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Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.

.@davekarpf.bsky.social has been making this argument for years, too. It's a compelling one.

Journalism is a public good. It needs to be publicly funded, for the same reasons that health care needs to be publicly funded. The privatization of public information has created a true crisis. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/paying-for...

Brian Moritz@bmoritz99.bsky.social · last wk.

If you're at @aejmc.bsky.social @aejmc-sig.bsky.social this week for the first time, here's five tips on surviving the big conference.

If you’re going to AEJMC this week in New Orleans, congratulations! Have fun and learn so much! If this is your first academic conference, here are five survival trips from someone who’s been around the block a couple times. sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/surviving-...

Surviving your first academic conference

A SMG reprise on how to make conferences like AEJMC a little less intimidating

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A big THANK YOU to the 13 people who’ve become paid subscribers at Sports Media Guy in the past two months! If you value the public scholarship and reporting I do here, please consider a paid subscription! It’s $5 month, $50 a year. It also gives you access to my full archive.

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A great new episode of The Other 51 out now! If you've ever wondered what it was like to write and work for Sports Illustrated during the glory days of the '70s, '80s and '90s, Larry Keith was there and tells the stories. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/3D3y...

Touch 'Em All with Larry Keith

The Other 51 · Episode

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

TOMORROW! Relive the glory days of Sports Illustrated with someone who was there. Larry Keith joins The Other 51 for an incredible conversation about sports media. Subscribe here to get it first thing Tuesday morning: open.spotify.com/show/6IKw2Az...

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2w ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D.@everfigueroa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out now in Comm & Sport. @patferrucci.bsky.social and I looked at the metajournalistic discourse of Terry Rozier's sports gambling arrest. We extend paradigm repair by proposing "peripheral mending," the legitimizing of journalism and its object of coverage. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

when I said I wanted more WNBA coverage I did not mean "non-stop coverage of the opinions of the sixth-best player on the Indiana Fever"

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2w ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2w ago

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 2w ago

enough of this shit

Drew@getcarter.blacksky.app · 2w ago

"Being curious, being dogged in your follow-up, and pounding the pavement are tenets of the craft that will always work." That's what @pablo.show does so well.

This episode was ridiculously good. This year-long Kawhi & Aspiration saga is capital-J journalism with theatrics as a chocolatey coating. Being curious, being dogged in your follow-up, and pounding the pavement are tenets of the craft that will always work. New Media journalism is pretty rad.

New at Sports Media Guy: A media subplot around the LeBron decision featuring, (of all people) Pat McAfee, showcases another ticking time bomb for the industry. Check it out here: sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/a-lack-of-...

A lack of journalism training is not a badge of honor

Let’s start with a quote from The West Wing.

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A lack of journalism training is not a badge of honor

Let’s start with a quote from The West Wing.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3w ago

The “college is a scam, kids should learn a trade” discourse looks very different after reading this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/b...

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

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So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 3w ago

i feel seen

Scholar Wishes Someone Would Refer To Him As Preeminent

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There's a Nike branding exec somewhere who was SO PROUD of the blue collar line branding of the Bills' alternate uniforms, and he just thought he nailed it, and homeboy is just having the worst day possible.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3w ago

So many political journalists had their brains broken by COVID in ways that surprise me to this day.

The piece also has a ton of victim blaming. It's not the anti-science movement's fault that public opinion has shifted against public health, it's the public health authorities they're constantly lying about!

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 3w ago

This will not end well.

Where will #LeBronJames go next? People are hitting prediction markets with their guesses. 🏀 We found that sports trading made up 80% of total trading volume on Kalshi and 39% on Polymarket since July 2024.

Chart showing sports trading dominates on Kalshi, while Polymarket trading is more varied.

Holly Anderson 🍇@hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sophie Cunningham has been trash, but the golly-gee framing from both the latest ESPN and Athletic articles is moving her bullshit barge right along in a way that makes me want to chew glass