Human Rights… JFF #001: The Gender-Media Relationship 12 Feb 201924 Mar 2023 [Cross-posted from the Journalism Funders Forum website, where you can sign up for this newsletter.] Our goal is to take you on a journey through some of the major forces…
Advocacy… Cairncross Submission 4/4: What are the information needs of UK citizens? 5 Oct 201817 Jan 2020 This is the fourth of four suggestions I made to the Cairncross Review in September 2018. [Here are the first, second and third.] The information ecosystem for citizens in the UK is largely terra incognita In…
Advocacy… Cairncross Submission 3/4: Build the infrastructure of the field 5 Oct 201817 Jan 2020 This is the third of four suggestions I made to the Cairncross Review in September 2018. [Here are the first, second and fourth.] A fragmented UK journalism field with patchy infrastructure and support The connective tissue…
Advocacy… Cairncross Submission 2/4: Set up a media innovation fund 5 Oct 201817 Jan 2020 This is the second of four suggestions I made to the Cairncross Review in September 2018. [Here are the first, third and fourth.] Transformation and Innovation Funds, and other field catalysts As others have advocated here,…
Advocacy… Cairncross Submission 1/4: Allow charitable status for journalism 5 Oct 201817 Jan 2020 This is the first of four suggestions I made to the Cairncross Review in September 2018. [Here are the second, third and fourth.] Charitable status Submissions by other parties, including Rachel Oldroyd/The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,…
Advocacy… Our submission to the Cairncross Review 5 Oct 201817 Jan 2020 The Cairncross Review — the one set up by DCMS (the UK’s culture/media/sport ministry) to look into how to rescue the local press — closed its call for evidence a few weeks…
Journalism A journalism innovation and experimentation search engine 29 Oct 2017 I'm playing with Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), and here's the result - a search engine focused on journalism innovation and experimentation. It currently indexes ~50 sites related to different…
Journalism True or False? Fact-Checking Journalism Is Booming 22 Jul 201517 Jan 2020 [Cross-posted from Open Society's Voices blog, for whom I wrote this when I was a Program Officer there.] When South Africa suffered a wave of xenophobic violence in April, the New…
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