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Mo Kanjilal Williams @mokanjilal.bsky.social · 6d

'What If?' Brighton Summit
- What's In A name?
- What if journalism is not about truth?
- What if there were no journalists?
3 of the speakers...
Sheela Banerjee, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social and Clive Myrie BBC
@sussexbylines.co.uk
www.brightonsummit.com

Brighton Summit 2025 – a business conference by Brighton Chamber

Brighton Summit is an annual conference that brings together our city’s diverse business community for a day of networking, ideas and action. And when a community like ours comes together, great thing...

www.brightonsummit.com

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Clock Tower Sanctuary @thectsbrighton.bsky.social · Aug 8

We're #Hiring! We're seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Duty Coordinator to join our frontline team and be part of a small team of staff and volunteers responsible for the day to day running of our drop-in. Click below to read more or apply today 💙

Work with us

Careers and job vacancies at The Clock Tower Sanctuary, a charity supporting homeless young people from crisis to independence.

www.thects.org.uk

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Aug 10

“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.”

– Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Full report ⤵️
youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · Aug 4

It's our 5th birthday! 🎉🎂🍾
A massive thank-you to all our contributors - writers, editors, and proofreaders, for building a brilliant Bylines over the past five years, and here's to the next five! @sussexbylines.co.uk goes from strength to strength @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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Mo Kanjilal Williams @mokanjilal.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wow 5 years! I remember launch day

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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · Jul 21

The soccer world is behind Jess Carter ❤️

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 6

"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people

Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mo Kanjilal Williams @mokanjilal.bsky.social · May 26

First 2 speakers announced for this year's Brighton Summit. And one of them is @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Editor at @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/p/DJ86PnzIIL...

www.instagram.com

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Pepperg1rl @pepperg1rl.bsky.social · May 25

Sure Start was a huge success in the years it ran, raising so many children out of poverty and giving families support when they most needed it. I hope the government listens to these recommendations, whatever the cost, and helps a new generation benefit
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme

Despite praise for Sure Start from some in the Labour party, there are also concerns that resuming the service would be difficult and costly

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · May 12

Sounds like a plan

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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · May 9

In Parliament this week, I called for the planned cuts to disability benefits to be scrapped.

We should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poorest. Instead, we should be taxing the wealthiest.

If the Government does not drop its plans, I'll be voting against the cuts.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · May 11

Care work is a migration route that is desperately needed, has helped at least stem the sector's recruitment crisis, has a knock-on effect on A&E/ambulance wait times, and isn't particularly unpopular voters.

yeah let's hammer it

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Mo Kanjilal Williams @mokanjilal.bsky.social · May 11

For anyone who visits care homes regularly, you will know how much of a disaster this is

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · May 11

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Labour will restrict the number of care workers from abroad. Going forward employers should recruit locally.

One thing we learned from Brexit: Brits will not fill all those jobs that immigrants currently do.

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Mark English @markemuk.bsky.social · May 8

No trade deal can ever make up for losing our place in the EU single market - which is much more than a trade deal, it is a border free market of almost half a billion people, on our doorstep.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Apr 30

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base

www.politico.eu/article/elon...

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

www.politico.eu

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · Apr 23

💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · Oct 7

My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.

You can pre-order from
Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV
Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h
Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8

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badly-drawn boo! 👻 @soapachu.bsky.social · Apr 23

Scratch a transphobe, a racist bleeds.

Transphobes in parliament square holding grim signs saying that women are at risk from immigrants / foreign nationals.

Sunday Times op-ed by transphobe Kathleen Stock wanging on about ethnicity being a crucial driver of grooming.

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Sally Nicholls @sallynicholls.bsky.social · Apr 23

89% of the world's population want stronger measures on climate change, but believe they're in the minority. This extends to 62% of REFORM VOTERS.
So where does this rhetoric of climate action being 'woke nonsense' come from? (*cough*Oil companies*cough*). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

www.theguardian.com

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Apr 15

🎂 Yorkshire Bylines celebrates five years of citizen journalism

The Bylines Network turns five: from democratic deficit to 18 million hits, citizen journalism is alive and kicking – and needs your support

By Louise Houghton for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Yorkshire Bylines celebrates five years of citizen journalism

The Bylines Network turns five: from democratic deficit to 18 million hits, citizen journalism is alive and kicking – and needs your support

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Apr 13

The mainstream media is letting the country down. Badly.

If you support Bylines Network as a citizen journalism (ie democratic and pluralistic) alternative...

...then please chip in! We're changing the system. 👇

Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...

chuffed.org

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Apr 14

Trump Turmoil.

After announcing tariff exemptions for smartphones and computers Trump has changed his mind. New tariffs are coming.

No business can plan. No challenge from US Congress as the self-appointed King makes laws. The cult followers love it. Oblivious to economic and political damage.

Tariffs on imported semiconductor chips coming soon, Trump says

The president’s pledge means the exclusion of smartphones and computers from his reciprocal tariffs on China is likely to be short-lived.

www.nbcnews.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Apr 10

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

youtu.be

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · Apr 8

A week after my remarks on the Senate floor I am more energized then ever to continue to fight for Americans on Medicaid, Americans worried about Social Security, Americans looking for opportunity in their local economy.

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