"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify" How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering everyone with open-source investigation skills, argue @eliothiggins.bsky.social & @drnataliemartin.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills

“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.

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🚀 Episode 52 of @lnmpod.com with Dan Harris is out! The former ABC News anchor & author/host of 10% Happier talks with host Tim Regan-Porter about mindfulness; the toll of war reporting; navigating leadership, entrepreneurship and big transitions; & masculinity, friendships & emotional openness.

🚀 Episode 51 of @lnmpod.com with Samantha Ragland is out. @ampress.bsky.social's VP of Journalism Programs talks with @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about fostering well-being in newsrooms, balancing people sustainability w/ business demands & creating a culture of care that fuels great journalism.

Here's every @niemanlab.org Prediction we've published so far (more coming next week!): Heather Chaplin • Saba Long • Kawandeep Virdee • Scott Lamb • Andrea Faye Hart • Carrie Brown • Hillary Frey • Retha Hill • S. Mitra Kalita • Chitranshu Tewari • Jonathan Hunt • Benjamin Toff • AX Mina (1/x)

🥳 Last week, episode 50 of @lnmpod.com dropped (only ~10% of podcasts make it that far). Thanks to all of the great guests! Interesting Spotify Wrapped data. Great growth. Listener affinity w/ ArmchairExpPod, The Daily & Off Menu. Episode archives: localnewsmatterspodcast.com/podcast/

🎉 Episode 50 🥳 of @lnmpod.com is out. Randy Picht and Andrew Finlayson talk with host @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about @rjionline.bsky.social's landmark study on burnout in journalism. 🚨 Burnout is a crisis 🧠 Solutions, not just problems 🔄 Rethinking newsroom culture 📰 Passion under pressure

We’re thrilled to announce $1.4M in Product & AI Studio grants to help local #nonprofitnews outlets use AI to boost revenue and uncover impactful civic stories. Learn more about the newsrooms and their innovative #AI initiatives:

From experimentation to action: What’s next for AJP’s Product & AI Studio - American Journalism Project

AJP announces $1.4M in grants to 27 newsrooms, supporting AI-driven solutions to boost revenue and uncover impactful stories from civic data.

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📢 On #GivingTuesday/#GivingNewsDay, please consider supporting local news. It's never been more crucial. In Colorado, COLab, CFOIC and all the #newsconeeds newsrooms are great choices. www.coloradogives.org/organization... www.coloradogives.org/organization... www.coloradogives.org/community/Co...

Support Colorado News Collaborative on ColoradoGives.org

An investment in COLab is an act of civic participation. Your donation ensures Coloradans will be informed about the issues that impact their daily lives, engaged in local government and inspired to a...

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Here's a starter pack for following Mississippi journalists. Y'all let me know if I'm missing anyone! go.bsky.app/KWfYHCE

NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.” search.app?link=https%3...

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'

Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

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Here's a statement from our Acting Director @mitalilive.bsky.social about our alumnus Fisayo Soyombo, who was arrested in Nigeria earlier this week ✍️ Details about the case x.com/AmnestyNiger... 🔗A link to Fisayo's project at the Institute reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/silent-war-h...

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Musk admits X throttles links as ‘news influencers’ take over

Hard times for the humble hyperlink and those who depend on it.

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We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.

Dave Earley@earleyedition.bsky.social · 2y ago

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

Eager to grow as a leader & help shape journalism’s future? Join us for a live Q&A webinar on Tues., Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. PT. We'll tell you about the JSK Journalism Fellowships at Stanford & answer your questions. Register and join us! bit.ly/jsk-dec03

Prefer a remote Fellowship? We have those too! Work on a project that will build a resource, tool or platform for journalists - while keeping your day job! Come ask questions: bit.ly/rjifellowshipQA

Both have value. But this Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the primary sources! Let's sing the praises of journalism's often-unsung heroes – those who work holiday shifts and produce packages about airport gridlock and wake up before dawn for live shots and catch the typos in the home page headlines 🙌

🚀 Episode 49 of @lnmpod.com with Laura Frank is out. The Executive Director of the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) talks with host @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about sustaining local journalism through collaboration and innovation to address critical challenges.

New to Bluesky? We've got you covered! ⭐ Follow Block Club's team on here to stay in the know about all things Chicago. We'll keep adding to the list as more members of our team join. go.bsky.app/BpnBAMv

Have a passion project you want to build to help journalists? Applications open Dec 2! Our residential fellowship provides up to $100,000 in funding a $5k monthly living stipend and the collaboration and support of campus resources! bit.ly/rjifellowships

Got into the Starter Pack business This one is for people with podcasts or newsletters about journalism, as well as the @niemanlab.org folks and a few others who cover journalism intensely go.bsky.app/PtX6vbW

🚀 Episode 48 of @lnmpod.com with Jennifer Larino is out. The ED & Co-Founder of Lede New Orleans talks with host @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about how her organization is reshaping local journalism by training young BIPOC storytellers to address community information needs.

Journalists are tired. The public is tuning out. So how should we respond to the demands of the neverending news cycle without both alienating our communities and burning ourselves out? Some ideas here. 💛 trustingnews.org/trust-tips-s...

Trust Tips: Show care in helping your community navigate post-election life - Trusting News

How can we respond to the neverending news cycle without alienating our communities and burning ourselves out?

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Here's a helpful list of journalists on BlueSky who've been featured on Your First Byline go.bsky.app/UudLXJK

👋 Hello to all our new followers! A week ago we had about 6k followers after more than a year on @bsky.app. Today we passed 30k! 🎉 See our #starterpack of Guardian Australia journalists here 👇or search Bluesky for 'starter pack Australia' to find lots of other local #starterpacks!

Starter pack for the team at THE CITY (see LNM episode with @nicdawes.bsky.social: localnewsmatterspodcast.com/the-fight-fo...) Via @katiehonan.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TM5gvnU

Washington Post starter pack

Hi, everyone! Thanks to so many of you for reading The Atlantic over here on Bluesky. We have an Atlantic starter pack here: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y

EJN out with an interesting piece on news influencers, including how the journalism industry can work to promote truth-telling among them. They aren't going away, folks. No matter how much 'Big J' journalists might not like them.

Influencers and journalism: Reaching out to build a coalition for truth-telling

66% of influencers don’t fact-check. How can we empower digital creators to counter this trend and build a coalition for truth-telling?

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