Category: Journalism
Journalism After Covid: What Will Be Left of It?
Since the start of the pandemic crisis, in the U.S., “at least 21 local newspapers have merged, at least 1,400 newsroom staffers have been permanently…
What’s the Big Story in Financial Transparency?
MediaPowerMonitor is regularly asking its community what keeps them awake at night. Financial transparency came first among the most important issues that readers flagged in…
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won with brio the Idiot of the Week title after the media unearthed a slew of Facebook posts dating back…
Russia Will Redouble Efforts To Strengthen Its Narratives
“The sentencing of Alexey Navalny to two years and eight months in a penal colony yesterday, as well as the ongoing repressions against his supporters,…
Impact of Covid on Journalism in the Global South
A recently published report, commissioned by Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) and authored by Damian Radcliffe, looks at the impact of COVID-19 crisis on journalism in…
Victoria Prentis
The Idiot of the Week honor is going to Victoria Prentis, a British Conservative politician who serves as the fisheries minister in the current UK…
How Advertisers Put Democracy in Danger by Enabling Disinformation
Disinformation and calls to violence clearly helped fuel the recent assault on our nation’s capitol, and an ongoing flood of disinformation now continues to subvert the…
Marius Ostaficiuc
A Social Democratic Party (PSD) politician from the city of Iasi in eastern Romania, Marius Ostaficiuc took the biscuit when he lodged a complaint with…
Idiot of the Week: Josh Hawley
The clinched-fist salute to the rioters supporting American President Donald Trump won Josh Hawley our Idiot of the Week title. Mr Hawley, a Republican Senator…
Covid-19: morir por informar en México
Informar sobre la pandemia en América Latina está resultando más riesgoso que hacerlo en cualquier otra región del mundo. Las cifras que registran medios y…