Newsrooms without women: The future of journalism in Afghanistan
Imagine a newsroom without women, where all staff, without exception, are men. Now imagine all newsrooms in an entire nation with men only,...
06 September, 2021
Afghanistan: Is digital communication a blessing or curse?
The swift takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban following the withdrawal of foreign forces has shocked and appalled human rights defenders. It has led...
23 August, 2021
Restoring a sense of justice to history
By targeting monuments that celebrate historic figures who actively contributed to institutional racism and the oppression of marginalised peoples, Black Lives Matter and...
09 August, 2021
Call for a public service Internet
“The dominant forms and uses of digital technologies and the Internet endanger democracy. They undermine the indispensable resources of trusted information, in-depth analysis,...
26 July, 2021
The state of digital news and the world we want to see
The 2021 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute points to some promising findings for those who value independent and reliable news. The...
28 June, 2021
Colombia: Journalists need to be protected when covering protests
Since April 28, Colombia has seen an unprecedented wave of demonstrations against various government policies. What started as a national strike against a...
15 June, 2021
Public service journalism at its very best
Reporters Without Borders has underlined growing concerns about a steady decline of press freedom in several European Union member states, including Greece, Malta,...
17 May, 2021
In the battle of giants, who to root for?
The tech headlines in the past week have marked the growing data privacy battle between Apple and Facebook. The latest update to iPads...
03 May, 2021
Global tax reforms and communication rights
Do current shifts in economic thinking represent an opportunity for communication rights? On April 5th, United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen issued...
19 April, 2021
Trust is a two-way street
The theme of WACC’s annual report for 2020 is “Truthful Voices Matter”. What appears to be self-evident reflects a growing perception that public...
05 April, 2021
Digital justice, still waiting in the wings
Everyone agrees that social media are failing to distinguish between truth and lies. That’s partly because the line is easily blurred, but also because social media are corporate entities running on profit. Few people agree on how to tackle the problem of fake news or misinformation fairly and effectively, although many have come to realise that civil society must play a role.
22 March, 2021
#IWD 2021: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world
March, the month set aside to honour women's contributions to American history is today commemorated worldwide as "Women's history month". Achieving an equal future...
08 March, 2021