by Saskia Rowley | Nov 16, 2020 | Communication Rights
The antics of the outgoing US president have raised profound questions about the role of mass and social media in society today. How do public interest media – the kind that publish information and points of view on important issues that affect policies, lives, and...
by Saskia Rowley | Nov 9, 2020 | Communication Rights
This month marks the start of the annual ’16 Days of activism against gender-based violence’ campaign running from November 25 to Human Rights Day December 10. Unlike previous years, lockdowns and curfews intended to arrest the spread of Covid19 have led...
by Saskia Rowley | Nov 2, 2020 | Communication Rights
People the world over are willing – some are even praying for – a free and fair election in the USA on November 3. In ordinary times, for that to happen the media must also be free and fair. But these have not been ordinary times. Until very recently, the news media...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 26, 2020 | Communication Rights
In his 2011 book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You, Eli Pariser wrote, “the rise of pervasive, embedded filtering is changing the way we experience the internet and ultimately the world.” Far ahead of current growing concerns about fake news,...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 19, 2020 | Communication Rights
Covid-19, migrants, and the climate crisis apart, public interest media is today’s hot topic. In the USA, Hungary, and the Philippines – to cite just three countries – some politicians have labelled media outlets critical of their policies and actions “fake media” or...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 12, 2020 | Communication Rights
Women all over the world are celebrating the sixth instalment in 25 years of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). What is it? A series of extensive gender and media monitoring studies conducted every five years since 1995 by WACC Global, an international NGO...
