On Monday we ran “I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.” In it, I talk a bunch about my kids. I also talk about how reading news on social media has made me less happy. And I talk about how I’m looking for useful, appealing ways to teach kids about news.

I worried about what the reaction to the post would be. I thought other journalists would yell at me for being a news avoider.

Instead, I got more positive emails about this post than any other story I’ve written ever. Some journalists told me that they are also parents and have also noticed that reading news when they’re around their kids affects the way they parent. Others were especially interested in media literacy for kids — in elementary school, middle school, high school. They, like me, want to know who’s doing it well and how. I’m so excited to dive into reporting on this over the next year.

The part of the article that seemed to resonate with people the most was “I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.” Adding on to this, I came up with some new ~~personal~~ social media policies this week — the main one being that I’m unfollowing anyone who shares a news story with only the phrase “can’t tell you how bad this would be,” or “lol nothing matters,” or a , or similar. (Siren emoji exception if the news broke in the last one minute?) Our skeets can be better, more informative and helpful, than this. (Never forget it was a Bluesky post that inspired The Onion to buy Infowars…)

If you’re changing the way you read news, let me know. If you are reporting news differently, I’d love to hear that too.