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Subbu Vincent

@subbuvincent.bsky.social
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I direct Journalism & Media Ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Focus: sourcing standards; role of algorithms/AI in news distribution; democratic culture. www.linkedin.com/in/subbuvincent

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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Last weekend, Ars Technica retracted an AI-involved-news story by reporter Benj Edwards because it had fabricated quotes. Edwards has already explained how it happened, taken responsibility, and said that he had asked his boss to pull the piece. bsky.app/profile/benj...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
So many people are asking how they can support me.. The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social! I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month. Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"The executive branch cannot be both the arbiter of legality of media content, and the issuer of takedown notices" @subbuvincent.bsky.social says as @reuters.com documents scope of Indian government crackdown - including on inconvenient news, satire, cartoons, etc. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
All star group on how journalism is failing to respond to authoritarian elites, fake news, and AI--and how it can pivot to meet the moment. @subbuvincent.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @joelsimonsays.bsky.social and others. www.cjr.org/feature/thir...
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Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics
We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.
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toptenusernames.bsky.social @toptenusernames.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Great piece by @subbuvincent.bsky.social on avoiding both-sidesism and ignoring fake controversies! "Once you take somebody else’s framing, and you make it part of your controversy, you’ve legitimized the controversy... A better approach is: Determine whether something is a controversy or not."
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Subbu's piece builds on the framework he developed in this June 2024 piece on pro-democracy journalism. kettering.org/to-counter-a...
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To Counter Authoritarianism, Can Journalism Promote Democratic Culture?
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New on our blog: How can news media resist authoritarian efforts to control the narrative? Journalism scholar @subbuvincent.bsky.social shows a new model is starting to emerge in recent coverage of the Trump admin.
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Ethics & Journalism Initiative @ NYU @ethical-news.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
News headlines are the first and most important interface between readers and journalists, but few news organizations address the mechanics of headline writing in their ethics codes. Read our latest with @subbuvincent.bsky.social on his new guidance for newsrooms balancing ethics and SEO:
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How to Write Fairer, More Accurate Headlines - Ethics and Journalism
New guidance from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics lays out three principles for ethical headline writing and offers guidance for newsrooms that want to achieve them.
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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m looking to leading this session and meeting fellow Hacks/Hackers summiteers at Baltimore soon!
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John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford @jskstanford.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
JSK alum Paulette Brown-Hinds and her team at Mapping Black California build data visualization tools that expose systemic inequalities and hold institutions accountable. How they give communities the necessary information to push for real change...
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How a Black-led journalism project uses technology to address systemic inequalities in California
By Nevin Thompson, Hacks/Hackers Marketing & Communications Lead In the years following the 2020 murder of Black American George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, racism was…
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I've resigned from the jury for the duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards in response to Columbia's capitulation to Trump. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker resigns from duPont-Columbia journalism awards over school’s concessions to Trump - Poynter
Julie Cohen, co-director of ‘RGB,’ resigned from the duPont-Columbia Awards committee, saying, ‘In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up.’
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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
UT Dallas tried to squelch the students who ran the campus newspaper. They decided to do their own thing and launch an independent counter-news outlet. American muckraking at work? www.texastribune.org/2025/02/07/u...
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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This feels like eons ago now, and so much water down the rivers since then!
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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 13/01/2025
Neutrality has a role in journalism when the facts are legitimately in dispute. Fact-finding and diverse sourcing need to determine the truths on the ground.
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 05/12/2024
Second part of our three-part series on the climate impacts of AI just dropped! 👇🏻
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What is the role of newspapers when the threats to democracy are not equivalent? New piece on our blog by @subbuvincent.bsky.social. kettering.org/what-jeff-be...
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What Jeff Bezos Missed: Newspapers Cannot Be Neutral About Democracy
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Jarle Hetland @jarlehetland.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Really enjoyed this conversation between @soumayakeynes.bsky.social and @kclausing.bsky.social about what trade and tariffs might look like under Trump 2.0. Lots of great question and lots of great answers. open.spotify.com/episode/0ah9...
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Would Trump’s tariffs really be that bad? With Kimberly Clausing
The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes · Episode
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thousands of Amazon workers across 20 countries are going to protest or strike this Black Friday. Workers from the US to India to Brazil to Japan and beyond plan to take action to demand workers’ rights and climate action from the corporate giant. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday
Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis
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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello! This is a brief thread to (re)introduce myself to all of you as BlueSky takes off. My everyday work is building clarity in media ethics, policy, and sourcing standards. I went from internet engineering to civic media entrepreneurship before ethics and policy. bsky.app/profile/scue... 1/
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Ben Lennett @benlennett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great article on the digital ad marketplace and the DOJ case against Google. As a former marketing executive, Lisa Macpherson has insider perspective and provides a helpful discussion of the tech stack for digital ads and why they are problematic for publishers, the public, and advertisers.
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Why the DOJ’s Google Ad Tech Case Matters to You | TechPolicy.Press
Digital ads erode privacy and hurt publishers. DOJ’s antitrust suit exemplifies Google’s role in creating and sustaining these issues, writes Lisa Macpherson.
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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Black women have consistently voted for the Democratic party for decades. Why did the affordability crisis, misinformation, immigration chaos, and treasury-draining endless wars not split the Black women’s vote? Hear what a range of Black women have to say! www.forbes.com/sites/subram...
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How Journalists Can Better Explain Why Black Women Vote The Way They Do
Why did the affordability crisis, misinformation, immigration chaos, and endless wars not split the Black women’s vote? Civic duty and protecting hard-won freedoms.
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Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Black women have consistently voted for the Democratic party for decades. Why did the affordability crisis, misinformation, immigration chaos, and treasury-draining endless wars not split the Black women’s vote? Hear what a range of Black women have to say! www.forbes.com/sites/subram...
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How Journalists Can Better Explain Why Black Women Vote The Way They Do
Why did the affordability crisis, misinformation, immigration chaos, and endless wars not split the Black women’s vote? Civic duty and protecting hard-won freedoms.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 21/06/2024
It's FOIA Friday from @jasonleopold.bsky.social: Read the FOIA'd text messages from Dr. Fauci's government-issued mobile phone in the early days of the Covid pandemic — but don't expect any bombshells
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Anthony Fauci's Covid Text Messages Revealed
Don’t expect any bombshells. Fauci appeared to be aware that his correspondence would be scrutinized and avoided saying anything controversial.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Here’s where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:
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40 Acres and a Lie
40ACRES AND A LIE A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down...
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