Robert Cohen
@kodacohen.bsky.social
Kinda retired. Formerly @stltoday, @memphisnews and another newspaper that is now a Holiday Inn. WhoDat faithful. Pulitzer Prizer. www.kodacohen.com
This percentage sounds extremely low. 75% of the people I know stay in the job because they need the health insurance. They don’t love what they’re doing. They don’t love the company. They need healthcare.
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
Some pictures I made for an organization were sent as courtesy images and published without permission 🤦🏾♂️🥴 Kinda irked at the publication b/c the copyright information and permissions were in the file metadata. All they had to do was reach out beforehand. The fee likely would be much lower.
Know that Post-Dispatch journalists remain committed to our paper's "Platform," fundamental principles laid down by Joseph Pulitzer in 1907. Principles like "never tolerate injustice or corruption" and "always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers". www.stltoday.com/opinion/edit...
Editorial: Times have changed, but Pulitzer's Platform remains our rock of truth
The Editorial Board explains why founding publisher Joseph Pulitzer's journalism philosophy, known as The Platform, still endures.
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Good news from @tonymess.bsky.social, who reports that his surgery last month was successful and his recovery has gone well. "Nurses and others in the medical field deserve every penny they earn, and then some," he writes. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
Messenger: Lesson learned during my hospital stay: Pay the nurses!
Where were the ice chips? Waking up after my long surgery spurred an important question. It also reminded me how important nurses are to patients.
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The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.
This whole spectacle, even if there had not been an attempted shooting, was a vivid indictment of elite media. Clueless, out of touch, amoral and soulless.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe WHCA Dinner gunman didn't seriously hurt anyone, but his actions exposed a depraved and decadent America with a president and a corrupted elite media that doesn't think a few more gunshots in a nation drenched in violence should stop a good time My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
For decades, Carleton College in Minnesota has had a place where students and others, at nearly any hour, will find a pantry stocked with the ingredients for making chocolate-chip cookies. nyti.ms/4mLM9wh
Less than a month before it was due to close, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced that it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open
Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.
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Journalists at ProPublica, one of the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the U.S., walked off the job on Wednesday after more than two years of negotiations that failed to yield a deal for a union contract. The core disagreements were over wage increases, layoff protections and the use of A.I.
ProPublica Journalists Strike for a Day, Partly Over A.I.
Other sticking points for journalists at the investigative nonprofit included demands for wage increases and layoff protections.
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NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Today is the deadline to apply for the Visuals Editor opening at @propublica.org. This is a vital role in our newsroom, requiring someone who can move between high-level art direction and precise photo editing across multiple desks. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Chris Graville is a judge. He’s also a prosecutor and a city attorney—and he’s making a lot of money advising the St. Louis Police Board of Commissioners.
Police Board attorney embodies municipal court conflicts targeted for reform
Chris Graville is the attorney advising the state-controlled board of police commissioners as they write the new rules for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, a process that the board presid...
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Moxie Media says the former St. Louis mayor owes it $98,000, with interest.
Former Mayor Tishaura Jones sued over unpaid campaign bills
Moxie Media says the former St. Louis mayor owes it $98,000, with interest.
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I've always been influenced by the work of Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell. To my surprise, and frankly delight, two were side-by-side at the Sheldon Museum of Art today in Lincoln, Neb.
According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.
If this surprises you then you haven’t been paying attention to the past 20 years. This isn’t about the demise of perceived left or right leaning news outlets. It’s about a perceived 1A right that doesn’t exist. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to
For a new report released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center surveyed 3,560 U.S. adults in December 2025 about their relationship to the news and how they perceive its value in everyday life. The stud...
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1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
“Across Mr. Trump’s administration, racist images and slogans have become common on official sites. The White House, Labor Department and Homeland Security Department have all promoted social media posts that echo white supremacist messaging.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry
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No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
Time has pretty much run out on Anselm Kiefer's 'Becoming the Sea' at the St. Louis Art Museum, which closes Sunday. A couple dapper visitors looked over the sculpture hall last night. This one has been a treat.
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Social media CAN be magic. It just performed a good service as the community helped to find a lost dog. Have a good week all!
St. Louis water costs are soaring, rates not keeping up, officials say www.stltoday.com/news/local/g... via @ahuguelet
Introducing the highest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression, President Trump made a clear promise in the spring: “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” They haven’t.
Trump’s promised manufacturing boom is a bust so far
Manufacturing employment has declined every month since April, when the president said tariffs would bring factories “roaring back.”
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