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20 Jun

Addressing Local News Poverty: A Bottom-Up Approach Pioneered by Social Entrepreneurs

By Laxmi Parthasarathy Nearly two decades ago as a pre-teen, I used to deliver several hundred copies of the Scarborough M...

03 May

Celebrating World Press Freedom Day 2018

As journalists, media experts, and freedom of expression activists gather in Accra, Ghana, to celebrate World Press Freedom...

18 Apr

Privacy vs Free Expression: Global News Media Implications of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

By Ayden Férdeline Personal data privacy, or the general lack thereof online, has garnered a considerable amount of atten...

11 Apr

China’s Outward Propaganda Strategy Undermines Independence of Overseas Chinese Media Outlets

At a press briefing during China’s National People’s Congress convened in March, a local Chinese journalist’s dramati...

05 Mar

Kenya’s Media Shutdown and the Political Fallout

By James Smart Dictatorship, authoritarianism, and despotism are the very big words that have been used to describe the sta...

15 Feb

Facebook and Google will not save us from fake news. We must save ourselves.

By Aleksander Dardeli Every day, our world produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, the equivalent of 250,000 Libraries of ...

13 Feb

Reflections on the “Right to be Forgotten” and The Role of the Media

By Michael Oghia Negotiating individual privacy with the public’s “right to know” is a balancing act for which there ...

01 Feb

Understanding and Building Resilience in Journalists

By Evgenia (Eka) Javakhishvili It has been over a year since I joined IREXs SAFE Initiative, a program that delivers integ...

22 Jan

Azerbaijan’s Triple Threat to Media and Freedom of Expression

By Turgut Gambar Azerbaijan has been routinely condemned for its alarming human rights record, endemic levels of corruption...