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Bolstering Caribbean Media Support: The Vicious ...
By Kiran Maharaj Small island states and developing nations face many existential threats. The most daunting is perhaps the threat to independent media and investigative journalism. With shrinking economies further exacerbated by the pandemic, newsrooms are beleaguered. Media capture can jeopardize ... |
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Putting machine learning to work to measure medi...
By Samhir Vasdev Quality, fact-based news—and trust between citizens and journalists—is essential to helping people make informed decisions about important issues. But traditional methods to evaluate media content are resource-intensive and time-consuming. Pilot research by IREX suggests that, w... |
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Germany’s Fight Against Fake News: Can it Work...
By Niko Efstathiou and Bebe Santa-Wood The fight against misinformation in media continues to ramp up. We are witnessing an explosion of proposed solutions and approaches in how to best filter “fake news.” Many foundations, NGOs, and tech platforms are putting money into media literacy, fact-c... |
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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... |
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Media in Conflict: The Case of Zello
Often, in situations of conflict or war, the media is fueled by rumors. Conflicting political parties or others who have control of the media can pursue specific political agendas, regardless of the veracity of their information. The battle to inform the community can lead to an overload of informat... |
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Lear...
March 13 is Digital Learning Day, which aims to encourage educators and leaders to “actively spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access to high-quality digital learning opportunities no matter where they live.” While this grassroots effort is very much focused on the Ameri... |