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I'm Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. I write the Wonder Tools newsletter to help people discover the most valuable sites and resources for productivity and creativity. I enjoy collaborations; say hi\ud83d\udc4b
New Yorker Cartoonist, Author & Comedian in NYC. Blocked by Trump… Cartoon Editor of Metropolitan Review • Former President, National Cartoonists Society • New York Times / Esquire / Air Mail / MAD Magazine \ud83d\udcd6 NEW BOOK OUT OCT 13!
Cofounder of indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
Jared Newman has been covering consumer technology for more than 15 years. He writes two off-Substack newsletters—Advisorator for tech tips and Cord Cutter Weekly for streaming TV savings—and contributes to TechHive, PCWorld, and Fast Company.
Author, speaker, podcaster, mom of 5
Lance Eaton is a writer, speaker, and scholar on how technologies are reshaping teaching, learning, and scholarly communities. He also nerds out on audiobooks, gardening, cats, and running.
Author of SAYING NO TO NEW. Coming September 15. Preorder today. Editor at The New York Times.
Writer and educator. Taught writing at Yale. Was OpenAI's first Head of Community for Writers. Now teaching people how to use AI as a Socratic thinking partner instead of a content generator—a tool for thinking, not a substitute for it.
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