Gina Rushton
@ginarush
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author, journalist, host of the dilemma, former editor of crikey, current analysis editor at the ABC 🗞️ agent: Rach Crawford @wolfliterary 💌 (views mine etc)
Joined May 2009
This is completely surreal but The Parenthood Dilemma is in The New Yorker!!!! https://t.co/vTxhZlJu35
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A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google https://t.co/BLM5tgBG3I
niemanlab.org
A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
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Cam doing genuine public service journalism right now! Lots to learn about FOIs on this stream
Our associate editor, Cam Wilson, is live on YouTube filing freedom of information requests. Come and join the party!
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When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny | The Guardian
theguardian.com
Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s
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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
apnews.com
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
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I wrote about whether or not you can really "just do things" — a meme that responds to a world in which institutional power is increasingly sclerotic and individual agency under threat from AI https://t.co/wPsTpWhF81
thebaffler.com
The exhortation to “just do things” is in part a response to the specter of automation.
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Now, in his 11th year as PM, Modi has a chokehold on journalism so firm that not a single factoid can be shared w/o permission. I write about the implication of #Adani case, John Doe orders & ex parte injunctions for @NiemanReports
https://t.co/8v8DFzN2YY
niemanreports.org
A spate of new legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes Vidya Krishnan for Nieman Reports.
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There should be a better way of funding the BBC World Service. This would effectively turn the BBC into a UK Government mouth-piece; 'Voice of NATO'.
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Executives at corporation say media monitoring and anti-disinformation are vital to national security
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In August we reported on the story of 12 year old Huda, suffering extreme malnutrition. Her hair was falling out, and she didn't have enough energy to get out of bed. We're hearing reports that Huda died in recent days. Here's our story from August: https://t.co/eiB8flhyDg
abc.net.au
Hospitals in Gaza are having to divert resources to treating surging cases of malnutrition as starvation takes hold across the strip. Meanwhile, children who need treatment are waiting to be evacua...
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Lawyers are already using AI. Will judges be next? Long read from @ginarush.
abc.net.au
Artificial intelligence is coming for the law. Are we ready for robots to become judge and jury?
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"After years of being courted by tech companies and encouraged to provide content optimised for their platforms and websites, news sites are increasingly finding themselves locked out and denied access to their users."
abc.net.au
The launch of 'AI Mode' ushers in a future where news sites are kept alive to train AI chatbots for a US tech company.
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"We are witnessing an acceleration of platform monopolisation and concentration of power, now fuelled by AI technologies, and this is deepening the crisis of journalism,"
abc.net.au
One year on from the rollout of Google AI Overviews in Australia, exclusive data shows steep year-on-year declines in readership for the top news websites as smaller publishers warn of lay-offs.
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Artificial intelligence is coming for the law. Are we ready for robots to become judge and jury?
abc.net.au
Artificial intelligence is coming for the law. Are we ready for robots to become judge and jury?
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just bought a 180,000 tonne load of Pilbara fines at 62% Fe to support BHP ❤️
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Melbourne’s Royal Children’s hospital suddenly cancelled a planned panel discussion on the effects of war on children’s health, just days after its chief executive received a letter alleging the event would pose a risk to Jewish staff and patients.
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Letter to CEO argued event would pose a risk of ‘moral injury, vicarious trauma and harmful workplace behaviours’ to staff and patients
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.@NYMag asked me to explore Roblox and report back. I found kids are bombarded with covert ads, casino-style manipulation, and nonstop enticements to spend their parents' money. It can be best summed up in this screenshot from Roblox's version of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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This rules
The federal government wants fewer FOIs. Crikey wants more. We know filing FOIs can be daunting — so let us do it for you! For the next few weeks, we're accepting ideas for requests that we'll take, shape, file and then will keep you in the loop when we hear back.
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