Andy Bechtel

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

My first five ttrpgs in the order I played them: 1. D&D 2. Gamma World (sentimental favorite) 3. Star Frontiers 4. Rolemaster 5. Call of Cthulu

Billy Liggett, editor and reporter of The Rant, shares insights and experiences about covering Lee County, NC. Key quote: "We write about what 'feels right' at the time and what we think people will talk about." editdesk.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/q...

Maryland’s athletic department called the cops on two student-journalists trying to get comment from players about the Mike Locksley firing

Academics: come on, we have been doing fine with posters made in Word, there’s no need for AI posters advertising your research seminar/conference/workshop…

I'm no campaign strategy expert, but it seems to me that you really ought to respond to the state's largest newspapers if you are serious about wanting public office. To fail to do this suggests you don't respect citizens' need to know about issues.

Religion News Service is running an annual community survey, to help us understand how well we’re reaching people who are—or could be—interested in our work. Whether you’ve never heard of us, love us, hate us, etc: we’d love your feedback. Take the survey here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/9K3P9VD.

We're reporting on sports betting apps, and we need your help. ProPublica is looking for 250+ people who use DraftKings and FanDuel to share their data with us and help us understand how the apps respond to user behavior. ➡️ How to help: https://projects.propublica.org/sports-betting-uploader/

YES, IT'S HOTTER, IT'S MUGGIER, AND, YES, YOU'RE GOING CRAZY: NYT headline as it appeared in Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” (1989) next to actual placement of the (real!) 1988 article

The sustainability of these sports betting companies is clearly evident by the number of ads they need to run hourly to feed the grift.

Apparently a county in Virginia voted down a proposed hobbit-style housing project, and the local newspaper has an epic editorial in response www.sovanow.com/articles/dow...

A missed opportunity by NC lawmakers, who could have called this bill "Pleasure at the Pump" to counter "pain at the pump" headlines.

I saw U2 play at a jai alai fronton.

Fired UNC Civics Associate Dean Breaks His Silence on Investigation David Decosimo objected to a Wall Street Journal editorial about UNC-Chapel Hill’s embattled civics school. The paper didn’t publish his response—which he says is part of the problem.

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

Sitting at Ponysaurus Brewing Co., we filed to start a private school. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

In the early days, Fortune magazine covers were all designed with a trompe l'oeil window. E.H. Baker

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

I’m excited to officially announce our forthcoming book—and reveal the cover! "The Collaborative Editor: How to Build Trust with Writers Through Queries and Other Communications" is cowritten with Lourdes Venard (Spring 2027, Chicago Press). Pre-order now! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"THE COSTLINESS OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS PRESENTS YEARLY A MORE DIFFICULT PROBLEM FOR SOLUTION." -- New-York Daily Tribune, May 25, 1902

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Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

It's odd how my university regularly blasts "alert" messages about thunderstorms. But there were no warnings issued when a man entered a campus building, threatened a gathering of Black students, and fled.

How much do you know about the First Amendment? Just 9% of U.S. adults answered all our knowledge questions correctly. Curious where you rank? Take the quiz: https://pewrsr.ch/3SPPVdE #PewKnightInitiative #ConstitutionDay

Editing is about much more than just grammar and punctuation. The real value the human insight of editing brings is in how well content is organized and how engaging, understandable, and usable it is for its audience. A new study from @acesediting.bsky.social shows: aceseditors.org/about-aces/v...

In an era where digital campaign advertising is everywhere, mimicking an old-school print newspaper is an interesting way to stand out. WUNC's Colin Campbell looks into political campaign ads that are posing as local news outlets. www.wunc.org/politics/202...

Best plural forms ranked: 1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac) 2) ending in -i (magi) 3) is to es (oases) 4) suppletive (people) 5) vowel changes (geese) 6) f to ves (thieves) 7) adding en (oxen) 8) no change (moose) 9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies) 10) adding s

The only time I can recall @newsobserver.com rushing to print a "Special Late Edition" before lunchtime. Now 25 years later, it's still hard to fathom that the events of this day really happened. Always remember.

Shameful. The communities these news organizations serve deserve to know what's happening.

The AP Will Keep Using ‘Lake Ontario’ Despite Trump’s Renaming Effort washingtonsun.com/media/associ...

Spent half the day at the National Academy of Sciences on whose building sits this quote I’d never read before. It seems arrestingly fitting, across the board, for the times we’re in. For all time, actually, which is of course the point. But still: oof.

I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures

New by me—> Trump wants the media to call Lake Ontario "Lake America." But it hasn't worked with the "Gulf of America." U.S. news outlets — even the ones that Republicans prefer — have been steadily increasing their preference for "Gulf of Mexico." www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/trum...

Happy Skynet Self Awareness Day to all who celebrate… *this gets less funny every year.

The word “y’all” is the South’s gift to the English speaking world. A warm, genderless, elegant solution to the language’s odd lack of a formal contraction for “you all”. You can use it. Really, we don’t care.

Seriously y'all can we just quit with the robot-writing? As a journal editor, you're taking *so much of the joy* out of reading human science. You've smoothed it out into a series of banal and often inaccurate claims. So rarely do I read a paper with AI content that is very good, in any event. =/

Read more about Dolly Parton's legacy on her Wikipedia article ➡️ w.wiki/3hKA

A Wall Street Journal op-ed bylined by a hedge fund billionaire was flagged by Pangram as AI-written. The author admitted it, and now it seems the WSJ is standing by him. Per reports by @jeffstein.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social

Dolly Parton is still giving back even after she's gone. From her Instagram account a few mins ago: "In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com." 😭💔

why is the DoD so afraid of some journalists?

BREAKING: It made the final cut. Congratulations, Michigan, you might have the best voting sticker of 2026.

Farewell to rock critic Dave Marsh. I grew up reading the Rolling Stone Record Guide and The Book of Rock Lists. www.billboard.com/music/music-...

A cool thing about AI is how it has completely flattened all individual cultural expression so I can see exactly the same ugly sign in Rio de Janeiro as I would see in Dublin

In celebration of ALA’s 150th anniversary, the iconic David Bowie READ poster, first released in 1987, is back in print. An avid reader and library fan, Bowie was one of the first celebrities to pose for the READ campaign. Limited run. Get yours while supplies last: https://bit.ly/4qgL3dK 📚💙