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Egyptian blogs: reporting the news unfit to print

The Egyptian blogosphere has gained real influence in the political process

By Bijan Kafi

/ 26 Nov 2010

Authentic journalism: weapon of the people

The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.

By Al Giordano

/ 19 Nov 2010

Can Murdoch be stopped? Britain examines its stable door

As with Italy, it is not just the failure to maintain public standards that damages the nation. A foreign media tycoon wields staggering power and control over British politics and yet, so shabby has public life become, that even the pretence of integrity seems too much effort for the political cl

By Oliver Huitson

/ 18 Nov 2010

Red lenses on a rainbow of revolutions

Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian struggle for democracy is a story that should be characterized as an example of a failed movement and successful repression. But it is up to us - the global audience - to understand our re

By Cynthia Boaz

/ 17 Nov 2010

The struggle after people power wins

With peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election. Later, disappointed in politicians who failed to deliver on promises of political and economic change, many Ukrainians distanced themselves from politics, thereby helping Victor Yan

By Olena Tregub and Oksana Shulyar

/ 17 Nov 2010

Civil Resistance and the New Global Ferment: read on

Jack DuVall, writer and international civil society leader based in Washington, D.C., is presently President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, a private nonprofit educational foundation. He describes

By openDemocracy Supporters

/ 15 Nov 2010

Clare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web

The principles behind Clare Sambrook's double prize winning reports and why openDemocracy is happy to publish them.

By Anthony Barnett

/ 9 Nov 2010

The Media, the crisis, and the crisis in media

The financial crisis and a series of aggressive wars have demonstrated beyond doubt how prevailing forms of media ownership in the west serve to buttress the power of elites and marginalise alternatives to the status quo. A system of public commissioning, which gives citizens the power to decide w

By Dan Hind

/ 25 Oct 2010

20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of Facebook

The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless replacement to reality. You could not have designed Facebook better to opiate 21st Century occidentals

By Luis de Miranda

/ 11 Oct 2010

A free media: Tasneem Khalil’s project

The work of a Bangladeshi journalist offers a different perspective on some of the professional and ethical dilemmas raised by the WikiLeaks project, say Timothy Sowula & David Hayes.

By Timothy Sowula

/ 14 Sep 2010

Dissing Assange

Why does TechCrunch decide to join the chorus of insinuations about the sexual habits of Wikileaks' Julian Assange?

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 7 Sep 2010

The Heart of the Matter II: the deadly dance of premiers and proprietors

The power of Murdoch over the British police and prime ministers is not a new story but thanks to the New York Times it may be diminished

By Anthony Barnett

/ 4 Sep 2010