Leigh Munsil

The 2-Ingredient Carajillo Puts Espresso Martinis to Shame This Mexican coffee cocktail is your pick-me-up on a lazy summer afternoon.

Have you ever tried a carajillo? Even better than an espresso martini www.bonappetit.com/story/caraji...

If yes, and there isn't a real public need to see the image anyway, the answer was don't print it.

Obviously SO much has changed since those days.

But it's making it really hard to engage here without taking on horrific psychological trauma on a daily basis.

Back when newsrooms were the main sources of information, this was taken into account.

In my journalism ethics class in college, my professor called it the "Wheaties test" — would this image deeply disturb the audience first thing in the morning?

Yes, there are times when public information needs should trump our discomfort.

But we've absolutely lost any safeguards or ethical considerations about what gets shared, when, where and why.

The plane crash recently is a good example. How does an individual consumer approach their feed without constant anxiety about what they'll see next?

This can't be good for us.

One of the biggest issues with social media — which I am largely a fan of — is never knowing if the next video that autoplays on my feed is going to be something horrific, like where people die before your eyes.

there’s something special about northern AZ

Arizona is a good place to be from

Top left: Guanare, Venezuela, July 17. Barred from running for president herself, María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, stands on a car surrounded by crowds of people. She helped galvanize support behind the candidate challenging President Nicolás Maduro in elections. Photo by Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times. Top right: Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 14. A bus filled with evacuees from Vovchansk and nearby small villages that were in the path of Russia’s surge across the border. They were among the thousands of people heading to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Photo by Emile Ducke for The New York Times. Bottom right: Northern Gaza, April 23. Aid being parachuted into the Gaza Strip. Rules enforced by Israel, stolen shipments and difficult terrain made it a challenge for humanitarian groups to deliver aid in more traditional ways. Photo by Omar Al-Qatta/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Bottom left: Eagle Pass, Texas, April 8. The first total solar eclipse in seven years plunged the day into darkness across a swath of North America. Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times.

Grief and wonder: New York Times photographers captured the moments that defined 2024.

See the full Year in Pictures and read our photographers’ reflections. nyti.ms/3P34kNT

Homicide is down 30% year-to-date in DC this year. Violent crime down 35%.

Is this news to you? Probably, because most media focuses on stoking fear about crime through anecdote, rather than actual data

What do we as newsroom leaders owe our people? The old ways aren’t working and we’re losing good people because we’re not supporting them.

I simply love the thoughtfulness here from @joeruiz.bsky.social about mental health in journalism. Check out his words and connect with him to follow his work at Stanford

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look I love the holidays but what is this about @smartnews.bsky.social

Fun fact: #ER vets Noah Wyle (Carter) and Eriq La Salle (Benton) have new shows — Max's #ThePitt and Prime Video's #OnCall — premiering the same day, Jan. 9. And it just so happens to be a Thursday!

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You made it!!!

you inspired me! That plus 8 hours stuck in Heathrow

📍SAT, finally.

the customs agent asked if I had anything to declare, “any food or alcohol?” so I told him about the mince pies I got in Heathrow and he was very uninterested it’s like LOOK YOU ASKED

Back on US soil! Shaping up to be a very long travel day 💤

the fun part of a marathon travel day heading west is that it’s actually two days

Heathrow is quickly becoming one of my least favorite airports but don’t worry I’m about to connect through Atlanta to get some perspective

Update: tried to stand by an earlier flight and no dice. Booked in a few hours through ATL, prayers up!

Now playing: a jazzy version of What Child is This

Nothing more Christmassy than a flight cancellation out of Heathrow…

Using this downtime to join Bluesky since everyone is so convinced things are better here than literally all the rest of the internet! Let’s try it, shall we?