Sameer Padania
I work on public interest #journalism #funding & financing worldwide.
-Work: https://macrosco.pe
-Boards: @orwellprize.bsky.social, Indigo Trust, @serrapilheira.org
-Connect: linkedin.com/in/sameerpadania
#THFC #COYS #FRSA
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Media on media - coverage and critique of media
Media from a variety of societies covering and critiquing journalism and media (sometimes within wider publications on tech, information ecosystems etc).
Media Co-operatives around the world
Journalism and media organisations around the world that are owned and/or governed by their workers and/or communities or readers. See also @mediacoops.bsky.social and #mediacoops
Journalism & media funders
Here are philanthropy organisations that - mainly or partly or not yet but should - make funding available to the independent/public interest journalism and media sector in different parts of the world (excluding US-only funders.) Ping me to add ones I’ve missed or that joined recently.
Independent media in Europe
Independent media in Europe, including investigative, non-profit and public interest media.
@dama-yanthy.bsky.social
Fond of the metric system. Investing in impact-driven startups @bgventures.bsky.social
@criticallistening.bsky.social
Sharp takes on music technology and culture industry hell. A new podcast from @lizpelly.bsky.social and @peretsky.bsky.social Episode 0 available wherever you get your podcasts besides the Swedish app. Support us at patreon.com/criticallistening
@globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social
The Lingua project works to bring down barriers to understanding through mission-driven translation. Our hundreds of volunteers make @globalvoices.org stories available in dozens of languages.
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@leohickman.carbonbrief.org
Editor and director, Carbon Brief https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org
@weareagog.bsky.social
We're Agog. A new kind of institute helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality to imagine a more just and sustainable future. Agog.org
@leilabelmoh.bsky.social
Freelance Italian-Tunisian Journalist SWANA, migration and digital rights
@offassignment.bsky.social
A non-profit literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers. Subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/offassignment/off-assignment-newsletter
@catneilan.bsky.social
Whitehall Editor for the Observer. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
@productivity.bsky.social
ESRC-funded research organisation bringing together world-leading experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. Headquarters at Alliance Manchester Business School.
@sansculottid.es
A celebration of the French Republican Calendar. Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time. Website is https://sansculottid.es Ping @worstwizard.online if I'm broken
@lizneeley.bsky.social
Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder Solving For Science (SolvingFor.org). Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm #stories She/her. Married to @edyong
@audreyt.org
🇹🇼 Cyber Ambassador, 1st Digital Minister (2016-2024) & 🌐 1st 🏳️⚧️ cabinet minister.
@galacticpolymath.com
We help scientists & nonprofits do outreach by translating their cutting-edge research into mind-blowing FREE lessons for grades 5+. 👉 https://www.galacticpolymath.com #SciEd #BroaderImpacts #STEMoutreach 🧪 Scientists, hire us! 🤝 https://bit.ly/3NiUzdn
@iai.tv
Changing how the world thinks. Home to the big ideas and leading thinkers of our time. Subscribe here: https://iai.tv/subscribe Host of HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 💡
@garyseconomics.bsky.social
Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
@maevewalsh.bsky.social
Policy & Govt Relations consultant | Director, #OnlineSafetyAct Network | Trustee | Ex-Civil Servant | #FRSA | London-Irish
@itsmayamisikir.bsky.social
Reporter based in Ethiopia. If you’re interested in keeping with what’s going on there subscribe to my weekly updates at sifter.substack.com
@deanvipond.bsky.social
Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
@ethereum.org
Ethereum is the world computer. The universal platform for cryptocurrencies, blockchain apps, stablecoins, and decentralized technologies.
@annahepburn.bsky.social
Content design leader, currently Head of Content Design at Justice Digital, previously Head of Content on GOV.UK, Head of Digital Engagement and Creative Content at Defra and Head of Digital Communities and Channels at DHSC
@jamesbridle.bsky.social
Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
@sciencewriters.org
Fighting for the free flow of science news since 1934. A 501(c)(6) professional membership organization. Hosted #SciWri24 Nov. 8-11! 💚 https://www.nasw.org 🎟️ https://www.sciencewriters2024.org
@tournesol.app
Collaborative content recommandations 🌻 Let's solve the ethics of information together! https://tournesol.app
@agoracitizen.network
Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. https://agoracitizen.network 🛠️ In active development | Tag us with your feedback!
@jbenbradford.bsky.social
Audio journalist covering the rise of our modern parties and division. Creator/host of Landslide (NPR Network) and Of The People (Audible).
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu
Journalist and essayist. Internet and technology burnout... I know too much about the net. I'm a bit like if a trivia board game came to life. In dark times one must carry a candle.
@orianbrook.bsky.social
Social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy (and elsewhere). Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh Culture is bad for you http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144164
@mssophiaparker.bsky.social
“What if what we see of the world around us is really just what we’ve been told to see?… when we start to let our curiosity wander, we start to see there are other ways things can be” — Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan https://www.jrf.org.uk/our-people/sophia-parker
@katharinawarda.bsky.social
Sociologist & Writer East Germany, Black History, classism, punk #dunkeldeutschland
@poutrusicke.bsky.social
Ossi-Almann mit außereuropäischem Migrationshintern & liebt seinen woken 4-Generationen-Clan SEHR. Wenn ich aber wählen müsste zw. Humus und Hamas, dann doch lieber die vegetarische Mahlzeit.
@ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social
Wollte immer Historiker werden, ich arbeite dran:"Seltsam,im Nebel zu wandern!/Leben ist Einsamsein."
@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.
@yaleegc.bsky.social
Economics and and data-driven insights for equitable development. https://egc.yale.edu
@the-syllabus.bsky.social
Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
@juddlegum.bsky.social
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47 | Text: 202-599-7124 Popular.info
@ai.cam.ac.uk
ai@cam is Cambridge University's flagship mission to develop AI for the benefit of science, citizens, and society. 🔗 www.ai.cam.ac.uk
@theleaduk.bsky.social
The Lead is a lean, mean mag on politics, culture and everything in between.
@athenakugblenu.bsky.social
Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. Take my coffee like I take my power. SophieChapmanTalent.com / sueterryvoices.com 👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/athenakugblenu 📕 Buy/borrow History's Most Epic Fibs! 🎧 Bust or Trust or PROcrastinate 📺 youtube.com/@innitfactory
@mellino.bsky.social
Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration. You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute