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Orwell News

By The Orwell Foundation

News and new writing about Orwell, his legacy and the prestigious Orwell Prizes.

I'm proud to be a trustee of the Orwell Foundation, and I commend our newsletter to you...

- Sameer Padania

Rana Ayyub's Newsletter

Resilient journalism undeterred in the face of autocratic power; independent, humane, accessible and radically empathetic.

Rana Ayyub is just trying to do her job as a journalist in India, which, given that it involves asking questions of power, and exposing injustices, brings her colossal, continuous threats and harassment.

- Sameer Padania

Media Finance Monitor - Center for Sustainable Media

By Peter Erdelyi

Your weekly newsletter on media funding, large-scale grants, impact investment, audience revenues and more. Powered by the Center for Sustainable Media.

Media Finance Monitor by Peter and Ioana goes beyond the surface of what's going on in funding for journalism and media around Europe, and tells you something new each edition.

- Sameer Padania

Arts & Letters Daily

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

ALDaily has been a staple source of fascinating reads in my life for years and years - may it also become one in yours...

- Sameer Padania

Sifter

By Maya Misikir

A weekly newsletter curating the top 5 human rights stories you need to pay attention to in Ethiopia!

Maya's an excellent journalist/researcher based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

- Sameer Padania

Orwell Daily

By George Orwell

Emails from Orwell

A genuinely delightful thing to receive - what George Orwell wrote on this date...

- Sameer Padania

DemocracyNext’s Newsletter

Another Democratic Future is Possible

Citizens' Assemblies and other forms of deliberative and participatory democracy are close to the kinds of sense-making that journalism does, especially at the local level. DemNext are doing really excellent work/thinking that I really value.

- Sameer Padania

Cajueira

Uma curadoria de conteúdos produzidos pelo jornalismo independente nos estados do Nordeste

If you read Portuguese (or if you're happy to use DeepL or GTranslate), Cajueira gives you regular insights into independent journalism being done across North-East Brazil.

- Sameer Padania

RQ1

A monthly newsletter highlighting the latest in research on news and journalism

An excellent, accessible digest of recent academic papers about journalism and media.

- Sameer Padania

On Journalism

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