How Foreign Aid Fuels African Media’s Payola Problem
thinks the continent's journalistic shortcomings are rooted in a business model that relies on bribery.
Press Released
Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility by US President Donald Trump, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey, and Zambia, growing financial pressure, and the challenge of “fake news.” In “Press Released,” Project Syndicate, with support from the European Journalism Centre, frames and stimulates debates about the myriad challenges facing the press today.
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Regulating Speech in the New Public Square
warn that targeting fake news with censorship and “war rooms” could weaken a key pillar of democracy.
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How Globalization Killed Our Mother
think journalists have much to teach law-enforcement authorities about fighting organized crime and corruption.
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Selling Africa’s Good News Stories
says the West's bias toward negative coverage presents unique challenges for the continent's journalists.
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Putin’s Semi-Free Press Problem
says that, in reporting on social issues, Russia's news media are not as restrained as one might expect.
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Condemning Khashoggi’s Killers
says the apparent state-sanctioned murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi must not go unpunished.
