Category: News

New research released on March 8, which marks International Women’s Day, provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the online violence against a prominent women journalist. The research which was published by the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) and conducted by Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) members Julie Posetti, Diana Maynard and Kalina Bontcheva consists of a big data analysis “of the torrent of social media attacks on internationally celebrated digital media pioneer Maria Ressa over a five-year period (2016-2021)”.

The worrying trends of escalating violence against journalists as they battle to report on vital public interest stories during the COVID-19 pandemic is the theme of a new Pod Academy podcast by CFOM Research Fellow Rachael Jolley.

On 10 December, 2020 the first substantial findings from a global survey about online violence against women journalists conducted by UNESCO and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in collaboration with the Centre for Freedom of the Media was published.

Can Media and Information Literacy (MIL) protect journalists? This is the question the paper “Understanding the link between a media and information literate citizenry and the (un)-safety of journalism” seeks to answer.

The insidious problem of online violence against women journalists is increasingly spilling offline, with potentially deadly consequences, a new global survey suggests. Twenty percent of women journalists and media workers who participated in the survey – run by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – reported being targeted with offline abuse and attacks that they believe were connected with online violence they had experienced.