Ross Settles

Call for Applications: Newsroom Pivot Program A venture support and seed funding opportunity for exiled independent media from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Russia and Syria. Is your newsroom stuck in survival mode: chasin...

#Myanmar, #Syria, #Russia, #Nicaragua media working in exile. JX Fund launching a program to support sustainable development.

Deadline for applications is July 20, link below.

jx-fund.org/newsroom/new...

Catalyzing Private Capital – A New Horizon for Journalism Funding.

Interested in media and public information finance this should be an interesting talk.

Date: 10 July Time: 15:00–16:00

Sign up here: lnkd.in/er8zPnNk

As Fang points out there is much to understand about how the dividend evolves.Thinking carefully about the segments of information consumers, how and why they interact with content will be important. Some will consume for understanding, but many will consume in order to be outraged in some way.

The Intimacy Dividend: How AI Might Transform News Media Consumption | Shorenstein Center Recently, a friend told me something that got me thinking. He’s been using AI for therapy, something he’d never done with a human. Why? He felt more comfortable sharing thoughts and feelings with a ch...

Thoughtful, optimistic look at emerging benefits of AI... by removing the "social judgement" individuals feel when interacting with human peers, they are more likely to interact with AI to more fully understand the importance and import of news and information. shorensteincenter.org/commentary/i...

❝In the short-term, media organizations need to sell something. However, in the long-term, they'll have to free up cash through painful contingency plans.❞

@rsettles.bsky.social, independent researcher and investor, during a session titled "Where is the money?" at #ijf25

Companies See China as a Safe Harbor Amid Trump’s Tariffs The heavy U.S. tariffs on other Asian countries have made China a more appealing option for companies scared to make a hasty decision amid upheaval in global trade.

Of course this is what people would do ... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan? Probably yes

Read it and weep...truly this is how an economy dies!

Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan? open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

❝AirDrop was a pivotal technology during the Hong Kong protests in 2019. The triad of media, technology, and money must be central to how we plan for the future❞

@rsettles.bsky.social, Academic and Consultant

📣We will be at @rightscon.org!
ARIJ will be hosting a workshop titled

"From Hong Kong to #Gaza: Digital Resilience Techniques"
featuring a lineup of fantastic speakers
@rsettles.bsky.social, Nadim Nashif, @joeysiu.bsky.social & Rawan Damen

📆 25 February | ⏰12:30 - 13:30 (GMT +4)

#RightsCon2025

The Philippines is creating a ChatGPT rival that speaks Filipino and Taglish ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer resources.

ast and Southeast Asian languages and the need for locally specific LLM's...interesting to see the list expand ... Ilmu 0.1 (Malaysia), TaiwanLLM (Taiwan), Sakura (Japan) and ITanong (Philippines)... and of course the long list in mainland China. Here RoW on the Philippine effort.

Unerased - Nieman Reports Vladimir Putin’s government is trying to scrub critical journalism from the internet. The Russian Independent Media Archive is standing in its way.

Why archives matter!
Great piece by Ann Cooper on Russian Independent Media Archive. niemanreports.org/unerased/ (And a nod to the magnificent Wayback machine @archive.org )

How Knowledge Institutions Can Build a Promethean Moment Why we’re launching the Institutional Data Initiative to work with libraries, government agencies, and other knowledge institutions to develop data collections and best practices for artificial intell...

Important initiative linking the importance of archives to AI...Harvard launches the @institutionaldatainitiative.org institutionaldatainitiative.org/hello-world....

#ARIJ24 Day 2

Crushing stories from journalists working in Gaza #ARIJ24

Setting up for #ARIJ24 ...over 700 in person registered and Over a thousand registered online.

Great read. Such an important initiative

PSA: Please encourage your #journalism, #independentmedia, #investigativejournalism partners and allies around the world to join here…

(And funders, philanthropies etc.)