Skyfriends: What are your fave author (or speaker) websites? Best designed, visually compelling, easy to navigate info: multiple books, video clips, speaking events/tour info, newsletter or blog, email list tool? 🔗👇 Please & thank you! Sneak peek at 2pgs from It's Not You, It's Media, coming soon.

As part of a robust, cross-sector #BlockTheMerger coalition, I can't help going full Stefon... This merger has everything: Corruption, The Hulk fighting a billionaire with a mockable haircut, the Suadis, 12 state AGs, vanishing viewpoint diversity, state attacks on media independence, Jane Fonda...

HUGE victory! After months of organizing by our robust #BlockTheMerger coalition, Rob Bonta, Tish James, +10 more state AGs are suing Paramount to block their Warner Bros takeover! I've monitored & fought media consolidation since Telecom 1996. This merger=worst in 30yrs. SO crucial that we win!

Hey NYC: Do I know anyone on the Knicks parade route w/a balcony or a fire escape? Or: do any cafes/restaurants/bars w/outdoor seating on the exact parade route? As a native NYer I want to experience collective joy w/out neighbors, but I'm anxious about a million sardine-packed people. You going?

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6/ Brilliant improviser, biting satirist, mediocre impressionist (by his own admission), and utter mensch. I wrote about Colbert a couple of times in the journalism chapter of It's Not You, It's Media (my forthcoming media literacy graphic novel), in a section of the on comedy/ news hybrid shows.

🧵WHAT. A. MENSCH! 2013: Stephen Colbert produced and filmed all day, then did a NY Comedy Festival panel late into that night. Later, despite visible exhaustion after prob. 12+hrs work, he volunteered a pic AND suggested I stand one step above him so we'd seem more equal. Most men would NEVER.

Journalism, media, podcast hivemind: Are you on any of these beats? **Education (primarily), or Reproductive justice Racial justice LGBTQ issues Labor Civics Gaming I have a time-sensitive story lead via any of those angles. Has a crisis hook AND a potentially inspiring/feel-good hook. Pls 🖐️ or DM

#hillman26 "Citizen" Barrett Award for Public Interest Law goes to @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, E.D. Knight First Amendment Institute at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social "At a moment when fear has taken hold" in schools, newsrooms, institutions, Knight is legally defending student protestors.

Read about #hillman26 broadcast journalism award-winning filmmakers/film, "The Alabama Solution" -- and then watch the documentary.

@jelaniya.bsky.social awards #Hillman26 filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman the broadcast journalism prizes for their documentary "The Alabama Solution" about abuses and killings of inmates inside Alabama prisons. Jarecki: film led to narrative change and prison reform legislation.

@propublica.org 's @gingerthompson.bsky.social & @dorisburkefpg.bsky.social win #Hillman26 SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial & Economic Justice. Thompson reported "Sick in a Hospital Town" about corporate/health care exploitation in Albany, GA for *FIVE years* -- very few newsrooms still do this.

#hillman26 prize for magazine journalism goes to @wired.com for their blistering expose, "Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government." Gripping, defiant in the best way speech by Wired's leader (I didn't catch her name), but I'm now behind in live-posting. I encourage you to read this work.

#hillman25 prize for newspaper journalism goes to Lauren Caruba, Marin Wolf & team from @dallasnews.com for their painful, incredibly challenging investigation into the deadly consequences of abortion bans on women's health & lives, on medical industry, on doctors, and more. Read "Standard of Fear"

@jamellebouie.net awards @polgreen.bsky.social #Hilkman26 prize for opinion journalism, for her body of work on immigration, reporting from five continents. Polgreen: "this language of crisis [about migration] is hysteria." Deniunces US & European cruelty, brutality, and racism re I'm immigration.

#Hillman26 judge Katrina vanden Heuvel awards Michelle Adams the prize for book journalism for Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North. Adams:"Democraxy is not self executing...depends on whether we're willing to do the work... continues through us."

#Hillman26 program and winners -- look up each of these stories and read and watch their incredible stories.

Bruce Raynor, @sidneyhillman.bsky.social pres, introducing #Hillman26, names in the legacy of the Jewish immigrant labor organizer who helped build the best of America. Raynor: "a criminal like Bezos" owning the Washington Post is obscene. Another reason why we honor free press and journalists.

NOW: live-posting my favorite annual event: Hillman Prizes for public interest journalism @sidneyhillman.bsky.social Follow along w/me & #Hillman26 to learn of crucial reporters, columnists, editors & authors who expose injustice and preserve democracy! #Hillman2026 Pic: w/ @beyerstein.bsky.social

NYC, 9am TODAY (4/23): Join me, @freepress.bsky.social, and the Committee For the first Amendment to PROTEST the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger! WB headquarters, 230 Park Ave South. #BlockTheMerger!

Teaser of what I'll talk about tonight: a sneak peek at "Manosphere Maze," a spread in It's Not You, It's Media: Decoding What We Watch, Read, Post, Buy and Create (my media literacy graphic novel, forthcoming from 23rd Street Books). REGISTER 👇 (everyone who registers gets a 🔗 to the recording)

LAST CHANCE: Today 8:30-10am: Stream or attend my United Nations panel on exposing and resisting technology-facilitated violence against women w/journos from US, Kenya, and Nepal. Streaming: IAWRT USA (Intl Ass. of Women in Radio & Television, US) Facebook page. In person: info in alt text.

JOIN ME TOMORROW/Mon 3/16, 8:30-10am, United Nations: I'm moderating this IAWRT panel of journalists from Kenya, Nepal, and US on how visual media (AI, memes, film, news) are endangering women's safety and democracy--and how to fight back! FREE. Church Center of the U.N., 777 UN Plaza Register👇

3/16, NYC: pls share&/or attend this United Nations panel I'm moderating of global women in journalism, film, and tech! "Visual Media as Political Discredit" will address how memes, AI, news framing, and more are used as misogynistic backlash and tools of authoritarianism...and what to do about it.

Wearing my @jfrejnyc.bsky.social NY Jews for Zohran tee on ✈️ to Seattle...next to businessman watching Dick Cheney's funeral, then Squawk Box (a financial news w/stock ticker). I wonder if (not, wait: hope) he thinks I'm trolling him? So tempted to ask if this flight is him fleeing NYC...

Seattle-area folks, food recs? Fave restaurants, esp w/outdoor dining or delivery? Visiting fam in Renton; can cab to Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, etc Food I love: 1. Salmon & scallops 2. Freshest sashimi+sushi 3. French 4. Pho 6. Freshest veggies+salads 7. Thai, Italian, American, crepes, brunch

2/2 PS: I finished writing & describing the visuals for the book in early 2024, or I'd have used that chryon in a panel in the framing or disinformation chapters (sneak peek 👇). Back end process of graphic novels is lengthy, but stay tuned for pre-order links from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social!

1/2: #MediaLiteracy Pop Quiz: share WTF is wrong with 👇, below: Btw, tools in "It's Not You, It's Media," my forthcoming ML graphic novel: *Identifying target audiences *Understanding how stories are framed *Legit news source or propaganda? *Arming yourself against disinformation and conspiracy

4/ @jfrejnyc.bsky.social knows @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is a leader with integrity, who cares about protecting Jewish people (and all vulnerable NYers, inc Black, Latinx, Muslim, LGBTQ): he'll increase support to combat hate crimes by 800%! Pls share the video to replace hate with fun and facts!

Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG #NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV