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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · 14h

One of my key takeaways from recently launched Feminist Investigative Journalism Handbook: "Sometimes a lack of data is the story" - an indication of a blind spot or erasure. Collaborate with others to create your own dataset
www.theijsc.org/feminist-inv...

Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · 13d

At #iMEdDIJF25, @rdamen.bsky.social honours the murdered journalists in Gaza and urges newsrooms to "stop outsourcing courage to freelancers while outsourcing responsibility to silence".

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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 24d

REVEALED: French police have caused dozens of drownings by violently intercepting small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte.

Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel, to try to stop people from reaching the UK.

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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Aug 27

"We employ the unemployable so be grateful you have a job." Great work by @marche.bsky.social on the hype behind "AI trainers"
africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Fuelling the AGI hype: The Recruitment Playbook to land Big Tech contracts - Africa Uncensored

An investigation into the mass recruitment of "AI Tutors" and "AI Trainers" by micro-tasking companies reveals the deceptive and exploitative practices that these companies use, with false promises of...

africauncensored.online

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · Aug 15

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Article on BBC news.
Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · Jul 1

Opened up four roles at @fullerproject.org!

Are you our new health correspondent, tech correspondent, multimedia editor or head of community and audience development?

Applicants from Global South encouraged. Come help us build an audience-centred impact focused newsroom!
fullerproject.org/careers/

Careers

Careers The Fuller Project is an award-winning global newsroom dedicated to publishing groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women. Since 2015, our reporting has helped end life-...

fullerproject.org

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Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social · Jun 30

Space-based internet is remaking Earth’s orbit — and fueling a gold rush, @khadijaalam.bsky.social reports for @restofworld.org in this cool visualisation.
restofworld.org/2025/satellites-space-based-internet

Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet

Space-based internet is remaking Earth’s orbit — and fueling a gold rush.

restofworld.org

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Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social · May 19

AI companies are training their models on copyrighted works and exploiting marginalized workers in poor countries. It doesn’t have to be this way, @karenhao.bsky.social, author of Empire of AI, a new book on the race to build AI, tells Michelle Kim @restofworld.org
restofworld.org/2025/karen-h...

Why AI advancement doesn’t have to come at the expense of marginalized workers

In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao insists that AI companies don’t have to choose between exploiting workers and chasing growth.

restofworld.org

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · May 18

This is incredibly worrying (and straight from the US playbook)

The recent update of @privacyinternational.org research on period tracking apps is sadly more relevant than ever
privacyinternational.org/learning-res...

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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · May 2

Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper & Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican

A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview

www.theguardian.com

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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Apr 29

@lighthousereports.com has worked with over 150 partners to co-publish deeply reported public interest investigations. We are taking stock of these collaborations to see how we can improve, and we'd like to hire a Consultant to survey our partners. Apply here: apply.workable.com/lighthouse-r...

Request for Proposal: Lighthouse Reports Partner Survey - Lighthouse Reports

Lighthouse Reports is an award-winning investigative newsroom working with some of the world’s leading media to deliver deeply reported, public interest investigations. We build newsrooms around topic...

apply.workable.com

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The Gender Beat @genderbeat.bsky.social · Apr 28

(Thread) Members of Noodle, a Telegram group for people working on gender journalism, spoke on many fantastic panels at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. @anandankita.bsky.social gave her take on the question of when impact becomes activism
www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

The impact/activism question, as seen from different parts of the globe

When does impact become activism? Does an explicit focus on impact skew our objectivity and endanger the integrity of our profession? When donors and grantees have different definitions of impact, how...

www.journalismfestival.com

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Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @saksith.news · Apr 25

🧵BBC Thai has a story dissecting the recent findings of the Thai Parliamentary Military Committee that has been looking into the lèse majesté arrest of American academic Paul Chambers - which appears to be more worrisome than the initial development.

ฝ่ายค้านชี้การฟ้อง ม.112 พอล แชมเบอร์ส ทำให้ กอ.รมน. "ไม่แตกต่างจากโจรติดดาว" - BBC News ไทย

คณะกรรมาธิการ (กมธ.) การทหาร สภาผู้แทนราษฎร มีมติส่งเรื่องให้ ป.ป.ช. พิจารณาใต่สวน กอ.รมน.ภาค 3, ตำรวจ สภ.เมืองพิษณุโลก และ ตม.พิษณุโลก ว่าดำเนินคดีกับนักวิชาการชาวอเมริกันโดยไม่ชอบด้วยกฎหมาย เข้าข่าย...

www.bbc.com

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · Apr 24

The small but mighty team at Dawei Watch spent weeks manually tracing mined areas in Tanintharyi using satellite images from Google Earth & Copernicus in post-coup Myanmar.

What they found was very concerning.

Thanks @mongabay.bsky.social for publishing!
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/arme...

Armed groups and junta profit as toxic mines devour southern Myanmar

In July 2024, Maung Tu, 40, a manager at a mining company, purchased a betel nut farm of 2.4 hectares, or 6 acres, near the southern tip of Myanmar for nearly seven times the market price, paying appr...

news.mongabay.com

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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Apr 24

Football analyst @minakimes.bsky.social on what diversity, equity and inclusion is all about: "It’s to find people who are actually qualified, but haven’t been considered or given the opportunities.”
#DEI

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Apr 24

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Mar 29

@robinsonbkk.bsky.social was a fiesty journalist and generous mentor, always ready for a laugh and brave to the end. Rest in power, my friend

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · Mar 20

I feel like I am watching the slow death of democracy & reform:
Indonesia has passed a controversial law expanding the military’s role in governance, a move critics warn threatens democracy and revives the spectre of authoritarian rule under former president Suharto.

Indonesia passes controversial law expanding military’s role in governance

Critics warn the move threatens democracy and raises the spectre of former authoritarian rule. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nice work by @thibico.bsky.social illustrating the impact of the US scaling back aid in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is the largest recipient of USAID funds in the region
site.thibi.co/originals/us...

As US pulls back, Southeast Asia is left in crisis

The US provides the largest grant to Southeast Asia. The abrupt cancellation of aid is seen to have profound consequences to civil society.

site.thibi.co

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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · Mar 8

🇰🇪 “Data journalism is not just about numbers—it’s about power. It’s about shifting the narrative so that women & marginalized communities are not just footnotes in news stories...”

– @gicheruc.bsky.social, Director of The Africa Women Journalism Project

Full story: https://twp.ai/1Stw47

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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · Feb 10

Impact! The Missouri PR firm that secretly profiled hundreds of food, health and environment advocates has removed the profiles from its members-only website after @lhreports.bsky.social and partners exposed their activities and potential breach of privacy laws. #PoisonPR

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Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 7

OTD 2020: death of Li Wenliang.

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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Jan 23

It's taken many years to get here. I'm celebrating with the hundreds of same-sex couples in Thailand who were finally able to legally wed today. It's the first country in Southeast Asia with such legislation. #LGBTQ ##สมรสเท่าเทียม (Pic reposted X)

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Mekong Review @mekongreview.com · Jan 12

Artists in Singapore exist on a monochromatic spectrum—the lighter side provides access to opportunities and awards, the darker potentially leading to loss of employment. How should one navigate this space?

Read Haresh's reflections: mekongreview.com/gre...

Subscribe: mekongreview.com/sub...

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Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social · Jan 14

1/ Everyone likes to talk about success, but few are keen to talk about potential failure. This is something that's come up in several coaching calls that I've done recently.

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Tan Hui Yee @tanhuiyee.bsky.social · Jan 7

68 #Singapore writers have signed a statement criticising National Library Board’s “uncritical endorsement” of generative AI. They called for it to exercise greater prudence in adopting AI tools or risk “permanently damaging Singapore’s literary landscape” www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/68...

68 S’pore writers sign statement criticising NLB’s ‘uncritical endorsement’ of generative AI

It is the first collective statement by the literary community on the impact of generative AI on the writing landscape. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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