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Builders of a Healthy Media & Info Ecosystem
A collection of people and organisations actively building a world where free, safe, sustainable and independent public interest media can thrive. Recommendations welcome. #JournalistProtection #ExpressionRights #MediaDevelopment #MediaPolicy #SustainableMediaBusinesses #Tech&Media
@alicelthwaite.bsky.social
Ethics by design. Also likes: swimming, sewing, walking outside, and electronic music. Based in London, UK.
@rightscon.org
💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age 📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
@adamleepickering.bsky.social
Policy Lead, Civil Society & Civic Space Department @ FCDO
@civitates.bsky.social
Civitates is a philanthropic initiative for democracy and solidarity in Europe. We are a donor-led effort supporting independent civil society organisations and public interest media outlets.
@richardstupart.com
Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict
@alastairotter.bsky.social
Editor of The Outlier, data communications and visualisation expert. theoutlier.co.za
@zackieachmat.bsky.social
Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.
@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Non-partisan, civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom mediaanddemocracyproject.org News: tiny.cc/MAD-newsletter Meet: mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/ Blog: mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
@peterlundberg.bsky.social
Executive Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) Lund, Sweden. Follow us at: www.rwi.lu.se www.icmd.se
@sinclaircornell.bsky.social
Senior International Development / Media / Communications Advisor
@tirlittan.bsky.social
Observing/ learning/Asia/Afghanistan/Nordic/mediadevelopment/exilemedia/holistic safety/tech&innovation/art&migration&immart
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
Founded MoneySavingExpert, Money & Mental Health Policy Institute, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@samgregory.bsky.social
Executive Director http://witness.org : video + tech + human rights; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes https://gen-ai.witness.org, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster.
@cmdelaserna.bsky.social
Director of Programs @pressfreedom - Human rights, music enthusiast
@lawyerpants.bsky.social
Tinker, lawyer, rocker, talker. New York based. California state of mind. Work at @accessnow teach @Columbia play @ironichipsters
@selopez.bsky.social
Chief Program Officer, Free Expression @PENAmerica | Former USAID | she/her | Views my own.
@daphne.foundation
Light after darkness 16/11/2017 www.daphne.foundation is a non-profit fighting for truth & justice. We started @PILN.bsky.social to support public interest litigation & @amphoramedia.bsky.social to make investigative journalism more dynamic & resilient.
@molenews1.bsky.social
General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the largest journalists' organisation in Europe. Senior lecturer at ULB. Member of the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). www.europeanjournalists.org
@forbidden-stories.bsky.social
We are a collaborative journalism network devoted to pursuing the work of silenced reporters around the world. https://forbiddenstories.org/
@julieposetti.bsky.social
Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists; Professor of Journalism, City, University of London. Board member, Independent Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM). Research Associate @ RISJ, University of Oxford. Australian in Oxford.
@drewoccrp.bsky.social
Publisher and Co-Founder OCCRP. Creating a global space where reporters can cover corruption and organized crime.
@nikwilliams.bsky.social
Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org
@niemanreports.org
A publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Reports covers thought leadership in journalism—winner of the Bart Richards Media Criticism Award and Mirror Awards. https://niemanreports.org/
@citizenlab.ca
Research and development at the intersection of cyberspace, global security, and human rights. Based at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.
@towcenter.bsky.social
The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology
@icij.org
Stories that rock the world. We expose wrongdoing so the world can make it right. Find us at ICIJ.org. #UberFiles #EricssonList #PandoraPapers #FinCENFiles #PanamaPapers
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
European Media and Editorial Director, Human Rights Watch https://bsky.app/profile/hrw.org. Subscribe to my human rights newsletter: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights All my links here: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Ex-Guardian & Observer journalist till I got replaced by Nick Clegg. Fighting the Broligarchy since 2016. Please sign up to my (free!) newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy
@timbl.bsky.social
Inventor of WWW Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org Founder w3.org Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl Pre-order my memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://linktr.ee/thisisforeveryone
@jillian.bsky.social
Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Views are mine alone. Work @EFF, teach at College of Europe Natolin, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about #freealaa
@teamcommunity.bsky.social
TCU is a community network gathering #DigitalRights defenders working on tech and security issues impacting human rights, journalism, civil society & social justice Check out our job board, events and knowledge center. https://www.digitalrights.community
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@genevievelakier.bsky.social
Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
@suevalentine.bsky.social
Former journalist. History, context & accuracy matter. As do simple acts of kindness. Ordinary people can change history.
@thecontinent.org
The Continent is an award-winning weekly newspaper produced by African journalists, photographers, illustrators and editors. Free on 👇 📱WhatsApp: bit.ly/4b2gpfI 💬 Signal: bit.ly/TCSignal 📲 Telegram: t.me/continentnews ✉️ Email: read@thecontinent.org
@paulmwatson.com
Web developer born in the last millennia. CTO @sociolocal.io and @openup.org.za, vice-chair @somersetstrikers.co.za. South Africa 🌍
@davidthewid.bsky.social
Postdoc@Cornell Info Sci. AI ethics, political economy of tech, Human-AI interaction, feminist STS trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me art: instagram.com/davidthewid exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs. davidwidder.me
@jensmodvig.bsky.social
Senior physician, Chair of the Board, United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture, former chair, UN Committee against Torture
@socialfinance.bsky.social
We help you design, fund and scale better solutions to complex social problems.
@erikahaskins.bsky.social
Founder | Investor | Fundraiser Moving mountains & money for enduring impact. Economic Recovery Corps SonderVC, Intripid 📍Boston, MA / Portland, ME #impactinvesting #impinv #econdev #ownershipeconomy #philanthropy #financialinclusion