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The Fathm team have made it to Delhi and we're making the final few updates before we welcome our first South Asia cohort to the @WAN-IFRA Newsroom Al Catalyst Programme.

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The latest edition of our daily roundup on journalism is out, featuring a new piece on Deepseek, a new report on addressing news avoidance and a new project on Israel's shifting public sphere Click to read, share and subscribe www.linkedin.com/pulse/journa...

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In June 2023 Fathm made the permanent move to a four-day working week and we haven't looked back. If you're thinking about making the move and need tips for how to implement it, we're always happy to share anything from our journey that might be helpful. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

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US banks & the Fed have left voluntary climate initiatives after pressure from Republican states, and now Trump. But US lenders & asset managers have clients in Europe, where net zero targets continue to apply. Expect further EU-US bifurcation of ESG investing. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/b...

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"We will get rid of our fact-checking control, stop demoting fact checked content..." This is a truly bonkers move from Meta. The world needs to take the threat of misinformation more seriously, not less.

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I'm afraid my account has been cloned and whatever bot is running it seems to be messaging people who thought they were following the real me and pivoting to a hard crypto sell. I've reported it but if you've been on the receiving end I would be grateful if you could do the same! Below is the fake👇

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White Christmas (1942) is a climate change song

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"Heatwaves, drought, insect-borne diseases and extreme weather are getting worse because of the climate crisis, putting lives and livelihoods at risk, found the report, the first comprehensive analysis of the state of climate change and health in island states."

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“In the future, if climate change is not addressed and is not thoughtfully handled, triathlons can cease to exist."

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I'm excited to be joining this initiative being led by @ezraeeman.bsky.social. I'm one of the members of the inaugural AI in Media advisory board. Looking forward to getting started!

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✨Just out: the @carbonbrief.org summary of what COP29 means for food, land and nature. Carbon markets, deforestation, the Rio Trio, Indigenous rights, methane, greenwashing, new NDCs…it’s all in. w/ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Yanine Quiroz

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Is this what the collapse of #AMOC would look like for #Ireland and the #UK? A week-long cold wave and snow followed by a big storm and rapidly rising temperatures? For #adaptation planning this is a real headache www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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"It’s been a bad year for climate and we’ve seen a gradual erosion in the public’s commitment to action for a couple of years now. The paradox is, of course, that major climate events are happening more frequently everywhere, yet people are no longer willing to prioritize this."

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Does a new social network have to actually be "useful"? Or is it ok if we use it for something different this time?

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Carbon Brief’s team of specialist journalists, who are on the ground in Baku, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 will be hosting a free webinar to discuss the key outcomes from #COP29. 🗓️ When? Monday 25 November, 15:00 (GMT) Register here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4eIg7vm

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Underground wildfires - burning from the Arctic to Indonesia - threaten an outsized impact on climate change. Their astonishing scope is shown by @bloomberg.com journalists Kyle Kim and Armand Emamdjomeh. Thanks to @mparrington.bsky.social and others quoted. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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I would love to make a starter pack for UK-based freelance journalists joining Bluesky to help get commissions, please let me know if that's you or someone you've worked with (freelance journalists outside the UK will be next!)

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What do you know about Spirulina? It’s a wonder plant that could be an asset in the fight against climate change. BTW climateXchange is nonprofit initiative that supports newsrooms to create solutions-focused climate journalism output like this www.climatexc.org #climatesolutions #climatejournalism

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"We have seen first hand that setting targets and sharing expectations with suppliers helps increase the pace of change. The actions we take, such as refusing to take advertising money from fossil fuel producers, can show others what is possible."

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Calling it now, “climate smart” is about to become the new “natural” label. Just absolutely meaningless, unregulated food marketing BS

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"There’s enough energy in the waves off America’s coasts to power one third of all the nation’s homes, said Matthew Grosso, the Energy Department’s director of the water power technologies office."

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"Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by Greenpeace."

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We have a great opportunity for a trainee community reporter to join the famous @liverpoolecho.co.uk You don't need any qualifications & can work in our newsroom as you learn on the job. A great chance to get a foot in the industry. Details here 👇 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women, finds a new investigation by Mongabay Africa The story: news.mongabay.com/2024/11/coba... Full length video: news.mongabay.com/video/2024/1...

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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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Building up a new list of people to follow is exciting but would be too easy to just replicate my feed from the "other place." I'd love any pointers toward journalists and newsroom strategy folk focusing on Global Majority markets as that is where the interesting stuff is really happening.

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🇮🇹 🍝 🍕Ciao Italia! Now with @pagellapolitica.bsky.social and @facta.news included!

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"The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) inaugural publication entitled “Asia Pacific Climate Report 2024” specifically projects a 17 percent reduction on both region’s gross domestic product (GDP) under a high-emission scenario."

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Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

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This story has some issues that I find infuriating but in general the answer to why oil companies are just shrugging and doing more oil is because they are very rich and powerful and no government has decided to stop them

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There are different ways for news outlets to engage audiences around climate. Conceived through one of our Knowledge Exchanges, Planet Plate from KBR in Indonesia is a series of podcasts and videos exploring the intersection of food and climate change by bringing the debate to the dinner table.

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"The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is now “deader than a doornail”, with 2024 almost certain to be the first individual year above this threshold."

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Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution. The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies. interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-... THREAD 1/10

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Hello Bluesky! As I introduce myself to this community I want to hit the ground running by talking about climate change and specifically the role that journalism should be playing. Here's something I wrote a few weeks ago after returning from NY Climate Week.

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