Joe Murphy

I did not realize but should have assumed that people are betting on who’s going to be the next pope.

I have learned so much about popes, cardinals, conclaves, antipopes, exploding popes, old popes, young popes this week. https://t.co/UhHmjn1gZb

RT @aterkel: Job alert! We're hiring a deputy Washington editor here at @NBCNews. Apply here! https://t.co/X5ALsXKbTi

clicked this so fast https://t.co/Q7SfVRa00F

Over the weekend I published a guide aimed at journalists (but applicable to everyone) to including alt text on social media, why it matters, how to do it and examples of alt text done right. #accessibility #dataViz #altText https://t.co/ZlSX7PdYn2

I just published this guide, Social media alt text for journalists (with examples): https://t.co/ZlSX7PdYn2 It gets at why alt text matters, how it works on major social media platforms, and gives examples of what you might write for alt text. #accessibility

Got to team up with Jasmine & @bKamisar for this one — If you've seen this equation (which the White House says it used to compute the tariffs it announced Wednesday) and immediately balked, this 200-word blog post is for you (it's not as bad as it looks). https://t.co/ZXLTiVy4AO https://t.co/22PbMpmb5p

Just had a FOIA officer call my request "unusual" which I'm going to take as a compliment.

Okay here’s a write-up of the way I monitored a particular URL for changes in a breaking news situation (last night’s JFK Files dump), read on if you‘re into doing shell scripts and journalism. https://t.co/2EFn8YxNVl

Joe Murphy @JoeMurph

Wrote a lil' shell script that every 10 seconds checks the metadata of a HTTP request for a particular URL for changes in the last-modified timestamp and, if it sees a change, uses my mac's "say" command to speak in a robotic voice "oh boy oh boy oh boy."

abbreviated "for sure" as "fs" today and darn it this needs to spread

Wrote a lil' shell script that every 10 seconds checks the metadata of a HTTP request for a particular URL for changes in the last-modified timestamp and, if it sees a change, uses my mac's "say" command to speak in a robotic voice "oh boy oh boy oh boy."

With an ongoing trade war and stocks sliding into correction territory in the last week, a question emerges: Is a recession next? Jasmine Cui of @NBCNews details what the recessionary data signals and what the economists say: https://t.co/YIpQX7xHJa #dataViz https://t.co/IUiHofTiV8

I will never forget this column The Denver Post ran in 2007 about why everyone who says people from Colorado are called Coloradoans are so freaking wrong (it’s Coloradan), I even made a custom bitly short link for it that still freaking works https://t.co/7QPCbB8Ez7

RT @nbcnewsguild: After an overwhelming 94% ratification vote, we have secured the first union contract for the digital newsrooms of @NBCNe…