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...
Courtney Radsch
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe 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...
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 ...
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 ‘...