Caithlin Mercer

Associate director of Journalism Fellowship at Reuters Institute, Oxford University. Tweets, like my jokes, are set to expire.

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Psst... I'm over here on Threads. Come on in, the water is fine. https://t.co/wB2jfnUSGi

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Good night, and good luck.

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Lessons from Spanish language audio for those considering the benefits of a podcasting strategy by @paulamolinat a key thinker in the Creative Audio Strategy space. Our final paper of the year, and the only good reason to break my Twitter trade embargo. 🫶 https://t.co/Jfn3Gf690h

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As we close out publishing season 2021/22, here's all the work produced by our journalist fellows in the academic year to date. #AnnusMirabilis 🧵

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In podcast format: Can Solutions Journalism help burnt-out journalists and audiences? By @dulcederomerooo https://t.co/BHqKhWAXr5

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@viviannereim Vivian, thank you. What a relief to see some nuanced conversation on a very complex topic in western media. Great job.

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Here's the 🧵#JFellowJournal, a round-up of what the @risj_oxford fellows got up to this week (with thanks to contribution from @arnehk, @gillianwong, @SMusaieva and @TeShimaBrennen). What a hecking thought-provoking week.

https://t.co/ibXFHlEjd7

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@ShuprovaTasneem As long as they aren't HERE. Here, we lock them up and deport them and mock them, but THERE they better pay them more and improve rights. Unless they're making products for HERE, in which case you should pay them less and not talk about it. Amazing cognitive blindspot.

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The 🧵#JFellowJournal is available here: https://t.co/4HaNbmIDaX

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All of this to say: I’m putting the #JFellowJournal thread on Mastodon this week, and – for the foreseeable future – it will be available there. Thank you for all your support!
https://t.co/Cu5BbzPAQc

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I’ve been mulling over what my *personal* response to Twitter sale should be 🧵: I appreciate the “stay and fight” idea because this network is vital for a lot of important communities: advocates for under-represented voices, researchers, global south development work...

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My conclusion: I'll stay on as an inactive node because the network matters, but I will not be actively using it. My great hope is that SOMEWHERE an NGO of altruistic investors is forming to buy Elon out and make Twitter a publicly owned, transparently governed utility.

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@_FelixSimon_ Was this at The Sun one in 2018, or did he do this often?

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@amyross87 @radioambulante @nuncaduermo I loved this quote: 99% indivisible.

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"When we launched @radioambulante 10 years ago, we knew that political borders are real, but linguistic and cultural borders are very fluid. We consider the US a Latin American country because there are 60 million Latinos here", @nuncaduermo tells @CaithlinMercer.

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Interesting RQ1 to be mined from this?

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@MitaliLive @eduardosuarez @baekdal @risj_oxford I'm a dummy, and I just walked straight in. Go here https://t.co/A1foMnt11g Scroll till you see one that says "create" instead of "apply" – that means it has space for new people. Sign up. Download app. Use debirdify to find your people scattered around different servers.

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@MitaliLive @eduardosuarez @baekdal @risj_oxford Sorry, didn't see this; I was next door at the Mastodon party.

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@eduardosuarez @baekdal @risj_oxford Remember: you have to search username AND the server the username is hosted by. So @[email protected]

And this is a great tool: https://t.co/b7nODmXmlv

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@eduardosuarez @baekdal @risj_oxford Right: because you're on different servers. So you click follow, click copy below login, go back to your profile, click search, paste and follow. I keep non-servers open in Chrome, and my server open in app, and toggle between Chrome and app for mass follows. Price of federation.