by Saskia Rowley | Jun 17, 2019 | Communication Rights
Saeed Alnahhal explains how he has recently had an article published in a major Swedish newspaper, featuring refugees who’ve received support through the Goda Grannar project. Saeed himself came to Sweden as a refugee from Syria, and has received support through...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 10, 2019 | Communication Rights
Every ten years or so the BBC comes in for criticism for being too partial or too impartial. Most recently The Observer newspaper ran an article titled “Is BBC news broken? And if so, how do we fix it?” (26 May 2019). Recalling earlier politically motivated attacks –...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 3, 2019 | Communication Rights
In its 2019 report, the Internet Society asks whether the Internet economy is consolidating and, if it is, what the implications might be. The independently-run Internet Society promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource...
by Saskia Rowley | May 20, 2019 | Communication Rights
Subscribers to The Guardian in the UK recently received a message of appreciation from the Editor-in-Chief, Katherine Viner. She announced that after a three-year “turnaround” strategy the newspaper had hit its goal of breaking even – making a small profit that has...
by Saskia Rowley | May 20, 2019 | Communication Rights
It is more and more evident that communication and information issues are intrinsically connected to questions of sustainable development and human dignity. In “Want Social Change? Give Communities More Agency” (IPS, 3 May 2019) Ashif Shaikh writes that in India no...
