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Jim Edwards

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Executive editor / global news @ Fortune. Ex Business Insider. Founder: Moneyin2. Author: Say Thank You for Everything.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/06/2025
Breaking News: Bill Moyers, a celebrated broadcast journalist, served as a spokesman for President Lyndon B. Johnson. trib.al/tTKEwpa
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Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91
Before becoming known as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator, he had a long association with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Read the deep-dive here: fortune.com/2025/03/26/r...
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Real America’s Voice: How a tiny pro-Trump news network founded by a convicted criminal got so close to the president
The channel covers Trump the president while doing business with a Trump company.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Glenn, the White House correspondent, is dating Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, one of Trump’s most loyal allies and Gina Loudon, president of programming and one of its top personalities, was a former advisor to Trump’s 2020 campaign and co-chair of the political group Women for Trump…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
But two former employees told us that RAV management theatened to dock the pay of a 23-year-old meteorologist because she posted a video on her personal social media accounts that went viral. Sigg argued the video should have been on the company’s platforms where it could earn revenue…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Some staff say they like working for Sigg. One described him as “the sweetest guy in the world when he was in the mood” and recalled his habit of treating the office to lunch. Other employees also said they got along well with Sigg and that he regularly praised staffers for a job well done…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Sigg pled guilty to at least four charges — for driving under the influence, using a fake ID, contempt of court, and violating probation…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Over the course of his life Sigg has been charged with assault, harassment, drug possession, driving under the influence, domestic violence, and burglary in Colorado, according to arrest records from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Real America’s Voice is the brainchild of Robert Sigg, a Colorado media entrepreneur with a checkered legal past. In 2006, Sigg was convicted of federal mortgage fraud in a multi-million dollar scheme. He was sentenced to time served and ordered to pay $141,000 in restitution to Washington Mutual…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
RAV airs back-to-back-to-back shows from three of the most influential rightwing commentators in the country. Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and Jack Posobiec all stream their podcasts on the channel…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
RAV declined to comment on Fortune’s “absurd accusations.”…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This poses unique ethical questions: “I think it’s unethical for a president to hold control over large media platforms,” said Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush. “I think the press should be separated from the state.”…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As a media outlet it covers Trump the president, but it is also a content provider for Trump the businessman’s company…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
RAV—once an also-ran to Fox News and Newsmax in the conservative news business—is now in the enviable position of being the key link between Trump’s company and his most prominent boosters in the media...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
All of RAV’s shows are broadcast on Truth Social and its sister streaming platform Truth+. Both are part of the burgeoning tech holdings of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), whose largest shareholder is Trump…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
For this story, Fortune spoke to six former employees who worked for RAV’s parent company and its subsidiaries and we contacted eight police departments and nine courthouses to obtain police reports and court rulings…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The founder of RAV has an extensive criminal record, for instance…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Remember the reporter who asked Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office why he wasn’t wearing a suit? That was Brian Glenn of Real America’s Voice, a pro-Trump conservative news channel that, a few years ago, no one had ever heard of. Fortune decided to investigate RAV. What we found is fascinating…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Fighting Russia with renewable energy open.substack.com/pub/klemento...
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Fighting Russia with renewable energy
As the Western defence alliance has all but died under the new US administration, Europe must deal with an increasing likelihood of having to face Russia in the battlefield.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Of course, diseases don’t stay inside one far-away country … Read the full investigation from Fortune’s @EleanorMPringle here: fortune.com/2025/03/22/c...
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USAID canceled contracts worth $32.7m bound for HIV charity treating 350,000 patients—now the lives of 10,000 children are on the line
In an exclusive interview, Trish Karlin of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation discusses the impact of $32.7m worth of contracts being terminated by USAID.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Instantly, treatment for 350,000 HIV patients—including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women—was thrown into disarray. “Large numbers of people are going to die” if the funding is not restored, according to Trish Karlin, EVP for business development and external affairs at EGPAF...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation was, however, doing HIV prevention work in the region of Gaza in Mozambique. All that funding was cut by DOGE...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
According to correspondence and charitable funding records seen by Fortune, and interviews with staff responsible, there were no condoms — zero, none — being sent to the war-torn Middle East territory controlled by terrorists...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It turns out that what actually happened was Musk’s DOGE cut $33 million in funding for HIV prevention for Africa. 350,000 people were on anti-HIV meds, funded by that program. Many, possibly all, are now likely to die.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We all know that when Elon Musk and the White House said they found “$50 million to fund condoms for Gaza” they turned out to be wrong. But what really happened? Fortune decided to investigate…
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I cannot wait to see the King's face back on the US dollar.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
AI search engines are confidently wrong more than half the time when they cite sources, study finds fortune.com/2025/03/18/a...
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AI search engines have an accuracy issue
AI search engines are confidently wrong over 60% of the time when citing news, a recent study says.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Good news: Public investment is remarkably effective open.substack.com/pub/klemento...
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Good news: Public investment is remarkably effective
Government investment is frequently derided as wasteful and ineffective.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
After repeated claims of taking over Greenland, the Trump administration is now asking Denmark for extra eggs amid shortage fortune.com/2025/03/14/e...
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After repeated claims of taking over Greenland, the Trump administration is now asking Denmark for extra eggs amid shortage
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has formally requested Denmark ramp up egg exports as American poultry farms battle the bird flu.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Can confirm that Death of Stalin is a must-watch.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Growing Trump-Putin detente could spell trouble for the Arctic theconversation.com/growing-trum...
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Growing Trump-Putin detente could spell trouble for the Arctic
There are growing concerns that Russia and the US could be aiming to carve up Arctic mineral resources.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Just noticed this review of my book on Amazon - the ONLY one that gave it a one-star review! www.amazon.co.uk/Say-Thank-Yo...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16/02/2025
Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR. aftermath.site/meta-horizons-...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Oil tankers rocked by mystery blasts after trips to Russia fortune.com/2025/02/20/o...
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Oil tankers rocked by mystery blasts after trips to Russia
"All the indications are that these have been deliberately orchestrated, but it’s with a significant degree of sophistication."
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Trump warns Elon Musk building a Tesla factory in India would be ‘very unfair’ to his administration fortune.com/2025/02/20/d...
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Trump warns Elon Musk building a Tesla factory in India would be 'very unfair' to his administration
India is a tough market to crack: Foreign brands compete for about a third of overall demand, and total EV sales remain vestigial.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Elon Musk called Donald Trump about claims he was a puppet president, saying: ‘They’re trying to drive us apart’ fortune.com/2025/02/18/e...
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Elon Musk called Donald Trump about claims he was a puppet president, saying: 'They're trying to drive us apart'
Elon Musk called the president to address speculation that he was the real power in the White House—but Trump remains unfazed.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/02/2025
Elon Musk’s DOGE just posted classified U.S. intelligence data on its website, and officials are scrambling, HuffPost reports.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What if Donald Trump calls the courts’ bluff? www.ft.com/content/8e52...
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What if Donald Trump calls the courts’ bluff?
The US judiciary poses the ultimate test of whether the president will break the system
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“We now have no mechanism to rid the Met of officers not fit to hold vetting — those who cannot be trusted to work with women, or those who cannot be trusted to enter the homes of vulnerable people...It is absolutely absurd that we cannot sack them.” www.ft.com/content/5ffb...
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Met Police cannot remove officers who fail vetting, High Court rules
Ruling is a blow to efforts to oust rogue and unsuitable individuals, warns force
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Do US states with more renewable energy have more expensive electricity? open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
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Do US states with more renewable energy have more expensive electricity?
Despite California being the poster child of high prices, the data suggests no.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
100 million read something on Substack every month. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
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Top 50 news websites in the world: India.com reports fastest year-on-year growth
Press Gazette lists the top 50 most popular news websites in the world. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data provided by SimilarWeb.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...
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Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order
The still-secret records are in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review triggered by Trump's Jan. 23 executive order.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Yes please. ‘We’ll all have to go vegan’: Wisconsin dairy farmers fret over immigration crackdown www.ft.com/content/e61e...
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‘We’ll all have to go vegan’: Wisconsin dairy farmers fret over immigration crackdown
Business groups warn agriculture sector will collapse without foreign labour
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What Bitcoin contagion might look like open.substack.com/pub/moneyin2...
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What Bitcoin contagion might look like
🔸 Plus: 🔸 Emily Sundberg is "the Carrie Bradshaw of money" 🔸 Lobbyists want to end the Cash ISA tax break 🔸 “Private Banker” is a new TV drama from Japan on Netflix 🔸
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/02/2025
A Georgia man who the authorities said kept more than 100 dogs in cruel conditions at his home has been sentenced to 475 years in prison after being found guilty last month of dogfighting and cruelty to animals, prosecutors said.
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Georgia Man Sentenced to 475 Years for Dogfighting
Vincent Lemark Burrell was found guilty last month of more than 100 counts of dogfighting and animal cruelty after dozens of dogs were found in poor condition at his home.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Experts warn MicroStrategy’s high-flying valuation has ‘no rational explanation’—and investors face a double whammy of risk fortune.com/2025/02/08/m...
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Experts warn MicroStrategy's high-flying valuation has 'no rational explanation'—and investors face a double whammy of risk
The company, which rebranded from MicroStrategy to "Strategy" this week, is worth just under double the value of its Bitcoin holdings.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
25-year-old employed by Elon Musk’s DOGE who posted he was ‘racist before it was cool’ resigns after being linked to deleted social-media account fortune.com/2025/02/07/2...
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25-year-old employed by Elon Musk’s DOGE who posted he was ‘racist before it was cool’ resigns after being linked to deleted social-media account
Marco Elez was part of a team of young, tech-savvy DOGE workers that have been tearing through government agencies.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This week my book "Say Thank You for Everything" is the No.1 recommendation of the American Chamber of Commerce in Peru! Not a sentence I'd ever thought I would have to write. @harrimanhouse amcham.org.pe/news/getabst...
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GetAbstract: recomendaciones de lectura #94 - AmCham News
AmCham Perú y GetAbstract, portal que elabora resúmenes de libros y artículos a nivel internacional, presentan una nueva edición de lecturas recomendadas y aclamadas del momento. Los contenidos son lo...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'm very excited that my book, Say Thank You for Everything, is now available in Vietnamese, under the new title "Những Bí Mật Để Trở Thành Một Quản Lí Tài Ba" . You can buy it from Minh Long Book at minhlongbook.vn/products/sac...
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Sách: Những Bí Mật Để Trở Thành Một Quản Lí Tài Ba
Cuốn sách NHỮNG BÍ MẬT ĐỂ TRỞ THÀNH MỘT QUẢN LÍ TÀI BA dành cho bất kì ai trong các ngành nghề đòi hỏi sự sáng tạo dù là nhỏ nhất. Nó dành cho bất kì ai trong những ngành nghề hướng đến kết quả đầu ra...
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked messages show chaos at USAID as HR team dealing with staff exits is placed on administrative leave fortune.com/2025/02/05/u...
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Inside USAID chaos as HR team dealing with mass administrative leave is placed on administrative leave
The Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE are moving to shut down USAID.
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Jim Edwards @jimedwards.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Bill Gates: ‘Manufacturing computers seemed too risky…Writing software was just brainpower and time’ fortune.com/2025/02/03/b...
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Bill Gates: ‘Manufacturing computers seemed too risky…Writing software was just brainpower and time’
The Microsoft cofounder recalls his early thinking on hardware vs. software in an excerpt from his latest book.
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