by Saskia Rowley | May 17, 2021 | Communication Rights
Reporters Without Borders has underlined growing concerns about a steady decline of press freedom in several European Union member states, including Greece, Malta, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia. In “‘Worrying picture’: Journalists in Europe face increasing...
by Saskia Rowley | May 3, 2021 | Communication Rights
The tech headlines in the past week have marked the growing data privacy battle between Apple and Facebook. The latest update to iPads and iPhones includes an App Tracking Transparency feature which will force app developers to ask users permission to collect their...
by Saskia Rowley | Apr 19, 2021 | Communication Rights
Do current shifts in economic thinking represent an opportunity for communication rights? On April 5th, United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen issued a call for a global corporate tax rate, a major shift from the neoliberal consensus that has...
by Saskia Rowley | Apr 5, 2021 | Communication Rights
The theme of WACC’s annual report for 2020 is “Truthful Voices Matter”. What appears to be self-evident reflects a growing perception that public interest media need to rebuild trust in their news content and opinions: by demonstrating impartiality, balance, and...
by Saskia Rowley | Mar 22, 2021 | Communication Rights
Everyone agrees that social media are failing to distinguish between truth and lies. That’s partly because the line is easily blurred, but also because social media are corporate entities running on profit. Few people agree on how to tackle the problem of fake news or...
by Saskia Rowley | Mar 8, 2021 | Communication Rights
March, the month set aside to honour women’s contributions to American history is today commemorated worldwide as “Women’s history month”. Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world is the theme of International Women’s Day March 8....