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The new foreign correspondent at work - new RISJ Report
This new RISJ report examines the Sudanese-national journalists who provided an important portion of the global news coverage on the crisis in Darfur. Despite the importance of local-nationals journalists to the global news...read more ›
Making serious TV for large audiences
In a time of entertainment, infotainment, new media, McDonaldization and tabloidization, how can serious TV reach a large audience? Roger Graef, writer, filmmaker, broadcaster and criminologist, answered this question by drawing...read more ›
New Media and Freedom of the Press
Yvette Sierra Praeli, a freelance Peruvian journalist, has written an analysis of how even in democratically-elected governments new media can play a crucial role in supplying information to the public which governments would...read more ›
In the Pursuit of Purity: Reflections on the BBC
Excellence, said Mark Damazer, is the fundamental test for the BBC.“It stands for outright excellence or it stands for nothing," he said. “ In this sense the BBC is an elite organisation and there should be no shame attached to...read more ›
Chinese media at home and abroad
“I don’t often feel sorry for the Chinese censors,” said the leading journalist and long-time China specialist Isabel Hilton, “but sometimes I feel these guys have a pretty hard time.” She was describing what she called the...read more ›
The Role of the Media in the Democratic Transition in Egypt - new Fellow's paper available online
Nagwa Abdallah, an Egyptian journalist working at the al-Ahram newspaper, has written a timely analysis of the role of the traditional and new media in the January 2011 popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak. In her...read more ›
Mubarak: Tweeting his downfall
So what do you do if you’ve been given a break on the biggest story in the world and you’re not due on the air for more than three hours?This was the dilemma facing Lindsey Hilsum in Cairo in February. Just one of many...read more ›
Guns and Roses
When news of a major blast in the government office of Takhar in Northern Afghanistan popped up on my computer last Saturday, I soon remembered Abdul Jalil, a 20 year old Afghan soldier I recently met from the same province: ”If...read more ›
Resist the tyranny of the web and tabloids
Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday if he thought the Glasgow-based Sunday Herald had been right, this past weekend, to publish the identity of an errant, married footballer, Alec Salmond, Scotland’s first minister,...read more ›
Can it tweet its way to democracy? New RISJ Report available online
In this report Abiye Megenta explores the changing ways in which citizens are chipping away the power of authoritarian regimes in Africa, including Egypt, through the use of online participatory media and argues that African...read more ›