Interesting to see the media's largely positive role in helping to combat the coronavirus crisis.
According to Forbes Magazine (March 16), the World Health Organization (WHO) is becoming the planet’s most important social media influencer.
23 March, 2020
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Attacks on the independence of the BBC are multiplying.
The principle of public service broadcasting – or, in these days of digital convergence, public service media – ought to be sacrosanct. The question then becomes one of the need for unbiased oversight and financial autonomy.
16 March, 2020
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A report from Lebanon’s Maharat Foundation examines the role of freedom of expression and media during the 2019 uprising.
Maharat’s aim is to create societal and political conditions that enhance freedom of expression and access to information both online and offline. It equips a progressive community in Lebanon and the region with the skills and knowledge necessary to bring about change.
09 March, 2020
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“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
Pulitzer Prize winning American author Herman Wouk may have written that, but it certainly seems to be true of some of the major tech companies whose profits include those from dubious digital surveillance techniques.
02 March, 2020
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Surveillance and loss of privacy are watchwords in the digital transformation of societies worldwide.
Who is watching us and for what purposes? Who is infringing private spaces and closing down public spaces? When it comes to communication infrastructures and technologies, accessibility and affordability are no longer enough, simply because neither governments nor corporate entities can be trusted to play fair.
24 February, 2020
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National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States is demonstrating the importance both of giving a voice to migrants in media, and of ensuring the independence of the public broadcasting platform.
As reported by another public broadcaster, BBC (
“The immigrants telling stories history missed” 10 February 2020, two young radio producers, one with Iranian and the other with Palestinian backgrounds, are leading a new podcast series that highlight stories that most people have missed in their history lessons.
17 February, 2020
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Recently, the European parliament voted in favour of stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation...
28 October, 2019
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Children now represent one third of all Internet users.
This number is expected to increase once developing countries – where most of the world’s...
21 October, 2019
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In September 2019, in a victory for the principles underlying media democracy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rebuked the...
21 October, 2019
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Digital technology is a growing force in today’s world. Since advocacy groups during the Vietnam War became incensed by televised images of suffering...
14 October, 2019
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It’s surprising that the issue of “fake news” took so long to raise its head. Deliberate misinformation and bias have been around for as long as journalism itself – more than 400 years by some accounts.
The yellow press (a term coined in the 1890s to describe the sensationalist reporting of two New York City newspapers, the
World and the
Journal) and tabloid journalism encapsulate a form of writing that is, let’s say, highly economical with the truth. Gossip magazines and reality shows merely fanned the flames of the public’s insatiable desire for speculation and innuendo.
07 October, 2019
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Private, public, and civil society actors should work together to encourage more sustainable financing of universal access efforts
Access to communication and information tools...
30 September, 2019
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