unbelievable that I'm supposed to give Columbia/Barnard students an exam on political theories of freedom after this

In 40 years, Columbia will probably preserve transcripts of these WKCR broadcasts as a testament to the school's 'rich tradition of activism'

🧵🧵🧵 For those of you who don't already know, Opportunities of the Week has been acquired by (the new) Study Hall. Obviously, I have many thoughts on this transition and the state of journalism and I'd love for you to read them. (1/TK)

The country of Colombia picked the funniest possible time to do this

✨80 people✨ have already signed up for the #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge - have YOU?!

As more & more of us become freelancers, it's time for our industry to reckon with the freelance pay gap, and with rates that have remained stagnant — or dropped — as inflation has increased.

Happy May Day! Today is launch day for the #freelancesolidaritychallenge

Since my piece in The Nation last week about underpaid freelance life, 80 people have signed up to track their rates for the next year!

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There’s been lots of love for student journalists in other places dealing with protests, so here’s to the work being done by reporters and editors in D.C. at the The GW Hatchet, The Hoya, The Eagle, The Hilltop, and more.

📣📣📣Happy May Day! Today we launch the #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge . Starting today, for the next year, we invite all freelancer media workers to submit your project rates to FSP’s rate-sharing database.

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Today is an important day for solidarity. Fighting for labor rights for journalists makes us more capable of clearly and accurately covering threats to democracy like university administrators' and police's violent and disproportionate responses to student antiwar activism.

We call on the powers that be to release the students and employees who have been arrested, and if you can’t take the outcry, stop supporting this war.

No shade to anyone who has a Substack (it's hard out here and a symptom of systemic collapse) but boy do I hate having so much of my news coming in the form of lengthy, unedited, often over-opinionated & under-reported blog posts from a single writer. Journalism is collaboration.

ON BROADWAY 113TH

The miles of distance between the students journalists we’re listening to tonight and those who shuffled past protestors to eat dinner with reality stars and Joe Biden this weekend.

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!

In a year Shafik will be speaking to Davos from a cushy World Bank post about global citizenship or whatever. Students protesters will be navigating hellish legal battles, maybe still nursing injuries and trying to figure out how to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in debt

the student uprisings of the 1960s were considerably more violent than anything you are seeing today. it is not close. students at kent state burned the ROTC building to the ground. when black students took over a building at cornell in 1969, they did it **with guns**

i really can't stress how useful it would be for people in political media to occasionally, from time to time, read a book

These student journalists are meeting the moment, covering the Columbia student protests with stunning detail that only they can provide. (Their website even crashed—so find them on their Instagram live stream!)

You may well have the unusual situation of the Columbia student radio station being eligible for a Pulitzer Prize, administered by Columbia University, for the station’s coverage of how Columbia called the cops on Columbia students. (They’re doing an extraordinary job).

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