I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...
Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.
On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.
NEW STORY // Mosquito Fleet Act Runs Into Choppy Seas in the State Senate
By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org
www.theurbanist.org/2026/03/08/m...
Following this advocacy story? NPPA legal have been leading the discussions with Gazelle. Check out the link below from PetaPixel. 👇
It would be cool when people post videos or photos like this during breaking news events they include the source, especially given the widespread use of AI generated video.
The USA and Israel have started bombing Iran and Trump has announced an explicit political goal, full regime change for the Iranian people. Air power is certainly about to have a moment. I put together this free primer on what we know and what we should be asking. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.
Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
If you’re cold, they’re cold.
Yet again, I am begging y’all to credit the content you are sharing. Aside from it being the right thing to do, in this day and age, it really helps with media literacy and AI fakery. The CNN watermark is not enough, IMO. Took me abt 30s in Google to find Kenny Holston/NYT/Pool
John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...
The European Union’s anti-disinformation team has put out a short documentary on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and how the information space was defended along with the physical.
Best of Photojournalism judging weekend is underway! 78 categories, five divisions, well over 150 judges and an inspiring group of student volunteers — it takes a village…
Moral panic around e-bikes is getting out of control.
The assemblywoman proposing this bill is quoted in the article saying she has concerns abt people riding "30,40, even 60 mph" -- those are not e-bikes! Those are e-motos!
www.cbs8.com/article/news...
The downside of news' advertising model: it shifted true cost of producing news to advertisers, training generations of consumers to expect quality journalism for low or no cost. Pew released a survey echoing that; Americans feel little responsibility to pay for news. READ: https://loom.ly/C-j1mQQ
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
as a historian, I hold a particular contempt for resellers on auction sites who are selling prints of "press photos" from the morgues of papers . . . but they haven't kept the name of the newspaper. so there's no provenance; they've got whatever was written on the back of the print, but no paper.
"difficult decisions have been taken" is an all-time use of the passive voice
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
On that reference point. Germans were infatuated with the American West. Berlin’s faux American town is just closing after decades of role play. Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
The NPPA is deeply saddened by news of the massive layoffs at The Washington Post & the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. At the Post, we understand they have laid off all of their 9 staff photographers & 6 of their 12 photo editors.
Read the full statement here:
nppa.org/news/832
The Minnesota Star Tribune is hiring an investigative reporter — it's an incredibly important time for this kind of journalism (like, no doy). Apply here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobB...
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
Cyclists, and at least one dog, gathered in one of two rides happening in Bellingham on Saturday to join the Ride in Unity events happening around the world.
Still some winter ahead, but a weekend of rain on the slopes instead of snow after a long dry spell is not encouraging for the summer.
Speed River Bicycle’s “I’d Rather Be in the Bike Lane” Hi-Vis Vest grew out of a local push for better bike lane maintenance in Guelph, Ontario after Mayor Cam Guthrie pulled the plug on winter clearing as a cost-cutting measure.
momentummag.com/this-cheeky-...
The Washington Post's International, Immigration, National Security and Climate journalists – reporters, writers, editors, photographers, videographers – work in concert to produce independent, revelatory reporting that holds power to account wherever in the world it is wielded
go.bsky.app/M6MFQsC
NPPA warns its members of an extremely broad NOTAM, or Notice to Airmen, imposing Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) on drone use within 3,000 feet laterally and 1,000 feet above ground level of facilities and “mobile assets,” including “ground vehicle convoys,”…
The @nppa.org has joined a group of news organizations in calling for an end to the recent FAA restrictions for drone use near ICE actions. nppa.org/news/827
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
