Fellowship opportunity for journalists — berthafoundation.org/story/bertha...

Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

And especially dangerous for freelancers who account for 1 in 3 of journalists killed. cpj.org/2025/02/dead...

Loved ‘Broken English’.

DeepSeek took off in part because, in a first, it offered a reasoning model that explains to you what it's doing. Its success shows how little AI product teams have done so far to make their products appealing to normal people: www.platformer.news/deepseek-des...

Ladies and gentlemen… @jessicatarlov.bsky.social, my co-host on the @ragingmoderates.bsky.social podcast. 💥💥💥

The Right Takes Aim at Wikipedia: Disputes around edits are nothing new, but the rise of partisanship has added fuel to the fire. By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

"On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based in Seattle, released a model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3, one of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s leading systems. Moreover, unlike GPT-4o (and even DeepSeek V3), Tulu 3 405B is open source." techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/a...

The way news reporting has changed over the past decades has been deeply unhelpful to good governance. Specialist journalists have been slashed. Everything is covered by the ‘lobby’—which is going feral, writes @samfr.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Meta paid Donald Trump $25m … for suspending his social media accounts. The same company that has stripped all news links from its Canadian website to avoid paying journalists for reporting ….. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Public interest journalism in Europe - grants applications are open. civitates-eu.org/funding-oppo...

Deeply troubled by this news. Last year was the deadliest on record for journalists in Palestine, and this year is already starting no better. Safe passage must be guaranteed for Fadi al-Wahidi, and journalists in #Gaza must be protected: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

When Evgenia Kara-Murza's husband, @vkaramurza.bsky.social, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in #Russia, she campaigned tirelessly for his release, which came in August 2024. Read our interview with Kara-Murza, winner of Index's 2024 Free Expression Award: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

'Legacy media' still shoulder huge financial & regulatory burden of meeting journalistic standards while tech oligarchs totally abandon their duty of care to the public. Platform recklessness also makes support for independent public media even more urgent www.publicmediaalliance.org/meta-fact-ch...

This by @bostonjoan.bsky.social is excellent www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let’s hope so.

Critical context & corrections. Thank you @rosatkins.bsky.social

NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program. Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a 'shifting legal landscape.' What they're saying inside the company ➡️ www.platformer.news/meta-kills-d...

Internet Archive's founder, @brewster.kahle.org, spoke with @wbur.org's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria. 🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

Training materials obtained by @theintercept.com include specific examples of permitted hate speech that “demonstrate that Meta’s policy changes are political in nature and not intended to simply allow more freedom of expression,” EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social said.

January 9, 2025

This was a joy; do have a listen on iPlayer. I could chat with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for days.

Who captured these historic 1960s San Francisco snapshots? 📷 Abandoned for years in a storage unit, these unseen photos are finally seeing the light of day, but the photographer's identity remains a mystery. Can you help solve it? 🕵️‍♀️ Join the search: blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/e...

Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Did you know that the most popular sport of the Nigerian elite is polo (the kind with horses) - and there's no bigger international showcase than the Port Harcourt tournament being held this weekend? www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20...

May 22-25 for #DataHarvest

#Dataharvest conference 2025 - call for proposals now open! dataharvest.eu/2024/11/15/d... @journalismarena.eu

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

I've noticed a very strange thing about one-way street signs... www.ft.com/content/e7a8...

“We now have a platform for more than 3.2 billion people around the planet that has just decided that profit’s more important than safety.” - @mariaressa.bsky.social

2024 was as tough a year as I had expected (and we won't feel its true impact for another year or so probably), but despite the bad, there is much good. My last speech in LA was for an interfaith community gathered by the Beerman Foundation www.rappler.com/voices/rappl...

📢 Late last year, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled that the Governor’s office of Cesar violated journalist José Manuel Vega de la Cruz’s rights by blocking him on X. The case was filed by El Veinte, with Media Defence providing a third-party intervention. 🔗 Read key insights: bit.ly/3DHin9v

UK safeguarding minister accuses Musk of endangering her life https://www.ft.com/content/0949466b-85a6-4f33-8e5d-5ef3a6c59b9a

A major earthquake in Tibet killed more than 100 people and injured at least 100 more. The Chinese authorities should allow Tibetans to freely organize to respond to the crisis, and report on earthquake relief efforts without fear of retaliation.

I know a lot is happening in the world right now, but please spare some of your attention for the growing crackdown on democratic rights in #Ethiopia. --> movedemocracy.salsalabs.org/democracy--a...

🌐🎙️ “The Internet’s Librarian” Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, joins the California Sun podcast to discuss preserving knowledge in the digital age & his vision for universal access to all knowledge. 🎧 www.californiasun.co/podcast/brew... #Preservation @brewster.kahle.org

US says Rapid Support Forces in Sudan committed genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...

I’m not convinced of the impact of fact-checking in promoting accuracy to FB users, but it did provide a revenue stream for smaller newsrooms.

When Nick Clegg was there it was also an organisation unfit to be in charge of a chunk of the world’s communication infrastructure…. It’s just now *a bit more obvious* that this was always the case

"The audience has taken control of the media. And it's not giving it back any time soon. So you go where they are going, you try to create things they want to consume. It doesn't have to be light ... but make it interesting" @karaswisher.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The concept of “the intention economy” is apt. And sobering. Hyper personalisation brings a further challenge to journalism and its role in open societies.

Press release from the UK government saying they'll tackle non-consensual deep fake pornography www.gov.uk/government/n...

The recent U.K. sanctions against Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president, were part of a package that targeted other “kleptocrats,” including Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash, indicted by U.S. prosecutors for bribery in 2014.

Not a Formula 1 fan (not to mention environmental impact), but accept the point that Africa is big enough to host more than one event. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...