Gregory Laski

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

She cares for her aging parents full time. That requires taking care of herself, too Dawnita Brown left her job to become a caregiver for her parents. Brown says it's a gift to care for her parents, but it can also be difficult. That's why respite is an important part of her life.

Dawnita Brown left her job to become a caregiver for her parents. Brown says it's a gift to care for her parents, but it can also be difficult. That's why respite is an important part of her life.

“The things people click on are exclusives and anything that has a distinct voice or a really strong opinion,” said a Hearst staffer.

“We’re now starting to face some challenges with email that are similar to search challenges because Google is essentially bringing AI to the inbox,” said an executive at a product-recommendation site, who has noticed a reduction in click-through rates on email but not reductions in open rates

Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble.

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@jokenty.bsky.social loved your renovator post today about the new civic ed movement. I am working on new book called “thinking like a citizen.” Would love to talk —would you be open to a conversation?

Great work on this important story/series

It's not just the newspapers.

"While declines to print readership are almost a foregone conclusion, 'digital traffic to local news sites is experiencing a cratering similar to that of print,' State of Local News Project director Zach Metzger writes in the report. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

“That this debate is happening in terms of skills versus content is itself unsettling, subsuming Shakespeare into that category of internet clickbait produced to keep hits coming, rapidly being overtaken now by A.I. slop”

let’s gooooo

Baltimore County school gun detection system mistook a bag of chips for a weapon The false alarm was triggered by Omnilert, Baltimore County Public Schools’ gun detection system.

A kid ate Doritos at his high school and an AI-powered gun-detection system mistakenly flagged the bag of chips as a weapon.

Police were called and when they showed up, they pointed guns (real ones) at the student. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Where are examples of reporting on White House East Wing demolition that address, and seek to answer, legal and democratic questions involved?

Article on civic duty and news form 2001 ac journal

👀The conclusion of a 2001 article from Journalism & Mass Communcation. #journalism #civiced

"There are positive developments in local news but they’re being swamped by the negative trends. We’re losing the race against time."

By @stevenwaldman.bsky.social commenting on the State of Local News 2025 report, an annual study from Northwestern U.

www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/were...

In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever “Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast…

"Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast swaths of the country with little to no access to local news.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

Article on civic duty and news form 2001 ac journal

👀The conclusion of a 2001 article from Journalism & Mass Communcation. #journalism #civiced

a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students

I see what you're saying, but also what if we were to think of civic education beyond the K-12 iteration, which usually happens only once? For example, I'm working on new project that thinks of how journalism could be form of civic ed.

Civics Education Struggles, Even as Government and Politics Saturate Daily Life

“When democracy deteriorates, you need more and better civic education” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...

"As a Times loyalist, I kind of resent the implication: Come join our resistance, New York Times! As if that’s what we want from the journalism, to do our politics for us"

Experiential Civic Learning Is Key to Reviving American Democracy New bipartisan task force urges hands-on civic education to build youth leadership and democratic skills.

Danielle has a new report out with the Council on Civic Strength - thanks to Hans Zeiger and @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social for this great story about its origins!

"The task force rightly argues that student learning, not issue advocacy, is the proper purpose of this kind of education."

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

If as a journalist you don't know which photos or videos to trust on social media any more you might ask why the news media is not positioning itself to prosper from the pending consumer rush back to trusted sources.

Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...

Learned a lot at #accessfest25! Thanks @ire.org !

"Journalism — the practice of it — belongs not only to the people who call themselves journalists, but to everyone who does civic work with its tools. "

Learned a lot at #accessfest25! Thanks @ire.org !

historical shift from "journalism of verification" to "journalism of assertion," wherein the source/interviewee tends to control, have more influence, de-emphasizing fact-checking or contextualization