Jennifer Orsi
Longtime local news editor now repping journalism at the Poynter Institute. Family is my rock. "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." Thomas Jefferson.
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiThe 32 outlets include everything from decades-old magazines and digital outlets to religious networks and much newer podcasts. Meet the ‘new media’ outlets the White House invited to its press pool: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
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- The value of local journalism: Last year, a plan was afoot to build golf courses and pickleball courts in state parks. Florida residents loudly objected -- as they had a decade ago when a similar proposal was rejected. It was reporting from the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social that exposed the plan. (1/2)
- I was honored to serve on the Pulitzer Prize jury to choose finalists for the Local Reporting #Pulitzer this year. Congratulations to the Baltimore Banner and New York Times Local Investigative Reporting Program for their excellent series that won the prize announced today.
- Great Poynter Report Podcast today, featuring Tom Jones' interview with @msnbc.com's @jenpsaki.msnbc.com on the eve of her new primetime show: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
- Why seek new treatments for a disease that can be prevented, and was essentially eradicated in the US before vaccine skeptics began eroding trust in the vaccine? I guess we are bringing measles back.
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- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiThis is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
- I'm so proud that we are announcing the winners of the Poynter Journalism Prizes today. This is just one of 10 great winners and dozens of finalists, showing the best in journalism today. Follow @poynterinstitute.bsky.social for the other winners or find them on poynter.org/prizes.
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiPlease highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
- We at @poynterinstitute.bsky.social are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes tomorrow, Tuesday, April 29 at 1 p.m. Eastern. They will be here on Bluesky and our other social channels, and posted on poynter.org. Some important journalism is being honored. Join us!
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiCan confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
- NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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- Because X is definitely where most clients of the Social Security Association get their information.
- The SSA is shifting all public comms to X amid major staffing cuts: www.wired.com/story/social...
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiAdolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
- New College of Florida just invited him to speak on campus.
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- Reposted by Jennifer Orsi⚠️ Official Advisories List for Travel To United States (Latest Update) • Canada 🇨🇦 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧 • Germany 🇩🇪 • Finland 🇫🇮 • Norway 🇳🇴 • Ireland 🇮🇪 • Denmark 🇩🇰 • Belgium 🇧🇪 • France 🇫🇷 www.thetravel.com/these-are-al...
- “For classroom discussion, the bill will set rules around topics involving “controversial beliefs” such as climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion. “ ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/ohio-...
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- “…a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. ‘ www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
- I don't really have any words to add to this.
- Glad to hear they've restored this, but can you even imagine taking down this history at all? Or derisively using the letters DEI as a smear to suggest they were unworthy? A sense of what they did in the first comment.
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- Reposted by Jennifer Orsi“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiNext lawsuit: Dogs vs DOGE
- This was a good listen.
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- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiAs predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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- These foreign journalism students are not suspected of terrorism. They are not being told to avoid criminal activity. They are being told to avoid publishing journalism so as not to anger the U.S. government and face retaliation.
- I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
- Has any journalist analyzed what portion of Trump's campaign communications involved Canada vs. what portion of his actions since assuming the presidency has?
- Check out this story, and follow @neilbrownpoynter.bsky.social, Poynter President Neil Brown, who just joined Bluesky.
- Great idea from the New York Times, to tell a story through so many charts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Jennifer Orsi1/2 My new post on a rare instance of media courage here. Also takes up the diabolical SAVE act. open.substack.com/pub/margaretsulliva…
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiSCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- "In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, during World War II." apnews.com/article/dei-...
- Check out the first installment of The Poynter 50, a new yearlong project from @poynterinstitute.bsky.social in honor of our 50th anniversary. We are spotlighting 50 significant people and events that shaped the last 50 years of media. Hope you will follow and share your own nominees!
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiHaving served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
- When I was editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, sheriff's deputies showed up at my door at 7 p.m. on a Friday night with a judge's order not to publish a story. That prior restraint was unconstitutional, like this order for a news organization to remove a published piece. I am hopeful that (1/x)
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- Why? What's the need? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiThe "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years
- “The term ‘doxxing’ has become unmoored from its origins to mean that someone posted something on the internet that I would rather not see." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
- The punishment isn't for a story that was unflattering to the administration, it's because the AP -- which provides news for an international audience -- declines to use the Trump Administration's mandated new name for the Gulf. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
- An independent news agency that disseminates news to more people than most others has been barred access to cover presidential actions because they did not use terminology the president said they should. It is not against the law to say something the president disagrees with.
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiDOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiYoung enough to do a little racism on social media, old enough to access the Treasury system routing $5 trillion in annual funds
- www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... "The four experts laid out the implications of giving untrained individuals access to the technological infrastructure that controls the country. Their message is unambiguous: These are not systems you tamper with lightly. (more)
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- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiJudge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison "Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
- JournalistBluesky: Have you done great work amid efforts to block your access? Been denied public records? Chronicled efforts to thwart First Amendment freedoms? Enter your work for the First Amendment Award in the Poynter Journalism Prizes by 2/14: poynterprizes.secure-platform.com/a/page/categ...
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- When California cities stopped prosecuting shoplifters, people said it would encourage shoplifting. So if you stop enforcing anti-discrimination rules, you must want to encourage …. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
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- My octogenarian aunts and uncles are arguing about red and blue politics on an email chain to 30 members of the family and it makes me want to cry.
- Reposted by Jennifer OrsiCDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.
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- Hard to say what shakes out but this proposal would not just make TikTok U.S. owned, but a government owned communications platform. How would users feel about that?
- "Men have been ignored for too long. ...it is crucial to refocus our attention on them. After all, we have been allowed to have credit cards in our own names since, what, 1974? And women run a whole 10% of Fortune 500 companies. What are we even whining about?" www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025...
- "The report ..comes a few days after Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that companies need more “masculine energy.” And for women in the workplace, few forms of masculine energy are more familiar than a top executive blaming a woman for the fallout of programs and policies that he agreed to and oversaw."
- I wrote about Zuckerberg renouncing Sheryl Sandberg's effort to make Meta a better place for women and people of color to work www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-b...
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- Praying for all these folks. I know several people whose homes or family's homes are threatened.
