Associate director of Journalism Fellowship at Reuters Institute, Oxford University. Tweets, like my jokes, are set to expire.
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Good night, and good luck.
As we close out publishing season 2021/22, here's all the work produced by our journalist fellows in the academic year to date. #AnnusMirabilis 🧵
In podcast format: Can Solutions Journalism help burnt-out journalists and audiences? By @dulcederomerooo reutersinstitute.politics.ox…
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Lessons from Spanish language audio for those considering the benefits of a podcasting strategy by @paulamolinat a key thinker in the Creative Audio Strategy space. Our final paper of the year, and the only good reason to break my Twitter trade embargo. 🫶 reutersinstitute.politics.ox…
Here's the 🧵#JFellowJournal, a round-up of what the @risj_oxford fellows got up to this week (with thanks to contribution from @arnehk, @gillianwong, @SMusaieva and @TeShimaBrennen). What a hecking thought-provoking week.
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I’ve been mulling over what my *personal* response to Twitter sale should be 🧵: I appreciate the “stay and fight” idea because this network is vital for a lot of important communities: advocates for under-represented voices, researchers, global south development work...
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My conclusion: I'll stay on as an inactive node because the network matters, but I will not be actively using it. My great hope is that SOMEWHERE an NGO of altruistic investors is forming to buy Elon out and make Twitter a publicly owned, transparently governed utility.
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All of this to say: I’m putting the #JFellowJournal thread on Mastodon this week, and – for the foreseeable future – it will be available there. Thank you for all your support!
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Caithlin Mercer retweeted
"When we launched @radioambulante 10 years ago, we knew that political borders are real, but linguistic and cultural borders are very fluid. We consider the US a Latin American country because there are 60 million Latinos here", @nuncaduermo tells @CaithlinMercer.
Caithlin Mercer retweeted
And if you are after a TL/DR, here's the launch event on 14 November at @columbiajourn, feat. @mariaressa, @emilybell, Azmat Khan, @julieposetti, Elana Newman & @anyaSIPA.
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So excited to announce that applications are open for @soljourno Journalists of Color fellowship! Join us for this 9-month paid opportunity to learn leadership, community and mentorship skills to advance your career. solu.news/JOC-fellowship
I want to join Mastodon, but I'm worried about account security, because 80% of the users have the same password: F*ckElon123.
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I'll be here: toot.community/web/@caithlin…
And NO, that's not my password.
I changed it. Obviously.
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In this month's bulletin from angry local farmer: he used to be mad about the "green agenda", but now he's mad it's being rolled back. And apparently the indigenous population don't make good labour? It's a confusing time for us all.
ALT Photo of letter in village bulletin. Conservative farmer decries roll back of environmental initiatives that he once protested, and says Home Secretary can "try if she likes" to employ more indigenous people. "How do they think the UK population will want to work 6 months of the year and relocate to a caravan in the middle of nowhere?" He writes.
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In the week when Bolsonaro didn't exactly concede defeat in Brazil, here's what the journalist fellows @risj_oxford got up to. #jfellowjournals 🧵
And, last but never least, @ElBretto got us all in a festive mood with his presentation about snowfall: the journalistic tension between anecdotal and statistical evidence when reporting complex ideas.
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Coming up: I can't wait to speak to Radio Ambulante's Carolina Guerrera at GJS (open to the public, starts at 2pm), we're going to dinner at St Hilda's College 🥳, and @TeShimaBrennen is presenting their internal seminar. Until then, feel free to forget the 5th of November.