@arusbridger.bsky.social : This was quite a good edition of the podcast: 👍

A user-generated ‘Splinternet’ Worth Watching? Moderators on Reddit - especially among younger, male-demographic sports Redditors - beginning to ‘bar’ links to Meta-owned platforms. Outbound links to Twitter were blocked in earlier moves. Phenomenon worth watching. @cnti_global #News #Journalism

Where is US journalist Austin Tice? Today would be a great day to #FreeAustinTice. Britain’s @the-independent.com reports from Syria on efforts to get answers.

The clock ticks, as it has for over 12 years: WHERE IS AUSTIN TICE? and how can we accelerate efforts to return the US journalist to his family? Aid groups search for clues in #Syria; @stateSPEHA @statedept @POTUS: x.com/hostageaid/s...

Watch @margbrennan w/ @StateSPEHA: More info on #FreeAustinTice than previously known: 1. US believes Syria held US newsman at ‘some point’ in unprecedented 12 years as hostage. 2. US officials (@FBI) visited Syrian prison to gather evidence last week 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xju...

It is time for answers: WHERE IS AUSTIN TICE? And how does this US journalist for @mcclatchy @washingtonpost @cbsnews return to his family after 12 years since his kidnapping in Syria? Today would be a good day to FreeAustinTice: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The 138-year-old Plainsman Herald, in rural Colorado, was about to close when the owner asked readers if they’d pay more to keep it afloat. About 95% of respondents said yes. So he’s raising the annual subscription rate to $100 from $50. coloradosun.com/2024/12/11/s...

@sulliview.bsky.social insights on billionaire news proprietors. But it’s character, not wallet size, that counts: Bancroft-owned WSJ investigated its reporter R. Foster Winans; McClatchy aggressively covered its pension-prompted financial restructuring: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-escala...

Let’s raise this question again and again to top @potus PDB (Daily Brief) until answered: WHERE IS US JOURNALIST AUSTIN TICE? (held in Syria for 12 years). And how does he return safely to his family? (Please quote/repost)

Reporter: What does US know about where Austin Tice might be? Biden: We believe he’s alive. We think we can get him back…

As a new era begins for Syrian after half a century of Assad rule, a question this morning: Where is US journalist Austin Tice, held for 12 years after his kidnapping in Syria. And how will he get home to his family safely? #FreeAustinTice.

It is far past time to #FreeAustinTice, held 12 years since being kidnapped in Syria. Austin has been confirmed alive this year, according to his family - who met today with White House officials to press for his release. Austin was seized for doing his job: #journalism. www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/p...

Some folks on @bluesky.social may not yet know: innovating.news. It’s a global research institute on misinformation, AI and white-hot issues at the crucial intersection of news, technology and global freedom of people and information. More. Free. Here: innovating.news/work/priorit...

$3-a-year for @chicagotribune ; a buck a month for @washingtonpost : These promos don’t usually succeed alas; churn accelerates.

‘One who finds a truth lights a torch.’ Introducing myself here on #Bluesky : Newsperson.