Dystopia defined: Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

A flying visit to the Scottish Government, where I took part in an interdisciplinary roundtable on building resilience to mis/disinformation. Happy to contribute to the debate on such a critical topic. And it was a bonus meeting @dominicmhinde.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleagues.

Ukraine: US-Russian peace proposal is ‘absurd’ and unacceptable

Gaun yerself, Scotland!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

✨ Apply to the ECREA Journalism Studies PhD Mentorship Scheme ✨ Deadline: 17 Nov We offer five Journalism Studies PhD students the chance to receive career guidance and feedback on their work over a period of 18 months. More info and link to apply: www.journalismstudies.org/post/interes... #commsky

The TV host, the web of influence and the trip booked to Moscow Ahead of a critical Welsh by-election for Reform next week, part two of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation for the Nerve into disgraced former Ukip MEP and Reform UK politician Nathan Gill

So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. 🌷

Thrilled to be part of this @cogitatiomac.bsky.social special issue on #Journalism in the Hybrid Media System. My article examines how participatory journalists in four countries negotiate material realities in their efforts to engage publics in journalistic co-creation. #openaccess

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

We've won an extra round of funding to extend our collaboration with @unileiden.bsky.social on the project Meaning-making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI (Co-PI @karakanta.bsky.social) Go @agdorst.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social and #TeamTulips 🌷🌷

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account. On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !! They promise: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources Share the news 🔁

A thug at the far right rally called for Prime Minister Starmer to be assassinated. Things don't get better from here if we don't change the national conversation. Labour need to shift their anti-immigration policies and rhetoric - stop feeding this movement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A great start to #FoJ2025 with ECREA Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium today.

Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

Academic freedom is under threat. Senior scholars from 11 countries examine the impact of political interference, censorship, and self-censorship in journalism studies. ➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory

Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

EU economy and finance ministers have approved #Bulgaria's entry into the euro area. From 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will start using the 💶 euro and enjoy the benefits of joining the single currency. Find out more about how EU countries adopt the euro 👇👇 europa.eu/!Nnk4xx

Congratulations, Bulgaria! Поздравления, България! Bulgaria will adopt the euro as of 1 January 2026, becoming the 21st country to switch to our single currency. Read the press release www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/dat...

Excited to share my new article, "A See-Through Curtain of Varying Texture: Negotiating Power and Material Realities in Engaged Journalism", now published in Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess #commsky

The deadline for the 6th ECREA Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium (Groningen edition) has been extended to 22 August. Link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited about my first public lecture and the trip to Leiden next week as part of our research exchange with @agdorst.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled. Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges. Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? Answers next week in an exciting new report published by @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Come to one of the launch events at @cityjournalism.bsky.social or @leedsunimedia.bsky.social: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/uk-...

In Sofia in the next couple of days for the #NewHorizonsinJournalism conference organised by @worldpressinst.bsky.social and the Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria. Thought-provoking talks on who controls the narrative and the place of journalism in the world.

Now that the #FOJ2025 decisions are out, consider submitting an abstract for the ECREA Journalism Studies PhD colloquium, which takes place the day before Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff. Deadline is 1 May. More here: www.ecrea.eu/event-6120316

Perugia highlight: sustaining public interest news in a dicey media market: Media hubs provide crucial support to news operations up against funding cuts, failing business models and authoritarian regimes. Collaboration, innovation, and impact are vital to keep them going

Perugia is a blast. One of the best conference experiences. Following #ijf25 in the next few days for insights from the crème de la crème of journalism practice and research.

Data deletion crisis. A timely reminder the Internet Archive has only 140 people working for it and is our one flimsy lifeline to the digitized record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/t...

We are thrilled to announce that @mitalilive.bsky.social has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute. Mukherjee, who has been Acting Director since last October, was selected in an open process that concluded in late March Read our full announcement buff.ly/1beGPME Details in thread

💫 Our special issue is out! Through 13 articles it describes, contextualizes and theorizes epistemologies of digital news production across a spectrum of practices and producers. Loved working on this with @acadianjprof.bsky.social @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social and @valeriehase.bsky.social 💫

Building and crossing bridges with Bissie Anderson, Jeannette Littlemore, Marcus Perlman, Matteo Fuoli, Ruth Page, Merten Reglitz and Jack Grieve at University of Birmingham 🌸 Our turn in May @leidenhumanities.bsky.social with @tomasdodds.bsky.social @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

Got a research excitement boost at the two-day workshop on "Meaning Making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI" at University of Birmingham. Looking forward to working on our new ideas!

How many cheerleaders for ‘AI in the newsroom’ are going to point out that a key current use of the technology is for authoritarians to run programs over all journalistic output - including social media and newsletters - to single out and persecute those with opposing views?

TODAY: Due date for the ICA JSD 2025 Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award. This annual prize recognizes and rewards doctoral dissertation research that explains, enlightens, inspires, and improves the practice and study of journalism and communication. www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

The ECREA Journalism Studies Section, the Young Scholars Network (YECREA) and the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University invite applications for the 5th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium, which will take place on 10 September 2025 at Cardiff University

Whose ideology?

If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Each update in this NYT story is more damning than the prior. This in particular: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

I am so angry. Have the bullies taken over the world?

It's like we all live at Four Seasons Total Landscaping now.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

It was a pleasure hosting @h0d3r.bsky.social in Birmingham earlier this week at our department’s research seminar. Hossein delivered a thought-provoking presentation on malinformation and the future of information warfare

Attention #ECRs! @yecrea.bsky.social is searching for 16 new YECREA section representatives. It’s a great opportunity for pre- and postdoctoral researchers to engage in academia and broaden their network. I enjoyed my time in YECREA very much - happy to answer any questions! tinyurl.com/cfpyecrea

#commsky #academicsky