Julia Vernersson

Hostwriter x Unbias the News team will represent at the International Journalism Festival #IJF25 in Perugia again this year! @higabyramirez.bsky.social @vernersson.bsky.social @marlenegk.bsky.social

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1/ Trump’s executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) could impact libraries nationwide. This isn’t the first time libraries have been targeted—Coda’s journalists have reported on how libraries are caught in ideological struggles.

Fieldnotes is Hiring Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

@fieldnotes.co is hiring!

Want to expose the (many) misdeeds of the oil & gas industry? Come join our team!

Researcher: full-time
Research Fellow: full-time, 18-month term, designed for early career folks

My DMs are open if you have any questions!

Democracy Playbook Democracy Playbook is a cross-border journalism collaboration highlighting sucessful strategies to resist democratic decline. We work with local reporters from across the globe to reveal victories – b...

Democracy Playbook out now! 🚨
What does it really take to defend democracy? From labor strikes to climate battles, from court victories to grassroots movements—democracy isn’t fading, it’s fighting back.

🔥 Explore our first three stories out now at
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Something missing from most of the coverage is that (a) it's inference (queries) that takes up the bulk of energy costs, not training and that (b) Deepseek was trained on the outputs of another LLM, whose energy costs are somehow universally shrugged off as irrelevant by these people

Tens of thousands of Serbs, Romanians, and Turks have taken to the streets to challenge their governments. What are they demanding? Know more here: https://buff.ly/3Efm0DW…

„Most people in every country are concerned. Numbers have remained stable in the past three years, despite increasing climate challenges. Ideology matters: In 2024, concern among those on the left peaked at 91%, dropping to 77% among those on the right“

A chart showing the percentage of US funding for different humanitarian sectors in 2024

📊 Is now a bad time for a data dump on the humanitarian system’s dependence on US funding? #Trump @newhumanitarian.bsky.social ➡️ www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

We are currently extending our illustrator pool:
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Xiaohongshu is teaching young Chinese women how to buy the perfect life Known as China’s “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.

If you are interested in learning more about #Xiaohongshu #RedNote, @restofworld.org has published many in-depth stories about the community:

My story on XHS as an ultra-consumerist app, showing young women a polished, bougie, often-unattainable way of life.
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Calling all illustrators! 🎨✏️

We are looking to expand our pool of talented illustrators for upcoming commissions. If you're passionate about using art to tell powerful, global stories for global audiences, we'd love to hear from you.

📩: Send your portfolio to gabriela@hostwriter.org

Seid dabei: Morgen Abend, virtuelles Gesprächscafe. Es geht um Auslandsberichterstattung, nordsüdpolitische Medienarbeit und Perspektiven. Mit dabei: Weltreporter, Hostwriter, taz Panter Stiftung. Hier mehr lesen und anmelden: www.iz3w.org/aktuell/onli...

Syria's Poisoned Earth - Unbias The News An undercovered aspect of wars is how they destroy the landscape of countries, from uprooting trees and destroying irrigation systems to polluting the soil with heavy metals from weapons. The effects ...

After years of conflict, Syria's land has vast environmental destruction- everything from heavy metals, destroyed irrigation systems, to uprooted olive groves. Will the parties responsible pay for the clean up?
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@higabyramirez.bsky.social at the 2024 Lorenzo Natali Award ceremony in Brussels #NataliPrize:

"...migration is not a crisis of numbers or logistics. It is a crisis of empathy. It is a crisis created by policy choices."

Read about it here:
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I’m 14, photographing the violent protests in Georgia. The EU dream is slipping away - Coda Story Nestan is a 14-year old Georgian high school student who has spent nearly a year photographing demonstrations in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since the Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, announced that…

Nestan is a 14-year old Georgian high school student who has spent nearly a year photographing demonstrations in Tbilisi, Georgia.

See the protests through her eyes with this powerful photo essay:

Disturbing news from #Azerbaijan several Meydan TV news outlet’s journalists Aytac Tapdıq, Khayala Agayeva, Aynur Elgunesh, Ramin Deko, and Natiq Javadli have been incommunicado.

Keep up with journalists we´ve collaborated with
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Need some help pitching funders? We have the guidance and a template for you:

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This place is run by 20 employees? Seriously? 🤯

🚨New publication alert!
IJPP has just published our article about the impact of exposure to partisan news on social polarization and vote choice in the context of the last Brazilian elections. Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Public service media do not crowd out private news media - this is what our study in Switzerland says. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen contextualized the findings for "Zeit" (in German) and below (in English) 👇

🚨Journalists: A reminder that the deadline to apply for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard is fast approaching. International candidates should apply by Dec. 1, 2024; U.S. candidates by Jan. 31, 2025.

🔗: nieman.harvard.edu/fellowships/...

Sweden's brain waste problem:  how the social welfare state locks migrant professionals out of the workforce - Unbias The News High language requirements, a one-size integration policy, and discrimination. Despite the need for labour, landing a job in Sweden has become a hurdle race for college-educated migrants, a new joint ...

Sweden has an international rep for being a welcoming and generous welfare state. But if you want to work in the field you actually studied in as an immigrant, get ready for an obstacle course of barriers, one of the worst in Europe.

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The Reuters Institute is seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply.

🚨 Big news today at the Institute

We are seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report

Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

Die taz und das International Press Institute vergeben zwei kollaborative Recherchestipendien

👉 Thema: Attacken auf Journalist:innen wegen ihrer Klima-Berichterstattung
👉 Deadline: 27.11.
👉 Abgabe: April '25
👉 Stipendienhöhe: 4.000 Euro
👉 Hintergrund: ipi.media/decoding-dis...

It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy