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The decline of U.S. foreign bureaus is being framed as an economic necessity, but the reality on the ground shows a devastating loss of independent investigations in developing nations.
My new deep dive for The Objective (@objectivejournos.bsky.social) looks at the systemic crisis facing #freelance #journalists

International journalists' opportunities are shrinking
As Donald Trump wins more attention from U.S. news media, one loser has often been international reporting.

Sooo, Kreuzchen gemacht, selbstverständlich demokratisch. #kommunalwahl2026 #niedersachsen #niewiederistjetzt

Tel Aviv- and San Francisco-based Corma, which develops AI models for defensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with a $60M seed led by Sequoia Capital (Emily Forlini/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/10/exclusi

Exclusive: Corma raises $60 million from Sequoia for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks
The startup is exiting stealth mode after deploying its first model six weeks ago.

Freelancer: SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten trotzen Abwärtstrend
SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten sind laut einer Auswertung die Top-Verdiener unter den IT-Freiberuflern. Insgesamt wird die Auftragslage aber schlechter.
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Freelancer: SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten trotzen Abwärtstrend
SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten sind laut einer Auswertung die Top-Verdiener unter den IT-Freiberuflern. Insgesamt wird die Auftragslage aber schlechter.

One of the benefits of living in a larger city is that freelance art handlers end up networking with one another. That makes it a lot easier to find the next job.
Q: What do you look forward to most in your retirement?
A: Painting, making my own paintings. I don’t have a really clear plan, but play a little more music, rekindle my podcast. Recreational outings with my wife. And then maybe a little traveling.
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A freelance reporter has been fighting a subpoena from the Trump administration
seeking to force him to reveal his sources for a New York Times article about a failed top secret mission in North Korea.
The subpoena, reflects the administration’s intensifying campaign to investigate leaks of government secrets
by pressuring reporters to divulge their sources.
Until President Trump began his second term, federal subpoenas to reporters were exceedingly rare.
In Feb…

Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.

Anthropic is setting up a "presidential engagement" program for the 2028 US elections that will offer AI policy education to candidates in both parties (Emily Forlini/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/08/anthropic-pr…

Anthropic is launching a ‘presidential engagement’ effort to advise candidates on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election
“We want every serious candidate and elected official, in both parties, to understand the technology and the case for governing it well.”

They took a drop ceiling out of one gallery that had the Rubens and then restored these beautiful cherubs and angel-type arches in the ceiling, [where] the paint had been flaked off and just patched up all the plaster. So yeah, that was my first museum job. After two years at the Ringling, I moved to New York City and eventually was able to start working freelance at museums and galleries there.
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OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (Emily Forlini/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/09/04/openai…

OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra’s evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch
Performance metrics on OpenAI's blog about Astra kept changing. In some cases, the changes made Astra look better and rival models look worse.