Anastasiia Vorozhtsova, freelance writer and editor at Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, discusses how "foreign agent” laws are silencing journalists in Russia“THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT [FIRST NAME, PATRONYMIC,...
Massimo D’Angelo, Lecturer at the University of Greenwich and Research Fellow at Loughborough University London, discusses the pressures on independent media in democracies across the globeIn their influential 2018 book How Democracies Die, scholars Steven Levitsky...
Laura Pranteddu, PhD Candidate at Università della Svizzera italiana, talks about how we can make sure public service media is protected in the age of AI I began researching artificial intelligence in digital journalism in 2021. Initially, my research focused on...
‘The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it. It is an incendiary device: who knows what we’d made of it if we ever got our hands on it?’ (Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale)Kim A. Snyder’s absorbing new...
Astrid Vandendaele, Assistant Professor of Journalism and New Media, discusses AI generated images and how journalists are adapting to using them in newsrooms When an AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon circulated online in 2023, the global media...
Tamsin Mitchell, Researcher and Consultant, writes about the threats that journalists are facing in Mexico and Honduras from their own governments This article was commissioned and first published by The Conversation – the news, science and arts website written...
Jingrong Tong, Senior Lecturer in Media and Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, examines how access to information has been slowly eroding in the UKJournalists in the United Kingdom find themselves coming up against a number of challenges, including...
Janet Harris, ex- BBC Freelance Documentary film maker, writes about her experience in working with fixers and why we can't overlook the role they play Many people have not come across the term ‘fixer’ before. The Cambridge Dictionary states that a fixer is ‘someone...