Julie Posetti
Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists; Professor of Journalism, City, University of London. Board member, Independent Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM). Research Associate @ RISJ, University of Oxford. Australian in Oxford.
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- 📢 🗞️ Published today: #DisarmingDisinformation🇺🇸 - 💡 86% of Americans have seen or heard journalists being harassed or abused online, indicating a normalisation of such attacks and reflecting unprecedented political targeting of the U.S. press. Read the full study: www.icfj.org/disarming-di...
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- 🔊 ❗️JUST PUBLISHED: Our first report from the Disarming Disinformation project, a five country (🇧🇷 🇬🇪 🇿🇦 🇵🇭 🇺🇸) study of journalistic responses and public perceptions. 🚀 First off the blocks is Brazil report, which should resonate strongly with 🇺🇸 journalists. www.icfj.org/news/disarmi...
- This, from @bruceshapiro.bsky.social on another platform, is one of the most cogent reflections I’ve read from an American about that horrendous Oval Office “episode”. The second sentence resonates most acutely for me.
- Back to the future. All over again. Dr Seuss’ 1941 cartoon seems ever more prescient.
- WORD ⚔️ : “And if ever we needed a saga of a woman dispatching the pernicious, encroaching forces of evil, it would be now!” ⚔️ variety.com/2025/tv/news...
- Happy 21st of December - it’s #GravyDay! Named for Paul Kelly’s iconic Australian Christmas song “How to Make Gravy”, this day inevitably turns my 🇦🇺 home sickness into tears. Every character and Christmas cracker of a cultural narrative nugget in this song resonates youtu.be/iYqIF2XkqKU
- Conflict, catastrophe & converging crises. How to make sense of the global chaos? codastory.bsky.social joins the dots between the ousting of Assad, Russia’s capture of Georgia, the war in Ukraine & Trump’s election. Live online today @ 1700 GMT - register here 👉🏻 www.eventbrite.com/e/coda-live-...
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- Reposted by Julie PosettiDonald Trump’s re-election has chilling implications for journalism - from attacks and threats to defunding public media. @julieposetti.bsky.social Kaylee Williams & I set out some of the challenges: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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- Sending cheerful, hopeful vibes from the Cape of Good Hope [AKA the Cape of Storms] 🇿🇦 with @mariaressa.bsky.social & @dailymaverick.bsky.social’s Branko Brkic. Pinning this image, from a sunny Sunday Cape Town roadtrip, at the front of my mind to remind me what we’re fighting for in dark times.
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- “Violence takes the worst of us and peace takes the best of us”- Matthews Phosa, a key ANC official who negotiated the birth of South Africa’s democracy. “Mandela told us ‘Don’t be bitter - you must rise above your bitterness & pain…there must be a common victory for the negotiators.’” #WM12Assembly
- At the #WM12Assembly in Johannesburg 🇿🇦, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social describes the Russian disinformation tactic of destroying the “psychological infrastructure” of democracy by seeding the desire for a strongman leader to “save us” from all the chaos and confusion (fed by the disinformation swamp)
- @antelava.bsky.social @mariaressa.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Peter is on fire 🔥 In Johannesburg
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- “The more information you have, the more you are in the know and the more you are free” - clarion testimony from jailed news publisher and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai in a Hong Kong 🇭🇰 court today. He faces a potential life sentence #FreeJimmyLai www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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- President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in office promises to deliver historic threats to U.S. #pressfreedom - directly from the Oval Office. American journalists and news outlets need to learn how to fight these threats from their colleagues in autocracies. theconversation.com/how-trumps-w...
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- Hello to all the new folks fleeing the Hell site of the #Broligarchy who have followed me here over the past five days. I’ve been largely lurking since I joined BlueSky, but it’s time to re-engage on a non-Meta platform because this is an era for anti-misogyny, anti-racism, pro-democracy solidarity
- “Democracy and rules-based order are on the brink of collapse… truth is decaying, while disinformation and hate speech continue to spread. And independent journalism is under attack like never before” - Can Yeginsu in a clarion, sobering keynote speech at the OSCE in Vienna this afternoon.
- NEW RESEARCH: Surveilled, ‘assassinated’ on social media, targeted by her president, and subjected to orchestrated trolling, Mexican investigative journalist Carmen Aristegui’s experience of #OnlineViolence signals an escalating threat #EndImpunity www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
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