Kristine Villanueva 🇵🇭

Yay ditto here!

Yay!! Congrats, Ryan!!

Ryan Pitts joins Big Local News as managing director Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at Stanford University.

This is such a great moment to be joining the team at @biglocalnews.bsky.social! We have so much important work ahead and I’m thrilled to be a part of it. biglocalnews.org/content/news...

Why Prism covers the U.S.-backed Gaza genocide and imperialism Prism is revising its guidelines to welcome pitches centering Palestine, regardless of a direct U.S. angle.

NEW: @prismreports.org revised our guidelines to allow writers & reporters to send pitches centering U.S. imperialism and Palestine, regardless of a direct U.S. angle, because the consequences of U.S. policy and imperialism are global.

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More talk today about leaving Substack. You should do it. If you’re trying to do local news, head over to www.tinynewsco.org and apply to join the @tinynewscollective.bsky.social. We’ll get you set up with Ghost, fiscal sponsorship, and a community of support. The best deal in journalism.

It’s time journalism moves beyond crisis reporting in immigrant communities. We need your help to do it. In partnership with The Objective, a new steering committee of engagement journalists will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities and share findings in a monthly newslet...

Thanks to @mango-stine.bsky.social, the People's Handbook for Diaspora Reporting launched last week on #InternationalPressFreedomDay. This is a crowdsourced project on diaspora reporting, in collab w/ @objectivejournos.bsky.social & engagement journalists

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👉 If you're a journalist, researcher, anthropologist, librarian, policy advocate, social scientist, community organizer/artist, or otherwise person who engages with diasporic communities, media, and information access, this 🧵 is for you! ⬇️

It’s time journalism moves beyond crisis reporting in immigrant communities. We need your help to do it. In partnership with The Objective, a new steering committee of engagement journalists will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities and share findings in a monthly newslet...

Kristine Villanueva @mango-stine.bsky.social, w/ a new steering committee of engagement journalists, in partnership w/ @objectivejournos.bsky.social, will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities & share findings monthly.

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Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy

For @us.theguardian.com, I interviewed librarians about the impact of Trump’s administration, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services being gutted, experiences at work, & the incredible importance of library resources, programming, and support: “We get everyone at the library.”

Journalists absolutely MUST **think** before they cover or feature leaders of mass movements or organizations. They're already in the line of fire. Maximizing safety for "sources" sometimes means putting the pen down.

I can't figure out how to share an Insta post (because I am an Old™️) but a friend who grew up in deep red Lancaster County, PA just sent me a video of huge protests in her hometown. Another friend from Rockland NY having a similar experience. This is jaw-dropping and moving and amazing.

‘Worst ever’: War in Gaza deadliest for journalists, surpassing world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan tolls, study reveals - The Boston Globe “Journalists, and journalism, are increasingly a casualty of war,” said Stephanie Savell, director of the Costs of War project. “Democracy and peace require a free press; militarism helps fuel rollbac...

“More journalists have been killed in the war in Gaza than in the US Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined …”

The OptOut Media Foundation (the app’s nonprofit parent company) was unable to raise enough money to maintain the app and the organization, which also published its own investigative journalism.

😬 Can confirm that a lot of higher ed is being much quieter than they could be for this reason. (IMO it won’t work)

As Donald Trump continues to push limits of the Oval Office, we must work together to stem the rising tide of authoritarianism.

Free Press is honored to host alongside @globalextremism.bsky.social, w/ @mariaressa.bsky.social @bironagyandras.bsky.social @neveragainnw.bsky.social

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National Archives — and government transparency — under threat Groups protest unwarranted firing of head archivist

The public needs to know now more than ever that the National Archives has qualified leadership.

If it doesn't, it will only make it easier for other government agencies to keep too many secrets.

WE HAVE A DEAL

📣📣WE HAVE A DEAL!📣📣

Last week, @nymagunion.bsky.social reached a tentative agreement with New York Magazine and Vox Media. We could not be prouder of our members who made it clear they were ready to withhold their labor if Vox Media didn’t meet them with a fair contract.

An NYT headline that reads: Schumer Urged Democrats to Oppose Trump Nominees in Protest of His Policies The Senate minority leader had initially said he would not lean on his colleagues to reflexively oppose every nominee, but changed his stance after the president’s actions generated heavy pressure from the left.

Hey you - yeah YOU, person who called your senators, visited their office, attended a rally, or sent an email this week. Check out what you're capable of. Keep it up.

theinternetarchive A community for discussing use of The Internet Archive (archive.org) and the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org). Intended to provide extended support for topics related to use of the Archive, and prov...

I made a new subreddit.

reddit.com/r/theinterne...

I'll be posting exclusively in there about Internet Archive stuff for the forseeable future.

White House says it will cancel $8 million in Politico subscriptions after a false right-wing conspiracy theory spreads | CNN Business White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, responding Wednesday to a question about a right-wing conspiracy theory, announced that the federal government would cancel $8 million worth of Politico s...

"POLITICO has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies — not one cent, ever, in 18 years," the news outlet's chiefs Goli Sheikholeslami and John Harris wrote in a memo tonight. They're responding to rampant right-wing misinformation... www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/m...

We simply CANNOT fail journalism students at this critical juncture in history. Especially students of color, lgbtq students, migrant students, refugee students, undocumented students.

They are the future. But we can't deny the fact that we have a hand in shaping them

Houston’s Top Horn Musician Allegedly Harassed Rice Students for Decades. And the School Knew. - The Barbed Wire EXCLUSIVE This story has been published in collaboration with the editorially independent student newspaper The Rice Thresher, where the author Riya Misra is editor in chief.  This story contains desc...

EXCLUSIVE: Rice University’s famed horn professor William VerMeulen abruptly retired last spring amid a swirl of sexual misconduct allegations. But dozens of students and industry insiders say “the administration has known for 30 years” — and failed to act.

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Want to Report on Homelessness? Here’s What Our Sources Taught Us About Engaging Responsibly. Homelessness is at a record high, and there are many investigative stories to tell. We’ve compiled some of the tips and lessons we learned from our sources for other reporters pursuing this coverage.

And here's more information about how we did this reporting, including tips and lessons we learned from community experts. www.propublica.org/article/repo...

Staying clear-eyed: How climate groups are continuing their work despite a new federal administration - Green Philly Green Philly spoke with four local climate and sustainability organizations about how they are preparing for forecasted changes to climate support.  National executive orders have moved to pull out of...

Climate groups aren't backing down! My latest for @greenphilly.bsky.social

Party leadership is just incapable of accepting responsibility for anything ever

This is absolutely wild

Always a pleasure to speak to students! +1 if they're Carrie's hehe 🫶🏽

Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.

Scrolling through the full list of feder programs that are
"under scrutiny" and possibly frozen but for a temporary judicial order, is ....well, it is something. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's an old playbook - tax scholarships, cut public funding for higher ed, and then start screaming about how those dastardly educated elites are charging too much money for tuition. And it will work!