Grist is expanding agriculture and food coverage in a big way! This means lots more opportunities for newsroom partnerships, so let me know if you'd like to work with us on a story! grist.org/grist-news/how…

Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday approved a controversial “foreign agent law,” defying mass street protests by Georgians who fear the bill will strip back civil rights and push their country further into Moscow’s orbit. wapo.st/4ajJ8v9

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StructuredStories Rasmus Kleis Nielsen From the deep participatory research we’ve done with some of the most marginalised people in Wales, we know they’re VERY news literate. They understand centralisation of ownership, motivations of media barons, lack of diversity in newsrooms etc. That’s WHY they’re not engaging.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen A hypothesis: There is a strong desire among journalists and others for explanations of, & solutions for, journalism's problems that do not require journalism to fundamentally change.

Media literacy, mis/dis-information, filter bubbles, blaming platforms, etc all fill this need.

A depressing interview by Dr. Joanna Abeyie MBE, the ex-Head of Creative Diversity at the BBC.
The senior exec describes feeling psychologically unsafe, powerless,& her role being performative.
An interesting read & perspective.
#BlackWomensVoicesMatter .
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These are the Awards Nominees for 2024. It has been tough to select just three entries from so many incredible ones. But the judges looked at criteria like relevance, substance and impact to arrive at a decision

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'Don't spoil it for us with the few patriotic media'- Austria's far-right Freedom Party used their ministry positions to funnel money to right-wing media, reports puls24.at/news/politik/f…

'These reports show that the response to the climate crisis is a social, historical and political phenomenon. Even on a city level, money and power obscure the picture of what needs to be done to ensure safety & justice for all. As journalists, we collaborate to clear the view.'

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Right now, online media in Georgia is in dire need of safety equipment, legal support, and technology as we cover increasingly challenging circumstances.

Support small, independent media outlets in Georgia via our collective fundraiser:

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“We already see nearly one-third of the world population exposed to deadly heat waves, a 9-fold increase in large North American wildfires, record-setting regional-scale megadrought, the Antarctic ice sheet losing…” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

This smearing campaign is so familiar to academics from Turkey who were labeled as terrorists for condemning human rights violations in Kurdish-majority towns & asking for peace in 2016. Ironically, Germany offered refuge to some of those exiled academics back then.

Das nennt man dann wohl 'an den Pranger stellen' und markieren. In der derzeitigen Phase der politischen Radikalisierung brandgefährlich. Leider hat die Ministerin und das Haus ja ihren Beitrag geleistet. Ich hoffe, Sie und auch Ihre Chefin stellen sich jetzt vor die Kolleg*innen

This is the most alarming story I've worked on in a while. The French billionaire Vincent Bollore, described as 'the French Rupert Murdoch', is trying to bring Africa's biggest broadcaster - MultiChoice, that's DStv, ShowMax and SuperSport - into his 'right wing media empire'.

Best-selling German newspaper Bild is now publishing the *photos* of academics who have signed a letter defending the rights of students to protest, calling them 'Universitäter', a wordplay between 'university employees' and... 'offenders' 😬

In armed conflicts, the world’s primary focus should, of course, always be on the suffering of innocents on the ground.

But we should also think about the destruction of minds beyond the immediate war zone - how reason and morality are wrecked by a conflict mentality. People…

Daniel Ojukwu Ojukwu Justin Daniel (OJD), the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) reporter who was abducted by men of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Inspector-General of Police, has finally regained freedom after 10 days in police captivity.👇

What are the links between human rights violations caused by climate change and potential remedies?

M. Cohen, V. Lanovoy, C. Martini, A. Rocha, M. A. Tigre, and E. Xavier on KlimaSeniorinnen and the question of reparation for climate change.

verfassungsblog.de/reparation-for… Sabin Center

Elected officials in the U.S. have seized on campus protests to accuse their political foes of supporting antisemitism. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric and conspiracy theories—much of it focused on our founder, George Soros, and misrepresenting our work…