Interesting takeaway from the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2023: Even the most engaged news readers show some amount of news avoidance - Kirsten Eddy, Ph.D. at #ONA23 News Avoidance session

The two most important things that news avoiders say they want are "positive news" and "solutions", NOT the latest updates on the big news of the day that most news orgs focus on - Kirsten Eddy, Ph.D. at #ONA23

Very impressed with what New York Times Opinion has done to enhance trust: Small but important changes like enhanced bylines (more context) and changing "op-ed" to "guest essay". Trust helps counter news avoidance. - Rubina Madan Fillion at #ONA23

What Sara Lomax and S. Mitra Kalita have done (and continue to do) with URL Media is to help advertisers understand the value of Black & Brown audiences, and that they need to spend money to reach them. Hard to do when this country does not value Black & Brown people #ONA23

Big insight from @ricsand on Palabra's partnership with URL Media - for so long, Black & Brown media has been considered "other", but when those niches unite, we see that it's actually the majority. This is powerful. #ONA23

A very clear example of news-product collaboration at X / Twitter, from J Geary ⚡️💙 : Big a-ha moment in getting buy-in was realizing that the curation team's job wasn't convincing others of our value, it was us learning the language/principles of product development #ONA23

For today’s #NationalDayofService, we honor all those who have answered the call in the US and abroad to donate their time and energy to helping communities grow and thrive. #GetInvolved with an opportunity near you > justserve.org. 🙌 RT and spread the word!

"Gallant said that he had ordered 'a complete siege of the Gaza Strip,' which is home to 2.2M Palestinians, nearly half of them children. 'There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,' he said. 'We are fighting human animals, and we act accordingly.'”

When Elon Musk took over Twitter one year ago today, I made a prediction about what would happen. I was completely wrong. Today I apologize, and take a look back to understand how I was so mistaken. theintercept.com/2023/10/27/elo…

The one Kissinger obit you need to read, from Nick Turse in The Intercept : theintercept.com/2023/11/29/hen…

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Good for The Intercept and Prem Thakker for reporting on this. Given the New York Times’s recent obsession with Harvard and the Ivies, they will be all over this story, right? Right??

Israeli forces have killed 874 Palestinians & injured 1,490 since the ICJ trial. Politicians calling to settle Gaza, a little girl missing after her family was killed—here's what's happened since the ICJ ordered Israel to stop further acts of genocide: theintercept.com/2024/02/02/isr…

This heartbreaking report from inside Gaza shows how desperate the situation really is >

This is why I like reading Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) - reporting and context, analysis and opinion on one piece. Latest on the successes, and responsibilities, of the The New York Times niemanlab.org/2024/02/weve-r… via Nieman Lab

"Women become shock absorbers of failing systems" - Kirsi Madi of UN Women discussing food insecurity in Gaza, where "women eat less, women eat last" #WomeninGaza

"The mask has been taken off. Either we champion principles we believe in and that we live under the law of the jungle, where murder and genocide are legitimized" - powerful statement from the Palestinian rep at #WomeninGaza #CSW68

"There can be no reconstruction of Gaza without rebuilding the lives of women. Women know what is needed to rebuild, and we are already late. We need to be more serious about dealing with this, or the losses will be doubled." - UN Development rep at #WomenInGaza #CSW68