Research shows that more and more Americans are turning to non-journalistic sources for their information. Americans who voted for Donald Trump were especially unlikely to get their information from j...
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Courtney Radsch
director Center for Journalism and Liberty
Courtney C. Radsch is a journalist, author and scholar who writes and speaks about the way technology impacts journalism. She is the Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute where she produces and oversees cutting-edge research into news media market structures and helps design smart policy solutions to protect and bolster journalism’s financial and editorial independence. Her current research focuses on AI governance, technology policy, and the future of journalism and she advises policymakers and publishers around the world on issues like news media bargaining codes, generative AI and disinformation.
Radsch is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and has published in top media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Guardian, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Project Syndicate, among others, as well as peer-reviewed and law journals. She started her career as a journalist in the US and Middle East, and held positions with the Committee to Protect Journalists, UNESCO and the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, where she was a postdoctoral fellow.
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Artificial intelligence poses existential challenges and transformative opportunities for journalism and the future of the news industry. This panel brings together journalists and technologists to ex...
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The digital convergence has upended the news media’s traditional business model while at the same time online disinformation has become an issue of global concern. What if both of these problems cou...
The Internet, and in particular, social media, increasingly impact how people’s worldviews are shaped. In this panel, human rights and digital rights experts will address, in an engaging interview s...
At least 52 journalists were killed in 2018, 33 of who were murdered in retaliation for their work. The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and continuing impunity for those who ordered and carried out h...
Last year in Perugia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) led an interactive panel on the use of sexual violence to silence women journalists. The discussion helped to scope the range of ways t...
With press freedom increasingly under attack and violence against journalists on the rise, there is much to be said about the state of media today. Most media organizations, however, shy away from rep...
#IJF19 /
4 april 2019
When a state trolls: strategies for responding to online harassment against journalists
In the Philippines, a coordinated campaign of “paid trolls, fallacious reasoning, leaps in logic, poisoning the well” were among “the propaganda techniques that helped shift public opinion on ke...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an organization that defends the right of journalists to report without fear of reprisal. While all journalists face threats, our research indicates that ...
#IJF18 /
13 april 2018
Journalism's perfect storm? Confronting rising global threats from "f*ke news" to censorship, surveillance, and the killing of journalists with impunity
Some hail this period in journalism as a Golden Era, pointing to major global collaborative journalism projects and the biggest data dumps in history. True, large scale investigative journalism is ‘...