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A must-read by Mark Jacob, Stop the Presses
Please, media, don’t turn the war into entertainment
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5/5

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

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

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

🧵 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
2/5

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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.
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4/5

Rather than embarrassing but infrequent call-outs in the Columbia Journalism Review, the #NYTimes needs regular review by a public editor.
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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
won Best Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival
#PrivateEquity #Journalism #FreePress

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.
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From the Committee to Protect Journalists:
Pig’s head, rats sent to Indonesian news outlet as president attacks foreign-funded media
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"America, you gotta wake up!"
Maria Ressa warns of authoritarianism in the US: “This is a pivotal moment"
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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