I was going to explore some European EV sales trends this week and ran across the following chart, which shows the 8 leading auto brands’ quarterly market share of the BEV market in 13 European countries (combined): There are three things that jumped out to me looking at that chart. ... [continued]
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The Draft Plan Threatens to Undo New York’s Climate Progress and Raise New Yorkers’ Bills NEW YORK — Yesterday, the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter delivered over 1,000 State Energy Plan comments submitted by members and supporters to Governor Hochul’s New York City office. Supporters and spokespeople gathered outside with signs ... [continued]
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T&E, Greenpeace and a coalition of 12 other environmental organisations asks the European Commission to keep article 20 in the EU Air Services Regulation (ASR). Two years ago, the European Commission’s implementing decision (EU) 2022/2358 confirmed the French measure establishing a limitation on the exercise of traffic rights due to serious environmental ... [continued]
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PARIS — Pension funds and other asset owners are exposing clients and beneficiaries to growing climate-related financial risks by failing to stop asset managers supporting fossil fuel expansion, according to new analysis published today by Reclaim Finance and endorsed by AnsvarligFremtid, Fossielvrij NL, Sierra Club, SOS UK, and Urgewald. Read ... [continued]
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Critical minerals, such as copper, cobalt, and silicon, are vital for energy technologies, but most critical minerals markets are less transparent than mature energy markets, such as crude oil or coal. Like other energy markets, many supply-side and demand-side factors influence pricing for these energy-relevant critical minerals, but critical minerals supply chains contain ... [continued]
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Vanadium flow battery technology will be the first to take advantage of a new energy storage test facility hosted by the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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Hyundai Motor’s work with Healthy Seas has removed 320 tons of marine litter, including abandoned fishing nets from “ghost farm” operations and other plastics Suitable recovered nets are recycled into new products, such as floormats for Hyundai’s IONIQ 5, IONIQ 6, IONIQ 9, INSTER, SANTA FE and NEXO in Europe ... [continued]
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Yokohama, Japan — Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Wayve today announced the signing of definitive agreements to collaborate on integrating the next-generation ProPILOT series with Wayve AI technology across a broad range of Nissan vehicles. This partnership will combine Wayve’s embodied AI software with Nissan’s advanced driver-assistance systems to support ... [continued]
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Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
The climate crisis supercharged the deadly storms that killed more than 1,750 people in Asia by making downpours more intense and flooding worse, scientists have reported. Monsoon rains often bring some flooding but the scientists were clear: this was “not normal”.
In Sri Lanka, some floods reached the second floor of buildings, while in Sumatra, in Indonesia, the floods were worsened by the destruction of forests, which in the past slowed rainwater running off hillsides.
Continue reading...In June 2024, the European Union (EU) announced big new tariffs on electric vehicles produced in China. Among other details and clarifications, plug-in hybrids were not included. The high tariffs would only apply to fully electric cars. On a continent trying to electrify the auto industry pretty quickly, that seemed ... [continued]
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While this is a kind of “gee-wiz” story that just catches one’s attention, it does bring up an interesting point or three. Increasing Passenger Safety via Robotaxis First, the news: A lady hailed a Waymo robotaxi to the UCSF (University of California–San Francisco) Medical Center on Monday, and on the ... [continued]
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If you didn’t have enough reason to dislike Uber before, you probably do now. The app-based ride-hailing company followed Lyft’s lead and made some bold-ish EV targets several years ago, then also provided its drivers with incentives to go electric. However, as the political winds in the US have changed, ... [continued]
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Location, Location, Location
I'm 30 kilofeet above the Missouri River, westbound from IND to DEN, with (United tells me) eight minutes to get from Gate B24 to Gate…?. It's blank. Doesn't say. I guess we'll find out.
Update over Nebraska: We need to get from B45 to B25 in 8 minutes or less. It'll be fun if we make it. [Update later: we made it, just under the wire, and it was—perhaps also for others in the thick crowds who might be amused by the sight of a geezer with a packpack ambulating at speed down long concourses (one with an inconveniently disabled moving sidewalk between gates.]
Meanwhiles
I tend to use seatback screens on planes only to show a map of where we are, while I look out the window and shoot photos. (Here are 19,411 examples.) But the ground between IND and DEN was undercast, so I thought I'd try a movie, since on new and refurbished planes United now provides a bluetooth connection to one's headphones and ear pods. The first movie I tried to watch was Spinal Tap: II the End Continues. I liked the original too much to stick with it, and thought of more funny things they could have done with the script than they did, so I punched out after about ten minutes. Then I tried Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. I had trouble figuring out what was going on while all the time studying Tom Cruise's 63-year old face (seemingly always in close-up) for signs of aging. I didn't see any and got bored anyway, so I went back to the map and listened to a podcast on my phone, providing an example of what I wrote about on Tuesday.
Oh my god!
I know Louis CK got canceled and all, but what he said here before that happened is still true. I'm living it now. In a chair. In the sky.
Predicting the predicting
I fear I will come to hate coverage of politics through prediction markets as much as I hate coverage of sports through gambling. So does this guy.
Australia’s social media ban for kids is now in effect. As we’ve discussed, this is a monumentally stupid plan that will do real harm to kids. It’s based on a moral panic and a wide variety of faulty assumptions, including that social media websites are inherently bad for kids, something that none of the evidence supports. And, even if there were harms associated with social media, the way you deal with them is teaching people (not just kids!) how to use them in an age appropriate way—meaning understanding the difference between risks and harms—not banning it altogether.
But, Australia has gone in the other direction entirely, and the clusterfuck is just beginning. As with Australia’s link tax (officially: news bargaining code) the folks at The Juice Media have created their “Honest Government Ad” for the social media ban, and it’s just as biting as you’d expect.
Here’s just a snippet…
Regulating billionaires is hard work!
So we said: let’s just ban the kids. So now the billionaires can keep pegging humanity with even less incentive to moderate….
Sure we rushed this law through in just nine days Ignoring hundreds of experts, our Human Rights Commission, and our leading digital rights, Indigenous, and mental health orgs. And sure we’ve created huge privacy and identity theft risks, and taken a big shit on freedom of speech.
But think of the children.
Just not the children being hammered by gambling ads, which we’ve refused to ban. And definitely not the ones saying we need to protect them from climate change. Those children can go and get fucked.
Ok so it won’t be perfect. But, now that it’s happening, here are some tips as we roll out this evidence-free experiment on your kids:
One: look out for your young people, ‘cause some will need help. Like the kid being bullied at school, the kid in an abusive family, and the LGBTQ kid who found support online. All of whom are part of the 73 % of young people using social media for mental health support.
Two: kids who sneak-on to social media may not feel they can ask for help if they’re being bullied, shown harmful content, or groomed by some pedo. So talk to your kids!
And, three, for fucksake maybe spend less time on social media yourself?
Meanwhile, basically every politician in Australian is taking a huge victory lap on this, looking like complete buffoons. Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, who has been pushing for this nonsensical, dangerous, backwards proposal is bursting with glee:
Grant said: “Technology companies are used to moving fast and breaking things. They can certainly move fast and improve things, and that means deactivating these under-16 accounts.”
She acknowledged some nerves over the ban – and the global attention on it. “I’ve aged in dog years,” she told Channel Nine.
But she added: “I’m trying to contain my excitement”.
Imagine being excited about cutting off tons of young people from their support networks while doing nothing about actual problems those kids are facing. But sure, “contain your excitement.”
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who literally claimed this ban “will save us all,” is taking a censor’s victory lap:
“This is the day when Australian families are taking back power from these big tech companies and they’re asserting the right of kids to be kids and for parents to have greater peace of mind,” Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“This reform will change lives. For Australian kids … allowing them to just have their childhood. For Australian parents, enabling them to have greater peace of mind.”
None of which is happening. Parents don’t see why the government is making this decision for them:
“How about I raise my children, and you run the country.”
Kids are claiming that the whole thing is frustrating… while also totally pointless:
Rima, 14, says she and her friends are “pretty frustrated at first” by the ban and they also don’t think it will work.
“The verification techniques are not very accurate, and there are no penalties enforced on teenagers that get past the ban,” she says, adding that she has already verified herself on Snapchat and also made some new accounts.
She says social media is “not that important” to her but she does use it for “advice, studying and talking to my friends, which is quite integral to my everyday life”.
And the lesson kids are taking from this: the adults are condescending and out of touch with the kids today.
She’s against the ban, saying: “From my perspective, it’s kind of insulting to think that they don’t trust me with the internet.”
And, of course, it’s not working. Kids are always going to figure out ways to get around the ban:
It took 13-year-old Isobel less than five minutes to outsmart Australia’s “world-leading” social media ban for children.
A notification from Snapchat, one of the ten platforms affected, had lit up her screen, warning she’d be booted off when the law kicked in this week – if she couldn’t prove she was over 16.
“I got a photo of my mum, and I stuck it in front of the camera and it just let me through. It said thanks for verifying your age,” Isobel claims. “I’ve heard someone used Beyoncé’s face,” she adds.
“I texted her,” she gestures to her mum Mel, “and I was like, ‘Hey Mummy, I got past the social media ban’ and she was just like, ‘Oh, you monkey’.”
Or how about this “hack”:
Either way, Adams and her friends don’t plan to go quietly. When one app asked them to submit a selfie for an age verification system, they used a photo of a golden retriever they found on Google.
It worked, she said.
So let’s review what Australia’s politicians have actually accomplished here: They’ve alienated parents who don’t appreciate the government deciding how to raise their kids. They’ve taught an entire generation of young people that adults don’t trust them and that circumventing authority is both necessary and easy. They’ve cut off legitimate support networks for vulnerable kids while doing nothing about the actual harms that those same kids face. Indeed, they’ve actually pushed kids towards more dangerous places online while making it more difficult for them to learn to use the internet appropriately. And they’ve created a system so trivially easy to bypass that a golden retriever can pass age verification.
But beyond the immediate disaster, Australia has set a dangerous precedent that moral-panic-driven governments around the world are already eyeing. The message to other countries is clear: you can rush through deeply flawed legislation, ignore all expert advice, create real harms in pursuit of imaginary ones, and still declare victory while the whole thing collapses around you.
The kids, at least, have learned something valuable: when the people in charge respond to complex problems with simplistic bans, you work around them and stop trusting them. Not exactly the lesson Australian politicians were going for, but probably the one they deserve.
FIAT says it is bringing its minuscule Topolino EV to the US next year, because people are lusting after its cuteness.
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Managers of very large companies are very smart people. With the right information, they will make the best decision within the world as they know it. So, why are European carmakers digging their own graves? Make no mistake, asking for a stay in the end of sales of ICE vehicles ... [continued]
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A conversation with Alex Curley
Through Semipublic, which provides data and insights about the public media industry, Alex Curley aims to track public media’s hiring patterns and condense the data into an easily digestible format. With a recently launched job listings aggregator, Public Media Careers, Curley hopes to help job seekers navigate the changing public media industry.
Innovation in Focus student staffer Ishrat Madiha spoke with Curley about the process for creating this database and the tools for putting it all together.
Madiha: What inspired you to create a product for entry-level jobseekers and what elements were most important in regards to that?
Curley: I had a difficult time breaking into the public media industry when I had just graduated college and having a website that I knew for sure reflected every open position available across the country would have been super helpful.
It was important to me to collect and include data points that are most useful to job seekers right now, other than the obvious ones like title, company, etc. Based on user feedback, those data points were job location (as in remote, hybrid, or on-site,) the seniority level of the position and compensation expressed as a yearly salary.
Madiha: What was the process for creating Public Media Careers?
Curley: Public Media Careers was originally born out of a completely different need: I wanted to be able to track public media’s hiring patterns, so I began scraping job listings from every public media-specific jobs board. When I was creating the scrapers for the job boards, I realized that the fact that I had to scrape listings from 15 different websites created a classic product problem to solve. I already had the job listings in a database, Postgres, so I decided to make a website that displayed them in a simple format, which is now public media’s only industry-specific jobs listings aggregator.
Madiha: What tools did you use to help you and how do each of them assist you with the final product?
Curley: n8n is probably the tool I use most for my work. It’s basically a visual interface to automate tasks. With n8n, I scrape websites to extract data from, I clean up data and place it in the correct database, I compile specific data about public media stations using LLMs, I generate notifications about my websites and automations, and it even runs essential functions for some of my websites. When I am starting a new project, I’m usually gathering data as a first step and the first tool I go to is n8n, which I self-host on a server in my house.
Postgres, which I also self-host on a server in my house, houses the foundational databases I’ve built Semipublic and Adopt A Station on. All of my n8n automations first place data into my self-hosted Postgres server. It’s locked away from the outside world (except a few tools like n8n) so that if anything ever happened to my public-facing services or sites, my core data won’t be affected.
I use Supabase, which is basically a fancy wrapper for Postgres, to house my databases for public-facing apps and websites. It has a generous free tier, user friendly options and robust privacy options that make it easy to connect apps or websites to it via API calls.
I use Cloudflare Tunnels to handle making services that are self-hosted accessible on the web. They have an incredibly generous free tier with a lot of really useful features; it’s not a surprise that half the internet runs on their services.
I use Docker (run on Debian servers) to host Postgres and other services from my house. To make the websites, I used a combination of bolt.new, Magic Patterns, and Claude Code.
Madiha: What were the difficult parts of putting this directory together?
Curley: The hardest part of creating the jobs website for me was the user design. Job listings contain a lot of data in a simple package, and making sure that the data I was including was both useful and uniform was challenging.
Madiha: What would be your advice for people making directories or listings– especially for those in smaller newsrooms and/or that have minimal technical skills?
Curley: Make sure you can get the data first, and make sure you can gather data with as little human intervention as possible. Make sure you scale the work of whatever product you’re looking to build appropriately with the amount of risk you’re willing to take. My jobs website runs almost 100% by itself; the only human intervention it requires is to check a few unforeseeable errors. Make sure you’re either filling a large hole in the market or have a real, demonstrable user demand.
Editor’s Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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Madiha, Ishrat (2025, Dec. 10). Creating a directory of job listings for public media. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/creating-a-directory-of-job-listings-for-public-media/
Settlement of the CPB–NPR lawsuit creates a new opportunity for innovation and efficiency in digital publishing and monetization.
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Over a quarter century in the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) perpetrated an ecological disaster: It dumped 3.2 million gallons of toxic waste, spilled 17 million gallons of crude oil and flared nearly 50 million cubic feet of methane gas. The company also collaborated with U.S. evangelical missionaries to forcibly displace Indigenous peoples from their oil-rich lands. The victims have received no compensation.
The European car market and the Osborne effect was the topic of an article I wrote nearly 7 years ago. I made bold predictions for the future, and as all predictions of the future, they were wrong. I should have written a followup on it, but I did not predict ... [continued]
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Last week, we launched our monthlong fundraiser with a commemorative Techdirt / 30 years of Section 230 coin for donations of $100 or more. The initial response has been great, but we need more support to hit our targets.
We’re still far below our goal of making Techdirt funded primarily by reader donations. That matters because it’s the only way we can keep doing the kind of coverage that doesn’t exist anywhere else—coverage that refuses to treat this moment as normal, that digs into the details other outlets skip, and that actually understands how technology, policy, and democracy intersect.
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
This became the most-forwarded piece we published all year. It put a stake in the ground: we’re not going to pretend this is a normal administration making normal policy decisions. While mainstream outlets sanewash every lawless act as just another day in politics, we said it clearly: this is an attack on the institutions that make tech innovation and free speech possible. Democracy isn’t just background context for tech policy. It’s the foundational layer. Without it, nothing else matters.
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness
Everyone’s stuck “working the refs” — begging governments, platforms, or billionaires to fix things. That’s learned helplessness, and it’s exactly what concentrates power in their hands. This piece broke down why decentralized tools and protocols actually matter: they’re not just technical curiosities, they’re how users take back agency. You don’t need permission from Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk to control your own digital life.
Why Things Are The Way They Are
Tim Cushing took on critics who claimed we’d gotten “too political” by pointing out the obvious: when an administration is openly breaking laws and attacking institutions, pretending it’s normal is taking a political stance. Refusing the frame others try to impose on you is part of the job. This was Tim explaining why we won’t play along with manufactured both-sidesism when one side is actively dismantling rule of law.
Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
A practical follow-up on taking back agency: how vibe coding tools are making it possible to build your own small, personal tools instead of waiting for some platform to maybe, possibly do what you need. Not giant apps — just software that solves your problem, built by you. Another way to make the internet work for you, rather than the other way around.
A modern update to the classic Dorothy Thompson 1941 Harper’s Essay “Who Goes Nazi?”, the Who Goes MAGA version seems to get discovered by some new pocket of the internet every few weeks and go viral again. It has certainly led to a bunch of discussions about why some people think that making life worse for a huge percentage of the population is a worthwhile price to pay in exchange for not having someone tell them they used an incorrect pronoun.
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He’s Eager To Be America’s Top Censor
We called this before he even took the job: Brendan Carr would be the most censorial FCC chair in modern history. Turns out that was exactly right. He’s attacked comedians, threatened broadcasters, and openly weaponized government power against speech he dislikes. The mainstream press still covers him like a normal regulator making policy arguments. We don’t, because he’s not.
I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc…
Cathy Gellis, one of our contributors, is fighting cancer. RFK Jr., now in charge of health agencies, is fighting cancer research. This isn’t abstract policy analysis — it’s the direct, personal cost of putting conspiracy theorists in charge of public health. Sometimes the stakes aren’t just democratic principles, they’re whether people live or die.
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Bad-faith actors weaponize “free speech” rhetoric to demand debates that legitimize their nonsense. We broke down the actual grift: these aren’t genuine marketplace-of-ideas participants, they’re trolls gaming the system for attention and legitimacy. Real free speech principles don’t require you to platform and respond to every jackass who demands it.
Fascism For First Time Founders
Silicon Valley’s MAGA converts thought authoritarianism would be good for business. They’re learning the hard way that you can’t have a thriving innovation economy when you’re dismantling the rule of law and institutional stability that makes it possible. The AI bubble is hiding the rot, but the foundation is crumbling. These founders are about to get a very expensive education in why liberal democracy actually matters.
RFK Jr. Reiterates The Same Rhetoric That Made His Own Employees Targets
Someone walked into the CDC and opened fire while spouting the same conspiracy theories RFK Jr. spreads daily. That story got memory-holed fast. RFK Jr. keeps spreading the same dangerous rhetoric. Inflammatory lies have consequences. Most outlets moved on. We haven’t.
Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged and Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You’d Never Again Cave To Government Pressure? About That…
That first post is over 10,000 words breaking down how Zuckerberg fed Rogan a misleading narrative about Biden admin “pressure” while admitting repeatedly that Meta said no and felt no coercion. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been making constant threats and demands of Zuck and he’s folded on nearly every one. We called out how the original story was nonsense, and followed up with details of just how willing Zuckerberg is to cave to Trump’s demands, while admitting he never felt compelled to do so under Biden. Seems like a big story that the mainstream media just skipped right over.
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
Everyone worries about AI hallucinations, but the President does the exact same thing — generating confident bullshit that sounds plausible without any regard for truth. Wind him up and he’ll fabricate entire realities as long as they make him look good. Stop analyzing his words like they contain coherent and consistent policy positions. He’s just probabilistically generating whatever sounds good in the moment.
Because we’d been tracking Carr’s censorial pattern, we immediately recognized his attempt to get Jimmy Kimmel fired for what it was: actual government censorship of speech critical of Trump. Not the imaginary censorship MAGA types complain about — real, unconstitutional use of state power to silence critics. Most outlets covered it as just another political spat.
Forget Whether Or Not DOGE Exists: Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For 600,000 Deaths?
DOGE was never about efficiency. It was about destruction. While mainstream outlets credulously covered Musk’s efficiency theater, we’ve been tracking the actual impacts and exploring whether or not anyone will ever be held accountable for the damage. We’ve been making clear what happens when you treat government like a tech startup you can “disrupt” without consequences. Most media treated it as a legitimate policy experiment.
Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy
The big-picture argument: democracy and digital infrastructure are inseparable now. If we let tech oligarchs control all our communication tools, we’ve already lost. But we haven’t lost — there are still paths to reclaiming control through decentralized systems. This post connected the dots between technical architecture and democratic survival in ways most political coverage completely misses.
Democrats aren’t just failing to oppose Trump’s authoritarianism — they’re actively collaborating on internet censorship bills that hand more power to the executive branch. It’s political malpractice dressed up as “protecting children” or whatever the excuse du jour is. Someone needs to point out that the opposition party is helping build the surveillance and censorship infrastructure they’ll inevitably face themselves.
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We understand how content moderation actually works, so we can explain why Zuck’s narrative to Rogan was bullshit. We’ve been covering the faux “censorship industrial complex” debate for years, so we recognized Carr’s threats immediately. We know how digital infrastructure shapes democracy, so we can connect those dots while political reporters are still figuring out what a protocol is.
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That’s what MyTerms does. Since I don’t have a photo of my own shot here in the natural world, the AI image above represents the degree of agentic scale MyTerms gives to a human meeting a company they want to respect the human’s privacy requirements and also do business.
If you’ve been reading my stuff (or Iain’s, or Nitin’s) you know that.
But the good folks behind this might not, yet:
There’s no link for it yet, because it was just announced. A friend texted me that image.
Since this is a Linux Foundation thing, here’s their announcement for the Agentic AI Foundation.
Simon Wilson seems to be another place to watch for news about all this.
And here’s Decentralized Trust.
Watch those spaces.
The US geothermal industry is gearing up to move into new territory, helping to get fossil fuels out of the power generation business.
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How to ditch consensus and move your team forward
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Making decisions in a news organization can become exhausting, particularly if your team is one that favors consensus. While consensus ideally fosters greater team harmony and buy-in, that may not be the case in reality. Consensus not only requires slower decision-making, but if there’s not a culture of being able to safely disagree already in place, it may cause people to not speak up and frustrations can build.
While decision making models like OATS or RAPID help by clearly identifying who decision-makers are, they don’t say how decisions are made if the decider is a team.
This is why it’s also important to consider alternate decision-making approaches that focus less on consensus, and more on consent. And even if consensus remains your team’s favored approach, it can be helpful to identify an approach that can be used if your team reaches a mission-critical impasse.
Here are 5 different decision-making approaches that non-traditional newsrooms are using, but can be adapted for any sort of news organization:
Rather than trying to reach 100% of people on your team agreeing completely, some newsrooms set a percentage of staff that must be in agreement:
“We wanted to preserve that spirit [of consensus] without binding ourselves to its pitfalls,” said Nick Pinto, a co-founder of Hell Gate.
At RANGE, the team tries to seek full consensus but also informally uses the “Safe to Try” model. The threshold for this is, Is it safe to try? If so, it should be approved. But if it’s actively dangerous to the newsroom, you should shoot the idea down.
“That’s a time to be like, no, no, no, we can’t spend all of our reserves on a robot,” said RANGE founder and co-owner Luke Baumgarten.
In this model, compromises then become about creating the boundaries to make a proposal safer to try, such as treating it as an experiment or putting time or financial boundaries around it.
The Appeal used this approach, adapted from its union roots, for all day-to-day decision-making (major decisions, though, required ⅔ voting approval of each the staff and board).
Team members would agree on a proposal if they felt like they could support it, even if it wasn’t their first choice. Key decisions were discussed in a weekly meeting and active solidarity was often given in Zoom (or on Slack) via a simple thumbs up.
The 51st does have a consensus-driven approach, but their approach allows team members to respond with one of three options to a proposal: “I prefer,” “I tolerate,” or “I block.”
“I feel like a common phrase is, ‘I’m not a block but…’ and that’s worked for us,” said co-founder Maddie Poore.
By using this phrasing their team is able to surface concerns safely and encourages the team to discuss and make compromises.
Canopy Atlanta makes most decisions via consensus but their official decision-making policy is the Gradients of Agreement and it’s listed at the top of their staff meeting notes. This approach provides their team options that more closely reflect how people often think about decisions.
The gradient has 8 levels:
While they may not use it often, it was invaluable when people wanted to share their disagreement without causing a block.
“That Gradients of Agreement was a useful document for us, and one that I would definitely recommend for other organizations as well, because it’s very nuanced. If you do hit an impasse, you can know, ‘Okay, this is how we’re going to move it,” said Mariann Martin, a co-founder of Canopy Atlanta.
While this isn’t a threshold approach used by a nontraditional newsroom that I’m aware of, Fist to Five is an interesting approach.
Here, each person displays their support by holding up a certain number of fingers (or typing a number into a Zoom or Slack chat):
This echoes the spectrum of thoughts someone is likely to have while being more simplified than the full Gradients of Agreement.
Chan, Tara Francis (2025, Dec. 10). 5 ways to make better decisions in your newsroom. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/5-ways-to-make-better-decisions-in-your-newsroom/
The Palisades Fire swallowed homes and lives, reducing whole communities to smoke and rubble in the wake of this massive wildfire. But behind these horrific headlines, a different sort of history was being written — one most people have never heard about. Now, one year later on January 7, 2026, acclaimed audio producer Adriana Cargill will release The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastle Special, a two-part podcast documentary with her independent podcast production house Wave Maker Media in partnership with Pulitzer-winning public media organization, PRX. The second episode releases on January 14.
Both episodes will be free across all major podcast platforms. An audio trailer is available now:
The Palisades Fire takes listeners into the emotional and dramatic maelstrom with first-hand accounts from behind the firelines. We hear from a group of civilians who are sick of watching their city burn so they’re changing how they live with wildfire. As the Palisades Fire gorged itself on the homes of Angelenos, civilians trained to work alongside professional firefighters stepped forward to defend their communities. This group, known as the Community Brigade, is a first-of-its-kind alliance between citizens and professional firefighters. It offers a blueprint for how communities might endure and adapt to an era of ever-escalating wildfires. The first group of brigaders finished training mere months before one of the most destructive and deadly fires in Los Angeles history exploded in the Palisades neighborhood. They came to their city’s aid — evacuating residents and saving homes — during one of Los Angeles’ darkest hours.
“I don’t know the outcome of this experiment, but the community brigade members have my utmost respect,” Cargill said. “Not for a single heroic act, but for refusing to give up — refusing to be rendered powerless and helpless by the enormity of the challenge before all of us.”
This two-part documentary special is a continuation of the first season of Sandcastles, a five-part limited series featuring a motley crew of surfers hell-bound on defending their home from the 2018 Woolsey Fire in Malibu. It follows them from what began as a one-off grassroots effort as it morphed into a years-long journey that became the Community Brigade program. The award-winning podcast was honored by the Gracies, The Signal Awards, The Webby Awards, New York Festivals Radio Awards, the LA Press Club and Public Media Journalists Association, among others.
Sandcastles addresses one of today’s most pressing questions: as natural disasters become more intense, more frequent and more unpredictable, is mass destruction and death inevitable — or can there be a different ending to this story?
The Palisades Fire will be available via Wave Maker Media’s Sandcastles podcast feed. The production team includes Adriana Cargill and Sáša Woodruff (News Director, Boise State Public Radio). The Palisades Fire will also be available as a broadcast special for public radio stations to air to local communities.
Adriana Cargill is the host, writer, producer and reporter of The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special and the founder of Wave Maker Media. In 2024, she won a Gracie Award honoring the best podcast producer in the nation and in 2021 was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Cargill has previously produced audio for NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, LAist, VICE and more. Previously, she served as a senior podcast producer for Crooked Media and as a producer for KCRW. She is a graduate of Sundance Collab and of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes. Visit PRX.org for more.
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RJI, in partnership with the Local Media Consortium (LMC), has announced the launch of the News Media Help Desk, a centralized hub to provide local newsrooms with access to essential resources, expert assistance and fractional services.
Supported by a grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the initiative aims to help news organizations navigate challenges and achieve long-term sustainability in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
“The key reason we pursued this project was sustainability,” said Randy Picht, executive director of RJI. “It’s easy to launch a news website, but sustaining high-quality journalism is hard. This initiative will make it a little easier. We’re optimistic about that because we’ve built the Help Desk on best practices, strong foundations and successful pilot programs.”
RJI is collaborating with the LMC, a strategic alliance of local media companies, to create a dynamic, evolving resource tailored to the needs of local newsrooms. Currently, the Help Desk includes:
A curated, journalism resource center featuring case studies, how-to guides and expert pieces that offer insights and showcase what’s working. New content will be prioritized by topics that are of urgent interest to journalists. The Learning Center will also house a database of tools called the Scorecard that allows users to compare capabilities and features in order to efficiently select a third-party platform that aligns with an organization’s goals.
Digital On-Demand Services (DODS), an existing program managed by the LMC, connects newsrooms with quality, vetted digital media experts to fill resource gaps and complete projects efficiently. Services are offered at pre-negotiated rates. The DODS team assesses scope of work, matches newsrooms with the best consultant or technologist for the job, and stays involved to ensure the project is successfully completed.
“Our members remain optimistic about the future of local journalism but face significant challenges,” said Fran Wills, CEO of LMC. “The value of shared knowledge available on the News Media Help Desk is immeasurable. We’re proud to partner with RJI to deliver expanded resources and sustainability tools to newsrooms nationwide.”
The Help Desk leverages RJI and LMC’s expertise, enabling the organizations to build on the success of their programs to support the industry with the tools and guidance they need to accelerate innovation and advance their shared mission. New features and resources will be rolled out based on media company feedback and priorities.
Follow the link to see the Help Desk for yourself:
RJI Online (2025, Dec. 10). Introducing the News Media Help Desk for local newsroom sustainability. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/introducing-the-news-media-help-desk-for-local-newsroom-sustainability/
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El clima siempre ha cambiado
Sí, pero nunca tan rápido. Los cambios que antes tardaban miles de años ahora ocurren en décadas, y es por el CO2 humano.
El calentamiento global observado desde la Revolución Industrial, hacia 1850, sólo puede explicarse por el exceso de CO2 en la atmósfera, y ese exceso proviene de actividades humanas. Lo sabemos por varias huellas: el CO2 atrapa calor en la parte baja de la atmósfera mientras enfría la estratosfera; los inviernos se están calentando más que los veranos, tal y como se predijo hace más de un siglo; y los estudios científicos muestran que ninguna combinación de causas naturales puede explicar el calentamiento reciente sin incluir los gases de efecto invernadero emitidos por los humanos.
También sabemos que el CO2 extra viene de nosotros porque las emisiones humanas superan lo que la naturaleza puede absorber, los océanos se están acidificando y la composición atómica del CO2 atmosférico coincide con la de los combustibles fósiles.
La idea de que el cambio climático actual “es natural porque antes también lo fue” es una falacia: que un fenómeno tenga causas naturales en el pasado no significa que ahora no pueda tener una causa distinta. Ninguno de los mecanismos que provocaron cambios climáticos en el pasado puede explicar el rápido aumento de CO2 y de temperatura observado en los últimos 150 años. En cambio, el CO2 emitido por los seres humanos sí explica ambos.
No hay consenso científico
¡Falso! Más del 99% de la investigación científica coincide en que la actividad humana está calentando el planeta.
El consenso en cambio climático no es algo de hace dos días; lleva cuatro décadas establecido. El consenso científico ocurre cuando la gran mayoría de especialistas coinciden en una explicación básica después de años de investigación. Así como casi todos los biólogos, astrónomos o médicos coinciden en principios fundamentales en sus campos, los científicos del clima han seguido el mismo camino: observan, investigan y formulan hipótesis que luego ponen a prueba hasta que la evidencia es tan sólida que las discusiones básicas se resuelven.
Los estudios de consenso climático revisados por pares (científicos del mismo campo) y las opiniones de expertos muestran consistentemente un consenso del 97-98% de que la actividad humana está sobrecalentando el planeta. Estudios más recientes cifran el consenso en “más del 99%”. Al revisar estas encuestas, se aprecia que cuanto mayor es el conocimiento sobre clima de los científicos encuestados, mayor es el consenso sobre el calentamiento global causado por la actividad humana.
El científico climático Michael E. Mann equipara este nivel de acuerdo a otros consensos científicos aceptados de forma universal: “Hay el mismo consenso científico sobre el cambio climático causado por los humanos que sobre la gravedad”.
¿Qué calentamiento? Hace mucho frío
Hay que diferenciar entre el tiempo de hoy y el clima global a largo plazo. En la última década los récords de calor duplican a los de frío.
Un día frío local no tiene nada que ver con el aumento global de las temperaturas. Como dice el científico climático Adam Levy, sería como quejarse de ser bajito en un mundo donde la gente es cada vez más alta. Antes que nada, hay que diferenciar entre el tiempo meteorológico y el clima (la NOAA lo explica en este video en español), aunque en muchos países de Latinoamérica se usa la palabra clima para referirse a ambos y esto añade una capa más de confusión.
Desde mediados de los años setenta, la temperatura global ha ido aumentando unos 0,2C por década. Aunque el calentamiento global causado por los humanos comenzó con la Revolución Industrial, el aumento más rápido y claramente detectable en los registros modernos empieza en los años setenta, cuando las emisiones crecieron con fuerza y la influencia de los aerosoles contaminantes -que antes ocultaban parte del calentamiento- comenzó a disminuir.
Aun así, el tiempo meteorológico tiene altibajos marcados, por lo que siguen apareciendo días muy fríos incluso en un planeta que se calienta. Es normal que la gente recuerde estos fenómenos extremos, como las olas de frío o de calor, más fácilmente que las tendencias a largo plazo. En la última década, los récords diarios de calor han ocurrido el doble de veces que los récords de frío.
Es el efecto isla de calor urbano
Falso. El calentamiento se observa por igual en las ciudades y en el campo, en la superficie y con satélites.
Este fenómeno se refiere a que las zonas más densamente construidas de una ciudad suelen registrar temperaturas ligeramente más altas, debido a la concentración de actividad humana y a infraestructuras que acumulan y liberan calor. Pero la tendencia de calentamiento es igual tanto en las zonas rurales como urbanas. Se observa por igual en termómetros en superficie, en mediciones de satélites y en los indicadores naturales del clima.
Muchos argumentos negacionistas intentan explotar este tipo de fenómenos para sembrar confusión. Un ejemplo fue un proyecto online en Estados Unidos en el que los participantes fotografiaban estaciones meteorológicas para decir que estaban mal ubicadas y, por lo tanto, desacreditar los datos de temperatura. Su lógica era que, si cuestionaban algunos registros en Estados Unidos, podrían afirmar que el calentamiento global era un engaño. Pero ignoraban todo lo demás: la pérdida de hielo marino, el aumento del nivel del mar, el desplazamiento de algunas especies o el retroceso de glaciares.
Sin embargo, los científicos ya conocen las posibles anomalías en los datos. Por ejemplo, la NASA corrige el efecto de “isla de calor urbano” comparando tendencias en ciudades con las zonas rurales cercanas para obtener registros más precisos. A veces, incluso se ha visto que hay estaciones urbanas que son más frías porque se han instalado en parques. Además, estudios independientes como Berkeley Earth (dirigido por un científico que en ese momento era escéptico) llegaron a los mismos resultados que la NASA: la tendencia global de calentamiento es real y consistente.
La agenda climática es de extrema izquierda
Falso. Combatir el cambio climático es gestión de riesgos y economía, y en su enorme mayoría se basa en mecanismos de mercado, no en planificación centralizada.
Es falso que la llamada “agenda climática” sea un tema sólo de la izquierda. En primer lugar, una enorme mayoría global, entre el 80 y el 89% de las personas en el mundo apoya que sus gobiernos impulsen medidas más ambiciosas contra el cambio climático, independientemente de ideologías políticas.
No se trata de transformar la economía en un sistema estatizado. Las políticas climáticas en todo el mundo, desde el ahorro que suponen las renovables en la Unión Europea hasta los incentivos de innovación limpia en Canadá o Corea del Sur se basan en mecanismos de mercado, competencia, emprendimiento, inversión privada y regulación, no en planificación centralizada. La transición energética global está siendo impulsada por empresas, consumidores, ciudades y gobiernos de todos los signos ideológicos, no por un modelo económico único.
Plantearla como “agenda de extrema izquierda” es una distorsión política que no refleja la realidad. Combatir el cambio climático es gestionar riesgos, proteger a las economías y modernizar sectores económicos para hacerlos más competitivos ante los cambios que ya estamos sufriendo.
El IPCC es alarmista
El IPCC sólo evalúa la ciencia publicada. Muchos científicos creen, de hecho, que es un organismo demasiado conservador.
El IPCC es un organismo de la ONU creado en 1988 para evaluar y resumir la ciencia sobre el cambio climático y orientar a los gobiernos. No hace investigación original ni modelos propios: recopila estudios ya publicados y presenta cada 6-7 años un informe de evaluación. A pesar de las críticas de que es alarmista, su función es simplemente reflejar el estado de conocimiento científico, que muestra un calentamiento cada vez más preocupante. De hecho, muchos científicos sostienen que el IPCC suele ser demasiado conservador, especialmente en asuntos como el aumento del nivel del mar o el deshielo de grandes capas de hielo.
Las acusaciones de que exagera o que oculta estudios contrarios no tienen base: cualquier lector puede consultar las fuentes científicas que cita. Los modelos climáticos provienen de centros internacionales coordinados por el proyecto CMIP, no del IPCC. El panel también debe comunicar incertidumbres científicas de forma rigurosa, y esto a veces se malinterpreta o se usa para sembrar dudas. Aun así, los datos son claros: el CO2 ha alcanzado niveles vistos por última vez hace alrededor de 3 millones de años, y la ciencia advierte de impactos cada vez más graves si no se reducen rápidamente las emisiones.
Poner límites a las emisiones de CO2 dañará la economía
¡Al contrario! Los economistas coinciden: los costos de la inacción climática son mucho más altos que los de la transición energética.
Si no reducimos las emisiones, el cambio climático traerá costos económicos graves y más inestabilidad global, como ya está ocurriendo. La solución pasa por usar menos combustibles fósiles, ya sea reemplazándolos con energías renovables o reduciendo la demanda mediante mayor eficiencia. Estas medidas a menudo implican gravar, o retirar subvenciones, a combustibles fósiles y otros productos intensivos en carbono, lo que genera preocupación sobre posibles impactos económicos.
Sin embargo, existe consenso entre los economistas climáticos: poner un precio a las emisiones es necesario y rentable a largo plazo. Los escenarios científicos muestran que los países que reducen emisiones más rápido terminan con mejores resultados económicos que aquellos que siguen con altas emisiones, porque los costos de los daños climáticos superan ampliamente cualquier ahorro inicial. Los esquemas de precio al carbono, combinados con apoyo a energías limpias, son una herramienta eficaz para lograr esa transición sin perjudicar el crecimiento económico.
El cambio climático es un engaño político
Las leyes de la física no entienden de política. La evidencia científica es abrumadora y la confirman todas las instituciones globales.
A las leyes de la física no les importa la política, pero algunas veces encontramos a personas que afirman que el cambio climático es un engaño cuando ni siquiera están preparadas para argumentarlo. No lo están porque la evidencia científica es abrumadora: prácticamente cualquier institución científica en el planeta concluye que el cambio climático provocado por los humanos es un hecho. Por desgracia, esta evidencia a menudo no sirve para cambiar la opinión de los negacionistas.
Las teorías conspirativas han amplificado este problema: abundan en internet y redes sociales, donde distorsionan lo que dicen realmente la ciencia y siembran dudas infundadas sobre el calentamiento global. Y también son extendidas, en buena medida, por grupos con motivaciones políticas, económicas o ideológicas específicas como gobiernos, empresas o industrias.
Pero el clima no es patrimonio de una ideología. Hay conservadores que apoyan la resiliencia y la protección local; progresistas que impulsan la justicia ambiental, y gobiernos pragmáticos que ven en la transición energética una oportunidad económica.
A nadie le importa el cambio climático
Falso. Entre el 80 y el 89% de las personas en el mundo quieren acción climática, pero no saben que son la mayoría.
Lejos de ser un tema marginal, la realidad es que la gran mayoría del mundo es consciente del cambio climático, apoya medidas para enfrentarlo y quiere que sus gobiernos actúen.
Entre el 80 y el 89% de las personas en el mundo apoyan la acción climática y reconocen que es una amenaza seria, pero muchos no saben que forman parte de esa mayoría: creen, erróneamente, estar en minoría. Por ejemplo, aunque el 69% de la población está dispuesta a aportar el 1% de sus ingresos mensuales para enfrentar la crisis climática, la gente piensa que sólo el 43% de los demás lo haría. Ese desfase es lo que busca corregir el Proyecto 89% de Covering Climate Now, al que puedes unirte como periodista hasta la primavera de 2026.
A la gente le importa el cambio climático porque ya se cuela en su vida cotidiana: en las primas de seguros que suben por el aumento de las inundaciones e incendios; en la canasta de la compra que se encarece por olas de calor y sequías que afectan a la producción de alimentos; y en las facturas de electricidad que se disparan cuando fenómenos meteorológicos extremos dañan la infraestructura energética. No hace falta que alguien se identifique como ambientalista para preocuparse por estos impactos: basta con abrir el recibo del seguro, del súper o de la luz.
Los humanos, las plantas y los animales pueden adaptarse
La adaptación tiene un límite, y la velocidad de calentamiento actual es 100 veces superior a la que muchas especies y ecosistemas pueden soportar.
La capacidad de adaptación ha permitido a las especies sobrevivir durante millones de años, pero hoy ese límite se está alcanzando. El rápido aumento de las temperaturas y los cambios en los patrones de precipitaciones ya superan la velocidad a la que muchas plantas, animales y personas pueden ajustarse. Un informe de 2019 advirtió que un millón de especies animales y vegetales están en riesgo de extinción, debido al cambio climático y a la destrucción de hábitats.
A este ritmo acelerado se suma otro problema: el mundo natural ya está debilitado por siglos de deforestación, pérdida de hábitats, contaminación, especies invasoras y sobreexplotación. La evidencia muestra que estamos en tasas de pérdida de especies entre 100 y 1000 veces superiores a lo normal. Además, el calentamiento futuro puede hacer inhabitables regiones enteras del planeta debido a temperaturas y humedades extremas que el cuerpo humano no puede soportar. Aunque el panorama es preocupante, aún es posible evitar los peores escenarios si reducimos rápidamente las emisiones, protegemos la biodiversidad y aceleramos la transición hacia energías limpias.
Un aumento de 1.5C no es gran cosa
Es un problema enorme. Ese aumento ya ha duplicado el clima extremo, y cada fracción de grado adicional aumentará dramáticamente el riesgo.
El hecho es que es un gran problema. Las temperaturas globales actuales están aproximadamente 1,3 grados Celsius (2 grados Fahrenheit) por encima de los niveles preindustriales, e incluso hemos vivido años recientes que han rozado temporalmente 1,5 o 1,6 grados Celsius. Ese aumento ya ha intensificado el clima extremo que se observa en todo el mundo. Los impactos se intensificarán cuanto más suba la temperatura. Además, alrededor de 2ºC podrían activarse retroalimentaciones peligrosas, como el deshielo del permafrost que libera más gases de efecto invernadero, y no sabemos con certeza cómo responderá el clima porque las temperaturas nunca fueron tan altas en cientos de miles de años.
De hecho, con el actual aumento de temperatura, ya observamos impactos de gran intensidad y gravedad, como olas de calor sin precedentes, el blanqueo de los arrecifes de coral o la desaparición de glaciares.
Aunque tenemos las herramientas, actualmente no estamos en el camino de limitar el calentamiento a 1,5ºC, pero incluso si cruzamos ese umbral, cada fracción de grado se traducirá en impactos, por lo que cruzar ese umbral no significa que podamos bajar los brazos.
Es inevitable, ¿para qué molestarse?
No es inevitable. Ya tenemos las herramientas y tecnologías para evitar los peores impactos y cada acción reduce el daño futuro.
Los científicos ya han dicho repetidamente que la Humanidad ya cuenta con las herramientas y tecnologías para detener el cambio climático y evitar sus peores impactos. El Informe de Síntesis del IPCC clasifica los cinco enfoques clave que pueden limitar el aumento de la temperatura global a 1,5 ºC.
La Humanidad tendrá que convivir con las temperaturas más altas actuales durante muchos años, pero aún podemos limitar drásticamente los daños futuros si actuamos con firmeza ahora. Las soluciones climáticas son abundantes, de sentido común y, a menudo, económicamente superiores a las prácticas actuales. Muchos gobiernos y empresas ya están desarrollando soluciones de energía verde, transporte público, resiliencia costera y agricultura climáticamente inteligente. El Proyecto Drawdown también incluye una larga lista de soluciones específicas para reducir las emisiones.
El 7 de enero de 2026 Radar Clima vuelve para hablar de las historias que marcarán el nuevo año, como siempre con nuevas ideas, contactos de expertos y recursos para ayudarte en tu reporteo.
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