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Martin Smith-Rodden Ph.D.

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Associate Teaching Professor of Journalism • Media Psychologist • Former photo editor & photojournalist at The Virginian-Pilot. Opinions I voice are my own and not of my employer… which is Ball State Univ.

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I refuse to give that greedheaded libertarian space in my head as a hero. But the sonofabitch has been consistent on extrajudicial killings by presidents since al-Awlaki and if he keeps this up, I going to be really pissed off at whatever measure of grudging respect I'll have to supply.

04.12.2025 18:32 — 👍 593    🔁 59    💬 27    📌 2

Same. And now the cognitive dissonance is moshing around in my head so loudly that The Ramones at near full volume barely drown it out. 🫨

04.12.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your generosity today fuels tomorrow’s storytellers. Give to NPPF this Giving Tuesday and help us continue advancing photojournalism through education and opportunity.

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22.11.2025 02:48 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Your generosity today fuels tomorrow’s storytellers. Give to NPPF this Giving Tuesday and help us continue advancing photojournalism through education and opportunity.

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25.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In the end, when I walked from my X account, the waves of racists and bots that were always invoking the same phrases and talking points made it clear that the thing was just a hall of mirrors, that it had been crudely rigged for political fraud. Never thought Musk would admit it all in a self-own.

25.11.2025 00:50 — 👍 858    🔁 108    💬 26    📌 3

But not one catsup bottle was safe at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today. 😏

05.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On-brand

01.11.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was so great seeing this!

17.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I often find myself missing Eastern Shore yardbird 🐓 and I will note: Much of the decline of life in the U.S. seemed to correlate with the closure of English’s Fried Chicken restaurants around Delmarva. Coincidence you may say? Correlation and causation are firmly attached at the drumstick. 🍗

18.08.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a group of people are watching a video of a man 's face on a screen . ALT: a group of people are watching a video of a man 's face on a screen .

New catch line:
“WE SHAAALLL AVENGE ‘BIG BALLS’!”

11.08.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They would likely opt for something along the lines of: “The Final Solution.”
…justifying it with the character and word-count. 😶

11.08.2025 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Before long, a Holiday in Cambodia might seem to be a lateral move. 😬

11.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s an iffy bet that the flounder-eyed poindexter would survive long enough to write a page into his preface, after his first exposure to gen pop. Just a guess, mind you.

01.08.2025 17:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‼️ Great news: DEADLINE IS EXTENDED for the Advanced Storytelling Workshop Award for NPPA members 🔷 extended deadline is August 1, 2025. Apply right HERE: nppf.org/nppf-advance...

22.07.2025 00:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‼️ Great news: DEADLINE IS EXTENDED for the Hutchison/Wheeler Advanced Storytelling Workshop Award 🔷 extended deadline is August 1, 2025. Apply right HERE: nppf.org/hutchison-wh...

21.07.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are a barbarian nation.

13.07.2025 12:11 — 👍 348    🔁 65    💬 21    📌 0

I also highly recommend her book too!
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08.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mindset Culture Assessment - Mary C. Murphy

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For the attendees of the 2025 Kalish Visual Editing Workshop. • Are you in a Genius Culture or a Culture of Growth?
I/O Psychologist Mary C. Murphy’s
assessment tool as a way to think about your work culture.

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marycmurphy.com/resource/min...

08.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sustaining Vision: Competency Modeling to Understand Best Practices for Visual Editors Given the rapidly evolving media ecosystem, the need for excellence in visual storytelling and high-performance among those doing that work has never been more critical. Similarly, practitioners ma...

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doi.org/10.1080/1751...

04.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Citizen or Professional: Exploring Heroic Moral Choice Motivations in Photojournalism Photojournalists make serious and often heroic split-second decisions when covering scenes. One of the dilemmas they might encounter is the choice between humanitarianism, which favors the subject in ...

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scholarship.richmond.edu/heroism-scie...

04.06.2025 21:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Visual Ethics | A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Media Make An indispensable guide to visual ethics, this book addresses the need for critical thinking and ethical behavior among students and professionals responsible

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www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

04.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Case for Empathy - Martin Smith-Rodden, 2019

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The Case for Empathy

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04.06.2025 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mindset Culture Assessment - Mary C. Murphy

Culture of Growth assessment tool

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marycmurphy.com/resource/min...

04.06.2025 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mary C. Murphy - Cultivating Growth Mindsets and Cultures Explore the insightful world of Mary C. Murphy, a renowned expert in fostering Cultures of Growth and Mindset transformation. Dive into Mary's groundbreaking ideas about Mindset that inspire personal ...

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marycmurphy.com
Author Mary C. Murphy’s Book Website (“Cultures of Growth”)

bit.ly/KalishMurphy

04.06.2025 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update) - Freakonomics How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update) - Freakonomics

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04.06.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.”

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www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

04.06.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journalism That Stands Apart The report of the The New York Times’s 2020 group, on the future of the newsroom.

Suggested: Journalism That Stands Apart • THE REPORT OF THE 2020 GROUP (NYT)
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www.nytimes.com/projects/202...

04.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
State of Photography

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State of Photography report

www.catchlight.io/state-of-pho...

04.06.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

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www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/ma...

04.06.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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