Stubborn. Media art + photo teacher in practice, art + English teacher by certificates, journalism educator @ 💙 Views my own. https://xitter.cf/t.co/wCcovdWbrL
Philly Burbs, PA
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“But we all know why the Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut really exists: because the world is in a state of chaos where few norms remain intact and fewer boundaries sacrosanct. The Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut was, in retrospect, all but inevitable.”
Yup.
theringer.com/2020/10/22/215…
“Giving lip service to these big ethical issues while hastily integrating AI sends kids a strong message — the adults don’t really care and neither should you.”
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/a…
.@iamjoelister is one of less than five reasons I still have this app.
Good luck, Robin.
Dropping by X to cosign @iamjoelister on this take.
I’m coaching the student journalists I advise out of using X, due to the state of the platform’s content and leadership.
Coaching myself out of it, too.
Find me at kplows.bsky.social — for now.
IDK. When you step away from the social for a sec, life gets less hazy.
Overheard: young adults having coffee.
A) “Where did you graduate?”
B) <college>
A) “Is that a good school?”
B) “It’s an OK liberal art school.”
A) “What does that even mean?”
B) “Means it’s like more hippy. Like… we had English classes + every type of cereal in the caf.”
WTH?
This fall marked my 11th #NHSJC if you count the times when I went (mostly) solo.
I feel like we got this one (mostly) right. Practice makes perfect.
Proud to coach these teams. 🙏 to @nationalJEA + @NSPA for creating remarkable learning experiences.
shpantherpress.com/yearbook-…
To the college marketing major who emailed me 10 questions you need answered “a.s.a.p.” for a profile assignment in your journalism class—
Thank you for giving me a great teaching example of what NOT to do for profiles.
Enjoy this voice memo I am recording in my car.
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Lots of people are going to suffer because we created a political culture where no one reads a newspaper.
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I stupidly clicked this NYTimes article and it sent me into a rage — I kept waiting for the reporter to ask the people interviewed what they’d done to make the world a place their children would want to bring children into
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Most election post-mortems neglect a key factor in how people vote: where they get their news.
politi.co/3UKLXjU
Absolutely nothing like quizzing (and getting quizzed by) a h.s. student journalist on Bethel v. Fraser and Dean v. Utica in a train station at 9:30 p.m.
Solid #NHSJC24 day one.
Needed this sort of passion + promise.
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🧵For the small # of you who might be following the story of the Notre Dame student body’s presidential preference, which started with a poll conducted by the @IrishRoverND back in September, the official student paper @NDSMCObserver just released its poll results…
A poll conducted by The Observer shows 54.2% of Notre Dame students prefer Kamala Harris to 38.3% that prefer Donald Trump. Read about more poll results here.
ndsmcobserver.com/88000fe0-1…
Y’all. How did I miss that Gwen Walz was a high school journalism adviser?
I cried a little on behalf of all of us who see the same potential described in this excerpt. Good tears.
nytimes.com/2024/08/14/style…
Nothing like finishing out a 14-hour workday — more than half of which was volunteer time, all of which was supporting others — and stopping by the workroom to see your colleagues’ mailboxes all stuffed with thank-you notes.
At least I had a couple of newspapers in mine.
In a roomful of high school student journalists working through their lunch, I let out an audible gasp when I saw the alert about WashPo.
My eyes started welling up.
The kids kept working.
Not going to forget that moment.
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Democracy Dies In Darkness indeed.
NEWS: The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's presidential race, the editor of the editorial pages has told colleagues at a tense meeting this morning
THREAD AND LINK: npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-516…
Saving this tweet to read out loud to every high school sports writer I advise.
A team losing a game is not a "disaster."
Home runs are homers, not "dingers," "jacks" or "bombs."
A player scored 10 straight points, not 10 "unanswered" points.
If a football team scores two touchdowns and the opponent doesn't come back, say it "never trailed" rather than "never looked back."
In short, avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
AP using the word "disaster" for a sports loss:
apnews.com/article/soccer…
AP using the phrase "unanswered points":
apnews.com/article/orange…
"McGwire got there first and finished with 70 dingers."
apnews.com/article/mlb-ho…