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#journalists

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James Huff :prami_pride_pan:

I get it, you want your #news quick, but oversimplifying it and shortchanging #journalists and news organizations is no way to go about it.

Instead, check out #NPR’s Up First podcast for the day’s major headlines in 15 minutes or less. aus.social/@decryption/1148343

Aus.Socialdecryption (@decryption@aus.social)ugh, I hate how Kagi is pitching its new news aggregator - it looks like they're sucking in a bunch of RSS feeds from news sites, findign the most popular stories then using an LLM to summarise it https://kite.kagi.com/ "Kite reads public RSS feeds of thousands of (community-curated) world-wide news sources and distills them into one perfect daily briefing. You get every critical perspective and timeline in just 5 minutes. That's it. No endless scrolling. No attention hijacking. Because we deserve better." A 5-minute "perfect" daily briefing is laughable and an insult to journalists. But then again, technologists have nothing but disdain for journalists and most of them have warped views on what journalists do.
Levka

#journalists #journalism #Texas

"Reporter handcuffed as he covers budget meeting in tiny Texas town

'In West Texas, an independent publisher’s arrest sparks First Amendment questions' was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

David Flash paced around the room, lined with rows of wooden chairs inside this Far West Texas county courthouse, and took photos.

The independent publisher of the Big Bend Times regularly attends these meetings, documenting and recording live footage for the website and social media, where he has amassed 285,000 followers on Facebook.

His presence in the room — and county at large — has vexed officials.

At the June 27 meeting, the conflict escalated when sheriff deputy Adriana Ruiloba grabbed, handcuffed and forcibly removed Flash from the room after he tried to take her photo.

'Stop,' Ruiloba tells him.

'I’m not resisting,' he responds.

'Stop,' she can be heard saying again in video footage reviewed by The Texas Tribune. 'Put your hands behind your back.'

In this news desert, Flash has appointed himself the region’s journalist. But to the highest-ranking elected officials of Jeff Davis, he is a nuisance with a camera.

County Judge Curtis Evans, the county’s chief executive, previously banned Flash from being within 300 feet of county officials, employees, and buildings in 2024 over claims of harassment and terroristic threats. Flash, who vehemently denies the accusations, said the county wants to deter him from drawing attention to them. A judge later lifted the ban, allowing Flash to return to work, including the recent budget meeting.

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Max Resnik, director of growth at Documenter Network City Bureau, a civic journalism program that has trained more than 4,000 residents across the country to document similar public meetings, said it does not matter whether Flash is a professional journalist. Every resident has the right to record, document and publish public meetings, he said.

'By preventing reporting from happening or discouraging reporting in those public meetings, it sends a chilling effect to other residents and reporters,' Resnik said.

He also pointed to the state’s open meeting handbook, which government officials and members of the public must comply with. Any person, the handbook says, 'may record all or any part of an open meeting of a governmental body by means of a recorder, video camera, or other means of aural or visual reproduction.'

(. . .)

Early last week, he was headed to South America. He travels, he said, to expand his worldview, and that of his readers. And it’s earning him money. A photo he published on Facebook last year just earned him $100 because of the engagement it generated on the site.

'Headed out, but still in the fight. Still doing the reporting, the legal work, the fundraising shit, and all the other shit—because I don’t have the luxury of ignoring corruption just because I’m flying international,' he wrote on social media.

'The courthouse drama doesn’t stop, but neither do I.'"

rawstory.com/reporter-handcuff

Raw Story · Reporter handcuffed as he covers budget meeting in tiny Texas townBy Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune
Susan Ville

📢 Al Mayadeen’s #palestine bureau chief, is under interrogation at Ofer military court

🔹 Earlier today, the head of the PPS, Abdullah al-Zaghari, confirmed that Nasser al-Lahham, Al Mayadeen’s bureau chief in the occupied Palestinian territories, was being subjected to interrogation proceedings

#crackdownonjournalists
#media
#journalists

#westbank

📰 Report: Al Mayadeen JUL-10

english.almayadeen.net/news/po

'Israel' interrogates Al Mayadeen journalist at Ofer military court
Al Mayadeen English · 'Israel' extends detention of Al Mayadeen bureau chief until SundayBy Al Mayadeen English
heretical_i

#Israel has just arrested an Israeli journalist, @-freyisrael1 (on X)

"David Sheen (@-davidsheen): "Just arrested: @-freyisrael1 the only journalist in Israel to report in Hebrew how Col. Golan Vach invented 8 non-existent #burnedbabies to cover up the #IDF burning to death so many Israelis on #October7 and to incite the #genocide he and his brother Brig. Gen. Yehuda Vach now lead"

More xcancel.com/davidsheen/status/ #gaza @palestine #journalism #journalists #freespeech #totalitarianism

Petra van Cronenburg

I found a nice #template for all these Trump pseudo-news and his blackmail bullying blah blah blah (just check the case, multiple choice). Great for #journalists #editors before the deadline!

🔲 The wannabe dictator has posted blahblah.
🔲 He tries to blackmail (insert country).
🔲 He tries to bully (insert person).
🔲 He already said it / already threatened someone else.
🔲 He tries again but nobody believes him.
🔲 He won't get any better.
🔲 Tell people how to resist.

#journalism#resist
Susan Ville

#featured 📰 After almost 14 years of civil war, the lightning overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in December has unleashed the possibility of returning home for hundreds of exiled #journalists

#syria #media #diaspora

By Lamiya Adilgizi for CPJ JUL-03

cpj.org/2025/07/home-or-exile-

Committee to Protect Journalists · Home or exile? Syrian journalists grapple with new realities post-Assad - Committee to Protect JournalistsBerlin, July 3, 2025—After almost 14 years of civil war, the lightning overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in December has unleashed the possibility of returning home for hundreds of exiled journalists. For Ahmad Primo, who was arrested by the government for reporting that the 2011 protests were a revolution and then jailed by Islamic...
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“keen eyes noticed the #journalists’ video reviews seemed eerily similar to #BYD’s own glossy #marketing, also shot in the rugged South #Australian outback—the very same footage complete with local fauna starred the very same ute.

But what really set tongues wagging in the #motoring world was the fact that these pictures were not the result of the commonplace #PressJunket arranged by #car companies.

In fact, #TobyHagon and #BruceNewton had entered into what was previously a secret commercial arrangement with BYD and its Australian distributor.

Through their own private companies the #FreelanceReporters accepted the offer of a job from BYD to arrange their own outback trip, provide the company their footage, be #reimbursed for their #expenses and at the end of the day to trouser a handy little chunk of #profit.

And yet none of this arrangement had been declared to their audiences or their publishers.

So when several months ago some of those outlets caught wind something was awry in the men' s dealings with BYD they suspended their relationship with the writers.”

#BYDAustralia / #EVDirect / #AxelerateMedia / #MumboMedia / #PublicRelations / #InternalMonitoring / #deformation / #LegalAction <abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes>

Media Watch · Ep 22 - Under the bonnet - Media WatchThe automotive journalists who engaged in a financial engagement with the carmaker they were reviewing. 
NotImpressed

#palestine #journalists
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine
"Israeli occupation forces on Monday arrested Nasser al-Laham, the director of Al Mayadeen’s office in occupied Palestine, during a pre-dawn raid on his home in Beit Lahm in the southern West Bank"
"According to local sources the arrest was accompanied by deliberate acts of vandalism. Soldiers stormed al-Laham’s residence, smashing furniture and confiscating personal mobile phones belonging to him and his family"
english.almayadeen.net/news/po

Israeli forces arrest Al Mayadeen bureau chief in West Bank
Al Mayadeen English · Israeli forces arrest Al Mayadeen bureau chief in West BankBy Al Mayadeen English
R. Scott Pert

A Canadian who duped #journalists in an elaborate #AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn away from.

> A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown — which he later said he had no involvement with — creating a media frenzy that propelled the AI-assisted "band" to a million monthly listeners on #Spotify.
cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ai-b

CBCHow a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success | CBC NewsA Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate hoax involving Spotify, AI and a suspicious rock band says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn away from.
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