#LIFTxSHINE registration is LIVE! We'll discuss the research and experts behind the search for solutions that fight disinformation in and about Black people and communities in MSP and across the Midwest.

⭐️Register to attend in person or online at bit.ly/liftxshine.⭐️

#ONA23 session highlight: Fixing The Problems With Local Crime Coverage. @KellyMcB, @CThompsonMorton and Kyndell Harkness will discuss the successes and failures of 45 newsrooms who aimed to transform their crime coverage into public service journalism. ona23.journalists.org/register/

🚨ProPublica is selecting the next class of emerging reporters: a program aimed at building the ranks of investigative journalists from diverse backgrounds
🎓: undergrad juniors/seniors
💰: $9,000, mentorship & more
⏲️DEADLINE: Mon. Aug 21
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#ONA23 highlight: How To Win In Newsroom Middle Management. @pcheung360,
Kyndell Harkness and CARI HERNANDEZ discuss leadership best practices to provide strategy and tactics to balance competing demands and workloads while managing up and down. ona23.journalists.org/register/

President Marie D. De Jesús 🇵🇷 swears in 📸 Pu Ying Huang to the NPPA board of directors! Pu, it's great to have your energy and expertise!

From a “sports-obsessed child” sitting on the floor of her parents’ bedroom watching games to the President(!!!) of APSE:

Naila-Jean Meyers🇵🇭

There are many reasons newspapers -- for the most part -- have not made successful leaps to digital. And the changing business model is obviously a huge one. But user experience and the way many treat their customers is one we don't discuss nearly enough. I got the message below…

34 percent of Harvard students are white. 43 percent of those students are either legacies, children of faculty, kin of donors or a recruited athlete. 75 percent of them would not have gotten in if not for special status (National Bureau of Economic Research).

But when in doubt,…

An elite, white majority determining after just 50 years of weak, half-hearted
affirmative action efforts, that they are the ones to decide that enough has been done to address centuries of explicit racial exclusion against Black people is the most American ruling ever.

What a story.

Reuters finds more than 100 political elites are direct descendants of slave owners, including Michigan’s Democratic Senators Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters. Neither responded to information provided by Reuters. reuters.com/investigates/s…

Our three raised beds are going nuts. The butternut squash plant has taken over and there are so many flowers on the cucumber plant that I’m scared. I will need help!!

Age at first $1 Million:

• 20 Beyoncé
• 23 Steve Jobs
• 26 Bill Gates
• 26 Michael Jordan
• 26 Jay-Z
• 27 Elon Musk
• 29 Naval
• 30 Warren Buffett
• 32 Oprah
• 34 Gary V
• 33 Jeff Bezos

1 important lesson from each:

“‘Join Starfleet’ they said. ‘See the galaxy’, they said.”

TCBJ is offering a $1,500 scholarship for a college student or recent graduate in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota area to attend the 2023 NABJ Convention and Career Fair in Birmingham. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE JULY 3 at 8 p.m. forms.gle/hXHaYwC88jvjvP…

A reader asked Star Tribune ‘did teenagers 'riot' when the Beatles stayed in downtown Minneapolis in 1965?’ I had so much fun answering this as teens descend upon the city again this weekend for Taylor Swift! 🪩

startribune.com/the-beatles-be…

Renowned Minnesota dermatologist Charles E. Crutchfield III, MD, passed away this morning. His devotion to publishing hundreds of “Doctor’s Advice” columns over many years has been of immeasurable value to the community’s well-being.
spokesman-recorder.com/2023/06/21/acc…

Mississippi student Georgianna McKenny beat out thousands to win NPR's national podcast competition for her reporting on the Jackson water crisis.

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Jack was a great man who connected people and cared deeply about journalists and journalism. I liked him very much. The Associated Press obit by Deepti Hajela apnews.com/article/ap-spo…

Our friend Courtney (C.J.) Sinner took a deep dive into the data on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour secret songs. A really, really, really deep dive.

startribune.com/surprise-songs…

This is such a terrible tragedy and it unfortunately supports some very damning data. Black women are 3x more likely to die in childbirth than their white peers, and while economic disparities are an issue, it is public health crisis largely created by the fact Black women are…