Christoph Mergerson
📍 Journalism professor, University of Maryland
📕 PhD in media studies from Rutgers
📕 B.A. in poli sci, master's in policy
🌪️ I study weather media
🌪️ Former NWS intern
🏛️ Also study media history & trust in news
🏛️ Formerly at Brookings
- Regardless of how one feels about the Post, it’s an odd move to offer less coverage of relevance to many for the same price, especially in this economy. What is the value proposition to the consumer?
- A good parallel for today in Washington is like when WMAL was transformed from a middle-of-the-road radio station with good local and sports coverage, and mass appeal, to this divisive and trolling talk radio station, under the guise of competitiveness. #WashingtonPost #journalism #DMV
- "The affected employees include Caroline O’Donovan, who primarily covers Amazon, the company founded by Post owner Jeff Bezos." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
- This is basically an admission, whether intentional or not, that the Post is deprioritizing its local audience. No one remotely familiar with Washingtonians thinks we want a paper of record without a robust sports department or books section, or less metro coverage. #journalism #DMV
- This is basically gutting the paper like a fish. Washington is major sports town, but you’re going to do something silly with the sports section? #WashingtonPost
- As someone who has read The Post since he was in grade school in the ‘80s, watching Jeff Bezos tank this institution has been disturbing. He clearly doesn’t value it like the locals for whom it’s more than a newspaper. He’s treating it like a disposable plaything. #journalism
- So unoriginal.
- Five classes from college: Environmental Policy Environmental Geology The Presidency Mass Communication Law & Ethics Government and Politics of Japan
- Anyone who creates content for a living—news workers especially, but any content creator—who doesn't think that the arrests of these journalists crosses a bright red line is being very cavalier with a freedom that once lost will stay lost. #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #PressFreedom #FirstAmendment
- We very clearly live in an illiberal regime that opposes press freedom.
