Brandon Wall

You can't convince me Chicago isn't the most beautiful city in the world

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

♥️✨♥️✨ thank you buddy I appreciate that!

Thank you my friend ♥️ I hope you have been as well as can be

I have journalism experience including, but not limited to:

• Shaping audience vision and strategy across text and video platforms
• Working with editors to promote award-winning journalism
• Leading teams through breaking news cycles
• Liaising at the intersection of editorial, product, and design

I took a few weeks off, and now I'm on the hunt for what's next. I'm hoping for a role focused on my passions: finding audiences where they are and connecting them to important journalism, developing newsroom strategy, and building up the next generation of audience specialists.

A quick update: A few weeks ago, I left my role as Social Media Director at CBS News after a great run navigating 2024 and first chunk of 2025. I learned a lot and am very thankful for the opportunity to work with an incredible social team, but it was time for something different 🧵

Batman punching Cesar Romero Joker with the word "Schlitz!" in pink at a jaunty angle

Batman punching the Penguin with the word "Pabst!" in light blue at a jaunty angle

Robin punching some henchman in a red and grey striped shirt with the word "Stroh!!!" in orange/red at a jaunty angle

Batman punching some henchman in a blue and grey striped shirt in front of a shelf of books about the Incas with the word "Blatz!" in bright green at a jaunty angle

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Always gotta find the local angle

Is Taylor wearing Sony MDR7506s? Great headphone choice, they have been my gotos for six or seven years ever since Sennheiser retired the HD202s

With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today.

Numbers are in and NYC congestion pricing is a big 'success,’ Hochul says The controversial program has trimmed traffic volume in the congestion zone by 11% daily, according to new data.

wow: "67,000 fewer vehicles are entering Lower Manhattan each day" gothamist.com/news/numbers...

The Tehran Dispatch CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab explained how his team gained access to Iran in the days after U.S. strikes—and what it was like reporting amid government surveillance and uncertainty.

CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab explained how his team gained access to Iran in the days after U.S. strikes—and what it was like reporting amid government surveillance and uncertainty.

Details in Status: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-i...

Gaming the Air Raids in Kyiv: A Night in a Capital at War People in the Ukrainian capital spend their evenings clinging to the normal things of life—for as long as the air-raid sirens allow.

For the first time in this war, I wrote in the first person.

Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.

Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...

Vance Boelter taken into custody in lawmaker shootings in Minnesota, sources say A man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in politically motivated shootings early Saturday morning is now in custody.

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is now in custody, multiple sources have confirmed to @WCCO. https://cbsn.ws/3HF5q1X

god I love these Mets so much, doing everything I can to not scream and wake up my significant other (or neighbors)

Lessons (and an apology) from the Sun-Times CEO on that AI-generated book list The summer section was intended to be a supplemental value to our subscribers alongside our own journalism. Instead, it detracted and distracted from our work.

Recently, a seasonal edition went out to Sun-Times newspaper subscribers. It was intended to be a supplemental value to our readers alongside our own journalism. Instead, it detracted and distracted from our work, Chicago Public Media CEO explains:

Very good condition 1992 Sears Christmas catalog discovered at Grandma's house... untold Reddit karma and social media engagement in the palm of my hands...

Froze my butt off at Sox Park with a 90 minute rain delay tonight but I got to see the Pope Leo 2005 World Series tribute wall AND a White Sox winner

Andor has been an incredible romp and a brilliant look into what Star Wars could be in the right hands, I am not ready for it to end tomorrow

It defied all expectations for the kind of mature storytelling you can do with a 50-year-old fantasy series for kids while still staying true to its roots ✨

It was a beautiful early afternoon for some Mets/Cubs baseball

These two pope posts are basically the same thing if you are familiar with Chicago Southland

I'm a lifelong Catholic and had to do a lot of soul-searching in my late teens to stick with it, Rerum Novarum/Catholic Social Teaching was a fundamental part of it. I was already tentatively excited for New Pope just based on the name and now here is 14 directly discussing it x.com/VaticanNews/...

I love the New Lenox dateline for this story about an AP reporter meeting with the pope's brother when Leo XIV called apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope on the Jumbotron

the mets are using the pope to troll the cubs

Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast

We are reaching levels of Chicago Posting never before seen bsky.app/profile/benb...

Cardinal Robert Prevost (center, blue shirt) visited the flagship @AureliosPizza location in Homewood in August with friends and family. Who could've imagined what would happen less than a year later! wgntv.com/news/robert-...

thank you! the group chats have not stopped all day

Chicago high school cheers White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV — 'He's one of us' While Robert Francis Prevost didn’t attend St. Rita of Cascia High School in Ashburn, his connection to the school runs deep. In the 1980s, he was a substitute and summer school teacher at the school ...

The Sun-Times got this gem: "The Rev. Robert Prevost (from left corner) ... at a 2005 White Sox World Series game at U.S. Cellular Field" chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...