🚨New report out today with Nic Newman, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social mapping out the news creator and influencer space from the vantage point of audiences across 24 countries. It includes a typology of news creators, key trends, and lists of most mentioned individuals.👇

Creators are helping to reach important audiences with journalism, often outstanding, innovative journalism. They are helping to inform people legacy media isn't reaching. We need to enable, fund, and include these people in the ecosystem of trustworthy sources.

Moment of the night at the @tottenhamhotspur.com Fan Forum came from Bethany England 💙🤍 “Tottenham have created a space for fans and players to feel safe. Although I’m on the pitch, if there’s more I can do to make it safer, I will.” #COYS

Wonder if this research will get as much coverage (and market impact) as the very much not randomized controlled MIT study…

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Last week I posted a thread on how people are using generative AI - bsky.app/profile/rich... This thread is on how people use gen AI for news, specifically. Though getting information is emerging as the key use of gen AI, only 6%on average across 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 use it for news weekly, doubling since 2024.

I feel like "Policia" on the riot shields should have been a red flag.

⚡️For the first time, solar and wind covered all electricity demand growth, sloooooooowly reducing fossil fuel dependency. My chart, data from the newly released @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 (ember-energy.org/latest-insig...).

This is not really about Spurs so ignore as needed, but it’s wild to me how PL fans &pundits erase Ange’s accolades. He had ‘no Premier League experience’ after finishing 5th in his first season & now ‘struggling in Europa’ when the mfer just won it. Trump-ass people will say anything.

🗣️ “It’s really important that football is using its platform to tell these stories” - Chris Paouros, @proudlilywhites.bsky.social 🤍💙 #TogetherAgainstSuicide

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meanwhile here in the UK, Labour has pioneered arbitrarily declaring an org/movement “terrorism” and is arresting anyone who holds a sign with basically any combination of the words “Palestine” and “action”. “World beating” as someone used to say.

Each time I come to London I talk to taxi drivers about what they’re going through, and what’s really striking is that several of them mention the racial hostility and violence from passengers. Not new I know but it seems like there is a greater intensity to it.

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

The British media is, somehow, becoming even more dominated by the upper classes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour being Labour. Hard to see a difference to what’s happening in the U.S.

“Working for apps like #Deliveroo, #JustEat and #UberEats, riders have been pulled over by police for suspected traffic offenses and then handed over to immigration officers.” thebristolcable.org/2025/08/unde...

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

An actual quote, translated by me: "we paid a lot of money for the war, now we gotta split the percentages of the land. We already did the teardown, the first step in urban renewal." This is Israel's minister of the treasury. I feel sick. Physically sick.

For the umpteenth time: Today’s Republican Party does not believe in, and cannot handle, free speech.👇

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This October, the most important event for news product leaders is happening in Chicago — and we’ve only 50 tickets left! ⚠️ The #NPASummit 2025 (Oct 23–24) will bring together 300+ product thinkers from around the world to tackle journalism’s biggest challenges.

Make us proud, Ange.

It's hard to think of anything more antithetical to the Founders' vision for America than willingly letting federal troops patrol the streets.

Paolo Tramezzani would like to have a word with the author.

"It's like drinking from polluted water" A piece from my colleague @marinaadami.bsky.social on recent research from @bonavero.bsky.social on how UK media often gets immigration coverage wrong and how to fix it reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/its-dri...

Well… you have to say that, if Labour had started a year ago with anything like this kind of rhetoric & clarity, we’d be in a totally different place. Impressive start from Zack Polanski - & while it’s unlikely this will be seen by millions, it should be: youtu.be/1KsgxOrgbOA?...

"Bari Weiss peddles pro-establishment bilge that flatters the need of our richest and most cosseted dimwits to pretend that they are actually besieged outsiders."

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

@stellathegreek.bsky.social in @newstatesman.com on the double standards of @telegraphnews.bsky.social re #AngelaRayner’s error vs actual large-scale shenanigans by multiple Conservative frontline political figures.

New from @knightcolumbia.org: Ken Stern on the academic-freedom implications of universities using the IHRA definition of antisemitism to mark the outer limits of free speech and inquiry on campus. knightcolumbia.org/content/a-ba...

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

🚨I'm absolutely delighted to announce that the brilliant Cameron Barr, the former Snr Managing Editor of the @washingtonpost.com, has joined @millmedia.bsky.social as our first Investigations Editor. It's a huge win for us and for local journalism in this country. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

The top five most frequent non-politicians on BBC Question Time all write for a single rightwing paper And this was from last year

So utterly sick of politicians saying the most unfathomably cruel things because they want to be treated like a celebrity with controversial opinions and not a public servant, which is what they are elected to be.

I know that energy usage from AI prompts comes up in classroom discussion all the time. I hope this section in my latest post helps people provide a more grounded answer to the question, rather than just speculating or citing out-of-date information. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/mass-intel...

The magnitude of Grimsby Town's win over MUFC, in numbers. (Figures from @priceoffootball.bsky.social)

Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’ The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

One of the few coherent things the commentators said was that it felt like we were “turning the screw”, and I think that was spot on. Ruthless, and massive kudos to Richi and Sarr for the running.

Fired Spurs managers watching a new Tottenham coach batter Man City on their home field

Something a little different this time: on the fact that the Premier League has a corner-kick cheating problem. I've been on about this for years so decided to just write it up in full after Arsenal's 'goal' yesterday. profspur.substack.com/p/the-premie...

Incomplete thought about the decoupling of financial markets from everyday working peoples' material conditions and the embrace of AI slop that approximates competence as a means of propping up "the economy"

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

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Using the recognition of Palestine as a threat to Israel is tone deaf and repugnant. The way the West treats everything about Palestine & Palestinians is _always_ through the lens of Israel - how about we just recognise a state, recognise a people, recognise and condemn injustice.

Journalists, do you believe even small impacts from your reporting, like someone sharing a story or signing up for a newsletter, are worth cataloguing? You should. Every step is valuable. @tomt.social shares tips and resources in this #ClimateBlueprint chapter.