.bsky.social Comm + media studies professor focused on history, emerging tech, information integrity, telecomm policy, platforms, propaganda, and culture. From Pittsburgh.
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Tracy Everbach @tracyeverbach.bsky.social Journalism educator, former journalist. Fleeing the misogyny, racism, homophobia and other hate speech on that other platform. Will block DMs.
Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D. @everfigueroa.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. PhD from UT Austin. Media Representations | Media Sociology | Sports Communication | Journalism Studies
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater.
Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Houston researching media and politics.
allisonarcher.com
Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social Truthmonger. I write books, teach students and make podcasts about you being smarter about misinformation. #WeAreAltGov #DetectingDeception https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Marília Gehrke, Ph.D. @gehrke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Interested in gendered disinformation, transparency, fact-checking and data journalism
Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
Past: UNC CITAP, UW-Madison SJMC
Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social John and Ann Curley Chair in First Amendment @ Penn State. Loves: Cardinals baseball, shelter dogs, solo travel. Hates: Oxford commas, two spaces after a period. Former Middle East expat. Texas refugee. Recovering journalist. Not your attorney.
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
Toni Albertson @tonialbertson.bsky.social Journalism/PR professor, PR lecturer, writer, hopeful romantic.
https://www.tonialbertson.com/
likesophia.com
https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/toni-albertson
Tori Smith Ekstrand @toriekstrand.bsky.social Professor, Media Law, UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Media. Former AP exec. Speaking for myself & not UNC. "Take up space. Pitch it faster. Run harder. Put another plate on the bar. And NEVER tone it down." - Ilona Maher. #academicfreedom- B Eric Robinson @bloglawonline.bsky.social Media lawyer, professor and author
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Ezra Winton @ezrawinton.bsky.social Communication prof + curator from K'ómoks (Vancouver lsIand) @ American University in Bulgaria | Co-founder @ Cinema Politica | https://ezrawinton.com | Latest book: http://surl.li/nzhwjq | Born at 327 ppm
🔎 Documentary 🌍 Ecomedia 🔥 Cultural Politics
Chris McCollough @drmccollough.bsky.social Endowed Chair of Journalism & Mass Communication. Professor and Department Chair, Communication @ Jacksonville State University. Father. Unrepentent Geek and Sports Fan. Student of public sector communication , public relations, and pedagogy.
Lauren Smith @laurensmith.bsky.social Professor, Rowan University | Research Director - Center for Sports Comm & Social Impact | Researching effects of narratives & portrayals of gender, race, & social issues in sport | Triathlete | Ironman x 3 | Traveling the 🌎 w/ Kenny Smith | War Eagle
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Kenny Smith @kennysmith.org Adventuring with @laurensmith.bsky.social. Cyclist, reader, swimmer, diver, builder, blogger, voiceovers.
On the side: professor of communication studies.
https://www.kennysmith.org
AU-UAB-UA-SU-IU-RU
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Daniel Trielli @danieltrielli.bsky.social Brasileiro. Inconstant poster in English and Portuguese. Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
https://danieltrielli.com
Paul Bolls @mediabrain99.bsky.social I'm a media brain scientist and ex 80s DJ who wants life to be like an 80s dance party
WSU Coug & Murrow College of Communication Professor
Co-director, Murrow Media Mind Lab
"Brain Friendly" media is my soapbox
Original Montana boy, wannabe Cowboy
Jane B Singer @janebsinger.bsky.social Former journalist, retired journalism prof, now a Londoner
Meredith Cummings @merecummings.bsky.social Muppety | Journalist | Teaching Asst. Prof. at Lehigh U | Transplant from the Deep South
Sue Robinson @suerobinsonuw.bsky.social Journalism researcher, teacher at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Former journalist. Publisher of Madison Commons, a community-based, student-powered SJMC news site. Book author about …what else? Journalism
Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications,
University of Birmingham, UK
Rosemary Pennington @rompenni.bsky.social Professor & Chair Department of Media, Journalism & Film at Miami University. Host Stats + Stories podcast. The horrors persist and so do I. Opinions my own. she/her
Phoebe Maares @phoebemaares.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at IRex, @unituebingen.bsky.social
Journalism and its boundaries. @univie.ac.at Alumn. she/her
Clara Juarez Miro @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social Beatriz Galindo Fellow @cpoliticaub.bsky.social | Previously @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social & @jscvienna.bsky.social
Studying populism, online communities, audiences.
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Seth Ashley @sethdashley.bsky.social *Comm/media prof at Boise State University
*Author of News Literacy and Democracy (Routledge, 2020)
*Old dad, late adopter, easily overwhelmed
Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social Associate Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
Jennifer Moore @jem2998.bsky.social Higher Education in Duluth, Minnesota. I teach and research journalism & mass media history, community news & more.