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Rebecca Cooney

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TV journo - insights editor at Broadcast magazine. Also poet, feminist, bookworm & charity shop fiend. She/her. Debut pamphlet Where the Lights Come On out now. rebeccakcooney.bigcartel.com/produc…

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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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The Media Club @themediaclub.com · 15/09/2026
@rebeccakcooney.bsky.social tries to solve the mystery of whether Tom Jones has decided to leave The Voice, or if he was actually let go, on the Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen and watch now: 📺 youtu.be/80BH70erXck 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast
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The Media Club @themediaclub.com · 14/09/2026
🚨NEW MEDIA CLUB OUT NOW🚨 @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social talks us through the scale of the Channel 4 job cuts and explains why it's a big hit for the company/ industry on the Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen now: 📺 youtu.be/80BH70erXck 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast
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The Media Club @themediaclub.com · 17/04/2026
Would the BBC need to cut 2,000 jobs if everyone paid their license fee? Simon Draper (TV director) and @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social (Broadcast Magazine) on The Media Club with @scottygb.bsky.social, filling in for @mattdeegan.com. 📺 youtu.be/sNljXavvtfs 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Right wing media: DEFUND THE BBC. Right wing media: why can’t the BBC now afford to show the thing I like?
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MadameNostalgic✨Tanya @madamenostalgic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/01/2026
actually it's called Reform because they're trying to re-form the Conservative party but in the tent next door
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/01/2026
Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
An edit of a 'Traitors' confessional shot with Robert Jenrick sat in the chair. The caption identifies him as 'Robert' 44, Wannabe PM and a traitor'.
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The Media Club @themediaclub.com · 09/01/2026
🚨NEW MEDIA CLUB OUT NOW🚨 Can creators make more £££ from Spotify than YouTube? @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social (Broadcast) & @thomasadamcurry.com (BBC Studios) discuss on the new Media Club with @mattdeegan.com.  📺 youtu.be/EpuQA9EwS04?si=6Gb20_cum3h… 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
My husband just turned to my bearded uncle at the dinner table and said "I will fight you, Santa!". Christmas eve is going well.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour
MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody..
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I'm the leaseholder of a ground floor flat in a 5-floor block. My situation is pretty different from (I'm fairly sure) all of those who died in the Grenfell tragedy. That said, can you imagine anyone living in a block of flats in London would even consider following this advice? Sod you Clarion.
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Well I was today years old when I discovered Pepto Bismol tastes like Deep Heat milkshake...
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Well, The Telegraph got its scalp.
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The Media Club @themediaclub.com · 31/10/2025
Disney Plus will be stopping funding for Doctor Who! Insight Editor at Broadcast @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social runs us through what's happened on the Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen and watch now: 📺 youtu.be/fCNF89efyLM 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Close Labour, close, but could we perhaps stop pandering to the right by pretending/implying that Indefinite Leave to Remain is anywhere close to being automatic? (it costs thousands in visa fees to get anywhere near ILR for a start)
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Nice water feature outside South Norwood Station @thameswater.bsky.social...
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Almost every place you go on holiday - no matter how full of artisan boutiques - will have one or more shops selling these lovingly crafted wooden knob bottle openers. But back home, I've never had someone hand me one of those to open a drink with. Own up: who is it that's buying these??
Shop display of bottle openers with wooden penises for handles, some decorated with folk art-style motifs
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is the thing: the political exploitation of migration is entirely cynical and not related to reality. Both Immigration and net migration fell from 2023 to 2024 - net drastically from 860,000 to 431,000. Did you notice people calming down about it or saying it now felt under control?
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Oh bollocks. She absolutely doesn't deserve this.
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Oh bollocks. She absolutely doesn't deserve this.
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Richard Winskill 🏳️‍🌈 @richardwinskill.uk · 03/09/2025
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the blanket assertion that "words will never hurt you" rather overlooks the fact that the guy saying, "Break their bones with sticks and stones," was probably a major contributing factor to the current state of your bones...
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
CHEESES (Palindrome) Decide "No edam," I did. I ate feta, I did. I made one diced.
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The Media Club @themediaclub.com · 23/08/2025
The Bitchiest Edinburgh TV Festival Ever ☠️ @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social on the new Media Club with @mattdeegan.com ft. @heatherfallon.bsky.social & @farazosman.bsky.social. Listen and watch now... 📺 youtu.be/stME7LtL2K4 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Bit of congestion on the way to my desk this morning...
Image shows a chair pulled up to a desk, with an open laptop on the desk. On the chair is a large fluffy ginger cat, with his paws waving playfully in the air, preventing anyone from sitting down.
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
So my awesome writing group is putting together an anthology of our work, and to promote it, we've launched a newsletter. Fancy getting fantastical short stories, poetry and writing advice (plus gorgeous illustrations) in your inbox? Sign up here open.substack.com/pub/fantasti...
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Fantastic | Fantastic Writers Collective | Substack
The newsletter of the Fantastic Writers Collective. Click to read Fantastic, by Fantastic Writers Collective, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The family of Bebe King, one of the girls killed in the Southport attack, have urged ministers to reconsider disclosing ethnicity of suspects. They say family were failed by “despicable” actions of far right, who “tried to make political gain from our tragedy” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 30/07/2025
Proud of y’all for the 50+ puns in the quote tweets - big shout to Masturchef - but a pal just texted me LonelyFans so I’m afraid we have a winner
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 19/07/2025
Christopher Reeve advertising camcorders in 1989, culminating in THE GREATEST SLOGAN OF ALL TIME
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I don't think "exonerated" means what Gregg Wallace thinks it means...
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Review of the new Superman film: This is a film that dares to ask the big questions. What if Palestine was in Ukraine? What if Superman could be defeated by randomly shouting out bra sizes? What if selfies could save the world?
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The cat's in his pre-raphealite era 🪷🌿🌸
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Matt Deegan @mattdeegan.com · 20/06/2025
On the podcast this week... Kate Phillips gets the BBC Chief Content Officer role, self service ads are coming to TV, Netflix streams TF1 and Maisie McCabe joins us from Cannes (whilst me, @farazosman.bsky.social and @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social are stuck in the studio).
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Abolish the Home Office.
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UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
TOON TUESDAY #ToonTuesday
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Old fashioned print media is in decline everywhere but in the mind of the nation’s political class. The result is that our leaders are getting a very warped sense of what the average voter thinks, reads and cares about."
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The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?
From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
All those Brexiters are gonna be super mad at this foreign unelected Govt interfering in our sovereign laws. Looking forward to the outraged blogs on Mail+ and Telegraph any second.
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A black-and-white cartoon by War and Peas shows a woman speaking to a man. They stand facing each other with neutral expressions. The woman says, "It’s not you, it’s men." The caption is a humorous twist on the classic breakup line, "It’s not you, it’s me," suggesting her frustration is with men in general rather than the individual man.
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
For the avoidance of doubt, trans women are women, trans men are men, NBs exist & y'day's ruling makes all women a bit less free to dress & present as they want. And it does nothing to tackle the behaviour of cis men or patriarchy(you know, the reason mixed sex spaces might feel unsafe in 1st place)
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In years to come we'll look at this era and wonder why in light of a global pandemic, economic inflation, growing inequality and technological upheaval we decided to make the private lives of a minority considerably worse.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
you see, the fact he's still talking is how you know there's no deep state
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Matt Deegan @mattdeegan.com · 28/03/2025
Great to have @janemartinson.bsky.social and @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social on the show this week.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I want everyone who said they couldn't vote for Harris, because her policies didn't go far enough in one or several areas, and concluded "they're all the same", to make themselves a little scrapbook over the next four years. As an aide-mémoire for next time.
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Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
That last paragraph is astonishing
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Karin Robinson @karinjr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Come to hear me and the excellent @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social talk with the delightful @mattdeegan.com about media… stuff. Stay to hear Rebecca and I both process our grief after reading That Vulture Article…
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