Since the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas began, anti-Semitic crimes have increased drastically. American Jews have been attacked and harassed across the country, including while eating at restaurants in Los Angeles and New York City, where parenthetically, a 29-year-old man was attacked who happened to be my friend’s son. That perpetrator will undoubtedly be charged with a hate crime. Synagogues have also been vandalized.
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community-centered journalism, as they call it in Philadelphia, where both of them are based. Their case involves two neighborhood projects with deep community involvement: Germantown Info Hub and Kensington Voice. They were interested in two particular wrinkles to this community-based approach: One, what does this look like in historically marginalized communities, one majority Black and another majority Latinx, where distrust in the news media runs deep after decades of stigma and distortion? And two, how do these projects function during a pandemic, when public information is crucial, misinformation is rampant, and communities can’t get together like usual?
Wenzel and Crittenden combined an ongoing ethnography of the two projects with online focus groups of 26 community residents and leaders conducted last April, during the early days of the pandemic. Among the community members, they found frustration with sensational news and a lack of actionable information in local med
Revised Windhoek Declaration Promotes Journalists Safety, Media’s Economic Viability And Internet Transparency
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Gwen Lister co-chaired a 1991 journalism seminar in Windhoek, Namibia, whose participants produced an influential text calling for a free, independent and pluralistic press. The Windhoek Declaration led to World Press Freedom Day.
Thirty years ago, dozens of African journalists gathered at a conference in the then-new nation of Namibia to strategize how to better serve the public and minimize risks of their jobs.
“In Africa today … in many countries journalists, editors and publishers are victims of repression – they are murdered, arrested, detained and censored …” the journalists wrote in a document that denounced government controls and economic and political pressures.
Is there a place for new ad-supported news channels? Can GB News (or any other ad-supported linear TV news channel for that matter) succeed in a world where younger audiences skew towards streaming alternatives? As part of The Drum’s deep dive into the future of TV, we look at why it is betting on a subscription product to bolster its ad revenue.
Andrew Neil’s news channel GB News has itself been the source of headlines since its launch was announced. It has signed up some significant talent – often poached from other UK news outlets – and announced a suite of programing designed to separate itself from the nominally objective Sky News and BBC. It is by no means a cheap experiment in adding to media plurality in the UK, even if its proponents claim it appeals to a marginalized part of the population.