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Published in: 50.50: NewsopenDemocracy joins UN Women media allianceInvite-only network including Deutsche Welle and Glamour pledges to disrupt stereotypes and boost the number of...
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Published in: digitaLiberties: FeatureWhatsApp wants to share your data with Facebook. Here's why that's worryingThe messaging platform has told users to allow it to share more of their data with parent company Facebook or have...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionMy sister Daphne was murdered. We want justice for women journalists
Corinne Vella, sister of Daphne Caruana Galizia, spoke on an openDemocracy panel about her sister’s struggles and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionJeffrey Donaldson sued us. Here’s why we’re going publicThe prospective DUP leader tried to silence our journalism. We need politicians who will stand up for press freedom
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia burns amid authorities’ bloody crackdown on tax protestorsInternational human rights organizations denounce violence yet President Duque fails to act as crisis escalates Español
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIn pursuit of truth: journalists fight back in battle for press freedomSeven global stories of the rising attacks on reporters and how they joined campaigners to take on hostile...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhen authoritarians get a free pass, activists pay the priceThe Biden administration must make protecting the lives of activists and journalists such as Jamal Khashoggi a priority
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Analysis‘It’s time for change’: Green seeds are ready to sprout in local electionsAs the rest of the opposition crumbles, the party traditionally on the fringe has become a viable alternative that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTo achieve press freedom, we must rewrite journalismIt is time to liberate our media systems from the political and economic forces that have long subtly controlled them
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: ReviewHow Egyptian TV series ‘The Choice’ is stirring controversy about the Rab’a massacreThe show appears to adopt the regime’s narrative as fact, despite it being disputed by human rights organisations
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Living in constant fear’: Life as a journalist in SyriaWhen Zaina became a journalist, her family said she was committing a ‘sin’. Fifteen years on, she opens up about the...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe media still misrepresents Russia’s North Caucasus. Here’s how to stopDocumenting this multifaceted region and its complex communities takes patience and the willingness to remove a colonial lens
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerHercules to Superman: Five ‘90s TV stars who became Christian right celebritiesUS culture warriors have long targeted the media. If you watch Netflix instead of Pureflix, you may be surprised to...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsYouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent 'conversion therapy'In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua’s controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel. Facebook...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Press freedom in Greece is under pressure – from the government and itselfAbuses of power and attacks against the press by both the state and the police, are causing a feeling of...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhat's wrong with Jordanian media?Lack of home coverage of the royal family’s biggest public rift in decades reveals the dire state of access to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisData journalism as tested by the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from ItalyThe pandemic is without doubt the most data-driven event that has ever occurred
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsWe can’t put internet anonymity in the box marked ‘too hard to solve’Forthcoming internet legislation ignores anonymity, but this fudge benefits only the social media platforms
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionRepressive governments play whack-a-mole with Africans’ digital rightsA new report on digital rights in ten African countries reveals how states are waging a brutal online war against...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWhy Cubans took to the streets
