Michaël Jarjour
@jarjour.bsky.social
@trustfnd.com founder and ceo • board @republik.ch • past: Twitter, FT, SRF, NZZ • he/him • 🏳️🌈🇨🇭🇪🇺🇱🇧 • London
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Thompson Reuters Foundation is cutting its journalists to do more AI consultancy.
One of the more surprising ways of AI changing journalism.
One of the more surprising ways of AI changing journalism.
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Thompson Reuters Foundation is cutting its journalists to do more AI consultancy.
One of the more surprising ways of AI changing journalism.
One of the more surprising ways of AI changing journalism.
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February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Pulitzer
tom homan is a bitch
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Pulitzer
Reposted by Michaël Jarjour
🔥🔥🔥It's official: Der Krieg der Tech-Autoritären Oligarchie gegen die Medien hat eine neue Stufe erreicht: Palantir klagt gegen uns. Sie wollen ein Recht auf Gegendarstellung.
Uns, das @republik.ch-Magazin. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen und werbefrei.
Uns, das @republik.ch-Magazin. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen und werbefrei.
February 12, 2026 at 11:46 AM
🔥🔥🔥It's official: Der Krieg der Tech-Autoritären Oligarchie gegen die Medien hat eine neue Stufe erreicht: Palantir klagt gegen uns. Sie wollen ein Recht auf Gegendarstellung.
Uns, das @republik.ch-Magazin. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen und werbefrei.
Uns, das @republik.ch-Magazin. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen und werbefrei.
Reposted by Michaël Jarjour
Smaller journalists have exposed the way the imagined scientific controversy is all built on a foundation of activism and lies but much of the media keeps chugging out the stories as if we never did.
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Smaller journalists have exposed the way the imagined scientific controversy is all built on a foundation of activism and lies but much of the media keeps chugging out the stories as if we never did.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Eeeeeeeek... Just sent out invitations for everyone on the waitlist at @trustfnd.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Eeeeeeeek... Just sent out invitations for everyone on the waitlist at @trustfnd.com
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
"Reviving the Post is evidently not Bezos’s objective."
Good @edwardluce.bsky.social column on the Post stuff [GIFT link].
Good @edwardluce.bsky.social column on the Post stuff [GIFT link].
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post
He is just one of several pro-Trump oligarchs who now control key sections of the US media
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February 8, 2026 at 7:56 AM
"Reviving the Post is evidently not Bezos’s objective."
Good @edwardluce.bsky.social column on the Post stuff [GIFT link].
Good @edwardluce.bsky.social column on the Post stuff [GIFT link].
What would we do without all the quality journalism
February 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
What would we do without all the quality journalism
Reposted by Michaël Jarjour
My conclusion is that the mostly male journalists writing about this so giddily just *want* it to be true so bad. Desperate for young men to agree with them that "woke has gone too far" or whatever
The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 12:43 PM
My conclusion is that the mostly male journalists writing about this so giddily just *want* it to be true so bad. Desperate for young men to agree with them that "woke has gone too far" or whatever
Can't wait for @joannastern.bsky.social to become even more unhinged.
Now that she's left the Wall Street Journal all guardrails are gone 😂 Never signed up to a newsletter faster
Now that she's left the Wall Street Journal all guardrails are gone 😂 Never signed up to a newsletter faster
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Can't wait for @joannastern.bsky.social to become even more unhinged.
Now that she's left the Wall Street Journal all guardrails are gone 😂 Never signed up to a newsletter faster
Now that she's left the Wall Street Journal all guardrails are gone 😂 Never signed up to a newsletter faster
With legacy newsrooms struggling creating stability and positive work cultures, most of the best will leave.
Great write-up for one of the options that are now easier to create (still hard, but easier): journalism co-ops: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
Great write-up for one of the options that are now easier to create (still hard, but easier): journalism co-ops: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
February 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM
With legacy newsrooms struggling creating stability and positive work cultures, most of the best will leave.
Great write-up for one of the options that are now easier to create (still hard, but easier): journalism co-ops: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
Great write-up for one of the options that are now easier to create (still hard, but easier): journalism co-ops: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
Reposted by Michaël Jarjour
i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
We need Pulitzers for the best framing that accurately tells the story and is accessible and sells subscriptions.
Nominees:
“Tom Homan is a bitch,” by @marisakabas.bsky.social
“Brendan Carr is a dummy,” by @reckless.bsky.social
Both are very succinct, very accurate, and speak truth to power.
Nominees:
“Tom Homan is a bitch,” by @marisakabas.bsky.social
“Brendan Carr is a dummy,” by @reckless.bsky.social
Both are very succinct, very accurate, and speak truth to power.
February 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
We need Pulitzers for the best framing that accurately tells the story and is accessible and sells subscriptions.
Nominees:
“Tom Homan is a bitch,” by @marisakabas.bsky.social
“Brendan Carr is a dummy,” by @reckless.bsky.social
Both are very succinct, very accurate, and speak truth to power.
Nominees:
“Tom Homan is a bitch,” by @marisakabas.bsky.social
“Brendan Carr is a dummy,” by @reckless.bsky.social
Both are very succinct, very accurate, and speak truth to power.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Never give up your independence. But bundle your power to grow.
That man has no shame.
*that man = Matt Murray
*that man = Jeff Bezos
*that man = Matt Murray
*that man = Jeff Bezos
February 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
That man has no shame.
*that man = Matt Murray
*that man = Jeff Bezos
*that man = Matt Murray
*that man = Jeff Bezos
At @trustfnd.com we say “stay independent, unite in growth”
People are actually ok with journalists being independent from each other.
They’d still like to be able to get bundles.
Also, forming a co-op is actually not easy.
People are actually ok with journalists being independent from each other.
They’d still like to be able to get bundles.
Also, forming a co-op is actually not easy.
"that's just a newspaper"
"that's just a magazine"
"just form a co-op, it's easy"
no, it's not, and you're driving me nuts.
the idea is to pay one fee to have access to separate publications. if it were easy, we would've done it already.
"that's just a magazine"
"just form a co-op, it's easy"
no, it's not, and you're driving me nuts.
the idea is to pay one fee to have access to separate publications. if it were easy, we would've done it already.
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 PM
At @trustfnd.com we say “stay independent, unite in growth”
People are actually ok with journalists being independent from each other.
They’d still like to be able to get bundles.
Also, forming a co-op is actually not easy.
People are actually ok with journalists being independent from each other.
They’d still like to be able to get bundles.
Also, forming a co-op is actually not easy.
whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
February 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Katelyn deserves all the birthday gifts
Hi! My birthday is on Friday and from now until midnight that day, I'm offering 30% off annual memberships to my Patreon.
Use code "BDAY" at checkout to get the discount but more importantly you can support trans independent journalism by supporting me over there:
patreon.com/katelynburns
Use code "BDAY" at checkout to get the discount but more importantly you can support trans independent journalism by supporting me over there:
patreon.com/katelynburns
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February 4, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Katelyn deserves all the birthday gifts
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Not that it'll stop me! -- you can keep following my internet culture coverage here on my new Substack. Please feel free to share.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Not that it'll stop me! -- you can keep following my internet culture coverage here on my new Substack. Please feel free to share.
bytatumhunter.substack.com
bytatumhunter.substack.com
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People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
The ultimate abdication of responsibility
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The ultimate abdication of responsibility