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Three Iraqi women explain how and why they stay anonymous online | Rest of World
by Sofia Barbarani
June 20, 2021
Ever since social media was introduced in Iraq, women here have turned to online anonymity in order to voice their…
The Global News Media Is in Peril—and Democracy Along With It | Foreign Policy
by Michael Moran
May 18, 2021
The drumbeat of writing from journalism institutions, press freedom monitors, and academia about the sorry state of the news business…
Journalism trainees ‘need training’ to handle online abuse | Press Gazette
by Charlotte Tobitt
May 18, 2021
It is “necessary” to better prepare journalism trainees for the realities of increasingly “vile” online abuse they could face, according…
Press freedom: how governments are using COVID as an excuse to crack down on the public’s right to know | London School of Economics
by Sara Torsner and Jackie Harrison
April 22, 2021
A government’s fear of scrutiny and criticism often determines how repressive it is toward the press. The greater the fear,…
Listening to what trust in news means to users: qualitative evidence from four countries | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
April 22, 2021
How do people view media they come across in everyday life, and what can that tell us about why they…
Unseeing propaganda: How communication scholars learned to love commercial media | HKS Misinformation Review
by Victor Pickard
April 22, 2021
In the communication field’s earliest days, scholars devoted much attention to systemic problems, including propaganda-related issues. But curiously, a renewed…
PEN America’s Guide for Combating Protest Disinformation | PEN America
by PEN America
April 22, 2021
Amid mass demonstrations against police violence, misinformation and disinformation about the protests are spreading fast online. False, misleading, and misattributed…
Massive supply imbalance fueled by vaccine hesitancy: Illinois’ latest struggles with COVID-19 mass vaccination | Chicago Tribune
by Joe Mahr and Dan Petrella
April 20, 2021
In southern Illinois, public health officials struggle to fill coronavirus vaccine appointment slots as the region sits on a three-week…
Peru’s surprise presidential front runner has fewer than 8,000 Twitter followers | Rest of World
by Jimena Legard
April 16, 2021
When CNN announced the results for the first round of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, April 11, the image they…