Recovering journalist. Opinions are my own. @jayjeetee.bsky.social
Whitehorse, Yukon
Joined November 2012
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John Thompson retweeted
"On Bullshit, And AI-Generated Prose"
AI these days is writing confident, instant answers -- that can contain huge factual errors
When humans do this? Bloviate, without knowing -- or *caring* -- if we're right?
That's called "bullshitting"π
My essay: clivethompson.medium.com/on-β¦
John Thompson retweeted
Footage of the Alaska Highway from the 1948 educational film Alaska: A Modern Frontier. Features a quick look at the Alaska/Canada border and what the Mile Zero marker at Dawson Creek looked like then. #alaskahistory #cdnhist
Some personal news!
After spending 17 years in northern journalism, Iβm off to try a new thing. On Monday I start work as a communications analyst for Yukonβs Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
I count myself especially lucky for being able to help out Nunatsiaq News as an editor for the past 3.5 years. I started my reporting career in Nunavut and itβs been nice to reconnect with that part of the North.
Nunatsiaq News is also looking to hire a reporter. Itβs a great opportunity for someone getting started in journalism. Weβd love to find a candidate based in Nunavut or Nunavik. #journojobs
jeffgaulin.com/jobs/JobDetaiβ¦
Apply for my job! Nunatsiaq News needs a web editor. We need someone with strong editing and writing chops. Knowledge of the North would be a big plus β interest in the many big issues affecting the eastern Arctic is a requirement.
Questions? Hit me up.
jeffgaulin.com/jobs/JobDetaiβ¦
Yesterday I was too wrapped up editing stories about the death of Nunatsiaq Newsβ longtime editor, Jim Bell, to post anything personal. But I learned a ton from him over the years, and his passing is a big loss to northern journalism.
Jim wrote brilliant editorials. Here's one of my favourites, about poverty in Nunavut and what's missed by social media campaigns against high northern food prices:
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Here's a classic news story by Jim, when then-NTI president Paul Quassa was accused of (and later resigned over) having misspent the organization's founds.
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We repurposed this image for one of our stories on Jim's passing, so my thunder's a bit stolen, but here's Jim, Jane George and myself with Canada's Governor General and her husband back in 2007, when the newspaper was nominated for a Michener Award.
John Thompson retweeted
I wrote about my old friend @jameshenrybell an award-winning journalist who died yesterday an hour after I left his bedside. Hard to imagine a world unscrutinized by that old bastard. The bookkeepers in heaven best get their shit in order.
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John Thompson retweeted
After several lengthy months of tech recovery the @yukonnews has a twitter again!
We had to start a new account so please share & followπ
Looks like @chriswindeyer called it 11 years ago: "Sources tout Mary Simon as next Governor General"
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