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Oct 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Rob Macredie |Chris Browne |Simon Vannini |Michaël Sage |Nina Blomfield |Sally Mckechnie
On 11 October 2024, the Government released a new Policy Statement (GPS) for the electricity industry, outlining priorities and providing clear signals to the Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko (EA) and wider sector about the expected regulatory settings during the Government’s term in office. The EA must have regard to the GPS when carrying out its role as the energy sector regulator.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
What happens when the police become an army? Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. This militarization has, unsurprisingly, been shown to unjustly impact on Black communities and is associated with increased killings by police. The Police Public Safety Training Center in Atlanta – more commonly known as ‘Cop City’ – is just the latest manifestation of the militarization of policing.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Chris Browne
Latest E&P Exclusive Reporting In the good old days, news products were bundled. Bundled products were how distributors could deliver most things to most people. If there’s one thing digital technology is good at, though, it’s destroying distribution monopolies ...
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Chris Browne
Latest E&P Exclusive Reporting Disinformation has replaced disintermediation as the word of the day, and many consumers aren’t happy. People are starting to miss being able to reliably get products and information that have been vetted and provided by an intermediary.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
Chris Browne:Hello and welcome to episode 74 of Radicals in Conversation, the monthly podcast from Pluto Press, one of the world’s leading independent radical publishers. I’m your host, Chris Browne. It’s great to be back in the studio after a couple of months away. We should, with luck, be back to our usual output of episodes for the rest of the year.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
Content warning: Suicide, traumatic death and severe mental distressIn the early 2010s, reports began to emerge of deaths linked to a government department. Suicide notes, coroners’ reports, and research by disabled activists pointed to failings within the Department for Work and Pensions – the DWP – the government body responsible for the disability benefits system.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Chris Browne
Latest E&P Exclusive Reporting When Alden Global Capital sold The Baltimore Sun to Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s David D. Smith and conservative radio host Armstrong Williams, concerns about the newspaper’s editorial independence quickly emerged.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Chris Browne
Latest E&P Exclusive Reporting With local news publications vanishing and cities becoming news deserts, changes may need to be made to avoid extinction. In some cases, collaboration with outside non-media entities could be a new lifeline. A project between Deloitte and nine Black-owned local publishers could start a new trend.
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May 14, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
‘Whether one is an anarchist or not, the contemporary turn of geopolitical events—from the global phenomena of pandemics, fascistic regimes, and collapsing infrastructure for any sort of social well-being, to capitalist-fueled climate catastrophes and displacement, to occupations spiraling into genocides—has compelled a shift toward prioritizing do-it-ourselves forms of taking good care of each other.
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May 9, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Chris Browne
Latest E&P Exclusive Reporting According to a research report co-produced by FT Strategies and Knight Lab at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, the disconnect in news consumption is growing as some publications focus on consumers they can monetize instead of building relationships with younger readers. Jeremy Gilbert, a Medill professor and Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, told E&P that the gap between what people want from news and...
