Accessibility and affordability are watchwords of the communication rights movement. Yet when it comes to digital access, governments have still not got their...
Article 19 – the international freedom of expression organization – has proposed creating Social Media Councils (SMCs) as a way of moderating content...
“Elected leaders in many democracies, who should be press freedom’s staunchest defenders, have made explicit attempts to silence critical media voices and strengthen...
A free and independent media sector is one of the cornerstones of what it means for a country to be a liberal democracy....
Every ten years or so the BBC comes in for criticism for being too partial or too impartial.
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In its 2019 report, the Internet Society asks whether the Internet economy is consolidating and, if it is, what the implications might be.
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It is more and more evident that communication and information issues are intrinsically connected to questions of sustainable development and human dignity.
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Subscribers to The Guardian in the UK recently received a message of appreciation from the Editor-in-Chief, Katherine Viner. She announced that after a three-year “turnaround”...
As with every new technological innovation, there are pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, benefits and risks.
It’s a more clandestine and dangerous world when journalists can be threatened with violence, detention, and death for...
The UK Foreign Secretary has appointed international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to act as a special envoy on media...
In the “good old days” of traditional media, there were gatekeepers whose task was to apply professional and ethical standards to content. In...