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The Precarity of Independent Public Interest Med...
By Courtney C. Radsch This year, the theme of UNESCO’s annual World Press Freedom Day was “Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights.” Yet despite the celebratory events lauding the importance of independent public interest media and the role of a... |
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Rebalancing the Relationship Between Big Tech an...
As the global journalism industry struggles to adapt to shrinking revenue brought on by the failure of traditional business models, Big Tech companies continue to dominate the digital advertising market. This uneven playing field has led policymakers in the US, EU, and Australia to attempt to rebala... |
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Indonesian Cyber Media Association: Collective A...
Independent news producers in Indonesia say the dominant platforms for digital content distribution, namely Facebook and Google, are taking advantage of them and undermining their viability as media businesses. While this is an increasingly common complaint from news producers, especially in the Glo... |
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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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Zero-rating the news: How will sponsored data in...
Personal mobile devices are increasingly the primary way people both log in to social networks and check the news. This is particularly true in the developing world where in many places mobile networks are the only way to connect to the Internet. Yet, mobile data plans are often quite expensive and ... |
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Google’s Transparency Report Reveals Data on ...
Google’s latest transparency report, updated today, includes a much-debated policy that has far-reaching implications for access to information and privacy rights. One year ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Internet users have the right to request removal of their names fr... |