Andrea Wenzel

“How can we help?” The Engaged Journalism Exchange aims to create belonging through media "We don't see the news business as a connection business or an experience business. There's a ton of opportunity there."

“Whether we’re talking about the CPB closing because of loss of public funding, or emergency alert systems, there has been a disinvestment in information that is vital to keeping communities not only informed but safe and connected.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/how-...

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the…

"More relevant than ever": Read @sarahscire.com's full review of @lauragarbes.bsky.social's new book Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry in @niemanlab.org: www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund....

Congrats @losowsky.com and what a star you are for taking your moment and sharing 💐 with this great list of folks doing community-centered work ✨

ICE isn't just tearing families apart--they're also extorting them.

According to the article, the pastor's family is being charged $50 for each 20-minute phone call he makes from detention. And it would likely cost them at least $10,000 for a release on bond.

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

Appreciating this take on yesterday’s protest in Philly not only because my favorite small human makes a cameo. Thanks @willbunch.bsky.social

California Press Rights Tracking Doc (Consolidated)

If anyone is having trouble following my (increasingly long) thread tracking incidents where police assaulted journalists at protests in Los Angeles this weekend, it's also in spreadsheet form here. This is the more organized version I've been sending to lawyers, agency chiefs, electeds, etc.

I recognize this is an exceedingly difficult time and for many of you this is a crisis on several levels. I respect those challenges and I don't consider press rights superior to the rights of others. However, all other rights depend on press rights. We cannot allow them to be chilled. This was explained by civil rights icon and longtime congressmember John Lewis: "If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." Democracy cannot function without an informed public. The public cannot be informed without a free press. It is your shared responsibility to ensure press are able to do their job. Several of you have been supportive over the years and I thank you for that. But your support is now needed more than ever. Please ensure your teams are aware of these egregious violations and ensure you take all possible steps to protect the press, and thereby the public and our country itself. Sincerely, Adam Rose Press Rights Chair Los Angeles Press Club

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend.

The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law.

Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow.

Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

How do we talk *to* and *about* people we disagree with? And how should journalists be thinking about that? I'm looking forward to lessons from this conversation. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Creating Equitable Newsrooms that Connect with Communities - News Literacy Initiative Once upon a time, Americans turned to trusted news organizations to learn about their shared reality. Today, the media people consume as “news,” fractures t

News Over Noise 302 is here! We talk to @andreawenzel.bsky.social about local news experiments and their significance to communities: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/cre...

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway. @propublica.org

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One advantage to the current political moment is that it brings into focus larger power structures that are typically invisible or mystified. A billionaire-owned media system is a policy failure and a threat to democracy.

WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for Black youth. "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk? Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself. The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk.

Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️

thehill.com/media/514849...

“Lightning in a bottle”: Meredith Clark on Black Twitter’s journalistic impact, legacy — and writing its “obituary” "No matter what the technology is, we're going to be using it."

"I’ve always said that journalism is the first draft of historical fiction, because there are so many perspectives that are left out of reporting." — @meredithdclark.bsky.social

www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/ligh...

NYT Headline: Without Pennies, What Becomes of Penny Loafers?

Trump and Musk are currently dismantling wide swaths of the federal government, in flagrant violation of the Constitution.

The New York Times is asking the tough questions.

In the hour between this screenshot and now, we've lost two more characters. This page now refers to "LGB persons." No Q, no plus.

It also appears to be a site-wide replacement, as the search hasn't caught up with the new pages.

We're viewing erasure in real-time.

Ten book cover images

Check out our lineup of book reviews published in January at ijoc.org:

The Wuhan Lockdown by @guobin-yang.bsky.social
Antiracist Journalist by @andreawenzel.bsky.social
Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa by Allen Munoriyarwa & Admire Mare
Fandom is Ugly by @melstanfill.bsky.social

And 📣stay tuned journalism research folks 📣 we hope to recruit a postdoc to start fall 2025! ✨

Reimagining Journalism: Klein College Launches Center for Community-Engaged Media and Names First Director

Delighted to share this long time in the making @tukleincollege.bsky.social effort in collab w/ @jillianbauer.bsky.social & @letrellcrittenden.bsky.social which we hope will support engaged research & community-centered journalism projects klein.temple.edu/news/2025/02...

Appreciate this report from Media Cymru & hope BBC & others dig in and take on board their recommendations on reporting from the lens of communities in forms community members want 👉

Well, yes

ICA Journalism Studies: Scholar Matchmaking Welcome! This initiative is meant to help break down some of the barriers we tend to experience as scholars, researchers, and teachers. We hope to chip away at disconnects between Global South and Glo...

Hey @icahdq.bsky.social journalism, communication, media folks: we are organizing another round of scholar matchups w/ aim of chipping at disconnects between ‘global south’ & ‘global north’. You don’t have to come to conference. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... cc: @magdakon.bsky.social

Journalism folks: know anyone working to connect research & practice? @icahdq.bsky.social Journalism Studies is accepting applications for its Public Engagement Award. Cc: @magdakon.bsky.social Deadline March 21. www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

The media is too quick to use Republican buzzwords - “politically correct,” “DEI,” “critical race theory” - these all mean the same thing and @karenattiah.bsky.social is right. Be clearer with your questioning.u

Pub alert 📣🤩

Our latest climate change & news audiences report is out, with insights from 3yrs of survey data across 8 countries.

Despite the worsening climate crisis, climate news consumption & attitudes have remained remarkably stable - a pattern we term "climate perception inertia."

For more👇

Tomorrow would be a very good opportunity for DC news bureaus to send people from the public health, science policy, and defense beats to the White House press briefing instead of the usual White House correspondents.

This Is How You Normalize Performing a Fascist Gesture “There were angry reactions across Europe to Elon Musk’s apparent use of a salute banned for its Nazi links in Germany, where some condemned it as ...

"Have your trusted media pundits ask how anyone could even for a moment think the rich man would do this intentionally, knowing as he does full well the long and tragic history of the gesture. 'Did you know the rich man visited Auschwitz last year? He can't be a fascist!'"

As the struggle to make journalism more equitable in the US faces more threats & backsliding, grateful to the brilliant @anitawrites.bsky.social for taking time to share this @ijoc-usc.bsky.social review of my @columbiaup.bsky.social book ijoc.org/index.php/ij...