Fighting Capture: How to Support Independent Journalism in Autocracies
Reflections on a four-year support program for independent journalism in countries faced with media capture
The Unbreakable Bond: How Radio Continues to Thrive and Connect Communities in Africa
Africa needs radio that brings together and informs communities, rather than radio that spreads disinformation and incites hatred, writes John Masuku as the world celebrates over a century of radio.
MJRC Launches Research Project on Media and Politics Across 40+ Nations Prepping for 2024 Polls
Our new research project, Decoding the Power Play: Media and Elections in 2024, is aimed to chart the interplay among media, political parties and the business sector in a highly charged electoral year. With elections slated to take place in dozens of countries next year, study of the rapidly evolving media landscape and the unpredictable…
Why Coping With Burnout Should Be on Every Journalist’s Priority List?
If burnout in journalism is not addressed, the rate of journalists leaving their positions will further grow.
Disinformation in the Global South: Why Context Matters
A new book breaks new ground by discussing disinformation in the Global South
Bolivian Media: Rising From the Ashes
By Marius Dragomir 13 December 2019 For more than a decade, the government has meddled with Bolivia’s news media. Following the collapse of the Morales regime, the country’s journalists want to put paid to that, once and for all. In 2014, Virginie Poyetton, a researcher, found that more than half of Bolivia’s journalists have faced some form…
Lying for Fun, Politics and Money in Hungary
5 September 2019 Facebook appears to be the almost exclusive source of traffic for Hungarian misinformation websites, which fall on the spectrum from purely ideological sites to simple money-making machines. Their Facebook pages are stable, directing users to their ever-changing URLs. In early June 2019, Hungarian website Tv2-friss.com published a series of articles about the…
Is Fact-Checking Working?
By Anya Schiffrin 30 August 2019 Much time and money have been spent on combatting misinformation through fact-checking. But it’s not clear whether it has any impact at all. Fact-checkers are taking credit for the circulation collapse of the doctored Nancy Pelosi video that circulated widely online after being aired on Fox news in the US and tweeted about…
How to Wipe Away Digital History: Buy a Newspaper
3 March 2019 A wealthy and influential lawyer buys the sole English newspaper in Cyprus. The real motive: cleaning his digital record. The announcement by Cyprus Mail yesterday that the newspaper was taken over by Andreas Neocleous, the founder of a major Cypriot law firm, who in the past years has been embroiled in a…
