📺 Journalist 💻@SMU faculty 📓@aejmc BAMJ vice chair of programming, @csgeaejmc Communications Co-Chair Past: @capradio @KPBSnews @aaja @medillschool
Joined February 2007
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Kris Vera-Phillips, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Our hearts are with our friends in Oregon. ❤️
When hard things happen, little ones can have big feelings, and so can the grown ups who love them. These free resources can help you offer comfort, talk together, and help children feel safe and secure: m.sesame.org/CircleofGoodX
Kris Vera-Phillips, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Chicago, here we come! 🌆 Have an idea for a panel? Help shape #AEJMC2027 : submit your proposal to the Broadcast & Mobile Journalism Division (BAMJ)!
“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, Black and White" - Jesse Jackson
cnn.com/2026/02/17/us/revere…
"The more it (ChatGPT) emphasized certain things, the more it felt like, well, maybe this could be true. And after a while it gets to feel real," Micky Small.
npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-571…
“ Everything that goes on social media is something that federal police and local law enforcement might be looking at to track protestors, to track legal observers" - Caroline Haskins.
📝 by Scott Tong & Hafsa Quraishi
wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/02/…
ALT Here and Now screen capture: "How ICE is using surveillance tech in immigration crackdowns."
“Our justice system is flawed. It’s broken.” - Hamzah Abushaban
📝 by @cillaonthamic
keranews.org/immigration/202…
Kris Vera-Phillips, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Still time to register for tomorrow's "HOW TO PREPARE FOR COMMUNICATION-RELATED CAREERS IN THE ERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" webinar hosted by The AEJMC Committee for Career Development happening at 1 pm ET. Registration link was sent to members via email.
“ICE agents have been roaming our neighborhoods, circling our schools,following our buses, coming into our parking lots & taking our children. The sense of safety in our community and around our schools is shaken & our hearts are shattered” - Zena Stenvik
mprnews.org/story/2026/01/21…
Kris Vera-Phillips, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
Kris Vera-Phillips, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
The stunning images coming from the streets of Minnesota demand attention in this ongoing crisis. The Minnesota @StarTribune photographers & reporters are documenting this moment for the world to see, and we want to be sure their work travels far.
Today we're rolling out some *new ways* people can spread & support our fact-based journalism.
See them all here: startribune.com/essential-re…
Whether or not you take advantage of any of these, please read and share real journalism in these unprecedented times. The truth matters. 🙏
[photo credit Richard Tsong-Taatarii & Renee Jones Schneider, Minnesota Star Tribune]
“This is the first time in U.S. history that the government has searched a reporter’s home in a national security media leak investigation, seizing potentially a vast amount of confidential data and information,” said Bruce D. Brown (@rcfp)
"I need my devices back to do my job." wapo.st/4jUxQEe
“The First Amendment forbids the government from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech. That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy" - Sen. Mark Kelly.
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#MLK on voting rights: "They were about belonging — about whether Black and brown people are full participants in the promise of America, or whether we’re conditional guests whose access can be narrowed, delayed or denied" - Martin Luther King III.
nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opini…
Question: What is the average cost of childcare for a toddler in NYC?
Answer: $20,000/annually
Listen: The promise of making New York City more affordable for families on Here and Now.
wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/01/…
“Investigating officials to determine if they broke the law, defied policy, failed to deescalate & resorted to deadly force without basis is one of the Civil Rights Division’s most solemn duties" - Kristen Clarke, who led division in Biden administration.
ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights…
Never forget.
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
“Everything about these incidents indicates that these are probably shootings that did not need to happen,” @Christy_E_Lopez.
Here's the Trace investigation looking at the number of times #ICE agents shot people during raids.
📝 by @JenniferMascia
thetrace.org/2025/12/immigra…
There have been several incidents of ICE agents fatally shooting or injuring people in U.S. cities. After a shooting in Portland on Thursday, city officials there called it a "pattern of violence."
📝 by @SergioMarBel
npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-567…
