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A reminder that today and tomorrow (Thurs/Fri) #Guardian & #Observer journalists are on strike and you most definitely should avoid using The Guardian website in solidarity.
#ObserverSale #Tortoise #Journalism #Media #Unions
The people are being consumed by the so called "free" entertainment.
But it is not "free". It is dumb and trade-based. TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and so forth mandate that you give them your data and attention (watch ads) in order to use their platforms. In return they give you access to a ton of dumbed down content.
Trading stupidity is much easier than trading well made content. Therefore stupidity evolves faster in a trade-based society.
To make a good researched video can take months, to make a dumbed down one can take minutes. To write a good book about real and important things, and research for it, takes months or years. To write bullshit fictional stories takes a lot less. Music, movies, articles, they are all under the influence of trade, allowing simplistic content to thrive while good one to barely breath.
It is this trade based society to be blamed for the vast majority of the destruction, suffering and idiocy we see worldwide.
#trade #TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #money #media #journalism
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 39 - Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (Feat. Sam Cole)
Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances
Generative AI is transforming home appliances into smarter, more personalized helpers. GE's app offers AI-generated recipes, while Samsung's tech learns from user habits.Bernard Marr (Forbes)
Back in March, when the #fediverse came together to help save us, we changed our name to “Texas Observer Lives!”
Today, we changed it back to just "Texas Observer" because we need YOUR HELP to survive into 2024! It's up to our readers to preserve the voice of progressive #Texas by joining our fall membership drive.
Please consider joining—or renewing—today! https://hype.co/@texasobserver/zdmn6ya7
#journalism #JournoLife #Nonprofit #fundraising #news #culture #books #politics
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This is a spectacularly good analysis of why traffic referrals from social media have fallen off a cliff and what it means for publishers. This all comes out of what @pluralistic calls the enshittification of publishing, social media, and ads. People are tired of and overwhelmed by clickbait journalism. The answer, of course, is to provide actually good content, and present it well.
#content #journalism #media #SocialMedia
The future trend around not having social traffic at scale
Social media traffic has been at the center of most publishers' strategy for more than a decade... so what happens when it goes away?Baekdal
The EU media law, proposed by the European Commission last September, intends to protect journalists and the media against political control by governments and owners. These are visibly endangering freedom of expression and media diversity in several EU countries, most notably in Poland and Hungary but also elsewhere, as experts like the authors of the annual Media Pluralism Monitor report at the European University Institute in Florence, have warned for years."
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/eu-media-freedom-act-governments-exemption-spy-surveillance-journalists/
EU governments plan ‘blank cheque’ to spy on journalists
France, Germany and the Netherlands among governments pushing for an exemption in new EU law which would give states power to monitor journalists’ electronic communicationsHarald Schumann (Investigate Europe)
We are a trustworthy, nonprofit #News source, sharing the knowledge of academic experts on many topics.
Our team of editors identifies researchers studying topics that are timely, important or just plain interesting, and helps them write understandably for the public.
We give away all this #journalism for free.
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https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different
How we're different | The Conversation
The Conversation is the world's leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. It is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists. Free to read. Free to republish.The Conversation
For this week's story, we'll share Michelle Pitcher's interview with #prison journalist Jason Walker, who bravely reports on conditions inside even though it puts his life at risk.
https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-journalist-shows-why-we-need-a-free-press-even-behind-bars/
If you know anything about prison #journalism, you know both how courageous Jason is, and how hard Michelle had to work to get inside to report this story.
(Edit: Repetition)
#JournoLife #HumanRights #media #Texas #news
#TexasNeedsAnObserver
Prison Journalist Shows Why We Need a Free Press—Even Behind Bars - The Texas Observer
Jason Walker has been reporting from inside his cell at great risk to his personal safety.Michelle Pitcher (The Texas Observer)
But if you click and listen to NPR's executive editor, Terry Samuel, this may be the closest we get to NPR conceding that its Trump coverage 2016 to now didn't work because it tried to use normal tools and assumptions. To me that's significant, and it almost never happens.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167856064/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-of-nprs-coverage-of-trumps-indictment
#uspol #journalism #npr
Una Titz from the Antonio Amadeu Stiftung spoke with
@ColborneMichael about the past, present and future (and also the bizarreness) of Germany's far-right.
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
#journalism #nationalism #extremism #osint #germany
https://rss.com/podcasts/bellingcatmonitoring/887679/
Bellingcat Monitoring Podcast - Episode 4: The Past, Present and Future of Germany’s Far Right | RSS.com
Germany is not exactly some unknown country, and its far-right scenes are deeply intertwined with and inspire other European and international scenes.RSS.com
Please keep sharing our fundraiser, which will either cover payroll & expenses or go directly to severance for laid off TXO staff. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff
A lot of people are asking about long term plans for the publication. ... (🧵 1/?)
#SaveTXO #journalism #nonprofit
This money will go to support the staff, but donations will also go a long way towards showing that there's a will to keep this magazine alive. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff
#SaveTXO #journalism #Nonprofit #Texas
I'm Michele Ann Jenkins aka Maj.
I was federated before it was cool and have just been biding my time on FB and Reddit until a critical mass happened somewhere better and now here we are!
I am equally interested in anachronisms, futurism, and current events. In all timelines, looking to listen & learn from a diversity of voice and lived experiences.
Ever evolving tag cloud because I keep being reminded of other interests:
#Equality #Justice #Socialism
#Liguistics #SciFi #Taxonomy #OpenWeb #IA #UX #DigitalGovernance #Feminism #Journalism #Writing #Français #Geek #90s #Marginalia #UrbanPlanning #Expat #Immigrant #Python #Perl #Costuming #History #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #Upcyling #Repairing #DIY #MLIS #InfoSci #Sighing
We've collected 8 of our most popular articles of the year in links, and in a downloadable PDF.
Among them:
🦟 The science of mosquito magnets
🔭 The search for super-earths
🌋 Why we can't just throw all our trash into volcanoes to get rid of it
All written by experts.
https://theconversation.com/a-sampler-of-our-most-popular-articles-of-2022-195535
#Journalism #Science #SciComm #News
A sampler of our most popular articles of 2022
A selection of fact-based journalism from 2022, covering topics ranging from super-earths to mosquito magnets, and from why we need to file tax returns to why we can’t just throw all our trash into volcanoes.The Conversation
I've come across the following that are active & appear to be legit:
- LA Times @losangelestimes
- NBC News @nbcnews
- ProPublica @ProPublica
- VOA @VOANews
- The Intercept @theintercept
- The Conversation @TheConversationUS
- Meduza @meduza_en
- Global Voices @globalvoices
- Grist @grist
- Die Tageszeitung (in German) @tazgetroete
- Le Monde diplomatique (in French) @mdiplo
(ping me if you know more!)
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#media #news #journalism
@Kelcsimpkins
@SusanCunningham
@biancanogrady
@laminda
@inkfish
@Ckatz99
@lizseegert
@skrishna
@payaldhar
@lguterman
@EstelleSErasmus
@jamesian
@Trailanderror
@lqlqlq
@jenniferbillock
@AntoniaJuhasz
@alexwitze
@judeisabella
@madelineostrander
@thatsMohrlikeit
@nijhuism
@PaigeBlank
@meredithwadman
@helenczerski
@ECAlberts
#journalism #twittermigration #journalists #mastodon #fediverse #STEM
Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.
So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.
That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.
It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.
#journalism #socialmedia
https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/02/kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-committee-protect-trump/
...simply to call it a "counter-investigation" is too credulous. House Republicans have not shown there is anything to investigate.
So let's try a rewrite. Instead of "the G.O.P. is planning its own counter-investigation" how about...
"McCarthy's letter was the latest sign that the G.O.P. is struggling to find any factual basis on which to investigate the Jan. 6 investigation."
#journalism #NewYorkTimes #Jan6
#tech #techindustry #media #journalism #twitter #elonmusk
it's a shame this instance defederates most of us because this one is particularly cunty
RT: https://mastodon.social/users/taylorlorenz/statuses/109289217514816449
Hi! I’m a technology columnist at The Washington Post. I was previously a tech reporter at The New York Times and The Atlantic. I love communication technology and online culture news. I share a lot of links and hot takes on internet/tech stuff! 🥰 #technology #media #journalism #journalist #nyt #washingtonpost #nytimes #twitterefugee #Twittermirgration #twitterisdead #twitter
