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How to amplify the voice of women in newsrooms in a post-COVID world

“During COVID-19 we are proving the case that a lot of women have thought all along – that remote workspaces, being outside of the newsroom, working on schedules that work for us and for our families – are fully effective,” says Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO of The 19th.

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Elizabeth Shilpa

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2020-07-07 14:22

French press publishers surrender to Google dominance – for now

According to French online publication Journal du net Google's strategy to circumvent the French law on press publishers' rights was successful: the great majority agreed to let the tech giant use parts of their content for free. 

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Elena Perotti

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2019-10-21 10:10

Tech giants are media companies in Brazilian advertising market

The likes of Google and Facebook have traditionally shied away from the definition - and responsibilities - of the media, insisting in calling themselves "technology companies". This changed in Brazil late last month, following a resolution of the self-regulatory entity of the Brazilian advertising market.

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Elena Perotti

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2019-08-06 22:47

Tackling disinformation around the world: a new policy report

This report offers an overview across the global landscape of the remedies adopted by governments whose objective is to combat the disinformation crisis, but with extremely diverse intent and effects. 

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Elena Perotti

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2019-05-03 16:42

Taking the neighbouring right global: WAN-IFRA @ WIPO

WAN-IFRA event to bring the conversation on neighbouring right global is happening this week! On Thursday 4th April WAN-IFRA organises a lunch alongside the 38th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights in Geneva at the World Intellectual Property Organisation. 

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Elena Perotti

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2019-04-01 17:51

EU Parliament chooses journalism and fairness

After more than 2 years of debates, an incredible amount of money spent on lobbying by the tech giants, innumerable false allegations to stir the public, the European Members of Parliament have done the right thing: they voted the new copyright directive.  

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Elena Perotti

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2019-03-26 16:08

Listen, explain, and be constructive: How to reach young audiences

What can be done to bridge the gap between younger people and the news media? Aslak Gottlieb, a former teacher who has run the Newspaper in Education programme for the Association of Danish Media for ten years, has been researching how to produce journalistic news to engage young media users.

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Simone Flueckiger

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2019-03-15 14:07

Taxes: tech giants' head start over traditional media

Tech giants have a huge advantage over traditional media companies while competing for the same public and advertising money. This new Media Policy Briefing from WAN-IFRA focuses on a category of inequality that sums up both asymmetries and direct economical advantage in a blatant way: taxation.

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Elena Perotti

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2019-02-18 22:36

Q&A on the proposal of a UN Convention for the safety of Media Professionals

This list of Questions and Answers was compiled in collaboration with the author of the Draft Convention Dr. Carmen Draghici. It collects the questions most frequently asked to the delegation that presented the draft at the UN headquarters in New York on 22 and 23 October. 

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Elena Perotti

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2018-10-26 11:20

Press freedom threatened in Italy between soft censorship and alternative facts

The Italian populist government continues copycatting the worst stunts pulled by Trump, from threatening the abuse of state advertising, to fabricating that major news media group GEDI would be on the brink of massive staff cuts. In truth, leading group paper La Repubblica is the second newspaper in the country in print, first by impressive numbers online, and it does not scare easily.

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Elena Perotti

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2018-10-11 13:41

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