We're in Perugia and having a great time today at the first full day of the International Journalism Festival!
journalism
“I am part of the queer community and the queer rights movement. I am an anti-fascist; I’m not neutral about fascism. I’m not neutral about genocide. I’m not neutral about the environment, and many other topics.”
I'm so excited to share this: a profile of my career is out today in the Columbia Journalism Review! I've been waiting to share this for months, and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/kit-oconnell-austin-movement-journalism.php
I'm here, I'm #queer, I belong in Texas, too.
The Barbed Wire asked me to take a moment to introduce myself, and why our state needs #trans reporters like me, and media where we can see our stories reflected.
This one starts when I'm just 13 years old...
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/transgender-journalist-living-in-texas/
Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰
Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.
404 Meda, @404mediaco
Bolts, @bolts
Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant
Casey Newton, @caseynewton
Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic
Joan Westenberg , @Daojoan
GBH News, @gbhnews
Knowable Magazine @KnowableMag
Molly White, @molly0xfff
The New York Review of Books, @nybooks
ProPublica, @ProPublica
Rest of World, @restofworld
San Francisco Public Press, @SFPublicPress
Steve Herman, @w7voa
The Texas Observer, @TexasObserver
The Continent, @thecontinent
The Conversation, @TheConversationUS
The Transmitter, @thetransmitter
The Tyee, @thetyee
The Xylom, @thexylom
The Tucson Sentinel, @TucsonSentinel
Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @timkmak
#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday
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More worker-owned outlets are joining Flipboard — and the fediverse. Follow @Aftermath here for honest, irreverent stories about video games and internet culture, written for humans, not SEO, and you can also discover them in the Flipboard app at
https://flipboard.com/@Aftermath.
#Media #Flipboard #Journalism #VideoGames #Gaming #AftermathSite
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Donating to @ProPublica supports a newsroom full of investigative journalists intent on bringing about real change through reporting on abuses of power in the public interest. They've done incredible work this year. And if you donate on #GivingNewsDay your donation is matched dollar for dollar. https://give.propublica.org/campaign/748664/donate?c_src=ben #givingtuesday #journalism #democracy
Today is the first day of #ONA26 and we have something exciting to share...
Building Trust in the Open, written by @ben and published by the Newsmast Foundation. An in depth look into how open social protocols can help journalism rebuild community and trust.
Read it here 👇
https://newsmastfoundation.org/app/uploads/2026/03/buildingtrustintheopen.pdf
Or visit https://werd.io/trust/
#OnlineNewsAssociation #Journalism #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon
ANNOUNCE: Survey on threats experienced by journalists and security researchers
Are you a security researcher or a journalist in the cybersecurity/cybercrime space?
DataBreaches.net and Zack Whittaker at this.weekinsecurity.com are conducting a survey on the types of threats researchers and journalists have faced, including legal threats or legal process and threats of violence from cybercriminals.
The survey is at https://forms.gle/P9jr6VxfD1LV6odg9
Please complete the survey and share the link on social media and with your colleagues and friends to help us understand how widespread some problems may be.
Reposts with more tags to other individuals would be appreciated.
#journalism #pressfreedom #cybersecurity #risk #threats
@campuscodi @zackwhittaker @jgreig @lawrenceabrams @briankrebs @amvinfe
This #GivingTuesday, make a difference by supporting local and independent journalism. Subscribe and donate to these publications, all of which have an active presence on Mastodon, to help them keep publishing the stories that keep America's communities informed and democracy strong. 🧵 1/2
@404mediaco
@bolts
@damemagazine
@gbhnews
@KnowableMag
@ProPublica
@restofworld
@SFPublicPress
@TexasObserver
@thecontinent
@TheConversationUS
@themarkup
@thetransmitter
@thetyee
@thexylom
@timkmak
@TucsonSentinel
#Newstodon #GivingTuesday #News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews #IndependentMedia #IndependentNews
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#FossilFuel Interests Are Working to Kill #Solar in One #Ohio County. The Hometown #Newspaper Is Helping.
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A retired #gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial #media company are spreading #misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
#News #Journalism #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #Oil #Koch #Climate #Energy #Politics #Government
Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
HUGE thanks to @robb for writing a clear, easy-to-follow #guide on how to enable #Fediverse author attribution on blogs/websites - so that it will show up under the link card: https://rknight.me/blog/setting-up-mastodon-author-tags/
"We at the Media and Democracy Project have created 18 election coverage guidelines that draw inspiration from the work being done by journalism nonprofits and respected media critics. The guidelines propose three key principles: treating elections like they matter more than sports scores, clearly communicating threats to democracy, and protecting the public from disinformation. "
Read our column here:
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/newsrooms-must-become-partisans-for
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Task for today: Looking over my donations for the year to make sure I didn't miss anything.
And I just made a donation to the Associated Press (whose reporting I read all the time) — the ones who stood up to Trump and said it's the Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf of America.
And its stylebook hasn't back down on the words it uses regarding immigration:
"Except in direct quotations essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant.
Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission. For people: immigrants lacking permanent legal status.
"Do not use the terms alien, unauthorized immigrant, irregular migrant, an illegal, illegals or undocumented (except when quoting people or government documents that use these terms). Many immigrants have some sort of documents, but not the necessary ones."
White House vs. AP: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-broadens-its-absurd-fight-with-the-associated-press-over-gulf-of-mexico/ or
https://web.archive.org/web/20250217211750/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-broadens-its-absurd-fight-with-the-associated-press-over-gulf-of-mexico/
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How is this still a “whether” argument?
It is an undeniable #fact.
A #LIVGolf event at a #Trump property is renewing scrutiny over whether the president & his family are benefiting financially from his time in office
#kleptocracy #law #emoluments #PresidentialEthics #corruption #USpol #media #journalism #FourthEstate
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/politics/trump-golf-courses-conflict-of-interest?cid=ios_app
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We're turning 70, y'all! 🤠
On Tuesday, December 3, celebrate the Texas Observer at the legendary Scholz Garten in downtown Austin! Here's everything you need to know to join the party, and support our work: https://www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-miracle-the-observer-is-turning-70/
Donate at least $25 here to attend: https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/70thdonate/?campaign=701UQ00000HQHbJYAX
Journalist Don Lemon has been arrested after he covered a Minnesota church protest.
@AssociatedPress reports: "It is unclear what charge or charges Lemon and the others are facing in the Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul."
33 Of The Most Famous Newspaper Front Pages From History
By Kaleena Fraga
"These memorable headlines capture some of the most important historical events, from John F. Kennedy's assassination to the Titanic sinking to the fall of the Berlin Wall."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-newspaper-front-pages
Nos ganamos este premio https://ipi.media/ipi-and-ims-announce-2026-recipients-of-world-press-freedom-hero-and-free-media-pioneer-awards
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“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Revisit our #3 most-read story of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#ICE #Immigration #Deportation #Immigrants #Aviation #Journalism
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#AureFreePress #News #Breaking #BreakingNews #newspaper #Journalism #press #headline #Politics
Last week, we asked #NewstodonFriday readers if anyone else felt sick at the thought of the U.S. election, and here we are. Not much levity in this week’s thread, but rather stories on the state of journalism and media, how different outlets plan to tackle the Trump administration, and even one about how political polarization can literally make you sick. We’ve sprinkled a little lighter fare in there, including a beautiful Tiny Desk concert from Meshell Ndegeocello (close your eyes and scroll to the bottom if you can’t bear to read any news). Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. Independent media matters now, more than ever.
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Out today from Gus Bova: Highlights of our newest issue include criminal justice reporting from Michelle Pitcher, exploring #Houston culture with @josephinelee, the war over homelessness policy with @stevanzetti, and much more. https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-january-february-2026/
#journalism #media #HumanRights #Texas #politics #USpol #culture #GulfCoast #law
Nieman Labs has released its annual predictions for journalism package, which includes the opinions of media folks like Linda Solomon Wood of @NatObserver on facing down the fossil fuel industry, @StarTribune's Chase Davis on newsrooms and AI, and Ben Smith of @Semafor on how media needs to go back to bundling. Here's a link to all the predictions. Tell us in the comments what you think will happen to journalism in 2025, or what you'd like to see.
#Journalism #Media #Newspapers #News #Business #MediaIndustry