Nia Springer-Norris

My favorite thing about learning computer programming is how once you fix one thing, something else break

A normal person would probably just fix the spelling errors and make some changes to the style sheet, but no, I'm completely rebuilding the site with different frameworks

**Big Sean voice**

That ass in higher ed call it ass dean
Ass got a 20 h-index, it's ass-teemed

The student: I will do statistical regression analysis.
Me: Do you have training to do statistical regression analysis?
The student: Um, no.
Me: Then don't do a statistical regression analysis.
The student's paper opening: In this essay, I will use statistical regression analysis to...

Let me guess, you also used your "AI employees" for your responsive design.

(You can't scroll to the right).

I love my local indie bookstore!

But there's no way to entirely block them. I show examples of hallucinations along with real world case studies — And talk explicitly about the difference between using a tool and academic dishonesty. At this point expecting people to shun LLMs is like telling them not to use the Internet

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Does interrupting people and talking down to them actually command respect?

Not me rocking this @molly.wiki shirt every time it's clean

My latest cohort of web development students wants to write code designed to deliberately piss off the user

"skiing"

PRs: Please don't manipulate your email subjects to make us think we asked you about your client or agreed to interview them. We know who we reached out to and replied to and it's a great way to NOT get media coverage.

It's a subject that's very important to me too, enough that it clearly made me very upset. And I'm happy to explain WHY I'm upset, but I've been fielding ignorant comments from angry people all day about some nonsense I didn't even write and tried to explain.

It wasn't relevant at the time.

Why would I try to defend the field as a whole when I was answering a man who thinks he's qualified to explain my field to me and also clearly never seen an American press conference? Journalists DO ask difficult questions.

Just say you only read the headline.

It's not a "direct request." It's a deliberately rude post and matched her energy. If I really had a question, there'd be a question mark.

People are rude on the internet because they can be and when they're called out, they don't like it.

But what do I know? I'm just an American journalist.

There are also so many incredible pushes for nonprofit journalism in the US that are led by passionate people who want to make a difference.

But this news cycle is exhausting, full of bad information that spreads fast, and no one seems to particularly care what's true.

I have never worked for a mainstream news outlet so I can't speak to their experiences. I am happy writing freelance features and I'm considering stepping back entirely because the gig economy is exhausting.

I replied to a snarky post about "American journalists" with the same tone as the original post and it wasn't even a question.

Then someone who did not even write the post (who appear to be in the industry, American or otherwise) I replied to responded with their list of demands.

But go off.

We don't even write our headlines and half the time reporters can't write the story they want. Everyone is getting laid off. Why do you think everyone suddenly has a Substack?

A lot of my students DO read international news and try to learn from it.

I came in hot, but I asked a question and then I explained why a whole lot of other changes would need to be made to make it possible. There are certainly bad journalists, but right now publishers are demanding the clicky-est headlines and saying what journalists can and can't publish.

Look I didn't even see the main post that got everyone all riled up until now, but I'm sorry that a journalist wrote a bad post about a bad story and got everyone mad at journalists overall. Good luck to the beat reporters who deal with the public every day, I'll go back to my robots and academics

I didn't get to post three here I'm sorry. I am tired and angry and recovering from flu. I didn't demand a list, this man (who wasn't the op I was responding to) decided to give his notes on an industry he clearly doesn't understand or want to learn.

I am glad you could list the bullet points from Principles of American Journalism, but I ignored the ad hominem attack.

My students are incredible, inspired people who want to change the world.

I'll give them everyone's notes.

All journalists are biased because all humans are biased, which you probably would have learned if you had really paid attention in your journalism principles class. I taught this class.

Our job is to tell the truth and be the watchdog, not tell the public what they want to hear.

Oh yeah and literally everyone thinks they can do the job better, which is why a photographer, a novelist, and a **checks notes** pissmaster don't think I'm qualified to share my opinions on a field that I dedicated years of research and writing and time to.

And like ... No one on this thread is a journalist. I am. And I teach journalism. And I have a master's degree in journalism studies.

But that's cool, I'm glad that Random Man on the Internet knows how to do the job better.

I could write a dissertation on why we can't follow that checklist (yet)

I'm not picking cherries. I teach journalism courses and I have been a working journalist for five years.

Journalists need to be able to hold systems of power accountable and ask the hard question but how can we do that in an industry that is controlled by hedge funds and billionaires.

The list does ask us to be "direct, adversarial and persistent."