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I work on public interest #journalism #funding & financing worldwide. -Work: https://macrosco.pe -Boards: @orwellprize.bsky.social, Indigo Trust, @serrapilheira.org -Connect: linkedin.com/in/sameerpadania #THFC #COYS #FRSA
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Political advertising is everywhere in Switzerland. This is my favourite one so far

submitted 636 days ago • 7 comments

This is genuinely an incredible change in tone & openness in comparison to the past 20+ years. #THFC #COYS

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www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

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VG report by #BBCRD - incl @cubicgarden.com, @jemimahknight.bsky.social, @billt.bsky.social - that wrangles the long view on #socialmedia, #socialnetworks & what a #publicservicemedia org might do to build #publicvalue. (+ bonus @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quote!) www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for positions on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission." Deadline July 4. publicjobs.ie/en/?option=c...

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@solonneto.bsky.social

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Halfway through Stalked, by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & Hannah Mossman Moore. Exceptional. Listen via the link below or via your usual podcast player. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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Really wish it were possible to have access to the whole archive - rather than just last four - of the superb BBC Radio show #WordsAndMusic… Here’s the edition on #Bradford: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The art of the #football chant: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 203 of The Continent Across East Africa, state security forces have been very busy recently — doing crime but not time. Get this week's edition here: bit.ly/203_TC

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In East Africa, abductions, killings and torture by state agents are surging. Instead of protecting citizens, many lawmakers are applauding the repression.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Anyone know why there are 30 police, sniffer dogs, body cameras etc in the entrance to #WoodGreen tube, inside and outside the barriers?

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Guys I keep trying to tell everyone the interface is destiny and no one knows what I mean I guess. techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/b... Sure bsky isn't exactly like twitter, but it looks and feels like twitter so yeah it's basically going to be twitter. Culturally, affordances, it's Left twitter

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Oh god.

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“consistently and significantly outperforming expectations for an extended period of time” #COYS #THFC

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Spotlighting the finalists for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness! David Cohen's (@cohenstandard.bsky.social) Standard investigation showed how refugees are being made homeless by official policy. Read with @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social: www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/david-c...

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I know this is an issue for family-owned media outlets in the UK (& elsewhere) too. If only there were a way for such owners to sell to a public interest-oriented new owner that respects the local heritage & role of their outlet, but also has the chops/means to help it evolve & advance...

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@mondomascots.bsky.social if I may offer you a new contender: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCeHb4 (Via www.gov.uk/government/n...)

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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

Cc @publicinterestnews.org.uk #indienewsweek

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Eeeek, after like two decades in corporate journalism and tech, I've founded a company. It's called Trust Fund and it aims to make independent journalism creators thrive, no matter where they publish. Love making good money with journalism, always have, always will. Reach out: trustfnd.com

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This terrific conversation between @vincerugari.com & @flavbateman.bsky.social, alongside @iain.coys.social’s latest @poddenhampodspur.bsky.social, gives a balanced, tender look at Ange’s #THFC tenure, & the feeling of “what might have been” #COYS #EnjoyYourLunch overcast.fm/+ABGIwgK1SY4

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

submitted 8 days ago • 142 comments

It is with great sadness that I am doing what I would once have thought unthinkable. Following Salim Abdool Karim's superb Faraday Lecture 10 days ago, i have decided to return my own Faraday prize, awarded in 2014. The silence of the Royal Society in the face of Elon Musk's rampage (a member […]

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Scientist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy takes a stand on scientific #disinformation: www.ft.com/content/8778... #science #ethics

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