Zac Crellin
@zacrellin.bsky.social
Journalist and editor at DW News
Creator of @opennewswire.bsky.social
Photo credit: Car.argh via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
Creator of @opennewswire.bsky.social
Photo credit: Car.argh via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
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We're often asked if Open Newswire is open source, and the answer is now yes!
Our source code is free to use, adapt and distribute under the MIT License: github.com/Open-Newswire
Or take the software for a spin at our website: www.opennewswire.org
#Journalism #OpenJournalism #OpenSource #FOSS
Our source code is free to use, adapt and distribute under the MIT License: github.com/Open-Newswire
Or take the software for a spin at our website: www.opennewswire.org
#Journalism #OpenJournalism #OpenSource #FOSS
Open Newswire
Find freely-republishable news articles in more than 90 languages!
www.opennewswire.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We're often asked if Open Newswire is open source, and the answer is now yes!
Our source code is free to use, adapt and distribute under the MIT License: github.com/Open-Newswire
Or take the software for a spin at our website: www.opennewswire.org
#Journalism #OpenJournalism #OpenSource #FOSS
Our source code is free to use, adapt and distribute under the MIT License: github.com/Open-Newswire
Or take the software for a spin at our website: www.opennewswire.org
#Journalism #OpenJournalism #OpenSource #FOSS
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Footage from the No Kings protest in San Francisco now available for free, with attribution!
Head to openjournalism.network to download it.
Head to openjournalism.network to download it.
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Footage from the No Kings protest in San Francisco now available for free, with attribution!
Head to openjournalism.network to download it.
Head to openjournalism.network to download it.
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Open Newswire is an aggregator of news articles available for free use under CC licenses! Their goals are to boost readership, expand coverage (they include articles in over 90 languages!), and free up resources.
Check out this amazing new resource: www.opennewswire.org
@opennewswire.bsky.social
Check out this amazing new resource: www.opennewswire.org
@opennewswire.bsky.social
Open Newswire
Find freely-republishable news articles in more than 90 languages!
www.opennewswire.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Open Newswire is an aggregator of news articles available for free use under CC licenses! Their goals are to boost readership, expand coverage (they include articles in over 90 languages!), and free up resources.
Check out this amazing new resource: www.opennewswire.org
@opennewswire.bsky.social
Check out this amazing new resource: www.opennewswire.org
@opennewswire.bsky.social
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Support Global Voices as we launch our donation campaign
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
Thank you for your support! globalvoices.org/donate/
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
Thank you for your support! globalvoices.org/donate/
Support Global Voices as we launch our donation campaign
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
globalvoices.org
July 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Support Global Voices as we launch our donation campaign
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
Thank you for your support! globalvoices.org/donate/
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
Thank you for your support! globalvoices.org/donate/
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Check out this tool by our friends @opennewswire.bsky.social: A free aggregator for newsrooms to find and republish quality journalism under Creative Commons licenses, available in 90 languages.
It can be filtered by language and/or type of license: feed.opennewswire.org?languages=en
It can be filtered by language and/or type of license: feed.opennewswire.org?languages=en
May 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Check out this tool by our friends @opennewswire.bsky.social: A free aggregator for newsrooms to find and republish quality journalism under Creative Commons licenses, available in 90 languages.
It can be filtered by language and/or type of license: feed.opennewswire.org?languages=en
It can be filtered by language and/or type of license: feed.opennewswire.org?languages=en
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Calling all journalists and editors around the world! 🗞
Introducing Open Newswire, a free aggregator of republishable news articles in more than 90 languages
Try it out here: www.opennewswire.org
#CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #Journalism
Introducing Open Newswire, a free aggregator of republishable news articles in more than 90 languages
Try it out here: www.opennewswire.org
#CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #Journalism
April 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Calling all journalists and editors around the world! 🗞
Introducing Open Newswire, a free aggregator of republishable news articles in more than 90 languages
Try it out here: www.opennewswire.org
#CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #Journalism
Introducing Open Newswire, a free aggregator of republishable news articles in more than 90 languages
Try it out here: www.opennewswire.org
#CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #Journalism
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Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
November 28, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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Are there people you follow who post infrequently?
Want to see what they said in their one post this fortnight, and toss 'em a like for encouragement?
But they keep getting lost in your feed?
Turns out BlueSky has a feed to surface their posts 🤿
Just tap "pin to home" 😊
Want to see what they said in their one post this fortnight, and toss 'em a like for encouragement?
But they keep getting lost in your feed?
Turns out BlueSky has a feed to surface their posts 🤿
Just tap "pin to home" 😊
November 17, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Are there people you follow who post infrequently?
Want to see what they said in their one post this fortnight, and toss 'em a like for encouragement?
But they keep getting lost in your feed?
Turns out BlueSky has a feed to surface their posts 🤿
Just tap "pin to home" 😊
Want to see what they said in their one post this fortnight, and toss 'em a like for encouragement?
But they keep getting lost in your feed?
Turns out BlueSky has a feed to surface their posts 🤿
Just tap "pin to home" 😊
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there should be a website you can use to search the internet
October 9, 2024 at 7:12 PM
there should be a website you can use to search the internet
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Remember, a large portion of silent films are lost, not due to decay or fires, but because they were intentionally junked by their studios.
Among the worst was Paramount, aka CBS/Paramount.
People come and go. Corporate culture is forever.
Among the worst was Paramount, aka CBS/Paramount.
People come and go. Corporate culture is forever.
2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"
2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."
latenighter.com/news/paramou...
2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."
latenighter.com/news/paramou...
Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone
One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.
latenighter.com
June 26, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Remember, a large portion of silent films are lost, not due to decay or fires, but because they were intentionally junked by their studios.
Among the worst was Paramount, aka CBS/Paramount.
People come and go. Corporate culture is forever.
Among the worst was Paramount, aka CBS/Paramount.
People come and go. Corporate culture is forever.
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Excited that we are definitely getting closer to a post-google world
Well then it sounds like the CEO of google has fucked up real bad and isn't fit for the job
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.
futurism.com
May 25, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Excited that we are definitely getting closer to a post-google world
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Exciting news: We’re taking another step to making Bluesky an open network for public conversations.
Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.
Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.
November 16, 2023 at 5:15 PM
Exciting news: We’re taking another step to making Bluesky an open network for public conversations.
Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.
Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.
the team at In Old News has a survey about journalists create or utilise #CreativeCommons licenced video content
making footage from around the world freely usable has huge potential for how different communities are represented in the news
you can check it out here: forms.gle/rbb4aWgzU1fs...
making footage from around the world freely usable has huge potential for how different communities are represented in the news
you can check it out here: forms.gle/rbb4aWgzU1fs...
2023 survey on open license video in journalism
When was the last time you watched a news video and saw a bit of yourself in the person or community being covered? The probability of seeing yourself represented depends heavily on where you live or ...
forms.gle
November 5, 2023 at 7:19 PM
the team at In Old News has a survey about journalists create or utilise #CreativeCommons licenced video content
making footage from around the world freely usable has huge potential for how different communities are represented in the news
you can check it out here: forms.gle/rbb4aWgzU1fs...
making footage from around the world freely usable has huge potential for how different communities are represented in the news
you can check it out here: forms.gle/rbb4aWgzU1fs...
I sort them in chronological order of when I read them so my bookshelf is like a big diary 🥰
This is a fun one. I asked 29,000 Americans how they primarily organize their books.
- 29% don't organize their books
- 22% sort by genre
- 19% alphabetize
- 3% sort by color
But it turns out this depends HEAVILY on how many books you own. My story: today.yougov.com/society/arti...
- 29% don't organize their books
- 22% sort by genre
- 19% alphabetize
- 3% sort by color
But it turns out this depends HEAVILY on how many books you own. My story: today.yougov.com/society/arti...
October 26, 2023 at 10:03 PM
I sort them in chronological order of when I read them so my bookshelf is like a big diary 🥰
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Forget zodiac signs what’s your favorite Le Creuset color(s)
October 15, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Forget zodiac signs what’s your favorite Le Creuset color(s)
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"Australia now occupies a unique position globally. It is the only colonial settler society in the world that not only does not recognise in any way those dispossessed by colonialism, but whose citizens have actively rejected any such recognition."
www.crikey.com.au/2023/10/16/v...
www.crikey.com.au/2023/10/16/v...
Australia is now a legal fiction
Far from maintaining the status quo, the No vote reduces the Australian constitution to a legal fiction predicated on the lie that First Peoples were not dispossessed by white invasion.
www.crikey.com.au
October 16, 2023 at 2:19 AM
"Australia now occupies a unique position globally. It is the only colonial settler society in the world that not only does not recognise in any way those dispossessed by colonialism, but whose citizens have actively rejected any such recognition."
www.crikey.com.au/2023/10/16/v...
www.crikey.com.au/2023/10/16/v...
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Australian safety watchdog fines social platform X $385,000 for not tackling child abuse content
Australian safety watchdog fines social platform X $385,000 for not tackling child abuse content
Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — 610,500 Australian dollars ($385,000) for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation content.
apnews.com
October 16, 2023 at 6:50 AM
Australian safety watchdog fines social platform X $385,000 for not tackling child abuse content
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"Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a 'second level of disinformation.'"
AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a “second level of di...
www.404media.co
October 14, 2023 at 2:50 PM
"Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a 'second level of disinformation.'"
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Look, I'm fed up, so I'm just saying it: The detransitioner lawsuits that claim to be about medical malpractice aren't normal lawsuits. They're parables and right-wing media fodder, no more.
Dozens of Stories Covered a Detransitioner Lawsuit. The Response Hasn’t Been Covered At All. — A...
Kaiser Permanente responded to lawsuits by Chloe Cole and Kayla Lovdahl
alleging medical malpractice by saying the suits have no merit. Kaiser
asked the court to dismiss them and force Cole and Lovd...
www.assignedmedia.org
October 11, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Look, I'm fed up, so I'm just saying it: The detransitioner lawsuits that claim to be about medical malpractice aren't normal lawsuits. They're parables and right-wing media fodder, no more.
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instructive how much of the appeal of any social platform/forum depends on culture. Bluesky is janky as hell and missing many key features but it has funny posts, so I keep coming back. Threads, on the other hand,
Instagram Looks for Ways to Revive Interest in Threads
Three months ago, Threads, Meta Platforms’ answer to Twitter, was the hottest social media app around. In just days, 100 million people had signed up for it. Since then, usage has plunged, prompting...
www.theinformation.com
October 3, 2023 at 12:29 AM
instructive how much of the appeal of any social platform/forum depends on culture. Bluesky is janky as hell and missing many key features but it has funny posts, so I keep coming back. Threads, on the other hand,
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Lol. @alexheath.bsky.social points out that "X" isn't even on Linda Yaccarino's home screen. www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23...
Oh, look, it’s Linda Yaccarino’s home screen. - The Verge
During her bizarre interview at the Code Conference yesterday, Yaccarino held up her iPhone to the audience while seemingly indicating that it was supposed to represent X. I was sitting near the front...
www.theverge.com
September 29, 2023 at 7:10 AM
Lol. @alexheath.bsky.social points out that "X" isn't even on Linda Yaccarino's home screen. www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23...
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What are carbon offsets? How are they supposed to work? How can things go wrong? Team Carbon Brief have answers in this brilliant in-depth Q&A, inc this handy diagram:
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
September 25, 2023 at 9:47 AM
What are carbon offsets? How are they supposed to work? How can things go wrong? Team Carbon Brief have answers in this brilliant in-depth Q&A, inc this handy diagram:
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
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i wrote about my white whale:
Elon Musk’s Dad Shares Deadly Secrets of Fabled Emerald Mine
His son maintains that the emerald mine doesn’t exist but Errol Musk told The Daily Beast all about it.
www.thedailybeast.com
September 22, 2023 at 11:21 AM
i wrote about my white whale:
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September 23, 2023 at 5:48 PM