Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025@arusbridger.bsky.social : This was quite a good edition of the podcast: 👍 040
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025A user-generated ‘Splinternet’ Worth Watching? Moderators on Reddit - especially among younger, male-demographic sports Redditors - beginning to ‘bar’ links to Meta-owned platforms. Outbound links to Twitter were blocked in earlier moves. Phenomenon worth watching. @cnti_global #News #Journalism 131
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Where is US journalist Austin Tice? Today would be a great day to #FreeAustinTice. Britain’s @the-independent.com reports from Syria on efforts to get answers. 050
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024The clock ticks, as it has for over 12 years: WHERE IS AUSTIN TICE? and how can we accelerate efforts to return the US journalist to his family? Aid groups search for clues in #Syria; @stateSPEHA @statedept @POTUS: x.com/hostageaid/s...x.comx.com 040
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Watch @margbrennan w/ @StateSPEHA: More info on #FreeAustinTice than previously known: 1. US believes Syria held US newsman at ‘some point’ in unprecedented 12 years as hostage. 2. US officials (@FBI) visited Syrian prison to gather evidence last week 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xju...youtube.comFull interview | U.S. chief hostage negotiator Roger CarstensYouTube video by Face the Nation 120
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024It is time for answers: WHERE IS AUSTIN TICE? And how does this US journalist for @mcclatchy @washingtonpost @cbsnews return to his family after 12 years since his kidnapping in Syria? Today would be a good day to FreeAustinTice: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comSyrian rebels offer to help U.S. search for journalist Austin TiceU.S. officials say that, for now, it is too dangerous to deploy personnel to look for Austin Tice, who was abducted near Damascus 12 years ago. 040
Reposted by Craig FormanBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The 138-year-old Plainsman Herald, in rural Colorado, was about to close when the owner asked readers if they’d pay more to keep it afloat. About 95% of respondents said yes. So he’s raising the annual subscription rate to $100 from $50. coloradosun.com/2024/12/11/s...coloradosun.comA 138-year-old Colorado newspaper asked readers if it was worth saving. They resoundingly said yes.Weeks before closing, The Plainsman Herald owner Kent Brooks asked readers if the Colorado weekly was worth saving. Their response changed his mind. 05613
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024@sulliview.bsky.social insights on billionaire news proprietors. But it’s character, not wallet size, that counts: Bancroft-owned WSJ investigated its reporter R. Foster Winans; McClatchy aggressively covered its pension-prompted financial restructuring: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-escala... 020
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Let’s raise this question again and again to top @potus PDB (Daily Brief) until answered: WHERE IS US JOURNALIST AUSTIN TICE? (held in Syria for 12 years). And how does he return safely to his family? (Please quote/repost) 221
Reposted by Craig FormanAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Reporter: What does US know about where Austin Tice might be? Biden: We believe he’s alive. We think we can get him back… 381562223
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024As a new era begins for Syrian after half a century of Assad rule, a question this morning: Where is US journalist Austin Tice, held for 12 years after his kidnapping in Syria. And how will he get home to his family safely? #FreeAustinTice. 060
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024It is far past time to #FreeAustinTice, held 12 years since being kidnapped in Syria. Austin has been confirmed alive this year, according to his family - who met today with White House officials to press for his release. Austin was seized for doing his job: #journalism. www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/p...cnn.comAustin Tice’s family says he is alive and well, but they are deeply frustrated after meeting with Biden administration | CNN PoliticsThe family of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist held in Syria since 2012, said they have new confirmation that Tice is still alive and well but expressed deep frustration with the Biden administrati... 020
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Some folks on @bluesky.social may not yet know: innovating.news. It’s a global research institute on misinformation, AI and white-hot issues at the crucial intersection of news, technology and global freedom of people and information. More. Free. Here: innovating.news/work/priorit...innovating.newsHomeCenter for News, Technology & Innovation, an independent global policy research center, seeks to encourage independent, sustainable media, maintain an open internet and foster informed public policy c... 020
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024$3-a-year for @chicagotribune ; a buck a month for @washingtonpost : These promos don’t usually succeed alas; churn accelerates. 010
Craig Forman @cforman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024‘One who finds a truth lights a torch.’ Introducing myself here on #Bluesky : Newsperson. 130