These Columbia Journalism students need freelance assignments, not interview requests. They are on the cusp of graduation, desperate for experience and clips, with a front-row seat to the biggest story in America—pay them to tell it!

BREAKING: Netanyahu told Blinken during their meeting today he won't accept a deal that will include ending the war. He said if Hamas doesn't drop this demand there will be no deal and Israel will invade Rafah, per Israeli and U.S. officials

For Student Journalists: 20 tips for staying safe while covering protests. I’ll be posting more resources here but this is a great start. 1/x splc.org/protests/

A new statement from the White House in response to the news of Columbia protestors taking over a campus building.

Grear piece by Berber Jin on the gap between the $$ investors’ have put into AI companies vs the actual revenue so far. Paired with an 👀 illustration by Emil Lendof. wsj.com/tech/ai/invest…

a really good read about zendaya, challengers, child stars, acting and the trajectory of her career as Hollywood’s acceptable version of a Black girl. vulture.com/article/zenday…

The line for Sam Altman at Stanford today

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin.

This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.

Headspin: Last year @stanford Prez Marc Tessier-Lavigne had to resign amid doubts on his research. This year, he's pulled in $1bn for his new startup bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Our Wagner documentary was nominated for a Peabody!!!!!! Holy moly wow!!!

peabodyawards.com/awards/nominee…

🫶 from all of us around the world back at you, Evan

It is both so heartening and so heart breaking to see him laugh like this. In a cage. For no reason.
#IStandwithEvan

An update on the dynamics of physical safety for Jewish students on and around Columbia’s campus, opinions my own:

Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

NPR public editor kellymcb with a very thorough examination of the broadcaster's coverage of the conflict in Gaza. Worth a read.
npr.org/sections/publi…

Austen Allred, founder of BloomTech (formerly Lamba School), a coding bootcamp that offered 'income share' on future salaries in lieu of tuition is banned from student lending for 10 years and BloomTech must let students currently under contract withdraw. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…

When ProPublica began reporting on the Supreme Court, Justin Elliott and Josh Kaplan had no sources at all. But they made >1,000 calls.

“Many, many, many, many people said no to us, or just didn’t return our calls.”

So they kept calling.
The Journalist's Resource
journalistsresource.org/media/thomas-a…

After several #ted2024 talks on the power of AI, Helen Toner calls for AI companies to share information on what they are building, how they are managing risks and allowing outside auditors 'so they aren't grading their own work.'

some NeWs: Instagram is testing AI chatbots with influencers that would let creators entirely automate their responses to fans via DMs and eventually comments

the bots would be trained on an influencers DM conversations

by Sapna Maheshwari and me

nytimes.com/2024/04/15/tec…

“It took me two days, $105 and no expertise whatsoever to launch a fully automated, AI-generated local news site capable of publishing thousands of articles a day…nearly all rewritten without credit from legitimate news sources.” wsj.com/politics/how-i…