Today's round-up on journalism worldwide features RSF’s World Press Freedom Index 2026, why the young avoid news and the growth of push notifications and peer sharing for traffic. Click to read, share and subscribe www.linkedin.com/pulse/rsfs-w...

RSF’s World Press Freedom Index 2026

Plus: Why the young avoid news | The growth of push notifications and peer sharing for traffic | Freed Kuwaiti journalist stripped of citizenship Journalism Today. 30 April 2026 Research | Reporting |...

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Today is Take Action for #libraries Day in the US, part of National Library Week, and World Book Day. 📚 Today is a perfect to contact Congress and tell them to oppose the dangerous HR 7661 and support the freedom to read.

“Whether we’re talking about the CPB closing because of loss of public funding, or emergency alert systems, there has been a disinvestment in information that is vital to keeping communities not only informed but safe and connected.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/how-...

“How can we help?” The Engaged Journalism Exchange aims to create belonging through media

"We don't see the news business as a connection business or an experience business. There's a ton of opportunity there."

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"More relevant than ever": Read @sarahscire.com's full review of @lauragarbes.bsky.social's new book Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry in @niemanlab.org: www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund....

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors

After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the…

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Congrats @losowsky.com and what a star you are for taking your moment and sharing 💐 with this great list of folks doing community-centered work ✨

Andrew Losowsky@losowsky.com · 11mo ago

When I learned that I had been chosen for ONA’s Impact Award this year (awards.journalists.org/awards/impac...), for centering community voices, my first response was to think of at least a dozen others they could have also chosen.

ICE isn't just tearing families apart--they're also extorting them. According to the article, the pastor's family is being charged $50 for each 20-minute phone call he makes from detention. And it would likely cost them at least $10,000 for a release on bond.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE detains a pastor in Easton, Md., who has been in the U.S. for 24 years and has no criminal record, the Star Democrat reports. www.stardem.com/news/local_n...

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

Appreciating this take on yesterday’s protest in Philly not only because my favorite small human makes a cameo. Thanks @willbunch.bsky.social

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · last yr.

It didn't just rain on Trump's militarized birthday parade in D.C. Man, it poured I went to No Kings in Philly and saw how the flag is mightier than the tank, as a people's army of red, white and blue called No Kings trumped U.S. autocracy on Flag Day My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

If anyone is having trouble following my (increasingly long) thread tracking incidents where police assaulted journalists at protests in Los Angeles this weekend, it's also in spreadsheet form here. This is the more organized version I've been sending to lawyers, agency chiefs, electeds, etc.

California Press Rights Tracking Doc (Consolidated)

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Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

How do we talk *to* and *about* people we disagree with? And how should journalists be thinking about that? I'm looking forward to lessons from this conversation. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

News Over Noise 302 is here! We talk to @andreawenzel.bsky.social about local news experiments and their significance to communities: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/cre...

Creating Equitable Newsrooms that Connect with Communities - News Literacy Initiative

Once upon a time, Americans turned to trusted news organizations to learn about their shared reality. Today, the media people consume as “news,” fractures t

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One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...

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One advantage to the current political moment is that it brings into focus larger power structures that are typically invisible or mystified. A billionaire-owned media system is a policy failure and a threat to democracy.

Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · last yr.

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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

"I’ve always said that journalism is the first draft of historical fiction, because there are so many perspectives that are left out of reporting." — @meredithdclark.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/ligh...

“Lightning in a bottle”: Meredith Clark on Black Twitter’s journalistic impact, legacy — and writing its “obituary”

"No matter what the technology is, we're going to be using it."

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Trump and Musk are currently dismantling wide swaths of the federal government, in flagrant violation of the Constitution. The New York Times is asking the tough questions.

In the hour between this screenshot and now, we've lost two more characters. This page now refers to "LGB persons." No Q, no plus. It also appears to be a site-wide replacement, as the search hasn't caught up with the new pages. We're viewing erasure in real-time.

Allison Chapman@alli.gay · last yr.

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

Check out our lineup of book reviews published in January at ijoc.org: The Wuhan Lockdown by @guobin-yang.bsky.social Antiracist Journalist by @andreawenzel.bsky.social Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa by Allen Munoriyarwa & Admire Mare Fandom is Ugly by @melstanfill.bsky.social

Delighted to share this long time in the making @tukleincollege.bsky.social effort in collab w/ @jillianbauer.bsky.social & @letrellcrittenden.bsky.social which we hope will support engaged research & community-centered journalism projects klein.temple.edu/news/2025/02...

Reimagining Journalism: Klein College Launches Center for Community-Engaged Media and Names First Director

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Appreciate this report from Media Cymru & hope BBC & others dig in and take on board their recommendations on reporting from the lens of communities in forms community members want 👉

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · last yr.

"“If you ask people ‘are you interested in your place in the world? Do you want to understand the world?’ Everyone says yes. But if you ask ‘does status quo journalism help you do any of those things?’ They say no."

Well, yes

Hey @icahdq.bsky.social journalism, communication, media folks: we are organizing another round of scholar matchups w/ aim of chipping at disconnects between ‘global south’ & ‘global north’. You don’t have to come to conference. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... cc: @magdakon.bsky.social

ICA Journalism Studies: Scholar Matchmaking

Welcome! This initiative is meant to help break down some of the barriers we tend to experience as scholars, researchers, and teachers. We hope to chip away at disconnects between Global South and Glo...

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Journalism folks: know anyone working to connect research & practice? @icahdq.bsky.social Journalism Studies is accepting applications for its Public Engagement Award. Cc: @magdakon.bsky.social Deadline March 21. www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

The media is too quick to use Republican buzzwords - “politically correct,” “DEI,” “critical race theory” - these all mean the same thing and @karenattiah.bsky.social is right. Be clearer with your questioning.u

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2y ago

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

Pub alert 📣🤩 Our latest climate change & news audiences report is out, with insights from 3yrs of survey data across 8 countries. Despite the worsening climate crisis, climate news consumption & attitudes have remained remarkably stable - a pattern we term "climate perception inertia." For more👇

Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

Tomorrow would be a very good opportunity for DC news bureaus to send people from the public health, science policy, and defense beats to the White House press briefing instead of the usual White House correspondents.

"Have your trusted media pundits ask how anyone could even for a moment think the rich man would do this intentionally, knowing as he does full well the long and tragic history of the gesture. 'Did you know the rich man visited Auschwitz last year? He can't be a fascist!'"

This Is How You Normalize Performing a Fascist Gesture

“There were angry reactions across Europe to Elon Musk’s apparent use of a salute banned for its Nazi links in Germany, where some condemned it as ...

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