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Craig Forman
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Partner, NextNews Ventures. Chair @CNTI_Global. Past CEO @ McClatchy. Board Director at Yellow (TSX:$Y), Claranova (Paris/Euronext: $CLA) and elsewhere. FMR @WSJ @CNN @Yahoo. Senior Fellow #USCAnnenbergCCLP
@arusbridger.bsky.social : This was quite a good edition of the podcast: 👍
January 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A user-generated ‘Splinternet’ Worth Watching? Moderators on Reddit - especially among younger, male-demographic sports Redditors - beginning to ‘bar’ links to Meta-owned platforms. Outbound links to Twitter were blocked in earlier moves. Phenomenon worth watching. @cnti_global #News #Journalism
Good on you, Reddit r/NBA!

r/NBA ANNOUNCEMENT: r/nba will no longer permit links to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Threads

www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/46gY...
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Where is US journalist Austin Tice? Today would be a great day to #FreeAustinTice. Britain’s @the-independent.com reports from Syria on efforts to get answers.
January 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The clock ticks, as it has for over 12 years: WHERE IS AUSTIN TICE? and how can we accelerate efforts to return the US journalist to his family? Aid groups search for clues in #Syria; @stateSPEHA @statedept @POTUS: x.com/hostageaid/s...
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December 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Watch @margbrennan w/ @StateSPEHA: More info on #FreeAustinTice than previously known: 1. US believes Syria held US newsman at ‘some point’ in unprecedented 12 years as hostage. 2. US officials (@FBI) visited Syrian prison to gather evidence last week 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xju...
Full interview | U.S. chief hostage negotiator Roger Carstens
YouTube video by Face the Nation
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:31 AM
It is time for answers: WHERE IS AUSTIN TICE? And how does this US journalist for @mcclatchy @washingtonpost @cbsnews return to his family after 12 years since his kidnapping in Syria? Today would be a good day to FreeAustinTice: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Syrian rebels offer to help U.S. search for journalist Austin Tice
U.S. officials say that, for now, it is too dangerous to deploy personnel to look for Austin Tice, who was abducted near Damascus 12 years ago.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Craig Forman
The 138-year-old Plainsman Herald, in rural Colorado, was about to close when the owner asked readers if they’d pay more to keep it afloat.

About 95% of respondents said yes.

So he’s raising the annual subscription rate to $100 from $50.

coloradosun.com/2024/12/11/s...
A 138-year-old Colorado newspaper asked readers if it was worth saving. They resoundingly said yes.
Weeks before closing, The Plainsman Herald owner Kent Brooks asked readers if the Colorado weekly was worth saving. Their response changed his mind.
coloradosun.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:19 PM
@sulliview.bsky.social insights on billionaire news proprietors. But it’s character, not wallet size, that counts: Bancroft-owned WSJ investigated its reporter R. Foster Winans; McClatchy aggressively covered its pension-prompted financial restructuring: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-escala...
December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Let’s raise this question again and again to top @potus PDB (Daily Brief) until answered: WHERE IS US JOURNALIST AUSTIN TICE? (held in Syria for 12 years). And how does he return safely to his family? (Please quote/repost)
Reporter: What does US know about where Austin Tice might be?

Biden: We believe he’s alive. We think we can get him back…
December 10, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Craig Forman
Reporter: What does US know about where Austin Tice might be?

Biden: We believe he’s alive. We think we can get him back…
December 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM
As a new era begins for Syrian after half a century of Assad rule, a question this morning: Where is US journalist Austin Tice, held for 12 years after his kidnapping in Syria. And how will he get home to his family safely? #FreeAustinTice.
December 8, 2024 at 6:15 AM
It is far past time to #FreeAustinTice, held 12 years since being kidnapped in Syria. Austin has been confirmed alive this year, according to his family - who met today with White House officials to press for his release. Austin was seized for doing his job: #journalism. www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/p...
Austin Tice’s family says he is alive and well, but they are deeply frustrated after meeting with Biden administration | CNN Politics
The family of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist held in Syria since 2012, said they have new confirmation that Tice is still alive and well but expressed deep frustration with the Biden administrati...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:26 PM
November 27, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Some folks on @bluesky.social may not yet know: innovating.news.
It’s a global research institute on misinformation,
AI and white-hot
issues at the crucial intersection of news, technology and global freedom of people and information. More. Free. Here: innovating.news/work/priorit...
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Center for News, Technology & Innovation, an independent global policy research center, seeks to encourage independent, sustainable media, maintain an open internet and foster informed public policy c...
innovating.news
November 24, 2024 at 4:53 PM
$3-a-year for @chicagotribune ; a buck a month for @washingtonpost : These promos don’t usually succeed alas; churn accelerates.
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 PM
‘One who finds a truth lights a torch.’ Introducing myself here on #Bluesky : Newsperson.
November 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM