Ross Settles
@rsettles.bsky.social
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Exploring…
#Myanmar
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#Syria
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#Russia
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#Nicaragua
media working in exile. JX Fund launching a program to support sustainable development. Deadline for applications is July 20, link below.
jx-fund.org/newsroom/new...
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Call for Applications: Newsroom Pivot Program
A venture support and seed funding opportunity for exiled independent media from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Russia and Syria. Is your newsroom stuck in survival mode: chasin...
https://jx-fund.org/newsroom/news/open-call-newsroom-pivot-program/
6 months ago
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Catalyzing Private Capital – A New Horizon for Journalism Funding. Interested in media and public information finance this should be an interesting talk. Date: 10 July Time: 15:00–16:00 Sign up here:
lnkd.in/er8zPnNk
6 months ago
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Thoughtful, optimistic look at emerging benefits of AI... by removing the "social judgement" individuals feel when interacting with human peers, they are more likely to interact with AI to more fully understand the importance and import of news and information.
shorensteincenter.org/commentary/i...
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The Intimacy Dividend: How AI Might Transform News Media Consumption | Shorenstein Center
Recently, a friend told me something that got me thinking. He’s been using AI for therapy, something he’d never done with a human. Why? He felt more comfortable sharing thoughts and feelings with a ch...
https://shorensteincenter.org/commentary/intimacy-dividend-ai-might-transform-news-media-consumption/
7 months ago
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arijnetwork
9 months ago
❝In the short-term, media organizations need to sell something. However, in the long-term, they'll have to free up cash through painful contingency plans.❞
@rsettles.bsky.social
, independent researcher and investor, during a session titled "Where is the money?" at
#ijf25
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Of course this is what people would do ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
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Companies See China as a Safe Harbor Amid Trump’s Tariffs
The heavy U.S. tariffs on other Asian countries have made China a more appealing option for companies scared to make a hasty decision amid upheaval in global trade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/business/trump-tariffs-china-factories.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
9 months ago
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Read it and weep...truly this is how an economy dies! Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan?
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan?
Probably yes
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/did-an-llm-help-write-trumps-trade?r=jok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
9 months ago
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arijnetwork
10 months ago
❝AirDrop was a pivotal technology during the Hong Kong protests in 2019. The triad of media, technology, and money must be central to how we plan for the future❞
@rsettles.bsky.social
, Academic and Consultant
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arijnetwork
11 months ago
📣We will be at
@rightscon.org
! ARIJ will be hosting a workshop titled "From Hong Kong to
#Gaza
: Digital Resilience Techniques" featuring a lineup of fantastic speakers
@rsettles.bsky.social
, Nadim Nashif,
@joeysiu.bsky.social
& Rawan Damen 📆 25 February | ⏰12:30 - 13:30 (GMT +4)
#RightsCon2025
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ast and Southeast Asian languages and the need for locally specific LLM's...interesting to see the list expand ... Ilmu 0.1 (Malaysia), TaiwanLLM (Taiwan), Sakura (Japan) and ITanong (Philippines)... and of course the long list in mainland China. Here RoW on the Philippine effort.
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The Philippines is creating a ChatGPT rival that speaks Filipino and Taglish
ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer resources.
https://restofworld.org/2024/filipino-ai-chatbot-launches-2025-local-languages/
12 months ago
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about 1 year ago
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Sue Valentine
about 1 year ago
Why archives matter! Great piece by Ann Cooper on Russian Independent Media Archive.
niemanreports.org/unerased/
(And a nod to the magnificent Wayback machine
@archive.org
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Unerased - Nieman Reports
Vladimir Putin’s government is trying to scrub critical journalism from the internet. The Russian Independent Media Archive is standing in its way.
https://niemanreports.org/unerased/
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Important initiative linking the importance of archives to AI...Harvard launches the
@institutionaldatainitiative.org
institutionaldatainitiative.org/hello-world....
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How Knowledge Institutions Can Build a Promethean Moment
Why we’re launching the Institutional Data Initiative to work with libraries, government agencies, and other knowledge institutions to develop data collections and best practices for artificial intell...
https://institutionaldatainitiative.org/hello-world.html
about 1 year ago
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#ARIJ24
Day 2
about 1 year ago
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Crushing stories from journalists working in Gaza
#ARIJ24
about 1 year ago
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Setting up for
#ARIJ24
...over 700 in person registered and Over a thousand registered online.
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about 1 year ago
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Sue Valentine
about 1 year ago
Great read. Such an important initiative
add a skeleton here at some point
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Sameer Padania
about 1 year ago
PSA: Please encourage your
#journalism
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#independentmedia
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#investigativejournalism
partners and allies around the world to join here… (And funders, philanthropies etc.)
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