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Mary Fitzgerald

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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
So Team Starmer couldn’t ’possibly have known’ Mandelson was lying about his relationship with a convicted paedophile. Despite mountains of publicly available evidence. Yet they spent £30,000 on private investigators trying to dig dirt on journalists who asked them troublesome questions? 🤔
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉 In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Now 20k views on our video and counting
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
VERY excited about this ❤️💪🔥 pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
First Boris. Now Tony…
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK. Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉 Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message? Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A comprehensive comms success.
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Excited to be back in gorgeous Perugia for #ijf25 Come hear how creative media leaders are growing high-impact businesses despite the odds… in places with hostile governments & and where most foreign funding is banned 🔥 www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...
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How to grow thriving media businesses in the toughest circumstances
Making enough money to grow and sustain good journalism is tough everywhere. But in places where governments and their proxies come after you for what you publish, where most foreign grant funding is ...
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🚨 A secretive policing unit has been instructing forces across the UK withhold information, track journalists, and rescind previously approved FOI responses. @jennacorderoy.bsky.social 's debut on Democracy for Sale - and it's a banger democracyforsale.substack.com/p/democracy-...
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Democracy for Sale journalists targeted by secretive police unit
A little-known policing unit is instructing forces to withhold information, track journalists, and rescind previously approved FOI responses.
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
As AI upends everything, do we want journalism delivered by Elon Musk (or Melon Tusk, as my 8 year old calls him)? Or, can we do better? Me & Dave Caswell on why the BBC & others must step up. We need a public service revolution now. Before it's too late www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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AI is the media's chance to reinvent itself
AI threatens today’s news industry—and with it, our shared reality. But it could also radically transform journalism for the better
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Henry Porter @henrycporter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We're raising cash for 100 Palestinian families for @shelterbox.bsky.social. It's a minuscule amount but better than ignoring Gaza. Join us. Fund us Repost. I need your help to get to £44k target. Thanks! www.eventbookings.com/b/event/the-... @claraandersson.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social
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The Convention - An evening for Gaza In aid of Shelter Box
Join us for an evening of music and readings in aid of the nearly two million Palestinians who have lost their homes in the war in Gaza. The humanitarian need is unprecedented. With a ceasefire now in...
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
SO proud to have supported @financialtimes.com's Democracy 2024 series, produced by the brilliant @julietriddell.bsky.social, now nominated for the RTS Journalism Award ❤️ Comes on the back of a slew of other nominations & awards for these beautiful films from women around the world: osf.to/3Q60KDe
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Letter from the editor: a testing year for democracy
As record numbers go to the polls in 2024, the FT launches a debate on what’s at stake with short films by four renowned artists
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
'Putin has been trying to kill independent media for God knows how many years now. Ironically the country that has this free speech is now about to give [it] the death blow' www.ft.com/content/10b6...
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Strongmen celebrate as Trump aid freeze hits media
Independent outlets in former Soviet Union are poised to be hurt by temporary shut down at key US agency
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Money for public-interest journalism! Are you a media outlet based in Hungary, Poland, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia - or do you know others who are? Please spread this call widely… 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 civitates-eu.org/funding-oppo...
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Call for Proposals: Strengthening independent public interest journalism in Europe - Civitates
Open call to support independent public-interest media outlets in Europe.
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
'But he seemed like such a nice chap...'? BREAKING on Democracy for Sale today: How Putin's mercenary chief made a mockery of Britain's legal system. And how it will happen again, and again, and again until Keir Starmer's government acts on #SLAPPS democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...
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UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
Exclusive: Taking cash from a sanctioned Russian mercenary chief to enable him to sue a British journalist is not an abuse of our legal system, solicitors' regulator finds
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Zuckerberg claims he's canning Meta's factchecking program to stop politicised censorship (ie. to make friendly with Trump). But what's really driving this move? Clue: It's all about the money, money, money... www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/zuck...
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Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement
Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.
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Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
ALL 144 Facebook content moderators assessed by a psychiatrist in Kenya have PTSD because of their work moderating content for Facebook. Let that sink in. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Beyond parody. Guess where? 🙄 apple.news/AfR70lKoLQDC...
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The European golden visa hotspot where inheritance tax bills don’t exist — The Telegraph
With its warm weather and various tax perks, more Britons are flocking to this archipelago
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨 We're hiring! TBIJ is looking for a diligent and detail-oriented fact-checker to join our team next year Contract: 12-month fixed term (with the possibility of an extension) Salary: £37,000–£40,000 Location: London office/hybrid working Deadline: 3 January 2025 Apply 👇
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We’re hiring! Apply to be our Fact-Checker
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”
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‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash…
Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad
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Mary Fitzgerald @maryftz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So pleased to see @tbij.bsky.social's & @theguardian.com excellent reporting on the Abramovich empire win @pressgazette.co.uk award. Hugely deserved 👏 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...
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How Roman Abramovich became the face of Russian wealth
Former Chelsea owner went from humble beginnings to a life of superyachts, sprawling mansions … and then sanctions
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy? Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!
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A survey into people's attitudes to the health of British politics from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money
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