"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify"

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering everyone with open-source investigation skills, argue @eliothiggins.bsky.social & @drnataliemartin.bsky.social
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🚀 Episode 52 of @lnmpod.com with Dan Harris is out!

The former ABC News anchor & author/host of 10% Happier talks with host Tim Regan-Porter about mindfulness; the toll of war reporting; navigating leadership, entrepreneurship and big transitions; & masculinity, friendships & emotional openness.

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🚀 Episode 51 of @lnmpod.com with Samantha Ragland is out.

@ampress.bsky.social's VP of Journalism Programs talks with @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about fostering well-being in newsrooms, balancing people sustainability w/ business demands & creating a culture of care that fuels great journalism.

Here's every @niemanlab.org Prediction we've published so far (more coming next week!):

Heather Chaplin • Saba Long • Kawandeep Virdee • Scott Lamb • Andrea Faye Hart • Carrie Brown • Hillary Frey • Retha Hill • S. Mitra Kalita • Chitranshu Tewari • Jonathan Hunt • Benjamin Toff • AX Mina

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🥳 Last week, episode 50 of @lnmpod.com dropped (only ~10% of podcasts make it that far). Thanks to all of the great guests!

Interesting Spotify Wrapped data. Great growth. Listener affinity w/ ArmchairExpPod, The Daily & Off Menu.

Episode archives: localnewsmatterspodcast.com/podcast/

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🎉 Episode 50 🥳 of @lnmpod.com is out.

Randy Picht and Andrew Finlayson talk with host @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about @rjionline.bsky.social's landmark study on burnout in journalism.

🚨 Burnout is a crisis
🧠 Solutions, not just problems
🔄 Rethinking newsroom culture
📰 Passion under pressure

We’re thrilled to announce $1.4M in Product & AI Studio grants to help local #nonprofitnews outlets use AI to boost revenue and uncover impactful civic stories. Learn more about the newsrooms and their innovative #AI initiatives:

📢 On #GivingTuesday/#GivingNewsDay, please consider supporting local news. It's never been more crucial. In Colorado, COLab, CFOIC and all the #newsconeeds newsrooms are great choices.

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Here's a starter pack for following Mississippi journalists.

Y'all let me know if I'm missing anyone!
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NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.”

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Here's a statement from our Acting Director
@mitalilive.bsky.social about our alumnus Fisayo Soyombo, who was arrested in Nigeria earlier this week

✍️ Details about the case x.com/AmnestyNiger...
🔗A link to Fisayo's project at the Institute reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/silent-war-h...

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.

Eager to grow as a leader & help shape journalism’s future? Join us for a live Q&A webinar on Tues., Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. PT. We'll tell you about the JSK Journalism Fellowships at Stanford & answer your questions. Register and join us! bit.ly/jsk-dec03

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

Prefer a remote Fellowship? We have those too! Work on a project that will build a resource, tool or platform for journalists - while keeping your day job!

Come ask questions: bit.ly/rjifellowshipQA

Both have value. But this Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the primary sources! Let's sing the praises of journalism's often-unsung heroes – those who work holiday shifts and produce packages about airport gridlock and wake up before dawn for live shots and catch the typos in the home page headlines 🙌

Topics include:

🌟 The “fried and frozen” dilemma

📰 Bridging the gap

📊 Innovation & efficiency

🤝 Building trust

🔥 Why local news matters

💡 Sustainability solutions

Episode link: localnewsmatterspodcast.com/from-fried-a...

🚀 Episode 49 of @lnmpod.com with Laura Frank is out.

The Executive Director of the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) talks with host @timreganporter.lnmpod.com about sustaining local journalism through collaboration and innovation to address critical challenges.

New to Bluesky? We've got you covered! ⭐

Follow Block Club's team on here to stay in the know about all things Chicago. We'll keep adding to the list as more members of our team join. go.bsky.app/BpnBAMv

Have a passion project you want to build to help journalists?

Applications open Dec 2! Our residential fellowship provides up to $100,000 in funding a $5k monthly living stipend and the collaboration and support of campus resources!

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