by Saskia Rowley | Aug 24, 2020 | Communication Rights
A new law in Tanzania tightens controls on cooperation between local and international media outlets. Under new regulations announced by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority, which came into force on 10 August 2020, local media must now seek government...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 17, 2020 | Communication Rights
There are laws about what can be seen or said in public. So why don’t they apply to social media? In principle they do. The problem is enforcing them. In part it’s a problem of scale. 149 million people login to YouTube daily, to which some 300 hours of video are...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 10, 2020 | Communication Rights
There is nothing new about hate speech. What has changed is the mode of delivery. In Nazi Germany, it was state-controlled newspapers and radio. At the time of the genocide in Rwanda, it was a radio station run by the Hutu government. Today, it is social media, until...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 3, 2020 | Communication Rights
Last year the South African president elevated the epidemic of violence against women to national crisis level following pressure from activists, promising to put in place a public national register of offenders, a review of cold cases and harsher penalties for...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 27, 2020 | Communication Rights
No apologies for quoting at length from “The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid” by Michelle García (The Nation, 17 June 2020). While praising the public service ethic of many media outlets, whose coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has been exemplary, she...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 20, 2020 | Communication Rights
In times of disaster, the need to engage with affected communities to ensure useful, timely and accurate information is mutually shared is increasingly recognised as essential. As the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)...
