Does anyone know of any #journalists or news organizations actively using the Fediverse?
Boosts welcome.
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@tazgetroete comes to my mind.
@Krautreporter will up their engagement, I think.
@robertwgehl something like @amwenglish@kolektiva.social ?
@mms That's a great example; thank you!
@robertwgehl Nope, nada.
@robertwgehl There are a few in french.
@robertwgehl In France we have @Mediapart @blast / @blast_info
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Belgian magazine @Medor_mag is among us :)
@robertwgehl Well, there are @Welchering, @ntv and @Aruetzel
@robertwgehl There's also the 🇩🇪 comedy show @zdfmagazin with its host @janboehm. By the way, they got 2 Mastodon servers: edi.social (used internally) and det.social (for the public).
@robertwgehl There used to be a fair amount on civiq.social, but fourthestate.org eventually stopped maintaining that instance. Some of the accounts presumably migrated to other instances.
@robertwgehl I think I saw Al Jazeera English on here ...
@robertwgehl vielleicht @insavandenberg oder https://squeet.me/profile/taz oder @bachrauf oder https://squeet.me/profile/heiseonline Schau #journalismus an
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I don't know about English ones but there are quite a few French news organizations on Fedi (10 or so) but I'm not sure the journalists have personal accounts.
If your interested I can try to find the post linking them again
Emma Audrey @emms (toots en français) is a journalist who joined the Fediverse last month.
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German journalism officially available from @tazgetroete
@robertwgehl Isn't masthead.social for journalists?
@lydiaconwell brilliant! thank you!!!
@lydiaconwell Looking at masthead, it does appear that it is intended for journalists, but looking deeper it looks like they allow just anyone to sign up and there are a lot of spammy accounts. It's too bad -- I was excited when I saw it at first! Seems like a good idea that just must not be moderated.
@robertwgehl Probably all the journalists prefer the antagonism and wider audience of Twitter.
@robertwgehl agreed... but... it does make sense that a question about active Fediverse users is more likely to get answers on the Fediverse...
For comparison: my posts about research gain much more traction on the birdsite, should I post there too. Unfortunately, most active IR researchers are not active here.
@robertwgehl You're welcome. 😁
@robertwgehl Depending on where you draw the line:
Steven Vaughn-Nichols sjvn@pluspora.com
Esther Schindler estherschindler@pluspora.com
Jack Ryan @dctrjack
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@TheGuardian is posting headlines, but no active engagement.
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We should get George Monbiot on here, he'd be up for this.
@robertwgehl in Spain we have El Salto over here. But the Social Media Manager is on parental leave right now!
I love the #fediverse. If I asked such a question on the birdsite, I'd probably get buried by their algorithm. I have twice as many followers on the birdsite but that results in about 1/10 of the smart discussion I get here. A few likes is all I get on the birdsite.
Here I get a whole slew of great answers. Thanks to all of you!