It’s #NewstodonFriday! It’s been another busy week for the many newsrooms who have an active presence in the #fediverse, and we’re highlighting their work in the thread below. If you like what you see, follow the profiles and boost their stories.
If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments.
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When flamingos have a nest of chicks to care for, their pink plumage can fade. For @thexylom, Emma Schmitt writes about her experience of early motherhood and what the animal kingdom has taught her.
Members of a U.S.-based Christian sect named the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) believe that they’re prophets who receive direct revelations from God —Texan “prophet” Cindy Jacobs once attributed the 2011 tsunami in Japan to the Obama administration’s repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell."
@TexasObserver reports that this shouldn’t be written off as “fundamentalist nonsense” — the NAR is tied to former President Donald Trump and other GOP luminaries.
Some places in the USA are trying to minimize how much African-American Studies appears on school curriculums, but not San Francisco.
@SFPublicPress reports on how a half dozen high schools in the Bay Area will offer the subject as an Advanced Placement course in the upcoming school year, and why educators are enthusiastic about this.
Business Insider created a Flipboard Storyboard, “Yes, Modi won,” which our @NewsDesk featured this week. In it, find stories about what Modi’s underperformance in the Indian elections means for the world’s largest democracy.
Sad times for U.K. politician Nigel Farage, who had a milkshake chucked in his face earlier this week. The Trump pal and anti-EU activist isn’t the first person to be pelted in the name of politics.
@TheConversationUS looks at other notable figures, from Roman emperor Vespasian to George W. Bush, who’ve drawn the ire of dissatisfied citizens.
Fact-checking is a great way to counter disinformation, right? Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Victory Lab” and “The Lie Detectives,” says that’s not necessarily the case. In this fascinating, important interview, Aaron Sankin of @themarkup talks to Issenberg about the new media and political landscape and how narratives are shaped in 2024.
@josephcox has written a book, “Dark Wire,” about an encrypted messaging service app called Anom, which is used by drug traffickers but was infiltrated by the FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP). @404mediaco has published this extract about how a kidnapping was both planned and foiled on Anom.
Political analysts are still dissecting India's election results. Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a historic third term. But his BJP party lost a significant number of seats.
What does it all mean for the world's largest democracy? Business Insider has a great selection of stories covering all the angles. Dive deep here: https://flip.it/ctg0ik
It might be a bit late to get #Newstodon Friday going today, but here's our pick for the day:
Donald #Trump is a non-New Yorker’s idea of a New Yorker: “a well-done steak guy in a bagels-and-lox, or slice-of-pizza, or arroz con pollo or soup dumplings town.”
Was just looking at a California Fruit & Vegetable Magazine "story" about UC Davis ending its licensing agreement with Eurosemillas. At the bottom of the story, it's attributed to Bill Kisliuk, UC Davis. I think I know what happened here...
UC Davis, like other UCs, has a huge "Strategic Communications" dept, staffed with ex-journalists who feed stories to news media, who usually publish UC Davis' words verbatim and not as a quote in a well-researched story.
Nobel Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa is on PBS Newshour talking about how US gov't outsourcing tech to the private sector so often has strengthened surveillance capitalism. She said that journalists need to build their own independent platforms (paraphrase by me... consult the video).
I feel a little dirty suggesting this, but is there any way we can take the impulse of those who love statistics and following weekly (or even by-the-minute) updates when it comes to organized corporate sports and create news sites that do that for ongoing newsbeats?
That is, not the "if it bleeds, it leads" stuff, but doggedly investigating, going after corruption, etc.? #Newstodon#Journalism#Civics
Been reading r/worldnews for a decade now and lately it has been really revealing what a propaganda machine it has become. Just got perma banned for pointing out that "legal war targets aren't necessarily ethically correct"
With Artifact gone, reddit basically gone - what other sources do you use for #geopolitics?
Apparently it kicked off between Fury and Usyk at their weigh-in.
Whenever I see pictures of boxers squaring up to each other, it always looks to me like they're getting married and staring intensely and lovingly into each other's eyes.
Am I an overly pacifist dove; or do others see this as well?
There’s a new playbook being written right now when it comes to the future of social media. The early-mover advantage is still in effect, and there’s a lot to figure out. Gone are opaque algorithms and the whims of any single company.
The fediverse represents a chance for quality journalism to shine again.
We talked to two leaders at fedi-forward publications — @TheConversationUS's @BostonAbrams, and @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler — about why they’re investing in the open social web, what they’ve learned so far, and their advice for other publishers just getting started.