Utsav Gandhi

This guy gets it.

The Ten Most Popular ProMarket Articles From 2025 - ProMarket ProMarket published 257 articles in 2024. Revisit some of our most popular pieces.

Pleased to be in elite company here with @zanderarnao.bsky.social @andyshi.bsky.social @zingales.bsky.social and other stellar @promarket.bsky.social contributors!

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Journalism’s New Frontier: An Analysis of Global AI Policy Proposals and Their Impacts on Journalism CNTI analyzed 188 national and regional AI strategies, laws and policies that collectively cover more than 99 countries to determine how AI regulation is impacting journalism around the world.

📊 New research alert: We analyzed AI policies across every world region to map their impact on journalism.

Only 20 of 188 documents mention "journalist" or "news," but all will reshape the information landscape. Read more: bit.ly/4s7nVPq

#JournalismNewFrontier

Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

Despite the importance of data about what happens in public on online platforms, there is no shared framework for how research, journalism, and independent investigations should be conducted with public platform data. The Better Access framework we released today provides that. Incredible work!

A milestone in India: in the electricity sector, non-fossil capacity (renewables, hydro, nuclear) is now larger than fossil capacity.

The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Bluesky rn

lots of results to be happy about tonight but I'm happiest for Jonathan Bailey over at @peoplemag.bsky.social 🥰

What’s one underrated big idea? The industry we call tech has transformed into media. Their political power comes largely from their role as information gatekeepers. They are the distributors of all content — entertainment, journalism, criticism — and we should start thinking of them in that light, rather than as some kind of technical wizards with magical powers.

love this from @juliaangwin.com

Chatbots and deepfakes are eroding our shared reality With Trump et al using AI slop for political gain, fact-checking and civic journalism are more vital than ever

My latest column in Prospect: Don't worry about AI video destroying democracy. AI's destruction of the journalism business is a much more serious threat: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Ross Douthat on Taylor Swift. I truly regret learning how to read.

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia

I wrote about all this and how Wikipedia is getting squeezed by the AI industry generally if you’re interested www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

"We get through most days in life without having to really think about death, which also means that we don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the remarkable fact that we are alive." Astonishing writing, beautiful piece.

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

Recalling that time earlier this same year that a gold-medallioned Zuckerberg said Meta would be "getting back to our roots around free expression ... to give people a voice."

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So well deserved!! Bridget Everett should've won for writing too, but that was already overdue—i think the toilet/friendship scene from S2 (you know it!) alone deserved an Emmy

Jeff Hiller for Somebody Somewhere ❤️❤️❤️

If you haven’t had time to follow the Internet crackdown and subsequent violent upheaval of govt in Nepal, here’s a recap.

In addition to being an awful story about real people’s lives, it’s also an amazing microcosm or synechdoche or something for the bigger picture.

A lot of you had questions so I wrote about what I think happened here! Behold:

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Briefing #1: AI Literacy & Communication July 2025

What do news organizations actually need to know about AI & journalism? A new briefing from @cnti.bsky.social's Global AI & Journalism Research Working Group synthesizes 80+ research studies.

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When we rebuild our public media up from the ashes it will need to be much bigger, bolder, and better funded -- not so dependent on private capital and corporate sponsorships, but truly public. It will need to be more democratic, more independent, and capable of withstanding two-bit fascist regimes.

What MBA Students Reveal About Inequality in America - ProMarket In new research, Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, and Joy Wu find that MBA students' attitudes toward inequality and fairness vary from those of the average American. As these students will one day form the business and political elite of the United States, the findings have implications for the future of inequality in the U.S.

NEW: In new research, Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, and Joy Wu find that MBA students’ attitudes toward inequality and fairness vary from those of the average American.

Oh my god, I just learned of the passing of Brandi Collins-Dexter. What a profound loss. Rest in power.

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Shah Rukh Khan could easily do an F1, but can Brad Pitt do a Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?

Old Media Meets New on Primary Day in New York Is the race between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani a proxy for changes in our media environment?

Is the race between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani a proxy for changes in our media environment? By @jonallsop.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Ed Sheeran has released his new single, “Sapphire.”

Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein Show YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

Abundance and The Left.

@saikatc.bsky.social and Zephyr Teachout offer their perspectives on why America struggles to build.
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The new Harry Potter store on Michigan Ave in Chicago has a line stretching more than a city block on Monday morning at 10:30. Either Potterheads are jobless or paying in Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons is immune to this economy!

The reason that Adolescence works so well is that by episode three, you’re barely thinking about how they did it in one take.

OSCARS WATCH 2025 – The Substance: Youth, Body, Women, Success (Part Two) — Pop Junctions This piece is part of a series of critical responses to the films nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. In this in-conversation piece, Do Own (Donna) Kim, Utsav Gandhi, and Gabrielle ...

Part 2 by our wonderful #UICCommunication graduate students @gtroitman.bsky.social and @utsavpgandhi.bsky.social is out. American pop culture (Barbie, etc), body image, audiences, critiques, migration experiences, queer bodies...and more!
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