safety of Journalists
The popular saying goes: “No story is worth dying for” yet scores of journalists and media workers world over are being killed, attacked and intimidated not just in war situations…
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Google Says it wants to fund the news, not fake it
By Jessica Goodfellow & Ronan Shields Under fire from several quarters for an array of accusations ranging from monopolistic practices to the dissemination (and even funding) of fake news, plus…
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Online Harassment: Lessons from the Philippines
By Julie Posetti Editor’s Note: The nature of threats against journalists are changing as the virtual world spills into the physical. The experiences of Filipino journalist Maria Ressa show how reporters now…
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Project Facet aims to make it easier for journalists to collaborate across newsrooms
Christine Schmidt, Nieman Lab | Collaborative journalism is good — until you get lost in email chains, Slack channels and Google Drives. The one-woman team of Project Facet is hoping to change that, and looking…
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The Listening Post Collective to lead local newsrooms into a new form of engagement
Sam Berkhead | It all started in New Orleans, with the hope of better connecting to a city still reeling from the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina. Back then, in 2013,…
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Exploring the intersections of journalism and technology
Jéssica Cruz | Traditional news outlets have struggled with new technologies — and how quickly they should adopt them — for decades. However, they have slowly begun to realize that…
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Travel fellowship available for entrepreneurship conference [Africa]
Journalists are invited to attend and cover this conference. The Tony Elumelu Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to promote entrepreneurship in Africa, is hosting the Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum Oct. 13 to 15…
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Tips for combatting gender-based harassment in the newsroom
Sherry Ricchiardi | During a meeting of women media practitioners in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a TV anchor in her mid-20s asked to talk privately. Between sips of…
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How one freelancer is making the jump to media entrepreneurship
Clothilde Goujard | July 10, 2017 Beenish Ahmed is an international freelance journalist. She has reported on a number of topics from vodou in Haiti to education in Pakistan for…
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Uganda Creates Unit To Spy On Social Networks
By RSF Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about the Ugandan government’s creation of a team of experts to closely monitor social networks, fearing that it will be used to…
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