In 1991, when the Soviet Union fell, Gorbachev’s resignation speech was live broadcasted by CNN and aired in over 150 countries, followed by a sit-down interview with the former Soviet leader. It was the first time that a news...
On Friday 4 March, Russia passed a ‘fake news’ law that threatens journalists with up to 15 years in prison.Within hours, the BBC announced the immediate suspension of its journalism in Russia.Several local publications either closed down in response...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fueled a surge of false and misleading content on TikTok. Countless videos are exploiting the platform’s defining features around audio creation and sharing in order to spread fake wartime footage purportedly filmed in Ukraine.
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In this Reuters Institute factsheet we analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across five continents.Looking at a sample of ten top online...
The news organization that prides itself on short-format writing has big plans to expand in local news, paid newsletters and even the emails sent by your bosses.
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“Military censorship in Russia has quickly moved into a new phase…the threat of criminal prosecution of both journalists and citizens who spread information about military hostilities that is different from the press releases of the Ministry of Defense.”
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THIS WEEK, Steve Waldman, the cofounder and president of Report for America, published a two-part report for CJR about the local-news crisis. In it, Waldman considers the decline in newsroom newspaper staff against a few other data points—there are...
Journalists leave a bad impression with the public when they call themselves “storytellers,” a new study finds.Researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that roughly 80% of the U.S.-based Twitter biographies that included “storyteller” belonged to journalists or former...
Amid reports of fighting in Ukraine over the weekend, one video posted on social media captured an apocalyptic scene: multiple fires raging on a highway outside of an apartment building as smoke billowed and loud pops rang through the...
Alessandra Galloni (1974) is the first woman to lead Reuters. Born in Rome, she graduated from Harvard and the London School of Economics, and started to work for Reuters in Rome in 1996 after a brief stint at AP....
