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Peter Vandermeersch

@petervandermeersch.bsky.social

Mediahuis Fellow “Journalism and Society”. Before I was a journalist in Brussels, Paris and New York. Editor of De Standaard (Brussels) and NRC (Amsterdam). Publisher and CEO of Mediahuis Ireland.

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Peter Vandermeersch over crisis bij BBC: "Door polarisatie en wantrouwen sluipt het gif binnen op redacties" | VRT NWS: nieuws "Een disproportionele reactie voor een relatief banale fout." Zo omschrijft journalist en voormalig hoofdredacteur Peter Vandermeersch het ontslag van 2 topmensen bij de Britse openbare omroep BBC na ...

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10.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Peter Vandermeersch klaagt straffeloosheid voor daders van geweld tegen journalisten aan | VRT NWS: nieuws Altijd op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland dankzij de betrouwbare en diepgaande berichtgeving van VRT NWS.

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04.11.2025 07:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reporting the truth has become a deadly business – Europe must confront impunity | Euractiv Violence against journalists is not an accident of war or politics – it is a strategy. And impunity now thrives in digital spaces governed by opaque algorithms and weak accountability

Violence against journalists is not an accident of war or politics – it is a strategy. And impunity now thrives in digital spaces governed by opaque algorithms and weak accountability
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02.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Europe’s journalists are under attack – and their abusers walk free When journalists are vilified online for doing their job, the damage extends beyond the individual.

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31.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nrc geeft mijn boek vier ballen! Erg blij.

29.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Great News Heist: How AI is eroding trust — and undermining democracy

The Great News Heist. How AI platforms are stealing and distorting journalism. open.substack.com/pub/pressand...

23.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tech Coup. When Silicon Valley outpaced democracy As governments struggle to keep up with Big Tech, the press may be democracy’s last watchdog — if it can escape the algorithmic web itself.

The Tech Coup. When Silicon Valley outpaced democracy
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22.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The threat to free speech isn’t the state — it's the platforms Once the enemy was censorship by governments. Now it’s the quiet control of algorithms deciding what we see and say.

The threat to free speech isn’t the state — it's the platforms
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21.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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La guerre de l’intelligence artificielle contre le journalisme décidera du sort de la presse libre L’approche de l’Union européenne sur la manière dont l’IA utilise le travail journalistique pourrait déterminer si la presse libre survivra à l’ère numérique, ou si elle disparaîtra dans le flux de do...

www.lesoir.be/705893/artic... La guerre de l’intelligence artificielle contre le journalisme décidera du sort de la presse libre. L appel en forme d alerte urgente @petervandermeersch.bsky.social @lesoir.bsky.social

20.10.2025 05:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk’s 1,000 attacks on the press ...And the good news hidden inside

Elon Musk’s 1,000 attacks on the press
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20.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Make journalism stronger, more relevant, and more resilient I recently had a great chat with Lucinda Jordaan from WAN-IFRA, where we dove into the big question: What are the biggest challenges — and opportunities — facing journalists, editors, and newsrooms to...

Make journalism stronger, more relevant, and more resilient
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17.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's time to let the press in The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has renewed its call for Israel to open the borders and let the international media back in — freely and independently.

It's time to let the press in
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11.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journalism Has Become More Challenging, for Reporters and Sources Researchers are more reluctant to give interviews since Trump returned to the White House.

The powers the Trump administration is trying to create "could easily be used against them by a future administration," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told @sentientmedia.org.

"Legislation and legal precedents and norms outlive any one presidency."

09.10.2025 16:24 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0
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Journalism is not a crime Pope Leo XIV:"It's a cornerstone of democracy"

Journalism is not a crime
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09.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The name everyone in media is talking about Loud critic of "legacy media" will run one of America's oldest newsrooms

The name everyone in media is talking about
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07.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When seeing is no longer believing Deepfakes in a way you haven’t seen yet

When seeing is no longer believing
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06.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Because democracy matters How journalism is under pressure and how we fight back

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05.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes!!! ☘️ Alles, echt alles. Ik ben er voorlopig even niet.

‘Ierland’, @petervandermeersch.bsky.social

10.09.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Peter Vandermeersch: ‘Bij DWDD heb ik wel vijftien keer gekotst van de zenuwen’ Zijn plan was om zich als correspondent in Parijs te vestigen, maar zijn hoogste bazen zagen hem liever in Dublin. Daar voelt Peter Vandermeersch zich inmiddels helemaal thuis, vertelt hij in dit inte...

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06.09.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Next sunday I am writing in the #sundayindependent about ireland where i have been living for six years now. I hate it. And i love it even more.

05.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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