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Peter Vandermeersch

@petervandermeersch.bsky.social

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Mediahuis Fellow “Journalism and Society”. Before I was a journalist in Brussels, Paris and New York. Editor of De Standaard (Brussels) and NRC (Amsterdam). Publisher and CEO of Mediahuis Ireland.

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter Vandermeersch klaagt straffeloosheid voor daders van geweld tegen journalisten aan | VRT NWS: nieuws

Altijd op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland dankzij de betrouwbare en diepgaande berichtgeving van VRT NWS.

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 3d

Violence against journalists is not an accident of war or politics – it is a strategy. And impunity now thrives in digital spaces governed by opaque algorithms and weak accountability
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Reporting the truth has become a deadly business – Europe must confront impunity | Euractiv

Violence against journalists is not an accident of war or politics – it is a strategy. And impunity now thrives in digital spaces governed by opaque algorithms and weak accountability

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 5d

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Europe’s journalists are under attack – and their abusers walk free

When journalists are vilified online for doing their job, the damage extends beyond the individual.

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 7d

Nrc geeft mijn boek vier ballen! Erg blij.

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 13d

The Great News Heist. How AI platforms are stealing and distorting journalism. open.substack.com/pub/pressand...

The Great News Heist:

How AI is eroding trust — and undermining democracy

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 14d

The Tech Coup. When Silicon Valley outpaced democracy
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The Tech Coup. When Silicon Valley outpaced democracy

As governments struggle to keep up with Big Tech, the press may be democracy’s last watchdog — if it can escape the algorithmic web itself.

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 15d

The threat to free speech isn’t the state — it's the platforms
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The threat to free speech isn’t the state — it's the platforms

Once the enemy was censorship by governments. Now it’s the quiet control of algorithms deciding what we see and say.

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Beatrice Delvaux @beatricedelvaux.bsky.social · 16d

www.lesoir.be/705893/artic... La guerre de l’intelligence artificielle contre le journalisme décidera du sort de la presse libre. L appel en forme d alerte urgente @petervandermeersch.bsky.social @lesoir.bsky.social

La guerre de l’intelligence artificielle contre le journalisme décidera du sort de la presse libre

L’approche de l’Union européenne sur la manière dont l’IA utilise le travail journalistique pourrait déterminer si la presse libre survivra à l’ère numérique, ou si elle disparaîtra dans le flux de do...

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 16d

Elon Musk’s 1,000 attacks on the press
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Elon Musk’s 1,000 attacks on the press

...And the good news hidden inside

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 19d

Make journalism stronger, more relevant, and more resilient
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Make journalism stronger, more relevant, and more resilient

I recently had a great chat with Lucinda Jordaan from WAN-IFRA, where we dove into the big question: What are the biggest challenges — and opportunities — facing journalists, editors, and newsrooms to...

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Peter Vandermeersch @petervandermeersch.bsky.social · 25d

It's time to let the press in
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It's time to let the press in

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has renewed its call for Israel to open the borders and let the international media back in — freely and independently.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 27d

The powers the Trump administration is trying to create "could easily be used against them by a future administration," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told @sentientmedia.org.

"Legislation and legal precedents and norms outlive any one presidency."