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Investigative reporter and podcast witch. Author @bloomsburybooksus run @drilledmedia, host Drilled, produce First America pod, both @pushkinpods

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The TotalEnergies' East African Crude Oil Pipeline and Tilenga Projects are viewed as land grabs in a number of communities across Uganda and Tanzania.

Diana Taremwa-Karakire, Drilled contributor and publisher of the pan-African media outlet, Indigenous Times, talks about her reporting.

Listen to this week’s episode wherever you get podcasts: https://lnk.to/TheSpill

Read Indigenous Times here: https://indigenoustime.com/

Read Diana's latest story for Drilled here: https://drilled.media/litigation-and-law/indigenous-communities-activists-in-africa-gird-for-legal-battles-with-governments-over-climate-harms/

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The “crisis actor” conspiracy isn’t new. It’s over 100 years old.

In 1914, the Rockefellers hired PR man Ivy Lee after the Ludlow coal strike. According to @msidatarbell one of his first moves was claiming the strikers were plants hired by the union.

Amy’s new book Brought to You By traces how corporate PR built the disinformation machine we live in now. Full episode at the link in bio.

#disinformation #propaganda #history #bigoil #climatejournalism

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This week on The Spill, we provide the final and definitive answer to the most consequential question of the season: Did Digger suck or did it rule?

Plus our favorite socially conscious movies and music, from Sinead O'Connor to Danish TV, Palestine documentaries and The History of Concrete.

We want to hear from you! What should we be listening to and watching?

Listen to this week’s episode wherever you get podcasts: https://lnk.to/TheSpill

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@msidatarbell, what should climate journalists do? 1. Look at the enabling industries around fossil fuel companies
2. Cooperate across continents
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Send us a message if you are interested in cross border investigations on climate and we’ll try and connect you!

If you are a journalist and want to get inspiration for your next climate story, come to our briefings, every Tuesday at 11:55 CET. Sign up here to receive the Zoom invite: https://tally.so/r/EkY0dL (Link also in Bio)

👀 And have a look at @clean_creatives and @climatewhistleblowers!!
 Also, Amy Westervelt just published a book on how corporate propaganda infiltrated our media ecosystem. It’s titled “Brought to you by”. Check it out: https://geni.us/broughttoyouby?ref=drilled.ghost.io

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Climate vocab word of the week: Network State. A favored ideology among tech billionaires that promotes replacing countries and governments with special economic zones controlled by corporations. Think of it as colonialism for tech bros — their solution to a future transformed by the climate crisis.

Gil Durán has spent the last couple years delving into Network State ideology for his book The Nerd Reich. Amy Westervelt's book Brought to You By delves into the history of all the corporate colonialism that came before as well, and how it's all shaped our information ecosystem and undermined democracy.

Listen to The Spill for a conversation between Gil and Amy: https://lnk.to/TheSpill

Check out Gil’s book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402

Check out Amy’s book, Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy https://geni.us/broughttoyouby

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Tech billionaires have created a parallel media ecosystem that has surpassed traditional media in influence and given them an enormous amount of control over the world's democracies. The result, propaganda has replaced the press. On this week’s The Spill, Gil Durán, author of the book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, in conversation with Amy Westervelt.

Listen to the full episode wherever you get podcasts: https://lnk.to/TheSpill

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Amy Westervelt, long-time climate reporter and founder of the podcast Drilled, conducted a years-long and worldwide investigation into what might be called the Public Relations Industrial Complex (the military insinuation is deliberate and warranted). The just-published result is “Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy.”

Yale Climate Connections’ Michael Svoboda spoke with Amy Westervelt last month via Zoom.

Read the interview at yaleclimateconnections.org

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Doubt is their product. And now it's an export. 🛢️🌍

The US fossil fuel industry has delayed climate action for decades. Investigative journalist Amy Westervelt @msidatarbell @drilledmedia has traced how the same tactics, messages and personnel now shape the debate in Europe.

In our press briefing, she'll explain how corporate influence campaigns adapt across borders, and what to watch for in your own reporting. A briefing for all colleagues who want to recognise industry playbooks before they set the news agenda.

🌎💚💬 With our lunchtime climate briefings, we are offering journalists a shortcut to high-level experts and to the most important stories to be told. This is the third of five briefings, every Tuesday at 11:55 Berlin time.

🔗 Sign up to receive the Zoom invite. Link in our bio.

💡 This is a closed press briefing. Only journalists, media professionals and journalism students can take part – that's what lets our guests speak plainly.

Everything is on the record, so you can quote it. Free for journalists upon registration.

Ajit Niranjan, The Guardian, will moderate.

Save the date for our upcoming events:

🔹 20.10. | Climate Futures: Reading the Warning Signs with WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo

🔹 27.10. | High-Impact Climate Action: What Matters Now with Prof. Kimberly Nicholas from Lund University
Come join!

📅 13 October, 11.55 Berlin time
🔗 Registration via the link in our bio

#5vor12 is organized by Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Deutschland and Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Österreich. We are grateful for a small grant from Journalismfund Europe that makes this series possible – and anyone who supports our network with a donation. Thank you! 💚

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BOOK GiVEAWAY 📕🌎🫶🏽

Featuring Amy Westervelt (@msidatarbell ), Founder of @drilledmedia , an investigative journalist who I’ve been a fan of her work for years.

Whether it’s the tobacco industry lying about the health dangers of cigarettes, Big Pharma burying studies that make its products less marketable, or Big Oil misleading the public on the dangers of the climate crisis, we all know corporations use doubt and science denial to avoid responsibility. So why do we continue to let them get away with it?

In Brought to You By, Amy Westervelt exposes the plot hidden within the familiar story of science denial. Over the last century, Big Industry has built a vast apparatus of think tanks, lobbyists, university labs, and obliging news networks to con the public and fool decision-makers, poisoning the informational ecosystem and warping the nature of truth along the way.

How to win? 🏆 📕

Comment why you’d like to read this book and we are only able to do this giveaway in the US. One winner will be selected randomized.

#drilledmedia #queerbrownvegan #halloweenbooks #bookstagram #climateeducation

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Would Rory be a climate journalist nowadays? We think so! 🍂☕📚

🤗 And we’re also pretty sure that she’d love to join the sixth season of 5vor12. With our lunchtime climate briefings, we are offering journalists a shortcut to high-level experts and to the most important stories to be told. Five briefings, every Tuesday at 11:55 CET time. Sign up here to receive the Zoom invite: https://tally.so/r/EkY0dL (Link also in Bio)

📚 Which climate books are you reading this fall? Let us know in the comments!

#Gilmoregirls #season #thanksgiving #pumpkin

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Last Thursday night. New York City. No oil money, or greenwashing panels, or lobbyists, or $400 Bordeaux. Just a room full of incredible people who’ve been arrested, expelled, primaried, or sued for doing the right thing.

Thank you to every single person who came out and so generously donated (especially Justin Pearson, who donated while running his own campaign!). You all showed up for us, so now we can keep showing up for you.

Until the next one!

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Pub day celebration for the new Amy Westervelt ( @msidatarbell ) book #broughttoyouby — her in depth research into systems of disinformation and power is vital to the health of so many things— our understanding and preservation of the world and democracy. Joined by a great panel @tzeporahberman @stevendonziger for a really fascinating discussion— I encourage you to pick this up or download the audio. Fascinating!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY @bloomsburybooksus
Photos @hannah.reiff

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