2021-09-10. Our Burning Planet produces high-end journalism about humanity’s greatest challenge. On World News Day, 28 September, some 300 newsrooms around the world will show what they are doing about climate change. As part of the build-up, Laura Oliver interviewed Jillian Green, managing editor of Our Burning Planet, a unit dedicated to covering the global environmental […]
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As new EU export controls rules come into force on 9 September with the recast Dual-Use Regulation(1), five organizations call upon the European Commission as well as all 27 EU member states to follow up on their promise of creating a transparent market in cyber-surveillance technologies that is bound by effective human rights safeguards with
The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day
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The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day
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Twitter has announced a new feature allowing accounts to self-identify as bots, by adding a label to their profile. Twitter said the update was based on research that found that people wanted more context about non-human accounts. The company gives several examples of “good bots” including accounts that share vaccination updates, information about seismic activity
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2021-09-09. Twenty-one news organisations across Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America have been selected to participate in the 2021 GNI Latin America Advertising Revenue Lab. Led by the Google News Initiative and organised in collaboration with digital consultancy Media.Monks and WAN-IFRA, the programme will provide a diverse cohort of media organisations with personalised, hands-on support to
2021-09-09. El Diario, a Spanish online-only news company, was founded in 2012 with the primary aim of reconnecting society with journalism. The company’s membership programme is built under the premise that journalism is a public service. El Diario’s membership model guarantees its employees economic and editorial independence, all the while keeping the reader at its
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2021-09-09. Google’s delay in phasing out third-party cookies until the end of 2023 offers a temporary relief to news publishers, but many still need to find alternatives. The New York Times appears well prepared to replicate the success they have had with the digital subscription model on the advertising front as well. The company began
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Tajik authorities to add Khikmatullo Sayfullozoda, a journalist imprisoned since 2015 in conditions that are endangering his life, to the list of thousands of prisoners due to be freed under an amnesty issued by President Emomali Rahmon to mark the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan’s independence. The editor of
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Twitter is testing new changes to how photos and videos appear on its apps, closer to how images appear on other services such as Instagram. The new feature will expand visual media embedded in tweets to fill the whole width of a mobile phone’s screen. Currently, images are indented next to a user’s profile photo
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