Blog Posts By

Don Podesta

15 Apr

GCCS 2015: A Journalist’s Perspective

Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they e...

08 Apr

The Hard Truth About Cyber Security

Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they e...

01 Apr

All Cybersecurity, All the Time, Part III

Washington continues to be engrossed in the subject of cyber everything, and today’s news developments and events in that...

26 Mar

Independent Media in Zimbabwe: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Just when a glimmer of hope for some space for independent journalism in at least one authoritarian country had appeared ...

12 Mar

All Cybersecurity All the Time, Part II

As noted in an earlier blog post, cyber surveillance, cyber security, cyber threats, cyber everything has become the flavor...

10 Feb

All Cybersecurity, All the Time

Suddenly cyber everything is all the rage in Washington. This month there have been several panel discussions and book laun...

06 Jan

A New World Order: Journalists versus ‘Democratators’

Journalists are no longer special. That is Joel Simon’s sad but all-too-true assessment of why journalists are becoming a...

31 Oct

Information becoming toughest commodity to get in Venezuela

With their country’s economy in crisis, Venezuelans are facing shortages of just about everything – milk, flour, toilet...

05 Sep

The Attraction of Plan “B”

As a close follower of international media issues and of Latin America, I expected to hear a good deal about the problems m...