Kate Pickert

This is honestly the perfect way to start your morning. Also if you ever need a lottery ticket, ask this guy to buy it!

Is this...defamatory?

Or… It’s a news organization that figure out how to replace classified and display ads

"I can't believe you left big tech to pursue a career in journalism." The journalism: nytimes.com/2026/02/12/ins…

I'm teaching this remarkable piece of work today to my Introduction to Journalism students. Huge thanks to @micarosenberg and @propublica for this important story. propublica.org/article/life-i…

Don Lemon was released and just gave a statement to reporters outside the courthouse. “I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court.”

So many ironies. NYT, WaPo (and NPR and others) gave up Pentagon passes rather than sign a restrictive media policy that cast them as a security threat. It didn’t stop them from learning critical information, which they handled responsibly as they so often have.

There’s something obvious and also not-so-obvious about mega-scoops like this. The obvious: Despite everything, the MSM still matters. A lot.  Thread time:

BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says. apnews.com/article/kansas…

Here's how the passing of Prop. 50 will shift your congressional district left or right, according to a Times analysis of recent election results prior to Nov. 4 latimes.com/california/sto…

The Student Press Law Center's Gary Green spoke with @jaketapper @CNN last night about the ongoing student media censorship issues at Indiana University and how student journalism everywhere is under attack. youtu.be/ePWmW3NnHJ8

What's going on in local news? "[W]renching retraction, inspirational creation and unceasing transformation," says just-published Medill report on the state of the industry. Must-read all the way. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state…

Journalism

New: The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. propub.li/4ojhHZP

Hard-hitting journalism about the military hasn’t skipped a beat since the DoD effectively exiled every serious reporter. Pete Hegseth may come to regret forcing them to work away from the Pentagon.

"limiting what the public will know."

CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC and CBS just issued a joint statement: "We join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press."

Must-read from @TBowmanNPR. It’s important everyone understands that this document is not about press’ ability to “roam the halls.” It equates asking for information—the press’ literal job—with criminal activity. The new rules even stipulate that sharing our contact information on social media and asking people to reach out could make journalists a “security risk” and be grounds for revoking badges. That is the real reason why no one — save one far-right outlet— is signing. npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s…

Nope. Here's the reality. Pentagon Press Association statement: "The Pentagon Press Association has been cautious with our public statements since the Defense Department first announced it would force reporters to make a choice: sign onto rules creating unprecedented restrictions on our ability to report the news, or end our historically-held access to the Pentagon. This caution was meant to support efforts to negotiate revisions to the document the Defense Department is requiring our members to sign to secure new credentials, in place of valid badges that are being taken away – the kind we’ve always worn. Unfortunately, those negotiations have not been as successful as we had hoped. We acknowledge and appreciate that the Pentagon is no longer requiring reporters to express agreement with the new policy as a condition for obtaining press credentials. But the Pentagon is still asking us to affirm in writing our “understanding” of policies that appear designed to stifle a free press and potentially expose us to prosecution for simply doing our jobs. The new credentialing policy also leaves open the threat of the Department of Defense revoking credentials for reporters who exercise their First Amendment rights by seeking information that hasn’t been pre-approved for formal release, even when the information is entirely unclassified. The policy conveys an unprecedented message of intimidation to everyone within the DoD, warning against any unapproved interactions with the press and even suggesting it’s criminal to speak without express permission -- which plainly, it is not. We were also surprised and disturbed to learn through the new policy statement that the Pentagon plans to move all of our news organizations from our dedicated workspaces. While we don’t know the location to which the Pentagon is preparing to move the press corps, we can surmise from restrictions imposed earlier this year that the changes will further isolate reporters, making it harder to interact even with the spokespeople inside the Pentagon who are entrusted to approve information for public release. Let's be clear about the facts. Pentagon reporters have always worn badges, and continue to do so to this day. Pentagon reporters have always been restricted to unclassified spaces only- the idea that reporters have been prowling in offices where they are not allowed is simply preposterous. And reporters have a constitutional right to ask questions. Every political administration going back to the 1950s -- including the first Trump administration -- has allowed the same level of access. This press access has never precipitated the kind of national security crisis feared by the current leadership of the department. Limiting the media’s ability to report on the U.S. military fails to honor the American families who have entrusted their sons and daughters to serve in it, or the taxpayers responsible for giving the department hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The American people deserve to know how their military is being run. They deserve more information from this administration, not less. We hope the Pentagon reconsiders."

And apparently a gross misunderstanding of what journalism is.