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🗓️ Our next speaker event: "Journalism and Tech Labor: Local news in the era of algorithms" on Monday, Aug 31 @ 11:00 am (ET US) Speakers: Angilee Shah, Vanan Murugesan, Orlando Bailey, Lauren Gustus Members, check email for Zoom / Non-members, RSVP to Angelica angelica.martinez.ochoa@gmail.com

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In the US today, we are experiencing many forms for what scholar Victor Picard calls “media capture,” from legal and financial to technological. (lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...).

lpeproject.orgThe American Media Polycrisis: Cascading Layers of CaptureIn countries facing democratic backsliding, attention often centers on state capture of the press. Recent U.S. media failures, however, demand a wider lens. Authoritarian encroachment here rests on…
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We see a collapse of local independent journalism, fueled by corporate consolidation, algorithmic exclusion, and shrinking investments in value-driven reporting. The workers and activists in big tech and the way communities are informed (or disinformed or misinformed) are intimately connected.

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There are bright spots, however. Some local news organizations have cut through the algorithms to reach their communities, to build trust and direct relationships. This is a panel of news leaders at the front of conversations about how local news can be reimagined.