Three good reasons to come to Merrill College @ Maryland: Rob Wells Derek Willis Mark Hyman They are great teachers, great human beings and wonderful mentors

Why I don’t love DC.

Trump is lying nonstop but has been at the high end of his "sounding coherent" range. Biden has too much info and has been at the low end of his "revving up for big events" range. Moderators are politely deferential to a fault. Zero follow up eg on "post birth abortion.".

Capital News Service in Milwaukee for the RNC.

The Maryland delegation in Milwaukee is a mix of GOP elected officials, political activists and some newcomers. Read more here about each delegate and hover over a congressional district to see the names of its representatives: cnsmaryland.org/2024/07/15/mar… #RNC2024 #RNCConvention

“Why use the Oxford comma?”

The The Seattle Times has some cool job openings right now, in a great newsroom in a beautiful place. company.seattletimes.com/careers/

As Ken Armstrong says, the Times is the kind of newsroom that encourages you to produce journalism that matters. Don’t miss these opportunities!

I’m thrilled for our students, who did amazing work on this project and grateful to The Associated Press for inviting us to join the team.

Stuff I wish I’d written, from The New York Times story on Trump’s tall tale of a near crash: “It wasn’t the famous former San Francisco mayor on the helicopter flight … It was Gov. Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, who bears little resemblance to Willie Brown.”

Tennessee family's lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/ca8b91…

Check out this FOX 5 DC segment with #merrillmade students Leila Cox (Leila Cox) and James Matheson, who discuss the amazing experience of covering this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago with our @cnsmd! #fearlessjournalism #DNC2024 fox5dc.com/video/1504388

Our students are killing it! Check out the walk-off line ;) Democratic Convention Notebook: Raskin's mustard, Colbert in town, Demobrats cnsmaryland.org/2024/08/22/dem… via Capital News Service

Thanks POLITICO for partnering with the The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism to get this important story on the role of lobbyists in congressional travel by US House members into the world. politico.com/n

Here is the full url to the story: politico.com/news/2024/09/2…

Our The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism partnered with POLITICO to publish this important story on the role of lobbyists in congressional travel by U.S. House members. More to come! politico.com/news/2024/09/2…

The latest collaboration between the ⁦The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism⁩ and ⁦Boston University went live today: When House members travel the globe on private dime, families often go too (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/dfaa6f…

Vance is trying hard to come across as likeable.

A series of deaths and the 'Big Fight': Uncovering police force in one Midwestern city | ⁦Ryan J. Foley⁩ ⁦John Seewer⁩ dive deeply into the Evansville (Indiana) PD in another must-read from our Lethal Restraint investigation. apnews.com/article/police…

Facts matter, esp during the chaos of a natural disaster. Here is a link to factual information on what FEMA does and does not offer to counteract some of the crap you’re reading (especially here): fema.gov/disaster/curre…