Trustworthy news or the Greatest Show on Earth?
News fatigue is an age-old phenomenon. Not only do media have a reputation for “moving on” after a catastrophe, but readers, listeners, and...
27 June, 2022
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Why a gender lens in news coverage of violent crime is paramount
Whether inroads are made to reducing violent crime depends to an extent on the media. On 24 May 2022 another massacre of children in...
13 June, 2022
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Language rights and digital justice
Some 7,100 languages are spoken in the world today, of which only some 400 are spoken by the great majority of the world’s...
30 May, 2022
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Independent media in retreat?
The war in Ukraine and Russian authorities’ move to close independent media and censor news and social media information in the country has...
16 May, 2022
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Web3 – the Internet’s illusionary or visionary future?
Communication rights activists are calling for greater accountability from Big Tech and social media platforms. They also want a seat at the table...
02 May, 2022
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Media Activism Against Extractivism
Social movements need to embrace participatory media practices to organize in their struggles against an extractivist economic model A hugely significant bill has been...
04 April, 2022
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Information access under threat
A recently released UNESCO report confirms comprehensively what many of us have sensed: the rise of social media and digital communication platforms have...
21 March, 2022
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News media and disinformation in an unpredictable world
The 50th anniversary celebrations of NGO CSW/NY, which organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
07 March, 2022
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Media ‘platforming’ and the oxygen of publicity
In 1985, following the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines flight by a Shi’ite Muslim group, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused the...
22 February, 2022
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Tackling Digital Colonialism
Civil Society in the South needs to be empowered to prevent a new “Scramble for Africa” as tech giants seek to access and...
07 February, 2022
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‘Journalist’ or ‘Activist’?
In a recent training session for current and would be journalists, a repeated question came up – can a journalist be an activist?...
24 January, 2022
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New threat to human rights in Putin’s Russia
Russia’s supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s oldest human rights group. Memorial has joined a growing list of investigative...
10 January, 2022
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