Editor-in-Chief, Arkansas Advocate First Amendment defender. SPJ Foundation Secretary. Senior Fellow, USC Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship.
Little Rock, AR
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, #NoKingsDay demonstration.
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In 10 years, President Donald Trump has targeted the media nearly 3,500 times on social media — that’s about once a day.
Read about our dataset of Trump’s anti-press rhetoric and what his attacks mean for the public’s faith in the news media.
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.@ademillo knows how to keep it short.
Arkansas city boasts world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade at 98 feet apnews.com/article/arkansas-…
.@DonnerKay has been on 🔥 in essays about democracy.
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PIOs are supposed to provide a public service. Too often, though, officials use them to throttle access to timely, accurate and vital information. Also, PIOs too often serve their masters, not the public.
Did journalism take a massive turn when agencies, etc., began banning subordinates from speaking to reporters without controls on them? I have posted a decade or so worth of resources: profficecensorship.blogspot.…
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SC high court says taxpayer dollars can’t pay private tuition scdailygazette.com/2024/09/1… via @SCDailyGazette
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Read my ride-around interview with Joe Biden in Jackson.
No, polls never came up.
#DNC2024CHICAGO
That time I took presidential hopeful Sen. @JoeBiden on an interview tour of Jackson, Miss. We talked about real things, not horserace malarkey. It's really not that hard to ask politicians real questions.
Photos by @katemedley
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On universal school lunches, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says, "My question is, should taxpayers pay for it."
Ohio taxpayers are paying $1 billion to private and religious schools for families that never used public schools.
But paying to feed public school kids is his big concern?
Interesting comment here from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on the idea of free school lunches for all students dispatch.com/story/news/stat…
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Forced Labor
The Associated Press found prison farms nationwide have supplied millions of dollars worth of crops — including soy, corn and wheat — to massive global companies like Tyson Foods, Louis Dreyfus, Consolidated Grain and Barge and Riceland Foods.
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Always read Gwen. arkansasonline.com/news/2024…
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Arkansas' Secretary of State rejected a ballot initiative expanding abortion access because the group that submitted petitions Friday did not submit an affidavit identifying paid canvassers by name, as required by state law. #arpx #arleg
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Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.
Good news
The Louisiana Senate passed a bill Thursday that would prohibit colleges and universities from charging their student media outlets for public records, dealing a major victory for student journalists, particularly those at #LSU. #lalege #lagov
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A federal judge has declared unconstitutional a Florida law banning noncitizens from helping to register voters and ordered the secretary of state and attorney general not to enforce it. @MichaelEMoline reports: floridaphoenix.com/2024/05/1… via @FLPhoenixNews
