#BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will resign effective Friday, June 1. Coverage on KCUR's airwaves and online at kcur.org soon.

As newsrooms recruit people from wealthy backgrounds (fancy schools/social contacts/prestigious unpaid internships) people from a low-income background ask: "How do we get into journalism? And if we do get in, how do we afford to stay in?" cjr.org/special_report…

What happened at Mizzou isn’t just a story about the consequences of protests. It’s a story about the cost of complacency. chroni.cl/2LzJJ0N

"Newsstand," 1935 by Berenice Abbott, born July 17, 1898 #onthisday. She used her large format view camera to photograph NYC buildings, docks, bridges, churches and street life through a grant from the Federal Art Project of the Roosevelt administration’s WPA.

.⁦Lisa Lerer⁩ let me riff about one of my favorite food towns: KC nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/…

More poppies on the south side of National WWI Museum in @KCMO tonight. #USWW100 #WW101 #Armistice100 #InFlandersField Downtown Kansas City

My cousin Elaine Chen wrote this great article for the NYT! Check it out! nytimes.com/2018/12/19/din…

Taiwanese food is having a moment in New York right now, and here’s where to find 10 of the cuisine's most iconic dishes grb.st/2HGHhoh

Word of the #WorldBookDay: "book" - a bound volume of printed, written or illustrated pages. Our word "book" is thought to share roots with *bokā-, Germanic for "beech", poss. because of the practice of cutting marks into bark, or the early use of wooden writing tablets.

My colleague Jen Chen writes the most beautiful pre-interview notes... "It's a bizarre nightmare samba set to Elvis."

Word of the day: “glisk” - a glitter of sunlight; a glow of heat from a fire; a glint or twinkle in a person's eye. Figuratively, a glimpse of the good, a brief burst of warmth or hope. (Scots, esp. Shetland; archaic)

No, MUNCHIES, #BrooklynBBQ isn't "taking over the world." Allow us to show you REAL barbecue ow.ly/bXeg30iMJGO

One of my favorite bookstores. x.com/publisherswkly…

Word(s) of the day: "Laethanta na Riabhaiche", "The Borrowed Days"; the name given in Irish folklore to the first three days of April, on the grounds that their weather was so bad it seemed to have been loaned to March (or vice-versa).

So for those of you keeping score, here are some words/phrases used in weather forecasts for the next 48 hours in Kansas City: Sunny Unseasonably warm 80 Cloudy Windy Rain Thunderstorms Severe weather Tornado watch Snow Freezing Rain 30 Go home, Mother Nature. You're drunk.

It's impossible to take a bad photo at the Monte Carlo Masters: deadsp.in/ZWUMIi6

What's it like to cover Kansas City Royals for The Kansas City Star? Meet Maria Torres, the paper's new Royals beat reporter. Our conversation from this morning KCUR: kcur.org/post/seg-1-mlk…

Et voilà! From this morning's show KCUR: the best French dishes in KC, as recommended by our food critics and listeners. Mary Bloch Jill Silva. kcur.org/post/food-crit…

Just in time for the weekend: the best noodles in and around KC, as recommended by our listeners and by KCUR food critics Jenny Vergara, Mary Bloch & Charles Ferruzza. kcur.org/post/food-crit…

KCUR has four open positions right now for Central Standard, #moleg reporter, Guns & America and Kansas News Service kcur.org/jobs