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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻

@bissieanderson.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications, University of Birmingham, UK

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another EMKO depot burns in Bulgaria – 33 days after the last blast eualive.net/another-emko...
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Another EMKO depot burns in Bulgaria – 33 days after the last blast
A night fire and a chain of explosions at an ammunition warehouse in Gabrovo revive ...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Back from another inspiring visit to Birmingham as part of our strategic collaboration 🌈 amazing workshop by Matteo Fuoli on using LLMs for metaphor analysis and lots of ideas on how to take our project on information integrity in the age of AI forward! 🌸
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Dystopia defined: Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...
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Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
Fox News and Palantir have built three main tools to improve efficiency.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/11/2025
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A flying visit to the Scottish Government, where I took part in an interdisciplinary roundtable on building resilience to mis/disinformation. Happy to contribute to the debate on such a critical topic. And it was a bonus meeting @dominicmhinde.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleagues.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/11/2025
Ukraine: US-Russian peace proposal is ‘absurd’ and unacceptable
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Ukraine: US-Russian peace proposal is ‘absurd’ and unacceptable
Officials say proposal is aimed at stirring up division and disorientating Kyiv’s allies A new US-Russian peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine has been dismissed as “absurd” and unacceptable by officials in Kyiv amid talks between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a high-ranking US army delegation. They said the proposal reportedly drafted by Kirill Dmitriev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff was a “provocation”, the aim of which was to stir up division and “disorientate” Ukraine’s allies, they added. Continue reading...
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Gaun yerself, Scotland!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
✨ Apply to the ECREA Journalism Studies PhD Mentorship Scheme ✨ Deadline: 17 Nov We offer five Journalism Studies PhD students the chance to receive career guidance and feedback on their work over a period of 18 months. More info and link to apply: www.journalismstudies.org/post/interes... #commsky
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🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨Interested in ECREA mentorship?
The Journalism Studies section was the recent recipient of an ECREA EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) grant to support mentorship efforts. We're proud to announce our scheme for early-career PhD...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18/10/2025
The TV host, the web of influence and the trip booked to Moscow Ahead of a critical Welsh by-election for Reform next week, part two of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation for the Nerve into disgraced former Ukip MEP and Reform UK politician Nathan Gill
Treated social media images of pictures of Nadia Sass with Nathan Gill and separately with Nigel Farage
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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. 🌷
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thrilled to be part of this @cogitatiomac.bsky.social special issue on #Journalism in the Hybrid Media System. My article examines how participatory journalists in four countries negotiate material realities in their efforts to engage publics in journalistic co-creation. #openaccess
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...
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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero
The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We've won an extra round of funding to extend our collaboration with @unileiden.bsky.social on the project Meaning-making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI (Co-PI @karakanta.bsky.social) Go @agdorst.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social and #TeamTulips 🌷🌷
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 03/10/2025
NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account. On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !! They promise: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources Share the news 🔁
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 14/09/2025
A thug at the far right rally called for Prime Minister Starmer to be assassinated. Things don't get better from here if we don't change the national conversation. Labour need to shift their anti-immigration policies and rhetoric - stop feeding this movement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally
Met police say further arrests expected after 24 were detained during ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A great start to #FoJ2025 with ECREA Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium today.
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Academic freedom is under threat. Senior scholars from 11 countries examine the impact of political interference, censorship, and self-censorship in journalism studies. ➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR
Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgment
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EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 08/07/2025
EU economy and finance ministers have approved #Bulgaria's entry into the euro area. From 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will start using the 💶 euro and enjoy the benefits of joining the single currency. Find out more about how EU countries adopt the euro 👇👇 europa.eu/!Nnk4xx
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Christine Lagarde @president.ecb.europa.eu · 08/07/2025
Congratulations, Bulgaria! Поздравления, България! Bulgaria will adopt the euro as of 1 January 2026, becoming the 21st country to switch to our single currency. Read the press release www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/dat...
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Excited to share my new article, "A See-Through Curtain of Varying Texture: Negotiating Power and Material Realities in Engaged Journalism", now published in Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess #commsky
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A See-Through Curtain of Varying Texture: Negotiating Power and Material Realities in Engaged Journalism | Article | Media and Communication
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The deadline for the 6th ECREA Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium (Groningen edition) has been extended to 22 August. Link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excited about my first public lecture and the trip to Leiden next week as part of our research exchange with @agdorst.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social
A promo poster for Bissie Anderson’s public lecture ‘Strengthening journalism from the periphery’ (27 May 2025, 3-4pm, Digital Lab, 
Leiden University)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.
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Joëlle Swart @joelleswart.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled. Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges. Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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Imke Henkel @imkehenkel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? Answers next week in an exciting new report published by @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Come to one of the launch events at @cityjournalism.bsky.social or @leedsunimedia.bsky.social: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/uk-...
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UK Journalists in the 2020s: Launch event of our new report at City St George's, University of London
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In Sofia in the next couple of days for the #NewHorizonsinJournalism conference organised by @worldpressinst.bsky.social and the Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria. Thought-provoking talks on who controls the narrative and the place of journalism in the world.
Keynote speaker Arwa Damon, award-winning correspondent and humanitarian. The New Gatekeepers panel: US journalist and producer Graham Griffith, Zakhar Protsiuk, Kyiv Independent, Finnish media executive Kaius Niemi, BBC Nigeria journalist Fauziyya Tukur and Xhemajl Rexha, association of journalists in Kosovo
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Now that the #FOJ2025 decisions are out, consider submitting an abstract for the ECREA Journalism Studies PhD colloquium, which takes place the day before Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff. Deadline is 1 May. More here: www.ecrea.eu/event-6120316
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ECREA - 5th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium
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JournalismUK @journalismnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Perugia highlight: sustaining public interest news in a dicey media market: Media hubs provide crucial support to news operations up against funding cuts, failing business models and authoritarian regimes. Collaboration, innovation, and impact are vital to keep them going
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Perugia highlight: sustaining public interest news in a dicey media market
Media hubs provide crucial support to news operations up against funding cuts, failing business models and authoritarian regimes. Collaboration, innovation, and impact are vital to keep them going
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Perugia is a blast. One of the best conference experiences. Following #ijf25 in the next few days for insights from the crème de la crème of journalism practice and research.
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Data deletion crisis. A timely reminder the Internet Archive has only 140 people working for it and is our one flimsy lifeline to the digitized record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/t...
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The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and his...
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We are thrilled to announce that @mitalilive.bsky.social has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute. Mukherjee, who has been Acting Director since last October, was selected in an open process that concluded in late March Read our full announcement buff.ly/1beGPME Details in thread
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Phoebe Maares @phoebemaares.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
💫 Our special issue is out! Through 13 articles it describes, contextualizes and theorizes epistemologies of digital news production across a spectrum of practices and producers. Loved working on this with @acadianjprof.bsky.social @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social and @valeriehase.bsky.social 💫
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LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Building and crossing bridges with Bissie Anderson, Jeannette Littlemore, Marcus Perlman, Matteo Fuoli, Ruth Page, Merten Reglitz and Jack Grieve at University of Birmingham 🌸 Our turn in May @leidenhumanities.bsky.social with @tomasdodds.bsky.social @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social
Four researchers smiling on a wooden bridge in a parkEight researchers posing smiling in a university room
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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Got a research excitement boost at the two-day workshop on "Meaning Making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI" at University of Birmingham. Looking forward to working on our new ideas!
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
How many cheerleaders for ‘AI in the newsroom’ are going to point out that a key current use of the technology is for authoritarians to run programs over all journalistic output - including social media and newsletters - to single out and persecute those with opposing views?
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icajsd.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
TODAY: Due date for the ICA JSD 2025 Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award. This annual prize recognizes and rewards doctoral dissertation research that explains, enlightens, inspires, and improves the practice and study of journalism and communication. www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...
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2025 Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award - International Communication Association
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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The ECREA Journalism Studies Section, the Young Scholars Network (YECREA) and the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University invite applications for the 5th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium, which will take place on 10 September 2025 at Cardiff University
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 14/03/2025
Whose ideology?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 28/02/2025
Each update in this NYT story is more damning than the prior. This in particular: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
​Trump has falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war, has refused to acknowledge Russia’s invasion of the country, and has disparaged Zelensky as a “dictator” while refusing to call Putin one. During the heated meeting at the Oval Office on Friday, he said that Zelensky’s “hatred” for Putin — the actual dictator who invaded Ukraine — might be the reason the invasion won’t end. “You see the hatred he’s got for Putin,” Trump said. “That’s very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.”
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I am so angry. Have the bullies taken over the world?
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It's like we all live at Four Seasons Total Landscaping now.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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BBC News finds that AI tools “distort” its journalism into “a confused cocktail” with many errors
When the BBC tested four generative AI tools on articles on its own site, it found many "significant issues" and factual errors, the company said in a report released Tuesday. The BBC gave four AI as...
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