Sameer Padania
@sdp.bsky.social
I work on public interest journalism and information ecosystems worldwide - and how they are funded and financed.
https://macrosco.pe / linkedin.com/in/sameerpadania
#THFC #COYS #FRSA
https://macrosco.pe / linkedin.com/in/sameerpadania
#THFC #COYS #FRSA
Is there a game on? Oh… I was reading this great @millmedia.bsky.social piece about the lost history of local newspapers in Manchester and environs:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Is there a game on? Oh… I was reading this great @millmedia.bsky.social piece about the lost history of local newspapers in Manchester and environs:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
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I wish @teamlabouruk.bsky.social & #DCMS would import *this* #DanishModel which would do a hell of a lot more for the quality of public debate in the UK (from @rasmuskleis.bsky.social & colleagues):
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I wish @teamlabouruk.bsky.social & #DCMS would import *this* #DanishModel which would do a hell of a lot more for the quality of public debate in the UK (from @rasmuskleis.bsky.social & colleagues):
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
I wish @teamlabouruk.bsky.social & #DCMS would import *this* #DanishModel which would do a hell of a lot more for the quality of public debate in the UK (from @rasmuskleis.bsky.social & colleagues):
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I wish @teamlabouruk.bsky.social & #DCMS would import *this* #DanishModel which would do a hell of a lot more for the quality of public debate in the UK (from @rasmuskleis.bsky.social & colleagues):
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n...
#journalism #funding
Rewatching Koyaanisqatsi, and had forgotten this savage juxtaposition, which I think is maybe up there with the bone/spaceship in 2001…
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Rewatching Koyaanisqatsi, and had forgotten this savage juxtaposition, which I think is maybe up there with the bone/spaceship in 2001…
I will never forgive any of you for keeping this from me.
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy & Sarah Wynn Williams in conversation on Nov 15, but with #ChrisMorris? (I don’t think he was listed when I first saw the event link, but maybe I’m lying to myself.)
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy & Sarah Wynn Williams in conversation on Nov 15, but with #ChrisMorris? (I don’t think he was listed when I first saw the event link, but maybe I’m lying to myself.)
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris | Barbican
Is life online getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow shares strategies for how we might reclaim the internet.
www.barbican.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I will never forgive any of you for keeping this from me.
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy & Sarah Wynn Williams in conversation on Nov 15, but with #ChrisMorris? (I don’t think he was listed when I first saw the event link, but maybe I’m lying to myself.)
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy & Sarah Wynn Williams in conversation on Nov 15, but with #ChrisMorris? (I don’t think he was listed when I first saw the event link, but maybe I’m lying to myself.)
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
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At least @thecontinent.org calls it what it is…
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
At least @thecontinent.org calls it what it is…
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Dismissed by critics as derivative for decades, this dialogue shows how Nigerian modernism is finally being reclaimed as a vital chapter in global modernism—a reminder of how power skews art history and who gets to define cultural innovation.
With @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social
With @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social
The Dramatic Story of Nigerian Modernism - The Art Angle - Podcast Episode - Podscan.fm
Listen to The Dramatic Story of Nigerian Modernism from The Art Angle (44 min) • Published Nov 6, 2025. Nigerian modern art is having a moment. In London...
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dismissed by critics as derivative for decades, this dialogue shows how Nigerian modernism is finally being reclaimed as a vital chapter in global modernism—a reminder of how power skews art history and who gets to define cultural innovation.
With @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social
With @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social
If anything can get Trump to back down, I think Starmer playing him this edition of Late Junction might be the thing - he’ll break when he gets to “Buttering My Ears“:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Late Junction - Warped laments, serpentine hums - BBC Sounds
Verity Sharp presents another canter around the world of experimental listening.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If anything can get Trump to back down, I think Starmer playing him this edition of Late Junction might be the thing - he’ll break when he gets to “Buttering My Ears“:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It feels like they’ve been so utterly spooked/half-nelsoned by a coercive trade negotiation with the US, & by Vance openly organising with the RW from the Cotswolds, that they think their out-right-the-right approach is the only way to prevent a Trump onslaught… Madness.
Starmer's removal is "inevitable now," says one minister
The chaos united previously "mutually suspicious" people against the PM, says another
But what caused it? Sources say a row between Wes Streeting and Morgan McSweeney weeks ago may have been key 👇
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
The chaos united previously "mutually suspicious" people against the PM, says another
But what caused it? Sources say a row between Wes Streeting and Morgan McSweeney weeks ago may have been key 👇
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
After the week No 10 lost control, warning that chaos is ‘probably fatal’ for Starmer | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It feels like they’ve been so utterly spooked/half-nelsoned by a coercive trade negotiation with the US, & by Vance openly organising with the RW from the Cotswolds, that they think their out-right-the-right approach is the only way to prevent a Trump onslaught… Madness.
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Édition 2025 du guide du journalisme d’impact, conçu et réalisé par @disclose.ngo et @rembobine.info, avec le soutien du @fondspresselibre.bsky.social
guide-journalisme-impact.fr (pdf 73p.)
Précieuse ressource #impactofpixels #journalisme.
guide-journalisme-impact.fr (pdf 73p.)
Précieuse ressource #impactofpixels #journalisme.
Le guide du journalisme d'impact - Disclose & Rembobine
Ce guide est destiné aux professionnel·les des médias qui souhaitent renforcer l’impact de leurs productions éditoriales.
guide-journalisme-impact.fr
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Édition 2025 du guide du journalisme d’impact, conçu et réalisé par @disclose.ngo et @rembobine.info, avec le soutien du @fondspresselibre.bsky.social
guide-journalisme-impact.fr (pdf 73p.)
Précieuse ressource #impactofpixels #journalisme.
guide-journalisme-impact.fr (pdf 73p.)
Précieuse ressource #impactofpixels #journalisme.
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Delighted to have been given the chance to review ‘Don’t burn anyone at the stake today’ the new and thought-provoking book from @naomialderman.bsky.social (published by Penguin/FigTree) in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Delighted to have been given the chance to review ‘Don’t burn anyone at the stake today’ the new and thought-provoking book from @naomialderman.bsky.social (published by Penguin/FigTree) in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social
🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ BBC Broadcasting House letting John Humphreys free-jazz for a few minutes about how the BBC - of which he only cares about the Home Service, sorry, Radio 4, sorry, the Today Programme - has a left-liberal bias & its new DG should be (his ex-editor) Sarah Sands.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ BBC Broadcasting House letting John Humphreys free-jazz for a few minutes about how the BBC - of which he only cares about the Home Service, sorry, Radio 4, sorry, the Today Programme - has a left-liberal bias & its new DG should be (his ex-editor) Sarah Sands.
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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
“In Sept, YouTube agreed to pay $24.5m to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump, following similar settlements with X/Twitter & Facebook. The money from YT will be put towards a new ballroom at the White House, while the FB settlement is earmarked for his presidential library, court documents showed.”
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“In Sept, YouTube agreed to pay $24.5m to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump, following similar settlements with X/Twitter & Facebook. The money from YT will be put towards a new ballroom at the White House, while the FB settlement is earmarked for his presidential library, court documents showed.”
It is November 15th. They are playing Christmas music in M&S in Friern Barnet.
November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It is November 15th. They are playing Christmas music in M&S in Friern Barnet.
“We released a thing cos it seems cool. Bad people used it to do very bad things, which is really bad & also a cool use-case &, sure, advert. Whoa, people should really take care out there. Also use our thing to defend yourselves against our thing.”
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“We released a thing cos it seems cool. Bad people used it to do very bad things, which is really bad & also a cool use-case &, sure, advert. Whoa, people should really take care out there. Also use our thing to defend yourselves against our thing.”
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
“This interview is a stub. Please help us expand it.”
Jetzt LIVE: Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales bei Jung & Naiv youtu.be/uswRbWyt_pg
Bringt euch ein mit naiven Fragen im Livechat!
Bringt euch ein mit naiven Fragen im Livechat!
Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales - Jung & Naiv: Folge 792
YouTube video by Jung & Naiv
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“This interview is a stub. Please help us expand it.”
New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-erosio...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-erosio...
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Not the kind of 🚩 they’re singing about, Shabana… “[who] will suggest that while some of her plans may seem immoderate, the alternative could be a further rise in support for Reform UK. [&] '"If you don't like this, you won't like what follows me." [&] “she [wants] to rein in "activist judges"…”
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Not the kind of 🚩 they’re singing about, Shabana… “[who] will suggest that while some of her plans may seem immoderate, the alternative could be a further rise in support for Reform UK. [&] '"If you don't like this, you won't like what follows me." [&] “she [wants] to rein in "activist judges"…”
Another good piece that unpacks another set of questions on the BBC, and glad in particular that @henrymance.ft.com has interviewed Pat Younge and Jean Seaton, who should be key voices in the debates to come.
Why is it so hard to run the BBC? Is impartiality possible? Is it even what polarised viewers even want?
An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Another good piece that unpacks another set of questions on the BBC, and glad in particular that @henrymance.ft.com has interviewed Pat Younge and Jean Seaton, who should be key voices in the debates to come.
This piece by @trillingual.bsky.social is a characteristically clear, yet comprehensive anatomisation of the latest crisis to engulf the BBC. A long, essnetial read and a good counterpart to the @lewisgoodall.com piece in the 🧵 below.:
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This piece by @trillingual.bsky.social is a characteristically clear, yet comprehensive anatomisation of the latest crisis to engulf the BBC. A long, essnetial read and a good counterpart to the @lewisgoodall.com piece in the 🧵 below.:
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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V pleased to be giving a public talk (two, in fact) at Ulster University later this month:
"How did we get here? The rise of Britain's far right."
Derry, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Belfast, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Please come along, or share with friends.
"How did we get here? The rise of Britain's far right."
Derry, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Belfast, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Please come along, or share with friends.
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
V pleased to be giving a public talk (two, in fact) at Ulster University later this month:
"How did we get here? The rise of Britain's far right."
Derry, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Belfast, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Please come along, or share with friends.
"How did we get here? The rise of Britain's far right."
Derry, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Belfast, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we...
Please come along, or share with friends.