Desiree Stennett

@Mediaverse Thanks! It's an exciting time. It would have been nice to have a year's salary put away already lol

@Desi_Stennett Wish you the best!

Trying to work while pregnant is such a wild experience. Especially when people who don't have kids have no idea what you're going through and every pregnancy is so different that even other women who have been pregnant but had an easier time don't understand at all.

I'm having a little girl and I'm going to start her a little pregnancy savings account now so that by the time it's her turn, should she choose to have kids some day, she can take the actual amount of time of necessary to get through this.

Most of the talk only focuses on paid or unpaid parental leave. Absolutely prepare for that too. But nothing would have prepared me for how difficult it would be to work when I still have several months left before the baby arrives.

My first column is about losing my father to deportation — a grief of distance and of loving someone still living but lost to reach. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…

Went to a place I always order from on Uber Eats and ordered a mango smoothie that I assumed was dairy free and got to see them make it in front of me for the first time. Turned out to about 5% mango chunks and the rest was syrup, frozen yogurt and skim milk.

TGIF, y'all.

Been so sick for weeks at this point. Mentally and physically exhausted. But the news never stops and neither do the bills.

@jacoblangston I fear you're right.

@Desi_Stennett Honestly, it seems unsustainable these days. Not many older folks in journalism - it just isn't a viable thing to age into and retire.

As I get older, it feels literally impossible to keep up with the demands of a career in journalism. Especially if you don't want to move into editing/management it's honestly hard to even clearly see what you're working toward after a while.

Like do you see yourself 25-30 years in still scrambling to get a daily in tomorrow's paper?? If not, what does the path away from that but still in a newsroom even look like?

I feel like I need to talk to some other mid-career journalists. If you've been doing this for 15+ years and you don't want to go into editing/management, what does your vision for the next 15 years even look like.

Thank God for three day weekends. I'm just trying to hold on until I get to it so I can sleep from 5pm Friday to 9am Tuesday. My brain and body both need a break.

I won’t bother sharing the link. You don’t need it.

Every year we see new studies about how trust in media is reaching new lows. And the media companies say: you know what could help, less reporting, no quotes even in a story describing people’s feelings and waiting until the end to say a computer wrote this. That’s the ticket!

Read a story on Fortune this morning. Noticed there were no quotes. Got to the end and saw a note saying it was written by AI. Those kind of notes need to go at the top so we know from the beginning this isnt even based on reporting and a computer just invented it.

Officially old? When your memories get decluttered by your kids | Opinion miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Worked Sunday so today is my Friday. Shout out to that. The last 7 days have been a whirlwind.