Ren LaForme

Managing editor for @Poynter. From a little town called Gasport but one of those proud Buffalonians. Perpetually sorry that I never replied to your email.

[Ren LaForme @itsren]

Only the government can violate your First Amendment rights. Pin tweet.

[Poynter @Poynter]

The U.S. publishing industry generates about $30 billion of annual revenue.

Despite all that money, and book coverage once being a core part of newspaper criticism, newspaper book coverage is disappearing. And when a community loses its book coverage, it creates a ripple effect.

Read the story: https://t.co/8W8WVbO6tm

[Ren LaForme @itsren]

@jprowell @NFLSTROUD @TomWJones I just picked up his new album. It's VERY good.

[Amaris Castillo @AmarisCastillo]

Jane Pauley got the message about the power of news early on in life. At home, newspapers were a constant. https://t.co/Az9W49w0AD

[Tom Jones @TomWJones]

Check out the latest episode of The @Poynter Report Podcast with my guest @cbrennansports -- who wrote the book (literally) about Caitlin Clark.
https://t.co/baYb8LIXE8

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Congrats to fellow @Poynter alums @Mantzarlis and @CraigSilverman on the launch of Indicator! Raising a glass to a saner and more reasonable internet, and two awesome journalists 🥂
https://t.co/WoBq1uvT3A

[Katie Sanders @KatieLSanders]

Nearly half of Americans say they don’t want news from generative artificial intelligence, according to a wide-ranging study from @Poynter and the University of Minnesota on audience AI sentiment.
@AlexMahadevan on the major findings: https://t.co/fHdOq81xjm

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.

The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’

Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

[Louis Jacobson @loujacobson]

On what looks like it will be a confusing Election Night, who can you trust when the polls close? For @Poynter & @PolitiFact, I compiled a list of trustworthy websites and X accounts for granular election returns and analysis. https://t.co/AjzS7vaxO9

[Poynter @Poynter]

1/ Photojournalist Douglas R. Clifford has reported on dozens of storms since he began at the Tampa Bay Times in 1998. Ahead of Helene, Clifford awaited landfall from a Tallahassee hotel room, hundreds of miles from home.

Then, he got a text from his wife: “Doug, I’m scared."

[Katie Sanders @KatieLSanders]

Follow @PolitiFact's instant fact-checking of tonight's presidential debate here: https://t.co/4UtwNS5bGd (I'll be posting there, not here.)

[Louis Jacobson @loujacobson]

I just published a piece for @Poynter weighing what makes a good party convention for political journalists. The short answer is logistics, logistics, logistics. https://t.co/XLA2aAwsdu

[MediaWise @mediawise]

Misinformation spreads quickly during breaking news events, like what we're seeing unfold this evening.

Stop before sharing posts about an alleged shooter or motive. Stop before sharing anything with unbelievable or unreported details. Wait for legit reporters to get the facts.

[Annie Aguiar @annabelaguiar]

My last article for @Poynter: what do horse racing journalists think of “horse race journalism?”

Thanks to @joedrape, @MHoppertNYT and @ngreenberg for talking for this!

https://t.co/OtYpaCKleh

[Poynter @Poynter]

Gannett fired Sarah Leach, an editor overseeing 26 community papers in four states, for talking to Poynter about the company’s plan to stop restaffing small papers.
https://t.co/SEmOFnbkjz

[Ren LaForme @itsren]

@Mantzarlis How does this affect your commute?

[AP CorpComm @AP_CorpComm]

.@AP study finds AI is already reshaping newsrooms w/ insight from Aimee Rinehart, Ernest Kung, via @poynter: https://t.co/dczEW31PJu

[Poynter @Poynter]

What's next for nonprofit news?

Join Poynter's @AmarisCastillo, @RickEdmonds and @INN's @JKealing on April 10 for a LinkedIn Live audio event on where nonprofit journalism stands in 2024.
https://t.co/atYjbg2FSt

[Poynter @Poynter]

Why Report for America will no longer place journalists in hedge fund and private equity-owned publications, from @Report4America executive director @kdkleman.
https://t.co/f2Qr6ssccY

[Ren LaForme @itsren]

The one where I made @telkinsjr and @AlexMahadevan tell me about OpenAI's Sora https://t.co/vAKX62YdMF