#journalism

#journalism

Born in Gaza almost 24 years ago, she had just returned to the Gaza Strip after completing her university studies in Cyprus when Hamas launched its attacks on October 7, 2023, and the relentless Israeli bombing campaign began. Her live broadcasts for various media outlets, and especially her Instagram videos, began to be viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. Today, she has four million followers on this social network.

Armstrong, who joined Cityside in 2022, is responsible for ensuring that the journalism from Cityside's four newsrooms - The Oaklandside, Berkeleyside, Richmondside, and East Bay Nosh - is published with readers front of mind. Long before a reporter begins reporting, Armstrong makes sure they have addressed the fundamental questions: Why are we doing this? Who is it for? How will it help them? What is the best way to convey this information?

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

In recent years, though, my dictaphone collection has taken on a new, less physical form. Google's Pixel phones have been a revelation for journalists, offering real-time, on-device transcription through the Recorder app. I've often found myself bringing a Pixel along to a press event even if I wasn't actively using it as a phone at the time-the ability to get an automatic transcript once your recording is done has been an incredible timesaver.

The International Center for Journalists' (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation through multiple programs such as investigative journalism, capacity building and media literacy education. ICFJ partnered with MediaWise from the Poynter Institute to develop and deliver media literacy programming. The media literacy training of trainers program accepted global participants for two different cohorts.

My boss, the Gazette's national editor, was Brian Kappler, strawberry blond and in his forties, viewed with suspicion among my fellow Serious Young Reporters because he was unfashionably conservative (he liked Rush Limbaugh's radio show) and sometimes not serious (he earned good side-gig money moonlighting as the paper's celebrity gossip columnist, using the pen name Doug Camilli). But I liked Kappler fine.

But this year, I couldn't help but cringe at the interviews. Stylist Law Roach and fashion journalist Zanna Rassi hosted the pink carpet pre-show. However, their interview techniques and overall questions were markedly different. On one side, you had Rassi, who is an experienced journalist, fashion editor, and entrepreneur, conducting professional interviews that were to the point. On the other hand, you had Law Roach, a celebrity stylist, whose interviews were awkward and difficult to watch.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

The work of late journalist and author Ed Moloney work showed the power people's stories can have Ed Moloney, who died this week at the age of 77, was one of the most significant authors on the Troubles. Although we now live in a time when books like Say Nothing are international bestsellers and are adapted for television, Moloney's pioneering research of paramilitaries took place in a very different political atmosphere.

Individuals trying to support themselves via subscriptions are as dependent on the whims of the marketplace as those working for large corporations, and it's not just the lack of health care and 401ks that make the career of a patron-supported creator precarious - it's the rawness and immediacy of the relationship.

One day in the future, I hope they gather all the lawyers employed by the two Trump administrations and administer that Scientology test where you hold the two metal things while someone sizes you up for a donation. This is because administering a bar exam to the endless parade of fools and dolts marching out of the Department of Justice in order to do battle with the Constitution, the rule of law, English syntax, and common sense would be like teaching opera to a goat.