@justajourno
#News #reporter #Stratford Herald covering South #Warwicks. Ex #Oxford Mail. Features writer specialising in #housing & #business with side order of #tech #journalist, #editor, #NUJ member #copywriter, #storyteller #Welsh & #ginger
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
Tickets out now for the Oxford launch of Atypical Girl - a memoir by our very own music journalism star Penny Kiley, about "Liverpool, punk rock, and trying to be normal". It tells her story of covering Liverpools vibrant punk and post-punk music scene in the late 70s and 80s
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One for #punk fans - a #music #journalist who was in the thick of it, shares her memories of the heyday of punk - #Oxford book launch is next month, details below:
Five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet were barred from entering the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them “radical activists” who undercut free speech.
"there's a new serif in town"
A magnificent shout out to @oxfordnuj.bsky.social member @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social , currently heading to London to receive the Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology, from the Zoological Society of London, for his book ‘Cull of the Wild’
#oxford #journalism @zslofficial.bsky.social
I'm absolutely bloody sick of self-appointed "patriots" claiming to adore Britain while trying to destroy our national institutions – including, this week, our world-revered public broadcaster.
📝 New rant 👇
The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
Much of the East Wing of the White House was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.
On Monday, demolition crews began tearing down part of the White House for the $250 million addition.
President Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. wapo.st/4hl7jyF
Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
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Hi DOPES can you DM me, please?
This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
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Tim Whiting left school at 16 to train as a cabinet maker. Today he’s one of only a handful of millwrights in Britain, leading prestigious projects that keep some of our finest windmills and wind-pumps working. Read his story here ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Love this article from @manchestermill.bsky.social. Local journalism has been decimated in recent years, but this shows the beauty of it when done well. Knowing the area, knowing the leaders, digging around in the streets manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain
This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
NUJ protest at Bonn Square
NUJ protest at Bonn Square with flags
Oxford journalists have joined a nationwide protest against the killing of 219 journalists in Gaza. Anna Wagstaff, local secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “Our colleagues are the only reporters able to broadcast to the world the devastation, death and famine Gazans are facing.”
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
#Belgium: 400 unite in solidarity with Gazan journalists in Brussels, demanding urgent #EU action. "Our colleagues are working in appalling conditions on the ground. Let’s not forget them. Let’s not forget those who continue to inform us,” said IFJ GS @abellanger.bsky.social ✊ @efjeurope.bsky.social
The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday.
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✍️ Protecting journalists, defending truth in Gaza
Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom
Read in full here:
STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS IN GAZA! #Oxford protest and vigil tomorrow 1.00pm in Bonn square. Please join us to remember more than 200 Palestinian #journalists killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military. The killing must stop! Killing journalists is a war crime! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s...
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
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“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
