Understanding News Media’s Central Role will Help Philanthropy Reclaim its Transformative Agency
At the Innovations in International Philanthropy Symposium in Cambridge, MA this past September, over 200 leaders gathered to confirm a damningly urgent call to action: philanthropy needs to be reimagined in these worrying times.
How to save the news
The internet has become a tool of misinformation and mass surveillance. A global initiative seeks to change that.
From Prospect. By Marta Peirano.
News media and the light we cannot lose
On this World News Day, for too many people, the future is becoming too dark to see. This moment is best described as living in a state of perpetual flux, of global uncertainty and deep, unsettling insecurity.
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up
Last year, Branko Brkic, the founder of the Daily Maverick, a South African news outlet, left his day job to launch an advocacy campaign in defense of journalism. Called Project Kontinuum, the organization aims to sound the alarm about the global threats facing the institution of journalism—and to begin to mount a defense.
Not finally… Subjective views on matters journalistic
Philippines Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa had a clear eye even during the darkest days of the Duterte regime. Ressa’s news site Rappler was hanging for its very survival and she was personally facing multiple legal charges that could have put her in jail for life.
A Call to Arms for Journalists
It’s time the news media stopped bemoaning their fate, restated their purpose and cooperated to carve out a commercial future writes Branko Brkic.
Joy of shared truth, sacred bond and democracies’ self-evident values
There’s only one choice ahead of us: we will defend truth.
Who will be our Bogart?
London can play Casablanca, a city for émigrés, free thinkers and liberals pledged to protect journalism from those who would kill it. Originally published in the British Journalism Review.