by Saskia Rowley | Feb 24, 2020 | Communication Rights
Surveillance and loss of privacy are watchwords in the digital transformation of societies worldwide. Who is watching us and for what purposes? Who is infringing private spaces and closing down public spaces? When it comes to communication infrastructures and...
by Saskia Rowley | Feb 17, 2020 | Communication Rights
National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States is demonstrating the importance both of giving a voice to migrants in media, and of ensuring the independence of the public broadcasting platform. As reported by another public broadcaster, BBC (“The immigrants telling...
by Saskia Rowley | Feb 10, 2020 | Communication Rights
The BBC, once a bastion of public service broadcasting, is cutting 450 jobs from its news operation. In future, and in an effort to save £80 million, journalists will be covering fewer stories as the corporation faces an uncertain future. BBC journalists will...
by Saskia Rowley | Feb 3, 2020 | Communication Rights
Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, has published its Front Line Defenders Global Analysis 2019. It details the physical assaults, defamation campaigns, digital security threats, judicial harassment, and gender-based...
by Saskia Rowley | Jan 20, 2020 | Communication Rights
Growing tensions between the United States and Iran marked the first two weeks of 2020. News cycles have been dominated by coverage of the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, the killing of a high-profile Iranian general, Iranian attacks on US military bases, and the...
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