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Josh LaPorte

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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 06/08/2025
🔴Mzia Amaglobeli sentenced to 2 years imprisonment. #FreeMzia #RepressionInGeorgia #Georgia #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Are you local media or a freelancer in Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland or Serbia? 🇧🇪🇵🇱🇱🇹🇷🇸🇭🇺 LIMENet is offering €16–20K grants plus mentoring to strengthen independent local journalism. ✍️Apply by 25 August: 🔗 app.media4change.co/grant/local-... #LIMENet
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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‘Everybody stood up’: Why a union leader’s arrest galvanized California Democrats on immigration
In summary SEIU California leader David Huerta pressed to raise wages for custodians and other workers for decades before he was detained at a Los Angeles immigration protest.
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Live from the Media Democracy Festival: Oligarchs Inc: Who Owns the UK Media? Our Exec Director, @milicapesic.bsky.social joins the discussion on media power, ownership, and democracy. The panel kicks off with a key question: who owns the media—and why does it matter? @mediareformuk.bsky.social
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
MDI’s @josh-mdig.bsky.social is a proud juror for the 2025 Global Youth & News Media Prize! 🏆 This year’s theme: how youth are helping save local news. 📰 📅 Deadline: 16 June 🌍 Open globally, all platforms 🔗 buff.ly/3SEXf4J #YouthAndNews #LocalNews #JournalismAward
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🇪🇺#EU: As part of our commemoration of #WPFD 2025, IPI joins partners in expressing solidarity with all journalists & media professionals who face threats, intimidation & attacks for their work. Read our full statement with the #MFRR👇
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WPFD 2025: Defending democracy in Europe depends on defending media freedom – ipi.media
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Josh LaPorte @josh-mdig.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Join us today at 16h www.linkedin.com/posts/media-... @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @mediadiversity.bsky.social
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Shrinking Media Freedom in the South Caucasus and Central Asia: A Call for… | Media Diversity Institute
🗓️ Event: Shrinking Media Freedom in the South Caucasus and Central Asia – A Call for Urgent Action As part of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day celebrations, MDI and IRFS invite you to a crucial disc...
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RSF @rsf.org · 02/05/2025
🔴 #RSFIndex2025 | Norway is first and Eritrea last. Where does your country rank in the RSF World Press Freedom Index? l Find out here 👇 #RSFIndex
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RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom
Although physical attacks against journalists are the most visible violations of press freedom, economic pressure is also a major, more insidious problem. The economic indicator on the RSF World Press...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is the game. Unite and then manipulate the data for whatever mischief you want to do www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up
DOGE has tapped into some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the world. Now it’s starting to put it to work.
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🔚 Our #IJF25 panel wrapped with a powerful reminder: Diversity isn’t a buzzword. It’s a human right. We need to fight for it—and be loud about it. Because silence only serves the status quo. @journalismfestival.com @garyyounge @milicapesic.bsky.social @vrupar @aizaimm
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We’re a go at #IFJ25 for Open Season on the Oppressed: Can Diversity Survive? Big Tech’s business models like Meta’s prioritisation practices don’t just shape visibility, they deepen marginalisation. We’re here to unpack the complexities of tech, expression & diversity.
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"What is diversity?” A question kicking off #IFJ25’s vital session on journalism & inclusion. Is it a dirty word now? A demographic? A practice? Gary Younge says: “It’s about substantial and substantive difference, different opportunities.”
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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Are you in Perugia? Join us today at 11:30 CEST at Teatro del Pavone for "Open season on the oppressed: can diversity survive?" 🎤✨ #IJF25 #DiversityInMedia Hear from our brilliant speakers: @aizaimm @milicapesic.bsky.social @garyyounge @vrupar
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Josh LaPorte @josh-mdig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#media #muskification #pressfreedom #ijf25
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Gilles BRUNO @gillesbruno.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#IJF25 From funding crisis to opportunity: ideas & solutions in a post-USAID era Eliza Anyangwe The Fuller Project Lars Boering EJC Peter Erdelyi Center for Sustainable Media Mira Milosevic Global Forum for Media Dvpt Sharon Moshavi Int. Center for Journalists Alinda Vermeer Limelight
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Josh LaPorte @josh-mdig.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Benvenuti a Perugia! #ijf25 #pressfreedom #freedomofspeech
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🇬🇪IPI condemns adoption of new Foreign Agent Law, introducing harsh penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. We urge its withdrawal and reiterate our call on Georgian government to stop persecuting independent media.
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Georgia: Independent journalism and media pluralism on the brink
IPI joins the undersigned press freedom, journalists, and freedom of expression organizations in expressing deep concern over the recently proposed legislation, increasing threats to journalists'…
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#CzechRepublic: IPI welcomes the recent vote by the lower house of parliament to raise the licence fee for Czech Television & Czech Radio as a vital move to safeguard the long-term sustainability of the public broadcasters. Our full statement here:
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Czech Republic: IPI welcomes progress on securing public media funding
The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomes the recent vote by the lower house of parliament to raise the licence fee for Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo) as a vital move to…
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨As the use of spyware across Europe has proliferated, so has its abuse against journalists. IPI & #MFRR partners have recorded 15 cases targeting 33 journalists or media across 10 European countries. Read the latest factsheet here: Read more: buff.ly/0OkKf8g
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#Hungary: IPI today warns of a looming crackdown by the government on independent media, in the wake of recent incendiary comments by PM Orbán in which he vowed to eliminate all media outlets & other organisations that have received foreign funding.
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Hungary: IPI warns of fresh crackdown on independent media
The International Press Institute (IPI) today warns of a looming crackdown by the Hungarian government on independent media in the country, in the wake of recent incendiary comments by Prime Minister…
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🇷🇴#Romania: IPI stands in solidarity with ActiveWatch, a key defender of #PressFreedom in Romania, and other CSOs which became the target of baseless accusations after a roundtable on election integrity and the #EUDSA.
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Mapping Media Freedom: Romania: Elon Musk targets ActiveWatch on social media (2025-03-03)
On 3 March 2025, American businessperson Elon Musk, owner of X, targeted Romanian human rights and…
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ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Google must comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). ARTICLE 19, alongside partners, urges the European Commission to investigate Google’s non-compliance with the DMA. The integrity of the DMA is at stake. Action is needed now. www.article19.org/resources/eu...
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European Commission: Google’s non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act - ARTICLE 19
The European Commission must ensure fair competition and consumer choice and investigate Google’s non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act.
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Jean-Paul Marthoz @jpmarthoz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dinko Gruhonjic. « Serbia’s public enemy number one ». His crime: independent journalism. He is under threat and must be protected @coemediafreedom.bsky.social
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#Europe: IPI today marks the publication of new annual report by the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism & safety of journalists, which outlines threats to #mediafreedom across the continent in 2024. Download here -
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Council of Europe Platform report: Persistent threats to media freedom across Europe
The International Press Institute (IPI) today marks the publication of a new annual report by the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists, which…
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Tom Gibson @at-tgibson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thank you to Commissioner McGrath for providing the welcome address for the Council of Europe Journalist Safety Platform Annual Report. This support for press freedom is needed more than ever. audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/corporatepla...
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European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @europeanjournalists.org · 05/03/2025
We're in #Brussels with @coemediafreedom.bsky.social partners to launch the 2024 Europe Press Freedom Report. In 2024, we documented 266 cases of physical attacks, intimidation, detention, impunity - slightly below the number of alerts in 2023 (285) but significantly above pre-COVID levels.
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2024 Europe Press Freedom Report warns about persistent threats to media freedom
The risks that journalists faced covering the war of aggression of Russia against Ukraine remained the most pressing concern related to the safety of ...
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🇸🇰#Slovakia: IPI’s Jamie Wiseman & @teonas.bsky.social were in Bratislava yesterday to mark the 7-year anniversary of murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak & his fiancé Martina Kušnírová, and joined Slovak journalists on stage to support their renewed call for full justice. #AllforJan
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📢 #FreeMzia Today! We demand the release of veteran journalist and IPI global network member and Founder of @netgazeti.org Mzia Amaglobeli: buff.ly/4gaDqyA 👉 Support this call by reposting and spreading the word in your network!
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
IPI joins partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (#MFRR) in publishing its annual monitoring report which documents 1548 attacks on journalists & threats to #pressfreedom in EU Member States & Candidate Countries across 2024. Dig into the data here:
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New MFRR report details press freedom threats across Europe
The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in publishing its annual monitoring report which documents 1548 different attacks on…
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Teona Sekhniashvili @teonas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here's a reminder that a month ago, a brave journalist who has been fighting for justice and freedom for decades was arrested, and has been on a hunger strike ever since. We must fight for her freedom now. #FreeMziaAmaglobeli #GeorgiaProtests @netgazeti.org
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Georgia: IPI demands immediate release of veteran journalist Mzia Amaglobeli
The IPI global network calls for the release of veteran Georgian journalist and IPI member Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been ordered to remain in pre-trial detention after being arrested on January 12. An...
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
IPI & @mjrc.bsky.social launch final report of series on Media Capture and the European Media Freedom Act. Reports measure country alignment with #EMFA provisions on #MediaCapture. #PublicServiceMedia #RegulatoryIndependence #TransparentStateAdvertising #MediaPluralism
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Can the European Media Freedom Act address Media Capture?
The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) today release the Overview of the Media Capture Monitoring Report series: European Media Freedom Act:…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"In hindsight, the first year may have been the entire ballgame — even if no one quite knew it at the time..." Really good explainer by Zack Beauchamp here. Worth reading: www.vox.com/politics/398...
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Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We can’t let a mega rich dude shut down the main foreign aid program created and funded by Congress just because he doesn’t like it and has our president by the balls www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Once upon a time the fourth estate stood outside power and held it to account. Now they’re in the room to oblige with the photo-opportunities. Photo proudly appears in Murdoch’s own NY Post.
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International Journalism Festival @journalismfestival.com · 03/02/2025
Here are the first 400 #ijf25 speakers www.journalismfestival.com/news/here-ar...
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Here are the first 400 #ijf25 speakers
We are pleased to present the first 400 speakers of the 2025 festival. This speaker list is partial and provisional. Many more speakers are still to be added. The list will be regularly updated as we ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2025
🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/
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Free Press Unlimited (FPU) @freepressunlimited.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Lukashenka's presidential term got extended by another 5 years in a sham election. Journalists keep being detained, injured and suppressed. The right to information keeps being severely violated. We support international advocacy measures to bring the government to account. #PressFreedom #Lukashenko
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Tom Gibson @at-tgibson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The EU must be ready to fight increasing human rights violations, MEPs say: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres... I could not agree more. The EEAS @eudiplomacy.bsky.social has to step up on press freedom. We live in difficult times. We need effective leadership.
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The EU must be ready to fight increasing human rights violations, MEPs say | News | European Parliament
On Thursday, MEPs from the Committee on Foreign affairs adopted the annual report 2024 on human rights and democracy in the world and EU policy.
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European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @europeanjournalists.org · 29/01/2025
Suspension of #US media aid: We call on all potential European donors to take action to compensate for the US withdrawal, particularly to ensure the survival of Ukrainian media, the network of Belarusian journalists in exile and media programmes in Kosovo. europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/01...
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Suspension of U.S. media aid: EFJ calls for mobilisation of European donors
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), one of the largest official aid agencies in the world, has been instructed to stop projects ...
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As the Trump administration has suspended all foreign aid disbursements, the US Embassy in Budapest has also stopped its 173 million HUF (441,000 $) support to free Hungarian media, media1 portal reports.
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Disinformation platforms in #Slovakia and the #CzechRepublic are closely collaborating to exploit nostalgia for the former common state, amplify Kremlin narratives, and erode trust in democracy.👇 buff.ly/3EnPMpU
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Poverty is a policy choice.
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Ricardo Gutiérrez @molenews1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#Serbia: full support to journalists on strike to defend public interest. europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/01...
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Serbia: full support to journalists on strike to defend public interest
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today gave its full support to the Serbian journalists organisations which have called for a general strike ...
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🇬🇪IPI calls for immediate release of veteran Georgian journalist and founder of @netgazeti.org Mzia Amaglobeli. We demand thorough investigation into mistreatment she endured. Georgian authorities must put an end to this unprecedented crackdown on media. #FreedomForMzia
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Press freedom partners call for release of Mzia Amaglobeli, end to crackdown on free press
IPI joins the undersigned press freedom, journalists and human rights organisations in calling for the immediate release of veteran Georgian journalist and founder and director of the online…
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
✅How does Meta's decision to end its fact-checking programs in the US affect the company’s fact-checking partners across the world? In a new piece, we spoke to 7 of those partners in Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Ukraine. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/amid-wa...
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Amid war, vicious attacks and political turmoil, global fact-checkers fear the impact of the end of Meta’s programme
Fact-checkers from Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Nigeria, Ukraine and the Philippines explain the potential effects for their revenue and their news ecosystem.
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Journalismfund Europe @journalismfund.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In this joint investigation, @bellingcat.com & Postimees reveal how nitazenes, the ultrapotent synthetic opioids, are infiltrating Europe by investigating more than 1,000 online adverts selling six of the most common types of nitazenes. Read more👉https://bit.ly/4hjiAOC #plupro
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International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
⚠️Attention! This could be very useful: #IJ4EU funds for cross-border investigations offer grants of <€50k for newsrooms & freelancers. If you have any❓❓❓about the eligibility, how to apply, what to expect... – let's talk! Join us on Wednesday, Jan. 22
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IJ4EU Info Webinar (Jan. 22, 2025) - IJ4EU
Questions about IJ4EU grants?
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Josh LaPorte @josh-mdig.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
“”The reality is that if you have the ability to overwhelm the media ecosystem with lies, you make the cost of engaging in public debate so high that it becomes an existential one.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...
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‘The Interview’: Ambassador David Pressman Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen
Ambassador David Pressman talks about his contentious relationship with Viktor Orban’s administration and why what happens in Hungary matters.
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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Who thinks there'll be 50% less journalism jobs in 10 years?
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