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The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

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The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

Jimmy Wales: "Wikipedia isn’t as good as I want it to be."
That's why you have us, boss :)
PS: „The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last” will be out on Tuesday, the 28th of October 2025

YouTube video by VICTIMAS MORTALES DANA 29-O LLADRES DE SOBRETAULA- ZOO-MALIFETA-CIUDAD JARA-LA RAIZ- ABRIL-TITO PONTET- LOS CHIKOS DEL MAIZ

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“Now we all raise our voices for those who can no longer raise theirs.” The most renowned artists and groups on the Valencian music scene sing in #LladresDeSobretaula, to keep the memory alive of the affected people and demand justice for the victims of the Dana 29 d’Octubre del 2024.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. /

Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.

Seek truth. Own up to mistakes. Consider all sides of a story. Prioritize accuracy, minimize harm, be transparent, avoid conflicts of interest.

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by Israel’s killing in Gaza on Sunday of five Al Jazeera staff — correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camer...

Journalism is not a crime.
Journalism is not a crime.
Journalism is not a crime.
STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS!
Journalism is not a crime.
Journalism is not a crime.
Journalism is not a crime.

The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Overview and key findings of the 2025 Digital News Report This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world....

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Overview and key findings of the 2025 Digital News Report This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world....

News use across online platforms continues to fragment, with 6 online networks now reaching more than 10% weekly with news content, compared with just two a decade ago. Around a third of our global sample uses Facebook (36%) and YouTube (30%) for news each week.

Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election (Gift Article) It started with a Russian influence campaign and a canceled vote. Then the American right showed up.

Russia’s foreign-influence campaigns are not always about trying to get a friendly government elected; just as often, they can be about sowing doubts about democracy and getting people to believe that their system is rigged.

Nicușor Dan: The Romanian mathematician trying to stop Putin and Trump wrecking the West Elon Musk and JD Vance don’t know enough to judge the country’s election crisis, and Trump should be tougher on Putin, says Bucharest Mayor and presidential candidate Nicușor Dan.

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How not to fight populism: a lesson from Romania The real culprits for the rise of the right are the complacent parties who have ruled since the 1989 revolution

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How not to fight populism: a lesson from Romania The real culprits for the rise of the right are the complacent parties who have ruled since the 1989 revolution

Whatever the result on Sunday, the many EU countries struggling to confront populism must learn from Romania: it is a casebook study in how not to respond.

‘A muddy ride into Romania’s dreamy countryside’: cycling the Via Transilvanica The challenging 870-mile trail cuts diagonally across Romania and takes in mountain meadows, fairytale forests and medieval monasteries

nice holiday plan

How to leak to a journalist Planning to leak? Read these tips first.

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We feel the weight of language in conferences and lecture halls, but true fluency isn’t about presenting research - it’s tested in the unpredictable: the small talk, the offhand remarks, the casual exchanges that native speakers glide through while the rest of us hesitate, grasping for words

YouTube video by Reuters Institute The 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture

Kicking off the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lectured, delivered by Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb.

🧵 Follow this thread for key quotes
✍️ Read our interview with him
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🎥 Watch the event in the link below
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Welcome to the censorship of scientific research era

Journalists and editors, your mental wellbeing matters!

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UZH: Senior Assistantship in English Linguistics The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a Senior Assistantship in the field of English Linguistics to start on 1 August 2025. This postdoctoral position is initiall...

We have an opening for a post-doc in English linguistics starting on the first of August this year (please repost)
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slava Ukraini!

dear @washingtonpost.com,
You'll be missed

Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb on covering Trump: “There is even more fear than in 2016” This award-winning reporter will deliver the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture on 10 March. Here he speaks about local news, AI and more.

“Everything I’ve been able to do has flowed from the moment I received my first library card. No matter what I do, I don’t think I can ever completely repay that debt”

Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

something he will never have

In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia has suddenly become the most reliable place on the internet | CNN Business Over the past two decades, the free-to-use online encyclopedia has carried on with its mission, expanding its global community of volunteer editors, known as Wikipedians, and ultimately resisting the ...

'Wikipedia offer lessons in transparency, accountability, and community involvement that could inspire new approaches to online information integrity'