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Henry Chu named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard once Ann Marie Lipinski steps down on July 1 after 14 years leading the institution (Nieman Foundation)
https://nieman.harvard.edu/henry-chu-named-int…

Henry Chu named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard - Nieman Foundation
Henry Chu has been named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Currently Nieman’s deputy curator, Chu will start his new role when Curator Ann Marie Lipinski steps down on July 1 after 14 years as head of the foundation. Chu has played a key role at Nieman, strengthening the foundation’s publications, overseeing […]

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you! yes, you
would you like to see a piece of fantastic investigative journalism, uncovering an international tax fraud scheme (in minecraft)?
do you want to see how some kids invented CDOs-but-worse and how it ended?
here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLm-QFzrxA

#npr is a victim of the #trump administration
If you value independent journalism, support them pls🙏🏼
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“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/mi…

How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence - The Grayzone
News and investigative journalism on empire

Journalism in times of global challenges: what was discussed at the 11th Lviv Media Forum: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/journalism-in-times-of-global.html

Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay
Listen to Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa on how important community support was for the survival of Rappler under attack from a dictator.
Lessons we should take to heart.
#FreePress #Journalism

"Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism"
#Rainforest #Environment

Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a packed event held in Palo Alto, California, at the end of SF Climate Week in April, Willie Shubert, the vice president of programs and executive editor at Mongabay, shared a compelling example of how Mongabay’s journalism […]

3 Arts Entertainment buys OManagement, a talent agency that specializes in working with news and journalism talent, including Steve Kornacki and Kristen Welker (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive)
The talent firm founded by CAA and NBC veteran Olivia Metzger counts Craig Melvin, Harris Faulkner, Kristen Welker and Steve Kornacki among its clients.

Terrific response from BBC's Ros Atkins ‪@rosatkins.bsky.social €to Trump administration's unfounded criticisms of BBC coverage of Gaza. The piece of paper held up by press sec was a tweet from student activist -pathetic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9wgq9vv51do…

Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She claimed that the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage. The BBC has said the claim is completely wrong and that it stands by its journalism. Ros Atkins from BBC Verify takes a look at the facts.

I am always amused by the fact that it is common to refer to Fox, WSJ, any NYPost as”Rupert Murdoch’s” but never “A.G. Sulzberger’s New York Times” despite his direct operational control & the obvious editorial stance as champion of the NY aristocracy & punching hippies. https://mastodon.social/@dangil…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21863 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

GETReason: Enhancing Image Context Extraction through Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reasoning
Publicly significant images from events hold valuable contextual information, crucial for journalism and education. However, existing methods often struggle to extract this relevance accurately. To address this, we introduce GETReason (Geospatial Event Temporal Reasoning), a framework that moves beyond surface-level image descriptions to infer deeper contextual meaning. We propose that extracting global event, temporal, and geospatial information enhances understanding of an image's significanc…

The Independent Publishers Alliance and others submit a complaint to the UK CMA seeking to stop Google from "misusing" publisher content in its AI responses (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/urgent

Urgent bid lodged with UK regulator to stop Google AI Overviews 'stealing journalism'
A legal complaint has been submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority over the impact of Google AI Overviews on news publishers.

Don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity
— at least not if government officials get their way.
Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda

"Journalism screwed itself over by betting
on Meta and its profit-over-society peers.
Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
everyone is going bankrupt. The next bet
is on generative AI, with its inability to
distinguish truth from “hallucinations” –
fabrications that on the page become lies.
The Continent is an attempt to prove
journalism can be done differently.
Expect more of this in what our team
has decided to call our “serious era”.
We’re no longer a start-up. We’re going
to empower more people with quality
journalism. We’re going to help others
launch newspapers. We’re going to
stay sane. And we’re going to prove
that African excellence can set global
standards."
@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa

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I'm currently experimenting with something called micro journalism.
I started about a week ago and so far it is going well.
It's basically just a long text file on my phone and whenever I pick up the phone to distract myself I open that file instead and write something in it.
It is too early to tell if it has an impact but at least it gets me writing a bit.
The downside is that you will see less posts from me, but that might be as well a good thing ;).

This is going on, and the UK government is worried about a punk act at Glastonbury hurting the IDFs feelings?!?
The end cannot come soon enough for Netanyahu and the IDF.
#IsraeliGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

Tariq (@rzeta0@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Fuck von der Leyen. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Merz. Fuck the EU. Fuck the BBC. Fuck the Guardian. Fuck the US Democrats. Fuck the German Staatsrason. Fuck the complicit mastodon-social admins. History will not forget your role in this. #genocide #gaza #warcrimes #history #palestine #ukpol #uspol #europe #journalism #mastodon #germany

How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…

Rather than embarrassing but infrequent call-outs in the Columbia Journalism Review, the #NYTimes needs regular review by a public editor.
#Journalism #Press

A look at The Daily, which runs 14 UK lifestyle titles with a model where contributors keep the first £500 and then split revenue 50/50 with founder Marc Astley (Killian Faith-Kelly/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/p…

Former editor switches from local news to lifestyle with launch of 14 titles
Marc Astley's Daily model offers his editors a 50/50 revenue share.

Did you know that the #UniversityOfGeorgia has TWO sets of Jean Charlot murals on its campus? Charlot hung out on the UGA campus for three years in the early 1940s, teaching and working with students. His murals that were inside what was once UGA's journalism building recently underwent some restoration thanks to our museum and the help of a lot of people from across campus.

Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tamara

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The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a “systemic” way for the first time.
BBC News deputy global director Fiona Crack told Press Gazette the use of AI in the launch of BBC News Polska was designed to help bring the BBC’s coverage of stories of global interest such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to new audiences in a “slimline and efficient” way.

Inside the pilot BBC World Service website using AI translation
The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a "systemic" way for the first time.

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

The Guardian has uploaded "coverdrop" to github, embedding a covert secure messaging channel into their phone app.
I've not looked at it, but I imagine it's mostly going to be for text messages, as media uploads don't fit the network profile (upload/download) of news consumption apps.

It's the first and probably the last time an amazing punk band wrote a song on a hashtag that @… and me invented for a journalism project:
#UnplugTrump !

The Telegraph leaving its limbo: "aims for the brand to become a force in US and global journalism, targeting an intelligent centre-Right readership which is not currently well-served".
Ok, we'll see. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/

Telegraph to be sold to RedBird Capital
Investment to be unleashed as US firm seeks takeover alongside British partners

'[D]efending free and ethical journalism is ... a duty of all those who yearn for a solid and participatory democracy. Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened. Freedom of the press is an inalienable common good. Those who conscientiously exercise this vocation cannot see their voices silenced by petty interests or fear of the truth.'
Pope Leo made a 'pointed remark' apparently aimed at Trump's big grudge: reports - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pope-leo-shot-trump-journalist/

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Starmer's Labour outdid the fucking Tories for supplying war criminals.
#IsraelIsATerroristState #BoycottIsrael #IsraeliWarCrimes

https://medium.com/@marisajporto/we-are-at-a-cliff-ukrainian-journalists-warn-of-local-news-collapse-without-funding-8c5c08a34b1e

William Langewiesche, the 'Steve McQueen of Journalism,' Dies at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/william-langewiesche-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p147#a250616p147

'Special level' of journalism...
Via @…
https://www.threads.com/@jeffjarvis/post/DK1xUUgs8K6

Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
Abhijit Paul, Adity Khisa, Zarif Masud, Sharif Md. Abdullah, Ahmedul Kabir, Shebuti Rayana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09771

Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
In this paper, we examine the intersections of indigeneity and media representation in shaping perceptions of indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combine quantitative analysis of media data with qualitative insights from focus group discussions (FGD). First, we identify a total of 4,893 indigenous-related articles from our initial dataset of 2.2 million newspaper articles, using a combination of keyword-based filtering and LLM, achieving 77% accuracy and an …

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Extract tables from pdfs with {tabulapdf} #rstats #datasciece

An interview with Henry Blodget on BI's layoffs, media market changes in the past five years, why the future is direct distribution and subscriptions, and more (Andy Meek/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025

Henry Blodget On Business Insider Layoffs: 'The Market Has Changed'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget weighs in on the site's layoffs and how AI is reshaping the future of journalism.

French payments group Worldline's stock drops 20% after European journalism network EIC reports alleging that the company covered up customer fraud (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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A profile of sports journalist Pablo Torre, who launched his podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out in 2023 under Meadowlark Media, focusing on "adversarial journalism" (Zak Keefer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6329507/2

Jordon Hudson, Kash Patel and MJ’s fax machine: Pablo Torre’s ‘terminal content brain’ battles the algorithm
Torre had to leave ESPN to carve out a spot in the media landscape that fits him, mixing the silly — even the salacious — with the smart.

"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
https://werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugia-journalism-values-and-building-the-web-we

Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

https://medium.com/@marisajporto/we-are-at-a-cliff-ukrainian-journalists-warn-of-local-news-collapse-without-funding-8c5c08a34b1e

"America, you gotta wake up!"
Maria Ressa warns of authoritarianism in the US: “This is a pivotal moment"
@…
#FreePress #Autocracy #Press #Journalism

Integrating Large Language Models into Text Animation: An Intelligent Editing System with Inline and Chat Interaction
Bao Zhang, Zihan Li, Zhenglei Liu, Huanchen Wang, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10762

Integrating Large Language Models into Text Animation: An Intelligent Editing System with Inline and Chat Interaction
Text animation, a foundational element in video creation, enables efficient and cost-effective communication, thriving in advertisements, journalism, and social media. However, traditional animation workflows present significant usability barriers for non-professionals, with intricate operational procedures severely hindering creative productivity. To address this, we propose a Large Language Model (LLM)-aided text animation editing system that enables real-time intent tracking and flexible edi…

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Tegna adds 100 hours of new daily programming across 50 markets with dedicated 7am-9am streaming of local newscasts to meet increased demand on CTV platforms (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/tegna-anno…

Tegna Announces Major Local News Expansion
Tegna Inc. today announced that its stations will be “significantly expanding” their local news programming by launching live and on-demand, local newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. daily in 50-plus markets through streaming, connected TV apps and station websites.  Tegna said: “This unprecedented expansion of local news programming is designed to meet audiences’ growing demand for coverage of their communities wherever they want to watch and will deliver over 100 hours of daily breaking news,…

Testify.
#media #journalism #reporters #fascism

Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

A must-read by Mark Jacob, Stop the Presses
Please, media, don’t turn the war into entertainment
#Journalism #Press

Newspapers let the fox in and now they dead... Canada too. Even after FB banned news orgs on their platform here in Canada those news orgs STILL used it slavishly.
Like some weird media-version of Stockholm Syndrome.
#canpoli #journalism #media #canada #truth #posttruth #democracy
https://games.ngo/@crecente/114696097895857405

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Journalism is under fire: will the press defend democracy?
www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/america-and-our-democracy-are-under-attack,255597?newsletter=255688
#Journalism #FreePress

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

The Information War Report is back—LIVE tonight at 8 PM EDT!
Milo & Brian explore how media is covering Trump’s threats to civil rights & global stability, plus why local journalism is key to democracy.
Don’t miss it:
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com

Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian
Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump is far worse
#Journalism #Press

How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…

🧵 1 million people, 1,400 events… in support of civil society, decency and democracy.
@… give it a below-the-fold, wide-angle-photo of one event in NC, no headline, directs to single article on A18.
NYT Publisher is a sixth generation media oligarch. Will AG Sulzberger change course?
#Journalism
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Local outlets captured the protests much more accurately and gave it priority coverage.
Covering the pro-democracy movement is not partisan.
Here are is one example. There are many, many more in our blog post.
#LocalNews #Journalism
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Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, still earns profits from Substack subscriptions despite ceding editorial control of the Huckabee Post to his son (Dave Levinthal/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/huckabee-substack

William Langewiesche, who wrote complex, long-form articles for The Atlantic and Vanity Fair on national security, Iraq, and aviation, died of cancer at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/william-lang…

William Langewiesche, the ‘Steve McQueen of Journalism,’ Dies at 70
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

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Local outlets did *much* better than "Big Journalism" covering the #handsoff pro-democracy demonstrations.
Newsroom leaders need to defend democracy from autocracy.
See examples of good (and bad) coverage in our latest blog post.
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/local-news-outlets-show-the-new-york
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From PEN America:
A Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech
The Trump Administration’s 100 Day Assault on Free Expression
#Press #Journalism #FreePress #PENAmerica

Small-town newspapers are shutting down due to the lack of a succession plan, not financial issues, in nearly a dozen US states, a growing problem (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/small-town-newspapers-aging-succession.ph…

Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them
And it’s not just about the money.

CPJ says police have assaulted "more than 20" journalists, including by less-lethal projectiles, since LA protests began on June 6, echoing the 2020 US protests (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/09…

Journalists come under fire covering L.A. protests
Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement in Los Angeles. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism.