Mary Fitzgerald is a former editor-in-chief of openDemocracy. She is now director of information democracy at the Open Society Foundation, leading on global work to support high-quality journalism and tackle disinformation. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, New York Review of Books, New Statesman, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera and others. She has served as a trustee for the human rights charity Reprieve, and on the editorial code committee of Impress, the UK press regulator. She has also worked at Avaaz, the global campaigning organisation, and as a senior editor of Prospect magazine in London.
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Published in: oDRMedia responsibility in the age of terrorProfessor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, and journalists Rita Chinyoka and Nadezhda Azhgikhina discuss feeding terror, hate...
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Published in: HomePlaying with people’s emotions'Every time the western media decides what to air, and who to call a terrorist, they generate a lot of debate in our...
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Published in: HomeAfter Paris, be careful what you ask for: an interview with Thomas DrakeNSA whistleblower Drake wanted to defend the US constitution. So they prosecuted him under the Espionage Act.
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Published in: HomeWe could have stopped the Paris attacksWilliam Binney and Kirk Wiebe worked at the NSA for decades, before blowing the whistle on mass surveillance. They...
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Published in: HomeFreedom and control in the surveillance age (Part 1)What (if any) is the 'right level' of surveillance? openDemocracy's editors introduce a new partnership with the...
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Published in: E-i-C BlogNine questions for the Telegraph and HSBCA month after explosive allegations about advertisers' influence over the UK Telegraph's editorial decisions, the...