"Selvfølgelig langt fra perfekt, men slet ikke så ilde i hverken historisk eller internationalt perspektiv." #magtudredningen #dkpol

What could possibly go wrong..?

No way this is going to end well.

[DK] Bonnier News køber majoriteten i Zetland. Her er min hurtige analyse. #medienyt

Bonnier News acquires Zetland. nyheder.tv2.dk/business/202...

[DK] "Jeg tænker aldrig på døden. Det gør jeg ikke. Når jeg dør, så dør jeg." Hvil i fred, Jørgen Leth. ekstrabladet.dk/sport/cyklin...

🎓Congratulations to Dr. Malte Sigsgaard!🎓 ...for successfully defending his PhD thesis. "Staying in CTRL. Mapping the Impacts of AI on Journalism, and Normative Strategies of AI Control" Malte is part of the first DDC cohort, & we are very proud to congratulate him on this important milestone.😊

[DK] En ny uge truer. Start den eventyelt med en tankevækkende, velskrevet og veloplagt tekst fra Patricks hånd.

So many layers of stupidity (including that some actually believed this).

[DK] God tråd om hybrid krigsførelse.

[DK] Apropos droner, så vil jeg anbefale alle at læse Kim Stanley Robinsons "Fremtidsministeriet". Jeg synes egentlig ikke, at det er en forfærdeligt god bog - men den har nogle vældigt tankevækkende kapitler om bl.a. droner og luftfart. gad.dk/fremtidsmini...

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth [the] fighting for." I agree with the second part."

Screaming into the void.

!!! *DISNEY SAYS JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE SHOW TO RETURN ON TUESDAY

It’s what you did do and not what you didn’t do that helps you do what you’re trying to do between those start and finish lines. This is about running. This is not about running.

In case you missed it (post in Danish, article in English).

Interesting day to be teaching about the economics of news production & how corporate ownership matters. Two of the slides for today’s lecture:

How it started, how it's going.

"It will be a miracle if the US avoids a downward spiral of political violence, as last seen in the 1960s." Americans now have 399 days to save their democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In case you missed it.

Rest in peace, Robert Redford.

Don't sleep on the chance that the Ellisons could, in a year or two, own CBS, CNN, HBO, *and* TikTok. That'd be *literally* unprecedented media concentration in U.S. history — and all that's needed is enough Trump ass-kissing to ensure he doesn't get mad and sic Brendan Carr on him.

There is a real possibility that Charlie Kirk’s death will serve as a pretext for authoritarian purges. And our political culture does not have much experience with that. Mainstream reporters and politicians are not in the habit of recognizing or naming it.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

These are the bigger consequences but it also filters into smaller, less visible corners of our DC lives. A friend's nanny won't ride the bus. A registered student drops out of class before the semester starts. A neighbor's house is suddenly empty. Fascism doesn't just pounce, it also creeps.

"The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here." In case you missed it... www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

"My peers and I didn’t exactly pull up the ladder behind us or anything. It’s more like we ran across a crumbling bridge." "the overwhelming sense that I have is that things are getting worse. The water level rises. The center holds, but only barely, and not for much longer." This resonated.

Any win… no matter how small… can stop a losing streak and start a winning one. This is about running. This is not about running.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

[DK] Current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQni...

A chillingly comprehensive account of how “the administration is setting the stage for election subversion.” It’s delusional to assume the current chaos & evil is going to fix itself with a free & fair 2026 election giving the Dems Congress. MAGA is poised to steal it, Jan 6 shows that they will.

[DK] Dagens pligtlæsning.

🚨 Publication alert! 🚨 For news media under pressure, innovation is a must. So together with Mark Blach-Ørsten, I analyzed what came out of a decade (2014-2023) of public subsidies for news-media innovation in DK. The open-access journal article is out now. www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

For those of you attending academic conferences in the U.S., after October 1, 2025 please note the following:

After a long career in higher education, and grateful for its privileges, I never imagined having to join a commentary like the one being published today advocating for academic freedom. doi.org/10.1080/2167...

What could possibly go wrong?

Evergreen post in the current environment.

[DK, off-topic] @huskmitnavn.bsky.social udstiller på Kastrupgårdsamlingen indtil midt-oktober. Det er forrygende, og jeg kan varmt anbefale alle (både børn og voksne) at lægge turen forbi!

[DK] I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. Men ikke desto mindre: Godt at få dette frem i lyset. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

In case you missed it.

What a time to be alive.

Once more for the people in the back.

[DK, off-topic] Folkens, jeg har alvorligt brug for at få rusket op i podcast-feedet. Hvad kan I anbefale? Hit me with your best shot!

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 What does research tell us about how the news industry uses and understands digital data? That question is the topic for this (open access) review article, which I did together with Lisa Merete Kristensen and Elisabetta Petrucci. sciendo.com/article/10.2...

Interested in how journalism is conducted in digital newsrooms? Then this new article - by @janniehartley.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social - is a mustread.

Time to change ... well, all your passwords. And to revisit your risk assessment.

Current or former X (Twitter) users who are now on Bluesky: If you're 18+, you may be eligible to participate in my online research study about X & Bluesky. 10 minutes, pays $5 via Prolific. You'll be asked to create a Prolific account if you don't already have one. app.prolific.com/register/par...

Back in 2010, @theatlantic.com published this deep-dive into the prospects of a Netanyahu air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. I still think about it sometimes - these days more so than ever. Much has happened since 2010, but it is still worth a read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Previous studies showed how Republicans share more misinformation. This was disputed by some, blaming fact-checking biases. Enter Community Notes. Guess what: "2.3 times more posts by Republicans are flagged as misleading compared to posts by Democrats." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📣 It's #DNR day. Which means that one of the most important report on news in the digital age has been published. It contains data from 40+ countries 🙏. Some findings from the executive summary 👇🧵 @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...