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Published in: HomeWe’ve moved forward since 9/11
'A lot more people are aware that the decisions made by policymakers, the positions taken by the media in the wake...
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Published in: HomeCritical masses, chilling effects, and coalitions
Intelligence sharing today is in essence a way for one agency to do the job that another can’t do because of the...
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Published in: HomeOnline media: personal data collection as a source of revenue?
The limits of the ad-based revenue model are starting to show. Should we worry about online publishers getting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turkey: from “role model” to “illiberal democracy”
If the west sees Turkey as a dumping ground for refugees, ignoring its transformation into an authoritarian regime...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mourning Paris, Beirut and Kabul
Most western commentators describe ‘the events’ in Paris as entirely different, an attack on our way of life. Which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKParis and Beirut: journalism’s selective compassion
Is it editors, journalists or audiences to blame?
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Published in: ourBeebIs the BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of the Paris atrocities doing the terrorists' job for them?
How informative, entertaining, and educational is saturation reporting of the Paris attacks? Is the BBC simply...
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Published in: ourBeebThe media did cover attacks on *insert country here*. You just weren’t reading it.
After the Paris attacks many people are saying how horrible the media is for belittling tragedies outside of Europe...
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Published in: ourBeebAfter Paris: live news should challenge narratives, not recreate them
After the Paris attacks there is a desperate desire on the part of major news organizations to create and drive the...
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Published in: oDRConfession of a Russian internet provider
A firsthand account of how the internet is monitored, regulated and blocked in the Russian Federation.
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Published in: HomeFast tech, slow citizens
As we hurtle through an age of immense digital development, there are too many possibilities to lose a grip on our...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDid Murdoch win?
Four years ago Rupert Murdoch was on the brink. Now he’s resurgent. Martin Hickman, co-author of Dial M for Murdoch,...
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Published in: HomeSmooth censorship in Russia
Everybody understands everything, everybody knows everything, and no one says anything aloud.
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Published in: HomeSurveillance, privacy, and the British press
In the surveillance versus privacy debate that followed Snowden’s revelations, the UK government and the British...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLife and death in the Sun newsroom
Britain’s best-selling daily paper sells 1.8 million copies a day. What happens there matters – for staff,...
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Published in: HomeChoke points for the preservation of our liberty
Press freedom is only where we should start as activists, not where we should stop.
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Published in: HomeWhat can social media platforms do for human rights?
Policy decisions by companies like Facebook and Twitter affect freedom of expression globally. Civil society has...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow can we build a democratic media?
Ahead of the Media Democracy Festival, what can we all be doing to emulate in the rest of the UK the democratic...
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Published in: HomeThe new journalism outfit that is shaking up Hong Kong’s establishment media
Launched in the wake of the city’s Occupy protests, Hong Kong Free Press aims to “shine a light in dark places”.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe press campaign so far - the 'coup' gathers pace
The groundwork continues to be laid for what amounts to overturning the constitution on May 8th.