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Beating the drums for independent press, publishers, and writers
Whose news? Whose story? Who gets to tell it?

Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky | Hacker News
The marking out of the symbiotic relationship between reliable information producers and journalists is also vital to understanding the media system. A reliable, centralised stream of new information content is the life blood of journalism organisations, with a strong emphasis on _reliable_ and _centralised_. This particular need that journalists have sees them often becoming dependent on state institutions and corporations at the expense of minority groups and labor. An example being the journalists 'on the beat' that used to hang out around the local courthouse because that's where the 'feeding trough' is. Or the reports so nicely formatted and condensed produced by the state departments such that journos merely have to copy-paste the information straight into their papers. Easy-peasy.
Q&A: Robin Berjon on freeing journalists' feeds.
The AT protocol and “long-term, lifelong, sustainable protection against enshittification.”

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This week’s edition reads five FY2025 reports against each other: Dnevnik (Slovenia), Delfi Latvia, Phoenix New Media (China), Hanza Media (Croatia) and Digi Communications (Romania). It finds two publishers separating their journalism from their balance sheets, a Croatian publisher closing a 35-year-old political weekly on a 1.1% net margin, a Chinese state-linked digital news group whose financial centre has quietly shifted from advertising to mini-program reading apps, and a Romanian telecom giant’s having its news channel walk off the must-carry list.
About — Crackdown Podcast
Garth Mullins—Crackdown’s Host and Executive Producer—is a longtime activist and drug user as well as a member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and the BC Association of People on Methadone. Crackdown was born out of the idea that journalism can be rigorous, fair, and meet the expectations enumerated in the Canadian Association of Journalists, while also containing a clear and transparently-stated point of view. We believe that journalism can and should seek to serve the public good. We believe that journalism need not be produced by people who are distant from the topics and communities they are covering. And we believe that - rather than hiding behind a mask of “objectivity” - journalism is most truthful when it clearly communicates its point of view to the audience.
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Citizen journalism in action

The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’
Claire Lehmann’s online magazine, Quillette, prides itself on publishing “dangerous” ideas other outlets won’t touch. How far is it willing to go?

Medium and Twitter founder: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’
Ev Williams on feedback loops, giving a home to publishers, and finding critical mass

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Can Puck reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
CEO Sarah Personette’s risky bet on journalists as influencers

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Reputations, biases, past controversies. I know about Sankei Shimbun and I have some idea about the national newspapers, but I honestly don’t know anything at all about most local ones. Japan has poor press freedom in general (ranked 62nd out of 180 countries for 2026, and that’s after the ranking went up, not because of improvement in Japan but because other countries’ conditions have worsened)

NHKのウェブニュース、閲覧回数が急落 新聞・民放と共闘の道は:朝日新聞

「メディアが報じない」と反発が広がる背景に何が 有識者2氏に聞く:朝日新聞

「朝日と毎日は無視、読売は…」だから日本の報道レベルは“国際的にも低水準”…有名評論家が大手新聞社に絶望した「ある事件」 | 文春オンライン
自衛隊が一般市民を監視…?熊本日日新聞の大スクープに「大手全国紙」がまるで加勢しない異常事態(神保 太郎) | 現代ビジネス | 講談社
自衛隊の市民監視スクープが鳴らす警鐘…沖縄で起きた虐殺の歴史と「国家情報局」に見る、情報戦の行き着く先(神保 太郎) | 現代ビジネス | 講談社

「報道の自由」からの逃走(222) | Tansa