{"id":4899,"date":"2025-01-31T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:48:35","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-24-31-1-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4899","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart &#8211; 24-31.1.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Subscribe to this blog and get weekly updates from us. Fill in the box on the top right side of this page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcasting: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2313632\/episodes\/16532565\">Our first podcast interview this year<\/a><\/span><\/strong> has gone live (thanks Pat!), a second one has been recorded and a third interview is scheduled for Monday. We are on course for one podcast interview every week in 2025, which will be great. This week we also fixed a bug &#8212; all the non-English LabourStart home pages were showing a wrong link for the podcasts. (Thanks Espen for pointing this out.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We have several in the pipeline, including in Turkey, Thailand, Myanmar and Liberia. More details soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong> All the translations of our fundraising message have gone out, but the total income has not increased significantly. We will do a followup mailing to the English list which should help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next generation:<\/strong> We held a meeting with former interns and have begun work on a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/yw\/\">Young Workers<\/a><\/strong><\/span> news page. One of our interns, Isabel, is back with us for three months, starting this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> With well over 3,000 news stories posted this month, we&#8217;re averaging over 104 per day &#8212; a very big increase compared to the first nine days of January when the average was just 78 per day. The number of active correspondents is growing, up 15% compared to last month. Our goal is to increase the number of active correspondents three-fold this year, so we are on course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to this blog and get weekly updates from us. Fill in the box on the top right side of this page. Podcasting: Our first podcast interview this year has gone live (thanks Pat!), a second one has been recorded and a third interview is scheduled for Monday. We are on course for one podcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,38,68,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}