Jason Deans
@jdeans.bsky.social
Journalist: production editor @hyphenonline.com; ex @theguardian.com news/media/business reporter & editor; ex journalism trainer PA Media Academy
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This is as good a summation as you will get on the levers behind the BBC changes. A set of editorial judgments and errors that should have been swiftly corrected or addressed and blatant political interference amounting to an unnecessary crisis : observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is as good a summation as you will get on the levers behind the BBC changes. A set of editorial judgments and errors that should have been swiftly corrected or addressed and blatant political interference amounting to an unnecessary crisis : observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
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Huge congratulations to our reporter Aisha Rimi for winning the Journalist Media Personality of the Year at the Black Muslim Awards 2025.🎉🧡
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Huge congratulations to our reporter Aisha Rimi for winning the Journalist Media Personality of the Year at the Black Muslim Awards 2025.🎉🧡
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So many names. It’s beyond belief.
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
So many names. It’s beyond belief.
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‘St George was Turkish, just saying’: how the saint is a symbol for many cultures around the world.
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Why St George’s story doesn’t belong to the far right
From Ethiopia to Palestine, the figure has been embraced as a symbol of faith and resilience by people around the globe
hyphenonline.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
‘St George was Turkish, just saying’: how the saint is a symbol for many cultures around the world.
hyphenonline.com/2025/09/01/s...
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Behind on rent due to illness, benefit changes or even wrongful imprisonment, families are hauled in front of a judge to plead for their homes. Court hearings last minutes.
Welcome to the frontline of the UK's #housing crisis.
✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social
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Welcome to the frontline of the UK's #housing crisis.
✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/s...
Evicted in 10 minutes: what I learned from a day in housing court
Behind on rent due to family illness, benefit changes and even wrongful imprisonment, families come before a judge to plead for their homes
hyphenonline.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Behind on rent due to illness, benefit changes or even wrongful imprisonment, families are hauled in front of a judge to plead for their homes. Court hearings last minutes.
Welcome to the frontline of the UK's #housing crisis.
✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/s...
Welcome to the frontline of the UK's #housing crisis.
✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/s...
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🔴 Big exclusive leading Hyphen this morning – data from 119 councils shows half didn't greenlight a SINGLE social rent home in Labour's first six months.
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...
Just 6% of homes approved in Labour’s first six months were for social rent
Data from 119 English councils shows that council houses made up just 6% of planning approvals in Labour’s first half-year in office
hyphenonline.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🔴 Big exclusive leading Hyphen this morning – data from 119 councils shows half didn't greenlight a SINGLE social rent home in Labour's first six months.
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...
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I’ve been writing a weekly newsletter on post-Brexit Britain for the last 5 years for @financialtimes.com — now I’ve filed my last dispatch as I head off to be World Trade Editor.
It’s grim reading, I’m afraid, as this morning’s election results attest.
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It’s grim reading, I’m afraid, as this morning’s election results attest.
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Post-Brexit UK: stuck between an unreliable US and a mercantilist EU
[FREE TO READ] After five years as State of Britain newsletter writer Peter Foster reflects on the UK’s position in the world
on.ft.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I’ve been writing a weekly newsletter on post-Brexit Britain for the last 5 years for @financialtimes.com — now I’ve filed my last dispatch as I head off to be World Trade Editor.
It’s grim reading, I’m afraid, as this morning’s election results attest.
on.ft.com/3RLViX1
It’s grim reading, I’m afraid, as this morning’s election results attest.
on.ft.com/3RLViX1
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What a stupid time to be alive
The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What a stupid time to be alive
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Jaw-dropping details in here, read it:
Our new report highlights all the ways the Trump admin is letting corporate lawbreakers off the hook: www.citizen.org/article/corp...
How Trump Is Halting Enforcement Against Corporate Lawbreakers
After freeing January 6 rioters, Donald Trump’s second administration is rapidly moving toward a new priority: granting “get out of jail free” cards to corporations facing investigations and federal l...
www.citizen.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Jaw-dropping details in here, read it:
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So ‘safe spaces’ are OK now?
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So ‘safe spaces’ are OK now?
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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article)
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
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AOC is calling the Trump administration's bluff. Good.
New @aoc.bsky.social letter to AG Pam Bondi about Tom Homan:
February 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
AOC is calling the Trump administration's bluff. Good.
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I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’
The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.
wapo.st
February 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
RIP, GH: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Gene Hackman: the star of every scene he was in
From The Conversation to The Royal Tenenbaums, the actor rode America’s new wave to become the gold standard for characterful acting with heft
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
RIP, GH: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
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If this were free markets and the rule of law, or fm and democracy or fm and freedom then I cld see worse things. But while I v much support “personal liberties” in context this sounds like a pure right wing turn.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If this were free markets and the rule of law, or fm and democracy or fm and freedom then I cld see worse things. But while I v much support “personal liberties” in context this sounds like a pure right wing turn.
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"From the moment he returned to office, the second Trump administration has prioritized giving access and status to an array of far-right influencers and news outlets, including figures with checkered pasts and thin or nonexistent journalistic credentials." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Meet the new state media
How the second Trump administration grants access and status to conspiracy theorists, propagandists, and far-right influencers.
www.motherjones.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"From the moment he returned to office, the second Trump administration has prioritized giving access and status to an array of far-right influencers and news outlets, including figures with checkered pasts and thin or nonexistent journalistic credentials." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In today's Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch uses The Assault on the State to highlight a key source and vulnerability of Trump's power.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In today's Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch uses The Assault on the State to highlight a key source and vulnerability of Trump's power.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...
BIG: DOGE Firings Found Unlawful by Office of Special Counsel
There was a very important development today, still only little noted in...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...
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“Mere weeks ago, media outlets were still publishing pieces asking where the ‘resistance’ was. It seems we are now well past that: Possibly, that’s because ‘the resistance’ is bubbling up in too many places to track.”
“These sorts of protests are now following each new Trump decree, every agency Musk has ravaged. The sites are expanding: from DC sidewalks to Congressional offices, from Stonewall to Tesla dealerships.”
newrepublic.com/article/1916...
newrepublic.com/article/1916...
Where Do You Protest Elon Musk? Everywhere, It Turns Out.
From Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesn't necessarily center on Washington, D.C..
newrepublic.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Mere weeks ago, media outlets were still publishing pieces asking where the ‘resistance’ was. It seems we are now well past that: Possibly, that’s because ‘the resistance’ is bubbling up in too many places to track.”
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This is a beautiful tribute from Sanah Ahsan to Muhsin Hendricks, who was considered the world's first out gay imam – and was shot dead in Cape Town last week.
hyphenonline.com/2025/02/21/f...
hyphenonline.com/2025/02/21/f...
The compassionate and inclusive heart of Islam came alive through imam Muhsin Hendricks
Imam Hendricks, who was killed on 15 February, ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims
hyphenonline.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This is a beautiful tribute from Sanah Ahsan to Muhsin Hendricks, who was considered the world's first out gay imam – and was shot dead in Cape Town last week.
hyphenonline.com/2025/02/21/f...
hyphenonline.com/2025/02/21/f...
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New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong
"Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."
"Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."
AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong
Other Democrats, from Schumer to Hochul, should follow her lead.
www.publicnotice.co
February 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong
"Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."
"Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."