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Important Items

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion means innocent people must remain in prison

The Supreme Court just ruled that at least some federal prisoners who are completely innocent must serve out their entire sentence, with no meaningful way to challenge their unlawful conviction.

https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/6/22/23769886/supreme-court-innocent-jones-hendrix-clarence-thomas-habeas

One Year after Dobbs, Abortion Bans Are Harming Reproductive Care, Ob-Gyns Say

The Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade is impacting health care well beyond abortion in states that have banned the practice.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-year-after-dobbs-abortion-bans-are-harming-reproductive-care-ob-gyns-say1/

Effects Of Dobbs On Maternal Health Care Overwhelmingly Negative

Nearly 7 in 10, or 68 percent of OBGYNs, said the effects of Dobbs have made the management of pregnancy-related medical emergencies worse, while 64 percent said the ruling has worsened pregnancy-related mortality.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/21/obgyn-abortion-poll/

New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills Into States With Bans

Under new legislation, New York’s courts and officials would not cooperate if another state with an abortion ban tries to prosecute or sue a New York health care provider who offers telemedicine abortion to a patient in the state with the ban.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/health/abortion-shield-law-new-york.html

Fox News is altering language in AP and Reuters articles on anti-trans legislation — including a quote from an elected official

“Gender affirming care” was replaced with “sex change” or “sex reassignment” in at least 19 articles

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-altering-language-ap-and-reuters-articles-anti-trans-legislation-including-quote

June Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map

RT @ErinInTheMorn The most recent update of the anti-trans legislation risk assessment map is here for Pride month. America has cleaved into two countries for trans people… one of which they are fleeing and suffering harsh laws, and one where they are protected.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/june-anti-trans-legislative-risk

COVID isn’t just infecting you—it could be reactivating viruses that have been dormant in your body for years

A mild or even an asymptomatic case of COVID can cause reservoirs of some viruses you’ve previously battled to reactivate, potentially leading to symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome—a condition that resembles long COVID, according to a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. Such non-COVID pathogens have been named as likely culprits behind chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis. The nebulous condition with no definitive cause leads to symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, dizziness when moving, and unrefreshing sleep.

https://fortune.com/well/2022/12/26/is-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis/

Long COVID: The impact on language and cognition

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949903823000015

People hospitalized with COVID-19 face higher risk of serious health conditions: study

RT @MeetJess People have heightened risks of developing serious conditions, such as heart failure, dementia and depression, within a year of being hospitalized for COVID-19

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-people-hospitalized-with-covid-19-face-higher-risk-of-serious-health/

The Case for Keeping Masks Mandatory in Health Care

RT @MeetJess “The removal of mask requirements in many healthcare institutions is causing infections with immediate and long term consequences due to the continued presence of the virus”

https://whn.global/scientific/the-case-for-keeping-masks-mandatory-in-health-care/

Innovation

Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine

Some good news! Beyond Crispr and Covid vaccines, there are countless potential applications of mRNA tools for other diseases; a new frontier for immunotherapy and next-generation cancer treatment; a whole new world of weight-loss drugs; new insights and drug-development pathways to chase with the help of machine learning; and vaccines heralded as game-changing for some of the world’s most intractable infectious diseases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/magazine/golden-age-medicine-biomedical-innovation.html

Robots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube

Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. Video is an intriguing solution that’s been the centerpiece of a lot of recent work in the space. This system uses video of a human to demonstrate the task, but the update no longer requires them to execute in a setting identical to the one in which the robot will operate.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/robots-learn-to-perform-chores-by-watching-youtube/

Microsoft expects to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/21/microsoft-expects-to-build-a-quantum-supercomputer-within-10-years/

How to Think Better.

Innovative thinking – think like a photographer by @rishad.

https://rishad.substack.com/p/how-to-think-better

Technology

AI is a lot of work

How many humans does it take to make AI seem human? There are countless people around the world telling an algorithm what reality looks like.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-humans-technology-business-factory.html

We are all AI’s free data workers

We are all data laborers for big technology companies, whether we are aware of it or not, argue researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis, the University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University in a new paper presented at FAccT. Text and image AI models are trained using huge data sets that have been scraped from the internet. This includes our personal data and copyrighted works by artists, and that data we have created is now forever part of an AI model that is built to make a company money. We unwittingly contribute our labor for free by uploading our photos on public sites, upvoting comments on Reddit, labeling images on reCAPTCHA, or performing online searches.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/13/1074560/we-are-all-ais-free-data-workers/

The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI

It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1075405/the-people-paid-to-train-ai-are-outsourcing-their-work-to-ai/

In tech, everything is labeled “AI” now

Why it matters: The more our understanding of a new technology is distorted by hype, the less thoughtfully we can apply it — and the more likely it is we will cause harm with it. The big picture: Real advances in machine-learning based pattern- recognition and -completion have sparked a new bubble in tech-industry investment, encouraging companies to apply the “AI” label to anything that moves.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/ai-everything-definition-label-hype

Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images

Using AI-generated duplicates, brands also benefit, using stars in ways they never could before

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-deepfakes-celebrity-marketing-brands-81381aa6

A leaked document of Amazon’s ideas for using ChatGPT and AI at work lists 67 ways to take advantage of the ChatGPT boom

https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-amazon-document-employees-ideas-to-use-ai-chatbot-2023-6

OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports

OpenAI, creator of the widely popular chatbot ChatGPT, plans to launch a marketplace that will allow developers to sell their AI models built on top of its own AI technology

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-plans-app-store-ai-software-information-2023-06-20/

Meet Pause AI, the Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction

Fears that artificial intelligence might wipe us out have fueled the rise of groups like Pause AI. Their warnings aren’t that far-fetched, experts say.

https://www.wired.com/story/pause-ai-existential-risk/

The Last AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs. Feel Better?

ChatGPT is stoking fears of mass layoffs, but a study of several EU countries found the deep-learning boom of the 2010s actually created job opportunities.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-the-last-ai-boom-didnt-kill-jobs/

“Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/stunning-midjourney-update-wows-ai-artists-with-camera-like-feature/

Epic’s latest tool can animate hyperrealistic MetaHumans with an iPhone

MetaHuman Animator lets Unreal Engine users quickly capture a performance and apply the resulting animation to a MetaHuman character. Epic claims the process can be completed in ‘minutes.’

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23761852/epic-games-metahuman-animator-performance-capture-iphone

Meta is wooing celebrities and influencers to test a new app — expected to be called Threads — that it hopes will rival Twitter.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/19/meta-response-twitter-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg/

Instagram Broadcast Channels Roll Out Globally: What You Need To Know

Instagram Broadcast Channels allow creators to send one-way messages to channel members (your Instagram followers or paid subscribers) with text, photos, video, polls, and voice messages.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/instagram-broadcast-channels/489474/

Instagram’s status update now includes what song you’re listening to

Teens apparently like Notes, Instagram’s text status feature. Now, they have their own version of AIM music away messages.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23758178/instagram-notes-music-translation-text-status-twitter

Gannett CEO: Here’s why we are suing Google for deceptive business practices

RT @matthewstoller “In 2022, Google made $30b+ from the sale of ad space on publishers’ websites, six times the digital ad revenue of all U.S. news publications, combined. In a functioning market, no one would expect the middleman to make more than the content creator.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/06/21/gannett-ceo-why-we-are-suing-google-for-its-business-practices/70336910007/

Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected to Include HiFi Audio

HT @ashleyrcarman The “Supremium” plan will be introduced later this year Existing users will receive expanded audiobook access

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/spotify-plans-new-premium-tier-expected-to-include-hifi-audio#xj4y7vzkg

Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails

RT @michellemanafy Franchises, IP, and name recognition can be enough to deliver a hit across many different mediums. But in the world of podcasts, not so much @askhalid @verge

https://www.theverge.com/23768886/spotify-podcast-strategy-mistakes-joe-rogan-exclusives-trevor-noah

YouTube’s Culture & Trends Report: Moving at the speed of culture

Rapid technological change in video creation and consumption is changing the way consumers, creators, and brands shape and interact with popular culture. Learn how fans, formats, and AI are shaping the future in the Culture & Trends Report 2023

https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/youtube-culture-trends-report-2023/

YouTube is lowering the eligibility requirements for creators to make money

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23758311/youtube-partner-program-monetization-lower-eligibility-requirements

Discord plans to let creators sell downloadable products

Discord plans to give creators a new way to make money from their communities by selling digital products via one-time purchases. These new “Downloadables” can be things like a recipe ebook, a gaming guide, or a digital wallpaper, and the company plans to begin experimenting with them “over the coming months.” Downloadables will be available to purchase from a Server Shop, which is also in testing. The new Downloadables and Server Shop add to Discord’s server subscriptions as ways for creators to monetize their servers.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767809/discord-downloadable-digital-products-sever-shop

Livestream shopping booms as small businesses strike gold on social media

HT @liahaberman Inside the $50 billion shopping spree happening on livestreams: TikTok, Poshmark and eBay all currently testing livestream shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/livestream-shopping-booms-as-small-businesses-hit-social-media-.html

TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative

TikTok has confirmed that it’s testing a new in-app “Trendy Beat” shopping section where it is offering products for sale that are shipped and sold by a subsidiary of its parent company, ByteDance. The feature is currently being tested in the U.K. The shopping section offers popular items that have appeared in trending videos,

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/tiktok-challenge-amazon-shein-with-new-e-commerce-initiative/

TikTok Shop Is Testing Visual Search

As AI continues to shock the traditional search world, TikTok is going the visual route, testing a new tool in its Shop tab. The feature, which will allow users to take a photo and search visual inventory based on the image, is currently being tested in select markets outside the U.S. Pinterest, Google and Bing all have visual search tools, and Meta began testing visual search on Instagram Shop in June 2021.

https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/tiktok-shop-is-testing-visual-search/

Publishing & Media

AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content

AI companies are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Adobe have met news executives in recent months to discuss copyright issues around their AI products such as text chatbots and image generators, according to several people familiar with the talks. These people said that publishers including News Corp, Axel Springer, The New York Times and The Guardian have each been in discussions with at least one of the tech companies.

https://www.ft.com/content/79eb89ce-cea2-4f27-9d87-e8e312c8601d

Meta will remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the country’s Senate passed the Online News Act

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/showdown-looming-as-online-news-bill-is-about-to-become-law

Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media?

For publishers — of news, how-to content, reviews, recommendations, reference material, and a range of other content one might describe as existing to “distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats” — Google’s use of AI looks like nothing less than an existential crisis. Google is getting into content, automating the work of its partners, and dramatically altering the terms of its informal deal with publishers that has sustained digital media for years: You make content; we send traffic; everyone sells ads. If this isn’t a threat to journalism directly, it is certainly a threat to the journalism business. Google, it seems, is eager to cut the publishers out.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/will-ai-powered-google-eat-the-publishing-industry.html

Best-selling newspaper in Germany to replace editors with AI

Bild, Germany’s leading newspaper, is cutting hundreds of jobs and replacing editors with AI in a radical overhaul of its business model.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/19/germany-bild-cuts-jobs-replaces-editors-ai-sex-scandal/

10 Audiobook Stats You Should Know in 2023

Via @Goodereader: In 2022, audiobook usage increased by 70% in the USA alone. Audiobook publishers made a total sales volume of $1.8 Billion in 2022. The global audiobook industry size is expected to reach $39.1 billion by 2032. The non-fiction genre won 65% of the total audiobook revenue share in 2022.

https://goodereader.com/blog/audiobooks/10-audiobook-stats-you-should-know-in-2023

Black Women Are Being Erased in Book Publishing

“The Other Black Girl” tells a tried and true story of the challenges faced by Black publishing professionals. By @jbakernyc

https://electricliterature.com/black-women-are-being-erased-in-book-publishing/

Disability in Publishing Return to Office Survey

RT @esc_key Publishing Employees! Share your experience heading back to the office for @DisabilityinPub‘s survey.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-9MC1N-YQde30lXgp55dZcr56VaRT40wMNv_0PRccJGY79Q/viewform

PublisHer Opens a Korean Chapter at Seoul’s Book Fair

HT @JulieBlattberg “Female publishers are far too often kept out of senior management and leadership positions in a sector that typically employs more women than men.”

https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/06/publisher-opens-a-korean-chapter-at-seouls-book-fair/

Dolly Parton Accepts ALA Honorary Membership

MT @ALALibrary At the Opening General Session at #ALAAC23, @DollyParton thanks ALA and librarians for honorary membership in the association. ❤️ @dollyslibrary has gifted more than 200 million books to children and families!

https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1672605176681873408

Bookforum Is Returning, Months After Its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World

Bookforum, a lliterary magazine whose closure was mourned in the literary world, will be back in print in August with a new publishing partner: The Nation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/books/booksupdate/bookforum-the-nation.html

One in three say books offer best form of escapism when having a bad day

HT @BISG A survey by the Publishers Association found reading to be more popular than going to the movies or browsing social media, coming second only to watching TV

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/08/one-in-three-say-books-offer-best-form-of-escapism-when-having-a-bad-day

Why rare books are having a moment

HT @LWShanley

https://nypost.com/2023/06/24/why-rare-books-are-having-a-moment/

How long it takes influencers to build a successful business, from earning their first dollar to hiring help, according to a new survey of 1,440 creators

Creators say it takes 5 months on average to earn their first dollar and 18 months to fully support themselves, according to a new survey.

https://www.businessinsider.com/influencers-say-how-long-build-creator-business-profit-survey-2023-6

2023 Creator Economy Benchmark Research

Content Creation takes up less than half of a content entreprenuer’s time.

https://www.thetilt.com/research

How ELLE is using a dynamic paywall and continuous optimization to increase subscriber conversion rates

In 2019 fashion bible ELLE set about establishing a recurring, predictable revenue stream through digital subscriptions without impacting SEO, traffic or their existing ad-based revenues. Four years later and ELLE’s freemium paywall has been a huge success, with ad revenue actually increasing thanks to the publisher’s ability to collect valuable first-party data through subscriptions.

https://www.fipp.com/news/how-elle-is-using-a-dynamic-paywall-and-continuous-optimisation-to-increase-subscriber-conversion-rates/

Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?

RT @draccah “Efforts to protect children…from the terror of freedom, to cocoon their reading within safe boundaries…will always fail. Reading, like democracy or sexual desire, is an unmanageable, inherently destabilizing force in human life” ⁩@aoscott⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/books/review/book-bans-humanities-ai.html

70 Years of the Library Bill of Rights

Via @veronikellymars The Library Bill of Rights turned 70 this week. Here’s what the document is and why we need to revisit it in the wake of ongoing book bans

https://bookriot.com/the-library-bill-of-rights-at-70/

Sign the The Freedom to Read Statement

RT @UABookBans 70 years ago today, libraries & library workers, publishers & authors, all joined together to affirm Americans’ #FreedomToRead. Decades later, we still trust them to make their own decisions. Join us & sign this historic statement. #UniteAgainstBookBans

https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/FreedomToRead/

Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, But Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Incarcerated people in Ohio have been denied access to books like a U.S. Army survival manual, “The Witches’ Bible,” several computer programming guides, prison abolition literature, and a book about imprisoned drug lord El Chapo. Among the books ultimately allowed through in recent years are “The Art of Seduction,” a compilation of letters to “Penthouse,” “Mein Kampf,” a coloring book featuring designs with profane language, and a different book about El Chapo.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/20/ohio-odrc-prison-book-ban-java-hitler

Authors and Students Sue Over Florida Law Driving Book Bans

The authors of a children’s book about a penguin family with two fathers filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida and a school district that removed the book from libraries, saying that restricting access to the book was unconstitutional.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/books/book-bans-florida-tango-makes-three.html

States fight to save books from growing number of bans across U.S.

RT @OIF “What we’re seeing now is less of an individual parent expressing a concern about a book their child is reading, but an organized political campaign to try to suppress a wide range of ideas…” @OIF’s Deborah Caldwell-Stone

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/21/book-bans-states-push-back

Book bans: Local library takes steps to protect controversial books

RT @veronikellymars Is anyone keeping a list or creating a map of every officially designated sanctuary library in the US? I’d like to know if so and if not, I’d love if someone would. Happy to pass along links. Ex:

https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/book-bans-local-library-takes-steps-to-protect-controversial-books/

Central York adopts new book policy and returns banned books to the library

The Central York book saga appears to be over after a vote by the school board returns two previously banned books back to library shelves. The books, “Push” and “A Court of Mist and Fury” were removed from the Central York school library back in January, after some raised concerns about graphic sexual content. Policy 109.1 will create a book rating system, which will allow parents to keep their children from reading certain books without banning those books for all students. https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/central-york-adopts-new-book-policy-and-returns-banned-books-to-the-library-fox43/521-af604dd0-2dff-4f1f-855e-4a261e23bba0

Banned Books Kit

RT @PenguinClass #ALAAC23! Request a FREE Banned Books kit for your library, school, or community! kit includes customizable signage, resources, & postcards for your community to write your representatives and make your voices heard. #teamPRH

https://x5h4gde8rss.typeform.com/right-to-read?typeform-source=t.co

Resources & Opportunities

The Battle for the Bookshelf: How to Fight Back Against Book Bans

Do you care about book bans? I am so proud of this panel I helped put together with Kelly Jensen, Dominique Cimina, Stephana Ferrell, Nina Lorez Collins, and Caroline Richmond on Mon. 7/17 from 12-1pm ET. FREE for Women’s Media Group members, $15 for non-members. Hear effective strategies that libraries, publishers, media, and others can use to push back against these alarming well-organized challenges, defend intellectual freedom, and safeguard access to diverse and challenging literary works.

https://www.womensmediagroup.org/event-5325775

Nominate an up-and-coming book publishing professional for PW Star Watch

PW Star Watch, now in its ninth year, is dedicated to honoring and promoting up-and-coming publishing professionals. Individuals working within the U.S. or Canadian book publishing and bookselling industries who will be younger than 40 years of age as of Sept. 1, 2023, are eligible for nomination. Honorees will be featured in the Oct. 9, 2023, issue of PW. Four finalists will each receive a $500 cash prize, and one Superstar will be awarded $2,500. The deadline for nominations is July 14.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/bcpp/index.html

“97” – The Fight for The Freedom to Read – Facebook Live Event

RT @EveryLibrary Join us on June 29 at 7 PM EDT for a Facebook Live event about the new documentary “97 – The Fight for the Freedom to Read.” Featuring @jodipicoult, students from the film, Jennifer and Tom Wiggin (the film’s producers), and John Chrastka.

https://www.everylibrary.org/the_97_fblive_rsvp_jodi_picoult

The Penguin Art Show

MT @PenguinClass 🎨Discover (or re-discover) 4 Black Artists, their creative process, & latest books through the Penguin Art Show!🎨 Watch studio spotlight videos, learn more about the artists, & more through our website! #teamPRH

https://sites.prh.com/artist-showcase

PEN Presents: K-Lit – A Conversation with Korean-American Authors on the K-Zeitgeist

7/21 6-7:15pm ET, FREE at Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza. Speakers are New York Times bestselling authors Min Jin Lee (Pachinko, Free Food for Millionaires), Eric Kim (Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home), Nicole Chung (A Living Remedy, All You Can Ever Know), Mary H.K. Choi (Yolk, Permanent Record) and journalist and event moderator is Hannah Bae.

https://pen.org/event/pen-presents-k-lit-a-conversation-with-korean-american-authors-on-the-k-zeitgeist/

Pre-Order What You Need To Be Warm by Neil Gaiman to support UNHCR

MT @neilhimself It all started with a tweet. The words from my poem #WhatYouNeedToBeWarm began on Twitter. And now (with 13 amazing artists) it will become a book in support of @Refugees!

https://linktr.ee/whatyouneedtobewarm

To help celebrate our 25th Anniversary, McSweeney’s will be publishing a special issue dedicated to ten previously unpublished authors

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidelines-for-quarterly-submissions

Los Angeles Review Literary Awards

RT @RedHenPress Don’t forget, the Los Angeles Review is hosting our 2023 Literary Awards! Make sure to submit your work before June 30th for your chance to win $1000 AND be published both online and in our annual print edition of the Los Angeles Review!

https://losangelesreview.submittable.com/submit

Walter Grant

RT @diversebooks Disabled writers: now’s the time to apply for a Walter Grant! This year we have one $2000 grant for an unpublished, unrepped disabled writer, along with 5 general grants, 2 trans creator grants, & 3 Native creator grants. Info + application here:

https://diversebooks.org/programs/walter-grant/

£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

Footnote Press and the charity Counterpoints Arts started the prize to seek new work focused on topics of displacement, identity and resistance. The award especially welcomes writing that is intersectional, crossing cultures and borders, and that explores key political and social themes. The winner of the Footnote x Counterpoints writing prize will receive a £10,000 cash award, a publication agreement with Footnote Press and a £5,000 advance. Anyone from a migrant or refugee background who is resident in the UK or ROI is eligible to enter.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/21/15000-prize-writers-from-refugee-migrant-backgrounds-footnotes-counterpoint

Black TikTok Creators Program

RT @tiktokcreators The application for the #BlackTikTok creator program is live! This is your opportunity to meet other Black creators and gain access to webinars, exclusive events, and other perks to elevate your craft. Visit the link in the BlackTikTok bio on TikTok to apply.

https://twitter.com/tiktokcreators/status/1669823544908234755

Apply to be a Center for Communication Fellow

Fellowships to New York-area female college juniors, seniors, graduate students, or recent grads. Fellows will receive a generous stipend while interning at the Center for Communication during the fellowship period. Students help plan and participate in online career education forums featuring leading media creators and professionals.