Matt Connolly

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[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

120 years ago college football faced a very similar crossroad — deciding whether *coaches* should be paid. In 2015 for @monthly I wrote about how NCAA coaches evolved from volunteer grad students to millionaire hired guns, at the expense of their players https://t.co/bKnbhb1CYE

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

@jmkliegman @dan_camp take your scoops elsewhere leave us be

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

#DCStatehood 🗣

[EMILY’s Union @EMILYsUnion]

Today the staff at EMILY’s List is making a new endorsement: the EMILY’s Union.

We’re so excited to announce that the majority of staff at @emilyslist have filed to form EMILY’s Union!

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

can't get over this morning's announcement of a surprise companion record to 2020's best album https://t.co/98h6TTYpc4

[Sacred Bones Records @SacredBones]

'The Helm of Sorrow' is the new collaborative EP by @EmmaRuthRundle & Thou and the companion piece to 'May Our Chambers Be Full.' You can preorder it now for its January 15, 2021 release date.

https://t.co/IrBSBcZn5j

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

https://t.co/xAFbwThB8I

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

america's journalism schools have many problems but their main one is refusing to name me the Jimothy & Gramantha Barnswallow Distinguished Chair of Digital Innovation or whatever

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

having published one article about how to save local journalism, I sit back and wait for all the tenured media professorship offers to roll in

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

The rest of the issue is great, I get to share a bill with @Anne_S_Kim, @GraceGedye, @LongmanPhil, and more. It's "future of journalism" writing that actually looks substantively at racism, tech monopolies, corporate consolidation, and other real problems. https://t.co/pXJr6jBbB4

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

I wrote about news co-ops — publications owned by their readers and workers — for the @monthly's special issue on saving local journalism. What if, for the price of a subscription, you could co-own your hometown newspaper? https://t.co/gSxQDzFL2s

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

BLACK LIVES MATTER DC LEGAL SUPPORT FUND https://t.co/FiyBnfjzG6 @gofundme

[Janeese Lewis George @Janeese4DC]

Today is the day — it’s Election Day! Get to the polls today Ward 4 and exercise your democratic right to VOTE. #DCision20 #Janeese4DC

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

This is just stunning. Police hit a peaceful crowd with tear gas and flash bangs 20 minutes before the curfew even started. https://t.co/nh1MImbjuj

[OPEIU Local 2 @OPEIULocal2]

Today, and every day in America, our brothers and sisters are suffering. We must acknowledge and work to dismantle the institutional, structural racism that is deeply intertwined in the fabric of America. https://t.co/yUOU6UaZGO

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

Worth repeating that all of the police violence you see happening right now has been happening for a long time before there were any camera phones to record it. It’s a daily phenomenon in communities across the country. It’s structurally embedded into how these forces operate.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Who is this serving?

Who is this protecting?

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

@NickCastele we revolutionized digital media with entirely separate red and blue versions of the site and you're out here whining about rhyming conventions. next time you've got a problem with the way i ran things why don't you say it to my face instead of hiding behind your keyboard, "chief"

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

the @monthly is celebrating its 50th anniversary with essays from famous and prolific former editors looking back at their best work — and also me, whose main accomplishment was being an asshole until the interns got paid https://t.co/8CJG7QQou7

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

it's so sad to lose what feels like the only place that had an institutional mandate to be funny and subversive and uncompromising, but it's also so inspiring to see the staff there refuse to be eaten by the monsters that seem to come for everyone

[Matt Connolly @HeyMattConnolly]

there isn't a single site i visited more over the past decade than deadspin, and it was so influential in how i write and think about sports (and the culture and politics and money and power wrapped up in them)