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ændra.
@aendra.com

📌 📰 News feeds • PINNED POST (Expand this thread for feed info)

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ændra.
@aendra.com

Hello! I am a creative technologist with a background in journalism, and I maintain these feeds as a service to the Bluesky community. In curating the list of organisations included in the feed, I try to keep it to news orgs that produce original journalism and that I can verify the accounts of.

ændra.
@aendra.com

I don't work for Bluesky and I don't present myself as an authority, though I've worked in news media the last decade and have a degree in journalism. I believe news content drives much of social media, and I make these feeds available hoping Bluesky becomes the home of realtime news online.

ændra.
@aendra.com

I try not to be a very strict gatekeeper of the feeds; if an account is verifiable (the account's handle is a news org's domain name) and the org produces original journalism, I'm generally okay including it. I consider it a firehose and not a platform. I discuss my approach in this blog post:

aendra.comThoughts on the 📰 News FeedUh, first off, hello to the several thousand new users of the 📰 News feed! 👋🏼 The last few days have been hectic trying to make sure everything works and that the feed is up to the challenge that's b...
ændra.
@aendra.com

If there are any titles in the feeds you don't want to see, please go to their respective accounts and either *mute* or *block* them. Just because you don't like a title doesn't mean there aren't other feed users who find value in including that title. Over 100,000 people use my feeds every day!