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07 Mar 2016

If you're trying to change media for good, anywhere, I can't recommend this community enough. Apply: http://matter.vc/apply/ #matternyc

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Happy 250th birthday, America

Happy 250th birthday, America

Let's keep building.

04 Jul 2026
Notable links: July 3, 2026

Notable links: July 3, 2026

AI, surveillance, open tech, and news as a business.

03 Jul 2026

A new media spinout provides streaming apps for public service broadcasters. I just wish it was open.

We need to see more technical collaborations between public service media organizations. It's also really important that they're based on open technology that doesn't lock them in.

03 Jul 2026

Newsrooms need to get comfortable expressing their business value - and raising money on it.

Newsrooms like to spend their time on the journalistic process and assume that the value of their work will speak for itself. They need to start selling themselves.

03 Jul 2026
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Ben Werdmuller explores the intersection of technology, democracy, and society. Always independently published, reader-supported, and free to read.