"Here's a nice quiet beach and an ice cream van to go with your dangerous heat and climate chaos" – picture editor at Ireland's state broadcaster, apparently

I'm so tired of this ignorance.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0625/1580210-weather-ireland/

#weather #climate #journalism #Mastodaoice #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange

This is a great article by Lise Hand for @TheJournal - in tribute to the late Veronica Guerin, and on the importance of journalism, and the threats it faces today:

"Thirty years on: What Veronica Guerin can still teach us about dogged journalism"

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/life-in-dublin-7079593-Jun2026/

"When local journalism shrinks, communities lose the only institution that covers the people in power, which in turn helps to empower that community."

#journalism #MastoDaoine

“Hello?” a voice said on the other end of the line. This time, the president had picked up.

“I’m writing a story about a big supporter of yours in the oil industry, Jeff Hildebrand,” I said. “Can I ask what you think about him?”
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-called-trump-hildebrand?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oil #Gas #Trump #Journalism #Media #Journalists

israeli society has normalised the murder of it’s neighbours to satisfy israel’s greed for more property and religious hatred.

https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6398953604112

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/20/al-jazeera-cameraman-ahmad-wishah-killed-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza

#IsraelTerroristState #ZioNazis #genocide #palestine #gaza #lebanon #bds #boycottisrael
#news #journalism #icc #icj

Featured story, from Candice Bernd: The drought-stricken City of Corpus Christi is withholding how much #water a controversial #cryptocurrency mine is siphoning away from surrounding residents. https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-cryptomine-water-usage-secret/

#bitcoin #crypto #tech #drought #GulfCoast #Texas #news #journalism

"But while journalists betting on events they cover is a pretty obvious no-no, other ethical considerations aren’t as cut-and-dried. Should newsrooms, for instance, be making deals with #PredictionMarkets to integrate their data into their sites (...)? If they do, how might it affect the way reporters at those companies cover these markets? Are the odds worth covering?"

Kaleigh Rogers (Poynter) on yet another moral hazard for journos and news orgs.

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2026/prediction-markets-journalism-ethics-polymarket-kalshi/

#journalism #ethics

"Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera company, says its tech just makes neighbourhoods safer. Critics contend that it’s the largest privately owned surveillance dragnet in US history, with significant potential for abuse."

- Ronan Farrow

#Surveillance #Ring #Journalism

A source wants to reach you safely. With most messengers that starts with a problem: they need your phone number, you get theirs, and a server in the middle logs that you two talked.

Zerion skips all of that. You share a QR code or link, the connection runs device to device over Tor, and no record of the contact exists outside your two phones.

Source code and protocol docs are public. Verify before you trust: https://github.com/zerionproject/Zerion

#journalism #infosec #privacy #tor

Mainstream Media is Already Lying About Age Verification

It took one day for the word to get out about a forthcoming age verification bill and the lies are already being published.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-is-already-lying-about-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Canada #journalism #Media #NationalPost #SocialMedia