On a pod w/ Ann Coulter, Peter Thiel talks about how he destroyed Gawker.

This is the most I've ever heard him say about it, and it confirms much of Matt Drange's and my reporting from 7 years ago. It also has details on stuff we could never confirm.

ricochet.com/podcast/unsafe…

Student journalism matters. We need tireless reporters with high standards like Isabella and her team at the Columbia Daily Spectator

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's 'The Watcher'... a Barn Owl on the Somerset Levels. 😍🦉
Thank you very much! 😊🐦

Alright, the news is out.

Yes, I bought The Onion.

Why?
1/4

With everything happening in Columbia right now, there’s far too much mis/disinformation being spread around.

To counter just that, a bunch of us from the Columbia Journalism have come together to factcheck all the claims out there. Keep an eye out for CJS FACT-CHECK.

we mapped tents in Rafah by applying machine learning to high resolution satellite imagery from Planet. we also show damaged buildings from analysis done by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek. 🛰️

read here 🎁: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

a small thread with some model specifics 🧵

The Israeli invasion of Gaza has led to more than 1 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah. Using satellite analysis to identify damaged buildings and refugee tents, here is what the Rafah region now looks like.

🟨 Tents 🟧 Damaged buildings

Our latest investigation: Visual evidence and internal communications show 6 aid group operations in Gaza came under Israeli fire despite using the I.D.F.’s deconfliction system.

nytimes.com/video/world/10…

Visual evidence and internal communications show that before the strike on World Central Kitchen, multiple aid operations and local staff shelters in Gaza had come under Israeli fire — even after the I.D.F. was notified of the locations and logged them as humanitarian sites.…

A cautionary tale for anyone trying to actually report on what India is becoming
theage.com.au/world/asia/her…

for anyone confused on what is going on behind the Columbia gates, i implore you to read the coverage Columbia Daily Spectator by my amazing peers. at spec, there are reporters on the front lines & they are able to write about us students in a way no other journalists can compare.

Last week, I had to leave India abruptly. The Modi Government told me my visa extension would be denied, saying my reporting 'crossed a line'. After Australian Government intervention, I got a mere two-month extension ...less than 24 hours before my flight. 1/2

The election commission has declined to comment on questions about whether it will act on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign speech in which he refers to Muslims as ‘infiltrators’ and ‘those who have many children’. bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Extremely proud of my Columbia J-School students — including Jude Taha | جود طه — for their unwavering coverage of the ongoing encampment.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rhetoric against Muslims is extremely divisive and dangerous. It would only fuel more hate and violence against the already battered community.

Columbia Journalism School is committed to a free press. If you are a credentialed member of the media and have been denied access to campus, please send us a DM. We will facilitate access to campus.

It’s a lazy rule that rewards lazy captaincy

Kalim is a friend and an incredible journalist. Please share this with any organisations that you think might be able to help him raise funds to cover the remainder of his data journalism course fee at Columbia Journalism

This is the tweet of the century…. Heh heh heh

To quote Patrick Kingsley it is an honour but not a pleasure to be part of a Polk award for this coverage.

(Many others who were part of this win like robinnyc, Haley Willis, Danielle Miller, Whitney Hurst, David Botti and many more aren’t photographed here)