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An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

At least 53 of the 67 journalists killed in the past 12 months were victims of war or criminal networks; 503 journalists are detained globally, 121 in China (Reporters Without Borders)
https://rsf.org/en/2025-deadly-year-journalists-where-hate-and-impunity-lead

2025, a deadly year for journalists: this is where hate and impunity lead
Journalists do not just die – they are killed. The number of murdered journalists has risen again, due to the criminal practices of military groups — both regular and paramilitary — and organised crime. At least 53 of the 67 media professionals killed over the past year are victims of war or criminal networks.

Interesting , They Droned Back.
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
#drones #germany #netherlands

They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

Ellison thanks journalists, calling them “the •independent• press of America”

Mit ein wenig #OSINT russische Drohnen verfolgen. Imposante Recherche von Journalismusstudent:innen.
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back

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An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

Nicaraguan journalists who fled their country for Costa Rica amid a press freedom crisis say the regime's threats, harassment, and blackmail have followed them (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/01/they-are-hunti

‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders - Committee to Protect Journalists
An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for...

A look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada

Under the radar: Israel steps up censorship and suppression of independent reporting - Committee to Protect Journalists
Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now functions as “part of the war effort.” Independent reporting has sharply declined, leaving the Israeli public with a distorted view of the conflict. An October 2025 report...

How independent Venezuelan outlets, operating from exile and in alliance with reporters who remain in the country, managed to cover Maduro's ouster (César López Linares/LatAm Journalism Review)
https://latamjournalismrevie…

How Venezuelan journalists broke the information blockade with a 10-hour broadcast of Maduro’s ouster
How Venezuelan journalists broke the information blockade with a 10-hour broadcast of Maduro’s ouster Digital Native. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.