Media Power Monitor Old Collection (2015-2023)
The Price of Digital Rights
Internet companies and telcos are not particularly good at disclosing policies on freedom of expression and privacy. On a long-term basis, this could dent their sales. Last summer, as electoral…
Helena Bengtsson: Bringing People Back to Facts, Our Biggest Challenge
Interview with Helena Bengtsson of the Guardian in Britain, previously the database editor at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster. Helena Bengtsson is the editor of data projects at the Guardian newspaper in London, United Kingdom…
Facebook News Media: A Lesson From Palestine
Our MENA Facebook Index shows an exceptional news appetite, but also room for further growth in the Arab world. Today, we released Facebook Index Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which measures…
Telcos and Internet Companies, Bad at Informing People About Their Rights
The world’s telecom and internet behemoths are far from being transparent when it comes to users’ privacy. It’s time for them to improve. The world’s most powerful telecommunications, internet, and…
How Italy Wants to Slam Fake News: Use Fines and Prison
Italian lawmakers have reacted to the spread of fake news and misinformation with an authoritarian law. Far from solving the problem, though, it in fact creates even more. A new…
Paul Myers: News Organizations Should Not Be Intimidated
Interview with BBC’s Paul Myers Paul Myers joined the BBC in 1995 as an information researcher. In time, with the growing significance of the internet, Mr Myers blended his technical knowledge…
News Media in Africa: The Big Boys on Facebook
Today, we released Facebook Index Africa, which ranks Africa-based news media according to how much of the local Facebook markets they control. Big Boys on the Block The African Facebook…
Where Internet Grows Fast
Fast growth in connectivity and use of the internet in nations such as Myanmar, Malaysia and Algeria is all good news for independent journalism; and bad news for autocratic, corrupt…
Monitoring and Killing Public Opinion Online: A Booming Industry in China
China has traditionally been a masterful manipulator of public opinion. It has finally perfected a system to weed out dissent on the internet, too. Days before the inauguration of the…
Latin American News Media: Who Is Big on Facebook?
Today, we released the Facebook Index Latin America, which ranks news media platforms from Latin America based on the number of Facebook followers compared to the size of their market. Central…
Public Media Must Finally Change
Critics of taxpayer funding for public media are on the rise; and for good reason. It’s time for public media to take their audience seriously. Sieglinde Baumert, 46, from the…
Malaysiakini Under Fire
Malaysia’s embattled government has already offed most of the critical journalistic outlets in Malaysia. Now, it has a new target. When a prime minister has US$ 700m in his private…
Know the Power, Know the Media
Media and journalism are changing fast and so should the media research agenda. Analyzing the role of social media in the recent elections in America, Farhad Manjoo wrote in the New…
Tamas Bodoky: Readers Pay for Our Investigative Journalism
Interview with Hungarian-born Tamas Bodoky, a Budapest-based investigative journalist and editor leading Atlatszo.hu. Co-founded back in 2011 by Mr Bodoky, Atlatszo is a watchdog NGO and investigative journalism center whose mission is…
Theories of American Media Failure: A Post-Election Map
Everybody agrees that media helped, to a great extent, make Trump president. So what went wrong? The week after election day, theories about media failure flooded American public sphere. Minna…
Internet Is Censored in Two-Thirds of the World
Many believe the Internet equals freedom of information. Recently, that has been less and less the case. Maung Saung Kha, a 23-year old poet from Myanmar, was relieved last May…
Turkish Media: From Bad to Worse
After a decade of manipulations that ensure a cozy relationship between the press and the president, Erdogan is now overseeing a harsh crackdown that is closing media outlets and putting…
Media Diet in Ukraine: Russian Social Media and Oligarch-Owned TV
Ukrainians trust Russian media less and are more aware than ever of who controls their local media. However, they still embrace Russian social networks and watch oligarchs-owned television. In February…
Is Donor Funding Bad for Journalism?
Funding from donors in the media has grown significantly during the past decade or so. Journalists welcome the charity. But when these awards come with editorial “advice”, we have a…
EU Helps Romanian Intelligence Agency to Officially Become Big Brother
Thanks to a generous EU grant, Romania’s controversial intelligence agency is mingling stocks of databases from the country’s public institutions to monitor people. That could hurt many, but in particular…