15 Aug 2023 Protected: On the Screen (MD 2023/3)
07 Aug 2023 Derailing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
To mark the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit held in London 25-28 July 2023, Article 19 issued a briefing assessing the progress made towards meeting one of the SDGs’ weaker targets on freedom of expression and access to information. As WACC and other civil society organizations...
24 Jul 2023 Independent investigative journalism in times of crisis
The importance of quality, independent, investigative journalism for bringing clarity to issues cannot be overstated. During times of political crisis, the perceptions of ordinary audiences may be muddied by partisanship, and by hardship when the crisis is economic. When politics and the economy intertwine, the content...
10 Jul 2023 Media viability vs. platforms for those without a public voice to be seen and heard
Commercial media outlets around the world are struggling to stay afloat financially. This is related in part to the shift of advertising revenue away from commercial media organizations and towards social media companies like Facebook and Google. This shift is undermining the financial viability of these...
26 Jun 2023 Gender equality “moving backwards”
The headline in the Statista information bulletin leapt out at me. Highlighting a recent report from the World Economic Forum, it stated that based on current trends, it will take another 131 years to close the global gender gap, 30% higher than its 2020 prediction The...
12 Jun 2023 Migrants and refugees in the media
According to a recent report (The Guardian, 19 May 2023), the BBC has commissioned a study on whether a broad range of viewpoints on migration are being reflected in all aspects of its immigration coverage. Samir Shah, who contributed to the UK government’s controversial Sewell report...
10 May 2023 Media Development 2023-2 online magazine and PDF
[caption id="attachment_52894" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2023/2[/caption] Media Development 2023-2 Archival Justice: Unfinished Business This issue of Media Development argues for “archival justice”, since what is archived or retained in political, economic, and social structures – including the media – embodies inclusions and exclusions, discriminatory attitudes and behaviours, one...
10 May 2023 MD 2023/2 Editorial
A pebble on a beach is an archive of geological stories that “are gigantic, and reach realms well beyond human experience, even beyond human imagination. They extend back to the Earth’s formation – and then yet farther back, to the births and deaths of ancient...