By Xianhong Hu While the emerging digital environment offers new opportunities for journalists to investigate and report information in the public interest, it also poses particular challenges regarding privacy, access…
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Ricardo Bilton, Nieman Lab | September 13, 2017 Bots on Facebook Messenger have been, at best, a mixed bag so far. When Facebook opened up Messenger to brands last April, the…
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Fyneface, Onengiyeofori is a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network Centre, Port Harcourt. He hails from Abonnema/ Idama in Akuku- Toru Local Government area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria His…
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Catherine Gicheru | Truth is always a casualty during any campaign season and it was no different during Kenya’s recent presidential elections. A week before the August 8 vote, Facebook…
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You can see the eBook PDF-version of this guide here. 1. Introduction Many veteran journalists, but not only these, surely noticed that we are all of a sudden bombarded…
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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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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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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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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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Journalists, among others, with an interest in drug policy can apply for this all-expense-paid training in Hong Kong. The Open Society Foundations are offering full scholarships for the Human Rights and Drug Policy…
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