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Toward an inclusive approach to supporting media...
By Martin Scott, Mel Bunce, and Mary Myers In the past five years, the number of intergovernmental initiatives supporting media freedom has increased significantly. Major examples include the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC), the International Partnership for Information and Democracy and most recently... |
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Rebalancing the Relationship Between Big Tech an...
As the global journalism industry struggles to adapt to shrinking revenue brought on by the failure of traditional business models, Big Tech companies continue to dominate the digital advertising market. This uneven playing field has led policymakers in the US, EU, and Australia to attempt to rebala... |
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World Press Freedom Day 2022: Top Digital Repres...
In honor of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, journalists, activists, and media experts are gathering in Uruguay for UNESCO’s annual conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Digital Journalism Under Siege,” with discussions centered on freedom of expression, journalist safety, and... |
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The Facebook Papers: How Authoritarian Governmen...
By Gideon Sarpong Last year’s avalanche of media stories about Meta (formerly Facebook), capped by revelations from the whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former product manager for the company, has put a spotlight on Facebook and how the platform could exercise greater transparency to allow citizens... |
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Survival Strategies: Global Initiatives to Safeg...
By Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey You can’t have democracy without accountability, and you can’t have accountability without a free and fearless media. For a billion (dollars) a year you can solve the entire problem. Branko Brkic, in Saving Journalism 2: Global Strategies and a Look at Investigative... |
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Disinformation-for-hire: The Pollution of News E...
Disinformation-for-hire is a booming industry in which private marketing, communications, and public relations firms are paid to sow discord by spreading false information and manipulating content online. Since 2018, more than 65 private companies in 48 different countries have emerged offering t... |
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Turning the Tide on Autocrats Starts with Suppor...
By Damon Wilson and Nicholas Benequista At a moment of existential threat to independent media in many countries, the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to two of the world’s bravest and most committed journalists—Maria Ressa of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta—sends an important messa... |
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‘No Safe Haven’: Commercial Spyware...
By Samuel Woodhams New revelations about the global proliferation of commercial spyware and how it has been used to target journalists have recently emerged. In September, 2021 several news outlets reported that intelligence officials in Hungary and Rwanda successfully infected journalists’ phones... |
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Balancing Act: Newsworthiness, Privacy, and the ...
Among the many controversies roiling our digital information spaces these days, content restrictions are undoubtedly the most hotly debated. Equally important, however, are decisions about the extent to which content is searchable once it is there. After all, in our digital age, if you can’t find ... |
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The Gatekeeper to End All Gatekeepers? Social Me...
By Noah Arjomand Journalists are some of the world’s most prolific social media users. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WhatsApp have become essential tools for independent journalists both to collect information for their reporting as well as important channels for news dissemination. Yet truth-se... |