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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

https://iwmf.submittable.com/submit/e9bf7e71-d3f9-4887-af9e-def42a1dd81a/kim-wall-memorial-fund-2024

Kim Wall Memorial Fund 2024
Ends on Sun, Dec 17, 2023 11:59 PM

The IWMF's Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide $5,000 #grants to #journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Kim’s reporting. The grant will fund #women or #non-binary #reporters covering subculture, broadly defined, and what Kim liked to call “the undercurrents of rebellion.” Kim wanted more women to be out in the world, brushing up against life, and the Kim Wall Memorial Fund honors this legacy.

All applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

Women or nonbinary journalists with one (1) or more years of professional experience working in news media from anywhere in the world. Internships do not count toward professional experience. Staff and freelance journalists are both eligible.
Applicants must have excellent written and verbal English skills in order to fully participate in and benefit from the program. However, reporting may be published in any language.
Applicants must be able to show proof of interest from an editor or have a proven track record of publication in prominent media outlets.
Grants will be awarded to cover reporting-related costs including travel, logistics, insurance, visa fees, professional stipends and payments for producers, translators, etc. The IWMF does not cover the cost of equipment purchase or rental and cannot support academic research or research for academic publication.

The IWMF believes that gender does not conform to one notion. We are inclusive of all women, non-binary and gender non-conforming journalists.

Application Period
The IWMF is accepting applications from November 6 to December 17, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST via Submittable. The IWMF cannot consider time-sensitive proposals. Applications will be reviewed in January and February 2024, and applicants will receive a response no later than the end of February 2024. Grantees will be publicly announced on Kim's birthday, March 23.

Resources
For application tips, please visit the IWMF's website https://www.iwmf.org/resources-programs/

For questions or accessibility/connectivity issues with the application, please email associate program manager, Taylor Moore, at tmoore@iwmf.org.

IWMF - Kim Wall Memorial Fund 2024

The IWMF's Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide $5,000 grants to journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Kim’s reporting. The grant will fund women or non-binary reporters covering subculture, broadly defined, and what Kim liked to call “the...

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/

#Journalists (And Others) Should Leave #Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started
from the time-to-go dept
Wed, Jan 4th 2023 12:30pm - Dan Gillmor

..."As noted earlier in this piece, it isn’t just journalists who’ve come to rely on Twitter. Birds of a feather on various social and professional topics have flocked together there. We all need to help ensure that “Black Twitter” and “Science Twitter” — and so many more — have a way forward, too. They have become a vital source of information not just for the wider public but within their own ranks (or that relatively small part of the public that uses Twitter, anyway). As Bloomberg’s Lisa Jarvis wrote recently, “Science Twitter needs a new home.”

Meanwhile, countless government agencies also use the birdsite as a vehicle for messaging of all kinds. In situations where people want the vital news — such as forest fires, storms, etc. — Twitter has become one of the default places to check.

They, too, can and should migrate to services like #Mastodon. They should plan collaboratively to cut over to their own verified instances, in an orderly way that gives their constituents notice and time to get adjusted to the new system.

The federal government could lead, given its greater resources, but it will take a lot of work by a lot of people to get smaller governments and agencies to turn off the “free” websites they now support and migrate to places that have setup costs, however modest, and maintenance requirements.

Which makes the need for collaboration just as great, if not more so, when it comes to public agencies. Happily, governments at all levels have associations which they sometimes call “conferences” — such as the National Conference of State Legislatures — that might be appropriate organizers and hosts of collaborative Mastodon instances.

Philanthropies — especially community foundations — could play a vital role in re-creating critical masses beyond journalism. It would be a dazzling display of civic spirit, for example, if the Silicon Valley Community Foundation funded Mastodon installations for local governments and agencies. And what if American Association for the Advancement of Science offered support for moving that community, and its burgeoning audience, from the risky, centralized Twitter to more decentralized environs?

Get Started, Soon

The best time for journalists and others to have recognized the threat of centralized systems run by unreliable, untrustworthy dictators would have been years ago. The next best time is tomorrow."...

Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely …

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Farhad A

British State Media BBC News says that its journalists were held at gunpoint by Israeli police

— "BBC journalists covering the attack on Israel were assaulted and held at gunpoint after they were stopped by police in the Israeli city of #TelAviv.

Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team were driving to a hotel when their car was intercepted.

They were dragged from the vehicle - marked "TV" in red tape - searched and pushed against a wall.

A #BBC spokesperson said journalists "must be able to report on the conflict in #Israel - #Gaza freely".

Mr Tutunji and Mr Abudiab said they identified themselves as BBC #journalists and showed police their press ID cards."

#JournalistsAreNotTargets

aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Journalists killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Three Palestinian journalists have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip while reporting on the third night of Israeli bombardment of the be...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Israeli #Journalists #Strip #air #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #besieged #bombardment #enclave #killed #latestnews #newsheadlines #night #reporting #strike #third
Journalists killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

florida_ted@diasp.org
Ted

The CIA was founded in the wake of the 1947 National Security Act. The Act foresaw no need for the Courts and Congress to oversee a simple information-aggregation facility, and therefore subordinated it exclusively to the President, through the National Security Council he controls.

Within a year, the young agency had already slipped the leash of its intended role of intelligence collection and analysis to establish a covert operations division. Within a decade, the CIA was directing the coverage of American news organizations, overthrowing democratically elected governments (at times merely to benefit a favored corporation), establishing propaganda outfits to manipulate public sentiment, launching a long-running series of mind-control experiments on unwitting human subjects (purportedly contributing to the creation of the Unabomber), and—gasp—interfering with foreign elections. From there, it was a short hop to wiretapping journalists and compiling files on Americans who opposed its wars.

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-open-wound

#Snowden #CIA #covert #operations #foreign #elections #wiretapping #journalists

America’s Open Wound

The CIA is not your friend

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Digit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4N_P-Xd15E
#theignorancethatdiesisnotyou :)
#chrishedges #stellaassange
#julianassange #danieleverettehale #garywebb #edwardsnowden #tomvalone

#wakeup #rights #now
#thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #espionageact
#statewithinastate #unaccountable #antiscrutiny #surveilancestate #after911 #paramilitary #copcity #cia
#military #rome #masssurveillance #panopticon #scaredsilent #orwellian #totalitarian #totalitariantiptoe #morallybankrupt #censorship #agnogeny #attercoparchy #theydidntwanttohearit #sochildish #racism #agnogensis #reductivism #theonetruetruth #thetimes #propaganda #agenda #parrots #silo #dividedandconquered #realitytunnels #echochambers #nopriceforlies #othering #polarisation #groupthink #notevenrootedinverifiablefact #liesofomission #mythicidentities #somanymassshootingsitsnotnews #contextless #dependencegeneration #agnogeny #agnotology

"... and so now it's over, the, the, ~
and that's really frightening.

It means there's no~

Power is in no way accountable.
There's no transparency.
And we know, history has taught us when that kind of secrecy imposed on autocratic power, it just, it, it~
abuse grows upon abuse grows upon abuse.
And that is why they're just determined to crucify Julian.
That's the crisis that we're in.
We've lost the ability
to know
what power is doing."

#speakout
#restorehumanrights #humanrights #law #democracy #journalism
#whistleblowers #journalists #people #speakup #peopleofconscience #integrity
#wecanstillmendthis
#now

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

#Russian #journalists from Izvestia uncovered a ~prostitution~ Child Traficking ring which supplied underage Russian girls to clients in Bahrain.

The people requesting the services of the girls were mainly #Arabs from Bahrain and the surrounding countries but also American officers from the #US #Navy's 5th Fleet which is stationed in #Manama, the capital of Bahrain.

The girls, aged between 13 and 17 years old were lured to the country by a group of Russian citizens which would seize their passports and other IDs to prevent them from escaping the country and then handing them over to their #Bahraini partners.

The ring is active since at least 2013 and at least one girl died due to physical trauma at the hands of one of the abusers after trying to escape the hotel where she was housed in. They were sold to clients for between 7000 to 14.000 USD.

The journalists, which worked undercover, also found out that a lot of the girls got #pregnant and were forced to carry out #abortion late into the pregnancy with some giving birth to dead fetuses which would end up thrown into garbage bins.

Izvestia discovered that the Russian girls were significantly more expensive than the girls brought there from #Thailand, #Uzbekistan or #Vietnam.

#HumanTraficking #Cdime #Inhumanity
https://iz.ru/1558413/elena-balaian-ivan-litomin/intim-slugi-sk-rassleduet-delo-o-rossiiskikh-seks-rabyniakh-v-bakhreine

escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Konrad Wolf Prize 2023 goes to Julian Assange

https://www.adk.de/de/news/?we_objectID=65558

The jury said “Through #JulianAssange's work and attitude, we have learned about illegal state activities, about injustice, murders and war crimes, activities that had been concealed from the public and had kept us citizens in the dark. Julian Assange's work is #journalistic #education at its finest. Changing the world #democratically, it needs it. #Journalists, #publicists and #whistleblowers must be #protected, as they perform an essential service to #society."

#2023 #konradwolf #prize #germany #academy-of-arts #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime #freepress #freespeech #Akademie-der-Künste

Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2023 an Julian Assange 

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Biden’s DOJ Is Pressuring Journalists to Help Build Its Case Against Assange

by #JamesBall

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/biden-doj-julian-assange-wikileaks-case-pressuring-journalists-1234782793/

The #Department-Of-Justice and #FBI are pressuring multiple #British #journalists to cooperate with the #prosecution of #WikiLeaks founder #JulianAssange, using vague #threats and #pressure-tactics in the process.

#joebiden #doj #wikileaks #case #firstamendment #us #jamesball #uk #dropthecharges #freeassange

Biden's DOJ Is Pressuring Journalists to Help Build Its Case Against Assange

The prosecution of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is already a threat to a free media — the justice department’s campaign to get me and other journalists to testify only makes matters w…

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