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Tech leaders have a plan to protect Bluesky from Elon Musk. Free our Feeds, a collective of tech leaders including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman, wants to raise US$30M to protect Bluesky
How the TikTok ban in the US could silence Gen Z’s newsrooms. Traditional media will have to re-evaluate their strategies to engage with younger audiences if the short-form video platform does not comply with demands from the US government
Will video kill the audio star in 2025? What was the big story of podcasts in 2024? If you ask outside observers of the industry, they might say Joe Rogan and the manosphere, particularly as we roll off the so-called podcast election. But when it comes to the community itself, another answer pops up with greater vociferousness: video, video, video
In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists documented its second-highest number of journalists behind bars – a global total of at least 361 journalists incarcerated on December 1, 2024
I have resigned from The Washington Post, effective today. Why I left to help launch a vibrant, new, independent media outlet
The death of truth was by design. Meta and Musk reveal Silicon Valley’s real mission: turning truth into a commodity
Growth requires the right mix of outlook, strategy, and capabilities. Top leaders achieve their goals by turning five mindsets into action, write Andy West, Greg Kelly, Jill Zucker, Michael Birshan, and coauthors in a new McKinsey article.
The LA fires and the health of our climate(s). What a disaster says about our physical and informational environments
This journalist wants you to try open-source AI: “AI is shiny, but value comes from the ideas people have to use it.” Hugging Face’s Florent Daudens on what open-source AI is, how journalists can use it and why he thinks they should
Journalism’s funding surge: philanthropic opportunities grow to address the complex challenges in the news industry. The end of 2024 was marked by a flurry of announcements of investments and grants being awarded to news organizations across the US
Baynana, the first media outlet created by Syrian refugee journalists in Spain. They fled the war and now seek to break stereotypes by giving a voice to the voiceless. But not everything is so easy in a media industry in crisis
How to pitch a story to Rest of World. Rest of World’s stories aim to connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated. We cover most of the countries outside the West, with a focus and presence in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America
The New York Times takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT’s future could be on the line. Other publishers, like the Associated Press, News Corp. and Vox Media, have reached content-sharing deals with OpenAI, but the three litigants in this case are taking the opposite path: going on the offensive
Image credit: screenshot from NewsNation of 7 February 2024