Will Mari

miss my PNW friends and family and mountains so much 🏔️

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Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Since 1892, ‘The Afro’ Has Confronted Injustice and Celebrated Black Culture This year, the longest-running Black-owned family newspaper in the U.S. moves its offices and rich archives into West Baltimore’s historic Upton Mansion.

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Since 1892, ‘The Afro’ Has Confronted Injustice and Celebrated Black Culture This year, the longest-running Black-owned family newspaper in the U.S. moves its offices and rich archives into West Baltimore’s historic Upton Mansion.

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Telling true stories: the hardest part - Nieman Storyboard ‘We're navigating in a sea of ambiguity.’ Plus: Kim Cross on expository asides, and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize

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Nice work!

I feel like I've built the right culture in my class when students email me like this:

"I just wanted to let you know that I am going to be late to class today. I won’t give you any hogwash, I just woke up late."

Hogwash!!

Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former U.S.

BREAKING: A judge temporarily blocks the Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for calling on U.S. troops to resist unlawful orders.

It’s awesome!

It’s a really wonderful project! And an honor to review — hope it gets lots of well-deserved attention

Thank you for your thoughtful review, Will! I so appreciate your attention to the book's niche-ness and how that can still illuminate broader issues in contemporary book history--which was really always my intention.

New review of Binding Media out!
"in this moment of such change and tumult, this book offers a throughline that is thoughtful and, again, hopeful, about where the book has come from, where it is now, and where it may be going next."
Huge thanks to @willthewordguy.bsky.social
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*EXCITED (!)

Exited that my review is out in @theajp.bsky.social on @elikaortega.bsky.social’s important new book, ‘Binding Media’! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... — DM me if you’d like a PDF ! #mediastudies #mediahistory

Good verb!

Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference The Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference selects 51 high school juniors from across the country each year for a life-changing conference in Washington, D.C. Participants receive an all-ex...

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When universities silence student newspapers, press freedom is at risk - Editor and Publisher In this debut column, Stuart N. Brotman examines a troubling rise in censorship, retaliation and print bans targeting student newspapers at public universities, where First Amendment protections shoul...

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When universities silence student newspapers, press freedom is at risk - Editor and Publisher In this debut column, Stuart N. Brotman examines a troubling rise in censorship, retaliation and print bans targeting student newspapers at public universities, where First Amendment protections shoul...

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“It Would Be Like Calling a Reporter a Notebook”: Photojournalists’ Perceptions of Newsroom Hierarchy Visuals occupy a paradoxical place in journalism: photographs and video are central to news presentation, yet the individuals who produce them often hold marginal status in newsroom hierarchies. Th...

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Credit where it’s due:

This is one hell of a hard nosed bullshit free article by the NYT. It feels like an editor slipped in the word anomalies, but other than that it’s tough & honest, & how news outlets should write about Trump & his racist administration.

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Ad for the Bellboy showing the device, a rectangle, and a guy who is on the go in several photos.

Did you own a beeper? I dove into the history of the telephone pager, a technology that is older than you might think. It changed the way we kept in touch and would lead to the smartphone you carry around in your pocket today.

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Bezos could cover the WaPo current annual loses each year with just a portion of the interest earned on just his liquid assets. Destroying the paper is a choice not a financial necessity.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

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U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home

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Conceptualizing journalism researchers’ role orientation in navigating newsroom ethnography: Introducing the MNO model Scholarship is embracing role orientation theory to grasp the changing roles and tasks of journalists and other newsroom workers. A recurring method to investigate this is ethnography. However, jou...

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