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Q&A with Tristan Werkmeister, Reuters' first social-first video reporter, on what the role looks like, how it was created, its challenges, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-not-

“It’s not just younger people making the shift”: Meet Reuters’ first social-first video reporter
"Stories need to be either boiled down to the essentials, or reframed to put all the attention on the most social-friendly angle."

First Australian Abrams tanks reach Ukraine after 9-month wait: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/first-australian-abrams-tanks-reach.html

🌳 Global forests store vast carbon wealth but credit systems undervalue their true potential, study finds
#trees

Global forests store vast carbon wealth but credit systems undervalue their true potential, study finds
When we walk into a forest, we often think less about the shade or the silence and more about the invisible work trees do—pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it in their trunks, roots and soils. Forests are our oldest, most reliable carbon banks. Yet, when we dove into the data, we realized something unsettling: The financial systems designed to reward forests for this service often undervalue them.

We are witnessing an unprecedented government assault on First Amendment freedoms in America.
To address the state of our Constitutional liberties, we will be convening an emergency Zoom call with Garry Kasparov next Thursday, September 25 at 12pm ET/9am PT.
Let’s have a real conversation about the future of this country’s democracy, face-to-face.

Emergency Zoom Call: The First Amendment Under Attack
Let’s have a real conversation about the future of this country’s democracy, face-to-face

HUN-REN RCNS and its consortium receive prestigious European funding for the first human testing of a prosthesis designed to restore vision https://www.ttk.hun-ren.hu/en/recent-news/

HUN-REN RCNS and its Consortium Receive Prestigious European Funding for the First Human Testing of a Prosthesis Designed to Restore Vision
Over the past five years, the Belgian startup ReVision Implant has been developing a groundbreaking brain prosthesis that aims to partially restore vision to the blind. A consortium was formed to carry out the first human testing of the technology, consisting of the manufacturing startup and three research groups, including the

'I used to think curation was something done to us, a middle-class job where someone with elbow patches picks which version of our past is respectable enough to put behind glass' 🔥
From ‘Keep The Flame Burning’: What Happens When You Hand the Archives to the People They Forgot About

When Family Comes First – Spending time with them all #connection #family https://muz4now.com/2023/when-f…

When Family Comes First - Spending time with them all
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

X sets its first UK Original, a docuseries about Premier League club Burnley's 2025/26 season, featuring 20 episodes of 10-12 minutes each released fortnightly (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/elon-musk-x-first-uk-se…

Elon Musk’s X Sets First UK Original With In-Season Docuseries On Premier League Club Burnley
Elon Musk's X Sets First UK Original Series With Premier League Club Burnley.

🤦 As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/as-indonesia-reclaims-forests-from-palm-oil-smallholders-bear-brunt-of-enforcement/

As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement
JAKARTA — Indonesia has launched a sweeping and militarized crackdown on illegal forest use, reclaiming millions of hectares of land — but civil society groups warn the campaign is displacing Indigenous peoples while sparing corporate offenders and entrenching land inequality. Under a regulation issued in January, President Prabowo Subianto established a task force to crack down on […]

Here's my physics professor and friend Carl Franck and family after the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest on a rainy summer day
#photo #photography #ForestFriday