There are older newspapers in the world than The New York Times – including some current papers in Europe that have existed since the 1600s. Yet the 175th anniversary of The New York Times offers its publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, an opportunity to reflect – nationally –...
We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that understands communication as a right. ...
The impact of data centres on the environment concerns everyone. Data centres consume massive amounts of electricity – often placing considerable strain on local power grids. Data centres generate significant heat and electronic waste, and millions of gallons of water are needed daily to cool...
WACC’s latest Annual Report brings to life our collective work to enable people to be seen and heard at a time when too many are made invisible and silenced....
Recently, the European parliament voted in favour of stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation and at upgrading the EU’s anti-propaganda unit.
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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 children live –become digitized.
This is both exciting and worrisome. Exciting because it has been established that connectivity opens doors to new...
In September 2019, in a victory for the principles underlying media democracy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rebuked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by overturning the agency’s latest attempts to eliminate long-standing limits on local-media ownership.
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Private, public, and civil society actors should work together to encourage more sustainable financing of universal access efforts...
An influential book on communications in the 1980s was Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. It proposed a “propaganda model” as a way of understanding how the mass media system intersected with the U.S. economy, political system, and...
In an era when misinformation and “fake news” abound on social media, it is important to understand where people get their news.
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