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Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• The 100 most influential people of 2025, according to TIME Magazine

• Complete Guide to Google News Initiative for Journalism Startups

• Visible Earth: A Great Catalog of Satellite Images of Earth Offered by NASA

The 100 most influential people of 2025, according to TIME Magazine

For more than two decades, TIME magazine has published an annual list of the 100 people it considers the most influential in the world.

The 2025 list categorizes the hundred selected individuals into six categories: artists, icons, leaders, titans, pioneers, and innovators.

TIME's journalists and editors spend months selecting, speaking with sources, and debating to narrow down to 100 the list of people who deserve to be included. "The only constant we see each year is that the hard work, idea, or decision of a single person can change the world," state those responsible for the list.

The magazine has prepared five different covers featuring five of the people who stand out, for one reason or another, in this year's list, whom they have interviewed in depth. These are rapper Snoop Dogg; Google DeepMind CEO and 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Demis Hassabis; tennis player Serena Williams; singer Ed Sheeran; and actress Demi Moore.

This year's 2025 list includes six members of the Trump Administration, 16 corporate CEOs, and nine leaders fighting for justice, equality, and democracy. The members of the TIME100 list this year come from 32 countries. The youngest is French swimmer Léon Marchand, age 22, star of the Paris Olympic Games, and the oldest is Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner who, at 84, was sworn in last summer to lead Bangladesh's interim government.

TIME100 will feature two new franchises throughout this year: one focused on philanthropy and the other on digital creators.

Links:

• TIME100: Most Influential People 2025

• How We Chose the 2025 TIME100 

Complete Guide to Google News Initiative for Journalism Startups

Are you thinking about launching a digital media outlet? Do you want to know what to consider to do it successfully? The resource we're telling you about below will be very useful to you.

Google News Initiative (GNI) is a project launched by Google in 2018 to help journalists and media outlets of all sizes around the world create a prosperous future for the news sector.

One of its initiatives has been the publication of a comprehensive guide for startups, dedicated to "demystifying the process of launching a digital news startup" and helping its promoters "create a business that is economically viable and impactful from a journalistic standpoint."

The guide and accompanying resources are based on information provided by many entrepreneurs from the news world and the collective experience of trusted partners such as Lion Publishers, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and SembraMedia, among other organizations.

The different chapters of the guide address essential topics such as product definition, identifying the target audience and expanding readership, identifying funding and revenue sources, developing a minimum viable product to test the product idea, and creating a budget, among other topics. It includes practical advice, templates, and other useful resources.

Table of Contents

1. An introduction to journalism startups

2. Define the problem you are trying to solve

3. Build and measure your minimum viable product (MVP)

4. Identify the mission and values that will guide you

5. Make a business plan for your idea

6. Define success for your business

Starter Guides

1. Dig deeper into your product

2. Grow and engage your audience

3. Find the money you need to launch and sustain your business

4. Get your operations set up

The guide is complemented by case studies, useful resources, and a glossary.

Link:

• GNI Startup Guide

Visible Earth: a great catalog of satellite images of Earth offered by NASA

Visible Earth is a NASA service that offers an extensive online catalog of thousands of high-quality images of Earth obtained through satellites and other scientific sources.

On Visible Earth, we can find images of different points on the planet, including natural events such as hurricanes, forest fires, or volcanic eruptions. The images can be viewed chronologically, by topic, or through specific searches.

This NASA service has educational, scientific, and informational purposes. Many of the images can be used freely with proper attribution of the source (except in cases where otherwise indicated). 

Each image, which can be downloaded in different sizes and resolutions, comes with a detailed explanation.

Scientists and researchers, educators and students, journalists and science communicators, or the general public can benefit from this great collection of images.

Link:

• Visible Earth 

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