Alex Mahadevan
Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
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- New from me, with the help of some math on the blockchain. $TRUMP coin was launched as part of a contest to have an exclusive dinner with Trump. But due to a quirk in the rules, some winners sold all their coins, at a profit, before it ended. With @ericlipton.nytimes.com and David Yaffe-Bellany 🎁
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- Average Onion subscriber.
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- As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.
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- newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one
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- If you don't have an editor talking to you like this (he was congratulating me on getting a job at @washingtonpost.com) what's the point!
- Where is AI getting traction in the newsroom? Ethan Silver has been tracking use cases for GAIN, analyzing dozens of sources to crunch it down to 8 areas of activity. Lots of details and inspiration for new ideas in the post here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/keeping-trac...
- As good a time as any to remind folks that the wonderful @newsobserver.com team is hiring an investigative reporter. Come work with us! mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...
- 🧵 The News & Observer + The Charlotte Observer were honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for their joint coverage of Hurricane Helene + the aftermath in NC. The Associated Press + The Washington Post were also finalists. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
- If you haven’t yet, read @drewharwell.com’s phenomenal story on a lonely young woman in Texas who has streamed every second of her life for three years and counting
- Facts matter. Words matter. Truth Matters. Poynter experts talk about the job of standing up for critical thinking even on social media!
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- Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
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- The newest book on vaccines (spoiler: it says they’re bad) from Kennedy’s group Children’s Health Defense reaches the pinnacle of Do Your Own Research. Who are you gonna trust? Your doctor or a product designer with a blog?
- You want links to the prize-winning stories? We've got links to the prize-winning stories.
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- fwiw "I don't know what the big deal is" is the starting point for most people on trans rights and even if they've been moved to the right by the past few years of propaganda getting people back to their natural attitude is not insurmountable or even particularly difficult
- Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
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- My "The shrinking economy has nothing to do with tariffs" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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