If you live in the U.S., you may have encountered or even subscribed to a newsletter called Good Day or Good Daily. There are 355 different versions for cities and towns across the country; each is a roundup of links to stories from legitimate local sources. It's all created by one man, Matthew Henderson, and his AI tools. While he claims he's helping struggling local outlets, their teams say he's not — they're not getting traffic from the newsletters and Henderson's business practices are questionable. “From fabricated testimonials on his websites to the absence of contact information and zero transparency about his information-gathering process including AI usage, his approach completely undermines the principles of trustworthy journalism,” says Rodney Gibbs, head of audience and product at the National Trust for Local News. Here's more from NiemanLab.
https://flip.it/-ddikb
[#]News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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The Prison Journalism Project trains incarcerated people to be writers so they can tell important stories from prison, and attain new skills before they re-enter society. Here's a first-person account by Vaughn Wright from State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, about what it was like to become part of the biggest crime story in the nation, when Luigi Mangione came to stay.
https://flip.it/A4RU0y
[#]Journalism #Media #FirstPerson #LuigiMangione #Prison #Incarceration
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Our CEO @mike shared his homescreen with @davidpierce for his latest @theverge Installer newsletter. Take a look here to find out about Mike's wallpaper, most-used apps and exactly how many unread emails he has. You'll also find a code to give you priority on the @surf waitlist.
https://flip.it/aTZ2t_
[#]Flipboard #Homescreen #Installer #Tech #SurfSocial
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Finally, today, @TheConversationUS sent us a wealth of stories that we are proud to showcase in our @stories-of-black-america-theculturedesk Magazine.
Here’s one from 2023 on poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who, in his 1899 work “Sympathy,” wrote the immortal line, “I know why the caged bird sings!” and whose “In Dahomey” may have influenced “Hamilton.” “Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1900, Dunbar died from complications of the disease on Feb. 9, 1906,” writes Minnita Daniel-Cox “But his work survives.”
https://theconversation.com/the-brief-but-shining-life-of-paul-laurence-dunbar-a-poet-who-gave-dignity-to-the-black-experience-191553
[#]BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
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In December, Namibia elected its first woman president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who will take office in March if court proceedings over the results go her way. @thecontinent looks at who she is — “hawkish and conservative,” and the country she’ll be leading.
https://continent.substack.com/p/first-woman-president-crowned-after
[#]Africa #Namibia #NetumboNandiNdaitwah #WorldNews #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Can Trump really change the name of the Gulf of Mexico? @TexasObserver explores the Gulf’s history, its continued importance to scientists, and what 15th-century explorers called it (Chinese sea, anyone?)
https://www.texasobserver.org/name-gulf-mexico-america-history/
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How will Ukraine remember Joe Biden? @timkmak’s Counteroffensive covers the former president’s “checkered legacy.” “There’s a clear message in the results of American hesitancy: if the United States doesn’t stand up for democratic values, no one else is likely to lead,” writes Mak.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/bidens-bitter-legacy-on-ukraine
[#]Ukraine #UkrainianWar #JoeBiden #BidenAdministration #Democrats #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Indonesia has half the world’s known nickel deposits. @thexylom’s Garry Lotulung explains the effects on the environment and people, including the country’s last nomadic tribes.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/a-nickel-rush-threatens-indonesia-s-last-nomadic-tribes-and-its-forests-fishermen-and-farmers
[#]Indonesia #EnergyTransition #Nickel #Mining #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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The Department of Justice has told state officials that they need to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they begin to execute Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Some attorneys general are pushing back. Here’s @gbhnews’s story on what’s happening in Massachusetts, California, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont,
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-01-23/states-push-back-against-doj-memo-warning-officials-to-work-with-ice
[#]Immigration #TrumpAdministration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Mycorrhizal fungi have been best friends with plants for 500 million years. In exchange for food from the plants, these root-dwellers help their hosts get nutrients, fight pathogens and improve tolerance to drought. @KnowableMag explains how researchers are exploring them as a means for saving endangered plants.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/mycorrhizal-fungi-help-save-endangered-plants-ecosystems
[#]Plants #Science #Botany #Fungi #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Meanwhile, and in spite of Trump’s plans to target the private sector in his clampdown on diversity, equity and inclusion, some companies are staying the course. Here’s @abc’s story, which was shared by our @CultureDesk, plus a link to Pew Research data that indicates what Americans actually think of DEI.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/companies-sticking-dei-amid-backlash/story?id=118037109
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/19/views-of-dei-have-become-slightly-more-negative-among-us-workers/
[#]Trump #TrumpAdministration #DEI #Costco #JPMorgan #GoldmanSachs #DiversityAndInclusion #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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The U.S. government is killing DEI programs, and if you have a Github account, you can see exactly the steps that the 18F digital services agency is taking to comply with the Trump administration’s new diktat. Here’s more from @404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler.
https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/
[#]Tech #Trump #TrumpAdministration #DEI #DiversityAndInclusion #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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For months or years, Canadians have spoken about their upcoming federal election as if the result is a foregone conclusion: The Conservatives are set for a huge win. But now, with the resignation of Justin Trudeau, @thetyee says the beleaguered Liberals can make a comeback. Here’s how.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/01/22/Why-Liberals-Hopes-Not-Dead-Yet/
[#]Canada #Canpoli #PierrePoilievre #ConservativeParty #MarkCarney #ChrystiaFreeland #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Republicans have a supermajority in South Carolina’s Senate: 46 members, and zero women. “Similar postelection stories are playing out across the Southeast, a region long defined by traditional culture and conservative politics. All but one state that held legislative elections last fall in this region saw losses of Republican women, including Georgia, North Carolina, Arkansas and South Carolina,” writes @ProPublica’s Jennifer Berry Hawes. The rest of the country saw gains for women in legislatures — so why is this region bucking the trend?
https://www.propublica.org/article/republican-women-state-legislature-election-losses-south-carolina
[#]Government #SouthCarolina #Women #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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What characterized Trump’s day-one executive orders? @damemagazine says it was spite and destruction. The legal fightback is underway, but many orders will go by unchallenged and, writes Max Burns, “unnoticed except by the communities they upend and the citizens they harm.”
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/21/trumps-egregious-executive-orders-wont-lower-the-price-of-eggs/
[#]Trump #ExecutiveOrders #TrumpAdministration #BirthrightCitizenship #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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It’s been a week. Oh boy, has it been a week. Here’s our #NewstodonFriday thread of stories from the independent newsrooms that have made a home for themselves in the fediverse, plus a couple of important stories that our own desks shared. As always, please read and boost the stories in this thread, and support the brilliant newsrooms that produce them. And do share in the comments any stories or moments that have brought you joy in the past week. Or dog photos — those would be good too!
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[#]Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
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As we enter a new phase in American politics, we’re reaffirming our commitment to facts, journalism and open discourse. Our values have not changed.
Our managing editor @csullivan explains more.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-commitment-to-facts-for-a-new-political-era/
[#]USPolitics #Trump #TrumpAdministration #Flipboard #USNews #Misinformation #Disinformation #Facts
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Lastly, British stage and screen actor Joan Plowright died today. Our @CultureDesk shared a video of her with old friends Judi Dench and the late Maggie Smith, (a clip from “Tea With the Dames”) talking about continuing to work. “My agent in America said to me when he knew I couldn't do very much because of the eyesight going,” Plowright says. “And he said well if you do want to come over again we look around for a nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn't got her paws on."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VxsyjMv1d8
[#]JoanPlowright #Theatre #UnitedKingdom #Entertainment #RIP #InMemoriam #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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18 months ago,@gbhnews’s Paris Alston interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris when she was in Boston for the NAACP Convention. She looks back at their encounter and the feelings of connection, pride and patriotism it still engenders. “Perhaps patriotism remains accessible for all who want it, no matter who is in the Oval Office. For now, that person is not a Black woman. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still represent America,” she writes.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2025-01-17/to-be-female-black-and-patriotic
[#]KamalaHarris #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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The lakeside town of Kigoma is a gateway from Tanzania to its neighbours, Zambia, the DRC and Burundi. Ships that sail across Lake Tanganyika form one of East Africa’s most important economic networks. But now, the two major boats, the MV Liemba (the oldest ferry in the world) and the MV Mwongozo are out of action. @thecontinent explains what that means for the people of one of Tanzania’s poorest regions.
https://continent.substack.com/p/boats-to-nowhere
[#]Tanzania #Africa #Trade #Business #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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