Political scientists call a map that backfires a dummymander. It happens when mapmakers get overconfident, carving up communities to thinly stretch their party’s advantage across as many districts as they can manage. Instead of settling for a few safe seats, they trade safety for volume, betting that voters will vote the same way they did […]
Here’s a headline I didn’t see coming: Reddit as a lifeline for local newsrooms. But The Dallas Morning News and KQED are both using Reddit Pro for Publishers, a tool that launched last year, to do something referral traffic from other platforms stopped doing: actually connect them to their communities. Dallas Morning News deputy audience […]
Such a shame that the 2026 Global Citizen Festival had to be canceled this past weekend because of the big storm that hit New York and up and down the East Coast. It’s a fantastic event that I’ve been fortunate enough to go to over the years. I remember the very first one on that […]