Steve Herman
Exec. Director, Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice, @OleMiss.bsky.social;
Board: @juristnews.bsky.social;
Ex VOA White House bureau chief; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7VOA on ham radio
- US Journalist Rapid Response Fund launched. cpj.org/2026/02/new-...
- Bitcoin is down 7.5% from a day ago with a Forbes senior contributor writing that an “apocalypse” appears to be quietly emerging with crypto traders scrambling to get ahead of what could become a full-blown crash. www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
- President Trump's overall approval rating remains low at 39%, with 56% disapproving, and a whopping 51% strongly disapproving — the highest Marist has seen since it started asking how strongly respondents approve or disapprove of presidents dating back to 2017. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/t...
- WSJ - The Trump administration is planning to make it easier to discipline—and potentially fire—career officials in senior positions across the government, a move that would affect roughly 50,000 federal workers. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/t...
- The CIA is up to something and Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, doesn't like it but can't tell us about it.
- Senator Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, says in a statement he opposes the plan by DHS to house up to 10,000 immigration detainees in a warehouse in Marshall County in his state. www.wicker.senate.gov/2026/2/...
- The Washington Post today is eliminating its sports and books sections and downsizing international coverage.
- Details: apnews.com/article/wash...
- Sen. Mitch McConnell, (R-Kentucky), who is 83, hospitalized with "flu-like symptoms," according to his office.
- (AP) — Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in the northern African country, Libyan officials said Tuesday. apnews.com/article/libya-seif...
- "Trump's policies on aid and democracy deeply endanger America's traditional allies in the post-Soviet world such as pro-democracy NGOs and independent news media." harriman.columbia.edu/pulling...
