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Azerbaijan’s Triple Threat to Media and Freedo...
By Turgut Gambar Azerbaijan has been routinely condemned for its alarming human rights record, endemic levels of corruption, and election fraud. Not surprisingly, according to Freedom House’s 2018 Freedom in the World report, Azerbaijan is assessed as a “not free” country. While Azerbaijan has... |
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in Me...
By Anya Schiffrin We are led to believe that trust in the media is in precipitous decline. Trust in the media dropped to an all-time low in 2017 on the Edelman Trust Barometer’s survey of 28 countries.[i] But while the declining trust in media is certainly widespread, it is not universal, and perh... |
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The Battle for Freedom of Expression Online: Whe...
By Andreas Reventlow Online surveillance, phishing, and content blocking is familiar territory for most journalists who uncover corruption, misuse of power, or who report on human rights abuses. Although their rights to freedom of expression and privacy online are challenged on a near-daily basis, h... |
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Getting involved in Internet governance: An Intr...
By Michael J. Oghia Internet governance (IG) refers to all of the policies and processes that are shaping the evolution of the Internet. Given the increased reliance of journalists and media outlets on digital technologies, the overall success of media development is now inextricably linked to decis... |
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Open Internet Principles for Democracy: Putting ...
Last year the editor of Abia Facts Newspaper, a small, local news platform in Nigeria was arrested at his home on charges of blackmail and criminal defamation. According to the state security officers who detained him, his crime was the reporting he had done on a local politician. More startling, ho... |
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Audiences worldwide are hungry for quality news ...
There is growing concern that the channels for digitally distributing news–chief among them Facebook and Google–direct traffic and resources away from smaller, independent outlets in growing media markets. Opaque and fast-changing algorithms can devastate readership overnight, and with the stagg... |
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Internet Universality Indicators – UNESCO ...
By Xianhong Hu While the emerging digital environment offers new opportunities for journalists to investigate and report information in the public interest, it also poses particular challenges regarding privacy, access to information, source protection, freedom of expression and participation. In th... |
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Entrepreneurial journalists in Latin America are...
By Janine Warner Digital media startups in Latin America are becoming increasingly important and credible news sources, and they are transforming the complex media landscape. With the advent of free and easy-to-use technology, entirely new types of news and information sources are emerging, from gen... |
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Political Bots are Skewing our News Diet
Was one of the news headlines you scrolled past on your social media feed today shared by a bot? Depending on the platform and the country you’re in, the odds are surprisingly high that automated computer scripts – political bots – are shaping the type of content you are seeing online. These b... |
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Critical Information Consumption is Vital to the...
By Aleksander Dardeli, Executive Vice President of IREX Information may be the world’s most valuable asset. Indeed, it is an essential good that is critical to democracy and the workings of prosperous societies. People need high-quality news and information in order to take actions that will impr... |