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News

Trust Conference 2023: seven things we learnt about press freedom around the world

Here are a few highlights from speakers such as Sebastien Lai, Jodie Ginsberg, Charlie Beckett and Rana Rahimpour at TRF’s flagship event.

Reporting from exile, an Uyghur journalist sees social media as a double-edged sword

Shohret Hoshur, who works for Radio Free Asia, explains why he envies Ukrainians and how he keeps reporting on his community from afar.

“In Taiwan China has launched a disinformation campaign in Chinese on the Russian invasion of Ukraine”

Sherry Hsueh-Li Lee, editor of nonprofit news site ‘The Reporter’, reflects on how her journalists are reporting on Putin's war from afar.

How China uses the news media as a propaganda weapon

Beijing is reshaping coverage with deals in Italy, Czech Republic and the Philippines.

China’s latest weapons against dissidents in Hong Kong – its own newspapers

Owned by the regime, they target reporters and citizens. Arrests often come next.

From fact-checking to women’s rights: TikTok's promising rise in the Global South

Global news agency AFP and news publishers in Brazil and Nicaragua are engaging new audiences in the platform, Laura Oliver reports.

Research

The fate of Hong Kong's journalists under China's rule in seven poignant stories

These individual stories highlight how the passage of the National Security Law has changed the lives of Hong Kong journalists.

Social media communities and reporting of the COVID-19 pandemic

Mark Frankel explores how journalists can work with online communities

Volume and Patterns of Toxicity in Social Media Conversations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Research looks at worldwide conversations on Twitter during the coronavirus outbreak and the extent to which posts targeted the World Health Organization.

Gauging the Global Impacts of the 'Panama Papers' Three Years Later

First comprehensive overview of the impacts of a co-ordinated global reporting project finds almost 20% of countries studied have made substantive changes in three years.

Journalism and the NSA Revelations: Privacy, Security and the Press

This book provides a rich and thoughtful experiment with thinking about possibilities and limits of ‘transnational journalism’ in times when its definition, functions, and raison d’etre appear ambiguous.

Events

Satirical strategies: exposing corruption with humour

The Prince's secrets: behind the podcast exposing China's leader