Caithlin Mercer
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The wildfire and the rain.
A little #TC2025 thread for those who can't be in London today. Inimitable Ros Atkins is chairing a panel featuring dean of CJR, Wiki's Jimmy Wales, PPF podcast host David Runciman and Mozilla's Nabiha Syed up first. Jimmy shares amusing letter from the state...
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A little #TC2025 thread for those who can't be in London today. Inimitable Ros Atkins is chairing a panel featuring dean of CJR, Wiki's Jimmy Wales, PPF podcast host David Runciman and Mozilla's Nabiha Syed up first. Jimmy shares amusing letter from the state...
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A year ago today, the new Bangladesh govt jailed ex-minister Asaduzzaman Noor. At 79 and frail, he remains behind bars without charge, evidence, or trial. This isn’t justice but vengeance. Bangladesh deserved a new start, not a weaponised judiciary. #DoBetterDhaka
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A year ago today, the new Bangladesh govt jailed ex-minister Asaduzzaman Noor. At 79 and frail, he remains behind bars without charge, evidence, or trial. This isn’t justice but vengeance. Bangladesh deserved a new start, not a weaponised judiciary. #DoBetterDhaka
Content-centric journalism:
July 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Content-centric journalism:
The saddest thing about this exposé is that the whole truth would have made an even better book. She couldn't give herself the grace to be flawed and, in the process, we are robbed of a real redemption arc.
Fact and fiction: Raynor Winn won’t talk to us. But here...
After our exposé of the inaccuracies behind a couple’s walk to salvation, their defence raises new questions
observer.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The saddest thing about this exposé is that the whole truth would have made an even better book. She couldn't give herself the grace to be flawed and, in the process, we are robbed of a real redemption arc.
To all those people who have wished me a cool pillow over the years, I wanted to let you know: it isn't working.
July 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
To all those people who have wished me a cool pillow over the years, I wanted to let you know: it isn't working.
His mother is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker. His father is a university professor.
Please tell me what exactly makes Zohran Mamdani part of the “underclass”?
Was it the immigration? Or the melanin?
Please tell me what exactly makes Zohran Mamdani part of the “underclass”?
Was it the immigration? Or the melanin?
July 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
His mother is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker. His father is a university professor.
Please tell me what exactly makes Zohran Mamdani part of the “underclass”?
Was it the immigration? Or the melanin?
Please tell me what exactly makes Zohran Mamdani part of the “underclass”?
Was it the immigration? Or the melanin?
Sending all my love and gratitude to the legendary Brian Wilson who wrote music that never fails to awaken my inner child, including this often-overlooked gem that features celery as a percussion instrument. Safe home, Brian.
The Beach Boys - Vegetables (Visualizer)
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
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June 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sending all my love and gratitude to the legendary Brian Wilson who wrote music that never fails to awaken my inner child, including this often-overlooked gem that features celery as a percussion instrument. Safe home, Brian.
Thank you, President Mahama of Ghana, for this sterling rebuttal.
“If you want to destroy a people,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “you destroy their memory, you destroy their history.”
“If you want to destroy a people,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “you destroy their memory, you destroy their history.”
Trump’s unfounded attack on Cyril Ramaphosa was an insult to all Africans | John Dramani Mahama
If we want to solve injustices in Africa today, we cannot forget the injustices that shaped our shared history, says Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Thank you, President Mahama of Ghana, for this sterling rebuttal.
“If you want to destroy a people,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “you destroy their memory, you destroy their history.”
“If you want to destroy a people,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “you destroy their memory, you destroy their history.”
Fixed it for you: Trump attacks South Africa's Ramaphosa over debunked targeting of white farmers.
Donald Trump attacks South Africa’s Ramaphosa over targeting of white farmers
https://www.ft.com/content/6ffa1af5-c778-4125-957a-3d89706acda2
https://www.ft.com/content/6ffa1af5-c778-4125-957a-3d89706acda2
Donald Trump attacks South Africa’s Ramaphosa over targeting of white farmers
US president brandishes printed media reports of murdered farmers in extraordinary Oval Office exchange
www.ft.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fixed it for you: Trump attacks South Africa's Ramaphosa over debunked targeting of white farmers.
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"It's really important to prepare yourself for a marathon, because things may take much longer to calm down than you would originally anticipate"
Our Russian fellow Maria Kiseleva speaks to @caithlinm.bsky.social on being a journalist in exile
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
Our Russian fellow Maria Kiseleva speaks to @caithlinm.bsky.social on being a journalist in exile
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
Our podcast: The challenges of covering Russia and Syria from exile
In this special World Press Freedom Day episode of Fellowship Takeaways two exiled journalists speak on covering Russia and Syria from afar.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
"It's really important to prepare yourself for a marathon, because things may take much longer to calm down than you would originally anticipate"
Our Russian fellow Maria Kiseleva speaks to @caithlinm.bsky.social on being a journalist in exile
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
Our Russian fellow Maria Kiseleva speaks to @caithlinm.bsky.social on being a journalist in exile
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
Here, look: this is a beautiful thing.
The Balcony Movie - Trailer - The Balcony Movie - True Story
Dir. Paweł Łoziński
Can anyone be a movie hero? Can the world be locked in one film frame? Director Paweł Łoziński is watching people from his balcony as they are passing by, he accosts them, asks qu...
www.truestory.film
May 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Here, look: this is a beautiful thing.
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Hoy es el Día de la Libertad de Prensa. Nunca antes hubo tantos periodistas forzados a informar desde el exilio. Aquí @caithlinm.bsky.social conversa sobre esto con dos de nuestras fellows: la siria Asmaa al-Omar y la rusa Maria Kiseleva
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
Our podcast: The challenges of covering Russia and Syria from exile
In this special World Press Freedom Day episode of Fellowship Takeaways two exiled journalists speak on covering Russia and Syria from afar.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
May 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Hoy es el Día de la Libertad de Prensa. Nunca antes hubo tantos periodistas forzados a informar desde el exilio. Aquí @caithlinm.bsky.social conversa sobre esto con dos de nuestras fellows: la siria Asmaa al-Omar y la rusa Maria Kiseleva
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
First day of school jitters here at RISJ as we await the new cohort of journalist fellows. For me, new fellows 101 to 105.
April 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
First day of school jitters here at RISJ as we await the new cohort of journalist fellows. For me, new fellows 101 to 105.
I'm so tired of watching the lights go out in so many important little cottages where people came together to confirm and contextualize information so their neighbours would be equipped with knowledge to make important decisions about their lives. No, the village noticeboard isn't a replacement.
March 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm so tired of watching the lights go out in so many important little cottages where people came together to confirm and contextualize information so their neighbours would be equipped with knowledge to make important decisions about their lives. No, the village noticeboard isn't a replacement.
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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
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Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
March 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
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"The early days of the second Trump term have been greeted by a different and more troubling trend in the American press – capitulation"
Read Jelani Cobb's Reuters Memorial Lecture in full, with insights on local news, distrust and covering Trump
Read Jelani Cobb's Reuters Memorial Lecture in full, with insights on local news, distrust and covering Trump
Full text of Jelani Cobb's 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture: Trust issues. Credibility, credulity and journalism in a time of crisis
On 10 March the Columbia Journalism Dean delivered the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture. Here's the transcript of his talk.
buff.ly
March 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"The early days of the second Trump term have been greeted by a different and more troubling trend in the American press – capitulation"
Read Jelani Cobb's Reuters Memorial Lecture in full, with insights on local news, distrust and covering Trump
Read Jelani Cobb's Reuters Memorial Lecture in full, with insights on local news, distrust and covering Trump
In about 14 hours, the window for applications to our Journalism Fellowship programme closes. 27% of all active applications have been filed, and 73% are still in progress. Based on what you know about journalists, what percentage of applications will make it across the finish line before midnight?
February 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In about 14 hours, the window for applications to our Journalism Fellowship programme closes. 27% of all active applications have been filed, and 73% are still in progress. Based on what you know about journalists, what percentage of applications will make it across the finish line before midnight?
Amid all the fact-checking furore, Tom Edgington asks UK politicians: does the work of units like BBC Verify have any sort of behavioural impact? Their answers suggest that it does, and explains why repeat offenders require our closest scrutiny and best discernment.
Perceptions, power, and polarisation: the political impact of UK fact-checking
Through interviews with UK politicians, strategists, and advisers, this project investigates whether fact-checking changes how politicians craft their messages.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Amid all the fact-checking furore, Tom Edgington asks UK politicians: does the work of units like BBC Verify have any sort of behavioural impact? Their answers suggest that it does, and explains why repeat offenders require our closest scrutiny and best discernment.
If you're a foreign correspondent planning an assignment in Taiwan, this is a must-read. Quote: Taiwanese fixers [... highlighted] “numerous unfavourable experiences” with foreign journalists, including last-minute cancellations, requests for free services, and months-long delays in payment.
An eight-point guide to better collaboration with fixers in Taiwan
The Straits Times' Taiwan Correspondent, Yip Wai Yee, explores the fractured relationship between foreign journalists and Taiwanese fixers.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If you're a foreign correspondent planning an assignment in Taiwan, this is a must-read. Quote: Taiwanese fixers [... highlighted] “numerous unfavourable experiences” with foreign journalists, including last-minute cancellations, requests for free services, and months-long delays in payment.
Warning: this project will make your blood boil. Quote: In one episode, Palestinians were portrayed as worse than Nazis for at least “[Germans] came with a culture based on which it was possible to redevelop, [and with Palestinians] this is not the case.”
The Patriot effect: Israel’s shifting civil discourse under Netanyahu
Davide Lerner explores shifting trends in the Israeli media space through the lens of Channel 14's most popular TV show.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Warning: this project will make your blood boil. Quote: In one episode, Palestinians were portrayed as worse than Nazis for at least “[Germans] came with a culture based on which it was possible to redevelop, [and with Palestinians] this is not the case.”
Singapore is not an easy place to be a journalist. Here's one who is smart enough to ask good questions, and brave enough to ask tough ones. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-gaza-te...
What Gaza teaches us about improving Singapore’s coverage of race and religion
Presenting only one or a few perspectives risks oversimplifying the Gaza conflict and giving a skewed picture, argues Arlina Arshad.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Singapore is not an easy place to be a journalist. Here's one who is smart enough to ask good questions, and brave enough to ask tough ones. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-gaza-te...
A call to South African journalists interested in networking with others who want to empower the public with reliable scientific information: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-get-most...
How to get the most important climate story of the decade right
Lameez Omarjee asks researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners how they'd improve South African media coverage of the just transition.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A call to South African journalists interested in networking with others who want to empower the public with reliable scientific information: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-get-most...
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hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
January 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics