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@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

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Investigations team caps four years with state law, policy reforms From youth labor violations to housing abuses to pandemic aid fraud, Cascade PBS investigative reporters cast light into undercovered corners of WA in 2025.

From youth labor violations to housing abuses to pandemic aid fraud, Cascade PBS investigative reporters cast light into undercovered corners of Washington. Our final Impact Report and a thread of some of the team's best work: www.cascadepbs.org/impact-repor...

16.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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🇺🇸 155 Appearances
🥅 64 Goals
⚽️ 43 Assists
🏆 2x FIFA Women's World Cup Champion
✨ 1 Iconic Career

Christen Press has announced her retirement from professional soccer following the conclusion of Angel City's 2025

15.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 251    🔁 43    💬 0    📌 18

It is 2025 and it is absolutely bullshit that name forms still treat a hyphen like a special character.

15.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 180    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 1

"Any WNBA player signing up for this league should know exactly the Faustian bargain they’re making and what the potential risks are."

great great read

14.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd - American Campus Podcast How public universities gave rise to public mediaReferences and suggested readings:Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.Laura G...

Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.

13.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 145    🔁 47    💬 2    📌 0
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Assistant Professor of Journalism - Elon University Campus, North Carolina, United States Assistant Professor of Journalism Elon University’s School of Communications, Journalism Department, invites applicants for a tenure-track position as assistant professor of journalism, with an expect...

Hey, y'all:

if you're a journalism prof interested in a mid-sized private school in an affordable area with smart students and the world's greatest colleagues, do I have a position for you...

bit.ly/ElonJournPro...

13.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 21    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
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Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.

13.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 243    🔁 418    💬 18    📌 14

I like this! I also tend to start at random points when I remember to do it.

12.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sigh, classes with the majority of the last names in the second half of the ABCs, really mess with my brain - what do you mean I still have 10 papers left and I'm on the letter T.

12.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

You know how people are saying “Cathy Engelbert is a great businesswoman”? I beg to differ.

In 2022, she led the sale of a 16% stake in the W to a group of investors for $75 mil. This was based on a valuation of the entire league at $468 mil. Today, the Valkyries team alone is valued at $500 mil.

12.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

11.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 3316    🔁 659    💬 160    📌 98
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Hawi Feysa wins the Chicago Marathon in 2:14:56. Her previous personal best was 2:17:00 at the Tokyo Marathon earlier this year.

12.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Natosha Rogers is the top American woman at the Chicago Marathon. She finishes sixth in 2:23:28, a 23-second PR.

Dakotah Popehn finishes seventh in 2:24:21, a 19-second PR. And Gabi Rooker takes ninth in 2:26:32.

12.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 40    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Like Becky.

11.10.2025 21:11 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I'm so close to throwing out my whole professor wardrobe and only wearing blazers and hoodies.

11.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Apparently they were saying "No big deal, we're gonna win the next 16 and then take the Finals in a sweep." What an absolutely mind-boggling turnaround. #WNBA

11.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 73    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 1

The Las Vegas Aces are your WNBA Champions! #WNBA #LVvsPHX

11.10.2025 02:23 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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LAST ONE FAST ONE IS RIGHT 😳😳😳

Brittany Brown doesn’t just complete the ATHLOS 100m-200m double… she CRUSHES it, running a lifetime best 21.89 for a stadium record to finish her 2025 season on a high note.

Are you even allowed to cashapp $120K?! 🤪

11.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

A'ja has the most points in a single WNBA Finals EVER.

We are only in game 4. This ain't a first 7 game series ever thing.

It's real life greatness.

#WNBASky

11.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 98    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 0
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A'ja Wilson has reached 300 points this postseason, the most in WNBA history 😤

11.10.2025 00:51 — 👍 461    🔁 47    💬 10    📌 7

Ha! It isn't right?

10.10.2025 23:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Private equity guy watching football: TWO guards on the offensive line? Seems like we should make some cuts.

10.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

RIP Sister Jean

She went through the Great Depression, World War 2, the Industrial Age, and the Technology Boom—but never saw Oregon win a national championship.

10.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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I will miss Sister Jean, a March Madness icon Plus, some college football thoughts, too!

I will miss Sister Jean, a March Madness icon. nicoleauerbach.substack.com/p/i-will-mis...

10.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 87    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

I can't wait to use this in my PR class...

10.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Forgot to add this. Here’s the voting breakdown for All-WNBA.

10.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 35    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 4

On Fridays, our college radio station broadcasts from our building "oldies"......and it is all the music I listened to in college (Cake, Bright Eyes, the whole Garden State soundtrack).

10.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New Episode! Meet Yolanda Holder a Guinness World Record, marathon walker. Check out our episode with the “Walking Diva”! bit.ly/46GvyUi

09.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

For all the ink spilled about Taylor this week/month/year, the media largely has missed how K-Pop Demon Hunters has taken over our kids’ attention. I’ve seen a few pieces that gave it good one-off treatment but not a breadth of coverage that recognized a real phenomenon happening here in the States.

07.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 8    📌 3
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Higher Education Reporter, National New York City, United States

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org!
We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

06.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 99    🔁 74    💬 1    📌 3

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