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CopageJ

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Editor at Central Bylines, ex-linguistics lecturer. Live in Shropshire UK. Citizen journalism, women's health, hill walking, politics and more.

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❣️ Mistress Lilith Abi - The Last Baptist Church 🥀 @lillysbookshelf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
⛪️ Dishes Church ⛪️
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 05/11/2025
The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another? | Cliff Mitchell
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After the Leveson Inquiry, is the press now beyond control?
The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another?
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Powerful stuff from our US writer. And follow the links! Local leaders and citizens challenge Trump’s ICE in Chicago centralbylines.co.uk/news/world/l...
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Local leaders and citizens challenge Trump’s ICE in Chicago
The politicians of Chicago are joining protest organisers in the battle against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Write like you mean it, not like you ‘prompted’ it yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/tec...
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Write like you mean it, not like you ‘prompted’ it
TL;DR: for now, perhaps, we must learn to work with – or around – AI, but let’s not allow it to write for, or indeed instead of, us
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Surviving Gaza: a personal account of life under siege northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
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Surviving Gaza: a personal account of life under siege
"Gaza is not just a news headline. It is my home. It is full of people who want to live -not just survive, but live in dignity, in safety, in freedom."
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/07/2025
Wow, Bylines Network has just hit 19m reads of our powerful citizen journalism. By supporting us, you’re not funding a news outlet – you’re fueling a movement. We are Bylines Network, by the people, for the people.
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Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 27/05/2025
Bylines Network Webinar | 16th June 2025 Equality and Diversity in Media and Journalism: Where do we go from here? Tickets available here 👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...
A flyer that says "Bylines Network Webinar. Equality and diversity in media and journalism. Where do we go from here? Join media professionals and everyday citizens working to make our media more inclusive. Find out about research, alternative media models, and tools to shape better journalism." There is a QR code to swipe and a URL - https://bit.ly.mediaEDI - for booking. On the other side of the flyer, the speakers are listed. Diane Kemp, Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity and Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham City University. Jennie Kermode, journalist specialising in LGBTQ issues and film, Bylines Network EDI coordinator and Bylines Scotland writer. Mike Findlay-Agnew, CEO International Network of Street Papers, LGBTQ+ and EDI trainer, and freelance writer on equality. Shirish Kulkani, journalist, researcher and community organiser. Currently News Innovation Research Fellow at Media Cymru/Cardiff University School of Journalism and founder of Inclusive Journalism Cymru.
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20/04/2025
In this article we give a citizen the platform to tell their story, and expose how corrupt big pharma has stopped the NHS from giving them – and countless others – the healthcare they need. /1 #TruthToPower centralbylines.co.uk/news/health/... @copagej.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
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Big pharma, the NHS, thyroid disease and me
A personal account tells the story of a battle with the NHS to get treatment for thyroid disease
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 07/04/2025
Free from corporate control and not afraid to take on tech bros - Bylines Big Tech Week starts tomorrow. Here's our tech coordinator Patricia telling you all about it. Join our webinar with The Citizens to kickstart your own investigations and articles: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 07/04/2025
We at Central believe that no one's voice should be suppressed. Despite the overwhelming crowds at the #HandsOff protests the MSM seem largely quiet. If you were there and want your voice heard email us: editor@centralbylines.co.uk We are Bylines Network Powerful Citizen Journalism
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Children with autism: gently helping to lift the mask centralbylines.co.uk/news/world/h...
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Children with autism: gently helping to lift the mask
Children with autism, especially girls, are too often overlooked and misunderstood. It's time for a system that recognises and supports their needs
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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Brilliant video here from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social about @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and its 10 fantastic publications. A month of celebrating five years of powerful citizen journalism. And tons of ways you can engage and support, not least donating to help us move forward.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 27/03/2025
We are passionate about amplifying YOUR voice if you have a story to tell we would love for you to join us Download our brochure 👇🏻 centralbylines.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Woman stands in front of a crowd with a megaphone to her left is the central bylines and to her right is a red round circle with text reading “interested in writing for the first time? Download our guide”.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 14/03/2025
We intend on helping fill the void created by the decline in regional print journalism. Thanks for the shout out from the MD of @bylinesnetwork.co.uk, if you have a story to tell from the East or West Midlands or beyond then please email editor@centralbylines.co.uk
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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wow. Regional print journalism in the UK continues to decline. Makes alternatives like what we do @bylinesnetwork.co.uk even more relevant. Speaking of which…spotlight on @centralbylines.co.uk who are doing some excellent citizen journalism right now. One of our 10 regional online publications.
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Regional newspaper ABCs: No UK daily now has print circulation of 20,000 or more
Print circulations at UK regional daily newspapers collectively declined 16% between 2023 and 2024, according to the latest data from ABC.
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A long read but it's worth it. All news providers need to give it some thought www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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Irrelevant and unloved: how the press lost its touch
Journalism is in freefall—and the public doesn’t care
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 03/03/2025
Wow, we had over 450K reads in Feb, one of our best ever months for the UK's perhaps even the worlds fastest growing citizen journalism publication in the At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, why not help support us here as a one off or regular monthly donation
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Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Firewalls, ‘Wheedling Muskrats’, and the Sunday question westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/fir...
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Firewalls, ‘Wheedling Muskrats’, and the Sunday question
Brown alert. Germany is going to the polls on 23 February. Democratic parties are squabbling while the far right mobilises. Back to Weimar?
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please check out this substack. This is a real journalist. broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
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US Coup Gains Speed
Europe shakes as new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/02/2025
Galentines Day is today! Women and their stories are at the heart of what we do in our 10 Bylines Network publications. Research carried out in 2024 found that only 40% of senior editors in UK media and news were female. At the Bylines Network it is 85% @gemmagould.bsky.social
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Forget Valentine’s Day – here’s why you should celebrate Galentine’s Day this year
Why Galentine’s Day on 13 February is a great time to show some love and support to all your female relations, colleagues, friends and besties
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Blue skies over Shropshire last weekend. South of Cleobury Mortimer, a tough 8k
Two sheep look east in a field. Blue skies with some cloud.View across the landscape under a blue sky with low white cloud
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Iain Thomson @iainthomson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Twitter just lost around 300,000 journalists. Nice move by the EFJ.
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Languages & #Linguistics Books ✨🎁📚 #langsky #booksky
A collage of books: Mother Tongue Tied, The Language Game, Linguistics Wars, Endangered Languages, The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall, Linguaphile, The Power of Language, Because Internet
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There's a new craze in bookshops around the UK... ...namely placing Boris Johnson's new memoir next to other books on lying and/or Brexit damage - or even alongside toilet paper and cat litter... Enjoy the pics! 👇
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A great British bookshelf revolt buries Johnson’s Unleashed
A new craze is sweeping the nation’s bookshops up and down the country in a peaceful protest about a certain disgraced ex-PM’s book Unleashed
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A Termite line (top) and an Ant line (bottom), each protected by its column of soldiers who face each other without attacking..
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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Delighted to be joining @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social as Managing Director in 2025. January can’t come soon enough! Citizen journalism is the future. It’s what our democracy and our communities need. bylinesnetwork.co.uk
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Welcome to the Bylines Network
We are built on citizen journalism, nurturing democracy by giving a voice to local people and holding our elected representatives to account.
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CopageJ @copagej.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
How to shoot yourself in the foot with just a few words
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Chris Jones @salopchris.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A snowy morning in Ironbridge today #weather #StormHour #Snow #Telford
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Julian Cartwright @juliancartwright.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A bracing wander up Titterstone Clee today. Here's the view to Brown Clee #Shropshire #snow
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 18/11/2024
The power of a new therapeutic approach to foster care A Shropshire fostering agency believes a therapeutic approach to supporting children in foster care has been key to its success
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The power of a new therapeutic approach to foster care
A Shropshire fostering agency believes a therapeutic approach to supporting children in foster care has been key to its success
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Word of the day is ‘catchfart’, from the 17th century, used of a servant who followed their master or mistress a little too closely. In today’s terms, a catchfart is someone who fawns upon the boss or who follows the political wind.
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Hi all, I have created a starter pack. Feel free to share. #autistic go.bsky.app/GCqwXeT
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Eleonora Marocchini, PhD @marocchini.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I see more people are joining now that X got even worse. For my #autism research mutuals, @lauramaycrane.bsky.social has created this wholesome starter pack to find people and posts you might miss from X. Enjoy! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The sky is blue.. 🦋
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/11/2024
Congratulations, @bsky.app on passing 18 million users! Adding nearly 12 users per second - a million a day! Now 90% towards your goal of 20 million users. Phenomenal! Now, if they'd all like to follow us for some great independent journalism... 😉
BlueSky counter showing it passing 18 million users
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A stunning time-lapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya as it orbits the Moon. Credit: JAXA/NHK
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 16/11/2024
We're always on the look out for new writers on almost any subject. In the week of the great xodus to BlueSky and Threads if you feel like writing on this on why you are leaving or indeed sticking it out on X, then please feel free to email articles@centralbylines.co.uk
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last
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MAGA’s useful idiots
Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/11/2024
Here’s our map that shows your local Bylines ⤵️ @bylineseast.bsky.social @webylines.bsky.social @centralbylines.bsky.social @yorksbylines.bsky.social @nebylines.bsky.social @bylinesscotland.bsky.social @bylinescymru.bsky.social @nwbylines.bsky.social @sussexbylines.bsky.social @ksbylines.bsky.social
Map showing which Bylines covers each part of the UK
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Heather-jane @igotbigbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome (I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/11/2024
Like many independent news publications we're regulated by IMPRESS. www.impressorg.com
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Impress: The Independent Monitor of the Press
The UK's independent press regulator. Impress is a champion for news that can be trusted.
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social editions now have their own BlueSky accounts; why not follow your local one? Or follow them all for even more excellent citizen journalism. @yorksbylines.bsky.social @centralbylines.bsky.social @bylineseast.bsky.social @bylinesscotland.bsky.social bylinesnetwork.co.uk
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Welcome to the Bylines Network
We are built on citizen journalism, nurturing democracy by giving a voice to local people and holding our elected representatives to account.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 09/11/2024
How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...
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TESLA = TRUMP
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
💓 I made a starter pack of less mainstream political voices to follow, rather than just the ones everyone has heard of go.bsky.app/FpbsVro
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/11/2024
With the huge influx of followers, it's worth sharing our "Byliners" starter pack again ~ showcasing a bunch of our authors. If you write for us and aren't on the list, give us a shout! Please share 🙏 go.bsky.app/LSrc9iS
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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Now with added @charlottetobitt.bsky.social of @pressgazette.co.uk fame go.bsky.app/SRXaz4q
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