Shant Shahrigian
@ShantRS
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Director of American University of Armenia's (@AUAtweets) new Center for Excellence in Journalism. Views here are my own, not AUA's.
Yerevan, Armenia
Joined September 2010
I am honored to share that the American University of Armenia has selected me to be the director of its new Center for Excellence in Journalism.
1/3 🔹 #AUA is pleased to announce the appointment of Shant Shahrigian as the inaugural director of the #University’s new Center for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ).
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RT @NYDNUnion: Mayor Adams might have let our senior City Hall reporter @C_Sommerfeldt in the room today — a week after banning him for ask….
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Hundreds flee into Azerbaijan and Armenia from Iran
reuters.com
More than 600 people of 17 nationalities have fled into Azerbaijan from Iran in the five days since the start of the air war between Israel and Iran, an Azerbaijani source with knowledge of the...
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RT @NYDNUnion: Our petition of ex-Daily Newsers is continuing to build momentum with many more signing since this morning. Join us and tell….
actionnetwork.org
New York City has over 8 million people – but its hometown newspaper only has a unionized staff of 51. Alden Global Capital, a vulture hedge fund known as the ‘destroyer of newspapers,’ has hacked...
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RT @NYDNUnion: Over 120 former @NYDailyNews journalists have signed a new petition demanding that our bosses at New York’s Hometown Paper r….
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"Authenticity, it seems, is what fills the void when authority dies."
nytimes.com
Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.
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This aired last week on DW's "Inside Europe." Full episode here:
dw.com
Romania goes to the polls in the final round of high-stakes presidential elections, Albania's Edi Rama sails to victory once again, and the PKK disbands. Later: Pope Leo XIV, Russian volunteers help...
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Russian, Ukrainian volunteers join forces to help refugees in Armenia. My story for Deutsche Welle:
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RT @TAP_Armenia: In the latest AUA Focus Series podcast, the Director of the AUA Center for Excellence in #Journalism talks with the Presid….
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RT @reporterarm: How disinformation appears in Armenia and the wider region..@ShantRS @ditord @luys.
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RT @PeterMoskos: You might think encryption of police radio is not a bid deal. It is. Policing needs to be transparent. And a lot can be gl….
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“The sale of X Corp.’s loans showcase the animal spirits that have taken over Wall Street since Donald Trump’s election in November. Investors are also eager to bet on Musk”
wsj.com
X CEO tells investors that the financial health of social-media company is improving.
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Gotta say a Downtown Manhattan news outlet that's local "the way the Southern District of New York is a local prosecutor’s office" is a compelling idea.
semafor.com
Lachlan Cartwright and Ravi Somaiya’s new Breaker Media will cover media, culture, and power.
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Trump tariffs threaten rollout of NYC’s $1,000 trash can of tomorrow via @gothamist.
gothamist.com
The bins are manufactured in Quebec. That price could go up if Trump follows through with his threat to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports
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Prepping for a class tomorrow on globalization and watched this 2011 interview with Wael Ghonim on "Egypt's New Age Revolution:" "Without Facebook, without Twitter, without Google, without YouTube, this would have never happened." How times change.
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Not a fan of Microsoft adding an "AI" function to Word with no warning & no straightforward way to remove the invasive icon that pops up every time I click enter. Slightly maddening, actually. .
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RT @TAP_Armenia: Check out this episode of the AUA Focus Series where @ShantRS, Director of the AUA Center for Excellence in Journalism, ta….
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"Disinformation reporting and broader moderation is out of vogue in America, dismissed as another form of censorship by elites and an enemy to free speech."
politico.com
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"Without a doubt, we’ve entered Internet Hell. And though it may feel like a good idea to log off, we also know that we probably won’t be doing that anytime soon."
papermag.com
From Hawk Tuah to Willy Wonka to AI slop to lookalikes galore — we've surely entered Internet Hell.
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