Hey, journos: Apply, apply, apply!

From STAT, an wonderful fellowship opportunity for early-career U.S. journalists from a racial or ethnic group underrepresented in journalism.

Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship deadline is this Friday.

statnews.com/careers/sharon…

In February 2024, the percentage of American respondents of a Gallup survey who had a 'very unfavorable' view of #Iran stood at 48%, the fourth all-time high since February 1989 when the polls began to be conducted. 1/6

news.gallup.com/poll/116236/ir…

Non-competes have held back so many freelancers and prevented us from writing for “competing” outlets — despite the fact that pay was terrible and where else are we supposed to write for?

This is a big deal that the FTC is banning noncompetes

ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Excited to partner w/ Josh Goldblum and Futurespaces to present a deep dive on AI.
3 hours(!)
Fully remote
Friday May 3, 1-4 pm ET

Here's a code for 50% off: SREE50
bit.ly/sreefuturespac…

Amplifying career highlights of South Asian journos in US/Canada #SAJAerUpdates .

Sandhya Somashekhar is now Deputy Business Editor of The Washington Post.

Her work has 'drawn fans in every corner of the newsroom,' says lori montgomery, Business Editor.
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washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/04/26/…

MyPOV: Earnings preview on CNBC with Becky Quick

Amazon @apple and what happened to Meta ?

AI and earnings performance powering gains

#Magnificoent7 #BigTech #DigitalGiants

So many Irishmen remembered here - #TheConnaughtRangers who served all over India for over a hundred years.

On a pod w/ Ann Coulter, Peter Thiel talks about how he destroyed Gawker.

This is the most I've ever heard him say about it, and it confirms much of Matt Drange's and my reporting from 7 years ago. It also has details on stuff we could never confirm.

ricochet.com/podcast/unsafe…

🍎 Don't *really know what you're doing with AI? Err ~no one does.

Great read in Sree Sreenivasan (Threads: @sreenet)'s (free) newsletter — and great sub-hed: We have no idea what we're doing with AI, but we’re clearly doing it anyways

(It’s not good enough to be everywhere: Stanford)
sreenet.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-good…

PROGRAMMING NOTES

We will be rescheduling @profmsinha's appearance on @Sree's Sunday #NYTReadalong to a later date; no show this weekend.

Ali Velshi, MSNBC Chief Correspondent, will join us May 5th at ⏰8am ET⏰

Click here for our archives:
digimentors.group/nytreadalong

Planning to travel? Don't miss @NewYorkBob's (Robert Anthony) tech tip from this week's #SreeNote (from @Sree). #AI can be your #travel planner!
read: sreenet.substack.com/i/143810483/di…

It's #IndependentBookstoreDay ! Celebrate by checking out the SAJA Bookstore on Bookshop.org US: bookshop.org/shop/Saja

You'll find books by SAJA members and celebrity authors; books about South Asian history and more, all curated with love by book expert Lakshmi Gandhi.

NYC Sanitation officials promised not to target street vendors just because they don't have a license.

But ticketing data tells a different story.

OVER HALF of the 1,400 tickets they issued were for vending without a license or permit.

gothamist.com/news/nyc-stree…

Dawn Helmrich Pradnya Haldipur STEFFEN KAPLAN Dr. Sujana Chandrasekhar Cauvery Madhavan 💙CaroleKing🌻DemocracyBeats🫶🏿🫶🏾🫶🏼🗳️🇺🇦 AnitaJo Ken Fisher Sree Sreenivasan (Threads: @sreenet) Digimentors Denim Day Milwaukee @DenimDay WCASA Mary C. Curtis Rose Horowitz, #WomenToFollow💃🏼 Jeffrey Marcus ᴅɪᴀɴᴀ ʀᴏʜɪɴɪ ˢʰᵉ/ʰᵉʳ/ᵉˡˡᵃ Shashi Bellamkonda Diane Stefani (She/Her) Therese Steiner Alia Papageorgiou ✏️ Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, FASAM Paula Kiger (She/Her) 6/x We're live with #ShiningLightonShadows .

Please join us.
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AI Isn't Good Enough to be Everywhere, by Sree Sreenivasan (Threads: @sreenet) open.substack.com/pub/sreenet/p/…

Great way to learn useful and nuanced info on #AI - strong reco for all - including #MedTwitter 👇🏽 Sree Sreenivasan (Threads: @sreenet)

Gitesh Pandya Amplifying career highlights of South Asian journos & media folks in US/Canada #SAJAerUpdates .

Congrats to Tasneem Raja, EIC of The Oaklandside, on winning International Women's Media Foundation's 2024 Gwen Ifill Award! 🏆

IMWF's tweet: twitter.com/IWMF/status/17…

Tasneem's tweet: x.com/tasneemraja/st…

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Excited to partner w/ Josh Goldblum and Futurespaces to present a deep dive on AI.
3 hours(!)
Fully remote
Friday May 3, 1-4 pm ET

Here's a code for 50% off: SREE50
bit.ly/sreefuturespac…

Taking a moment from the heat and dust and madness of elections to visit RK Narayan’s home in #Mysore , now a small museum, so simple and serene, that I was transported to #MalgudiDays . The perks of this road trip from Kanyakumari to Kashmir #DhabasOfDemocracy #PeopleFirst #Mojo

1/n Can we make enough H5N1 bird flu vaccine if there's a pandemic? - a very thorough and thoughtful article by ⁦Helen Branswell 🇨🇦⁩ thank you ⁦Michael Osterholm⁩ for alerting me to it. Good discussion of the complexities, although I would add one more statnews.com/2024/04/24/h5n…