Only 24% of top editors are women
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Only 24% of the 174 top editors across 240 major online and offline news outlets are women despite that, on average, 40% of journalists in the 12 markets are women.
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Streaming video subscription revenues overtaking pay TV
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Revenues from streaming video subscription services, including digital pay TV, will next year overtake traditional pay TV subscriptions in the US for the first time, according to a forecast by
Spyware and emergency visas in European press freedom report
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Stop spyware used against journalists and establish emergency, short-term or work visas for threatened journalists who have to leave their countries. These are among recommendations in the Council of Europe’s
Meta closing Facebook News
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Facebook will not pay publishers for news. “People don’t come to Facebook for news and political content”, Facebook owner Meta says in a statement. The company is closing Facebook News,
Majority says social media good for democracy
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Despite many discussions about negative effects with social media, people generally see it as more of a good than a bad thing for democracy. In 20 0f 27 countries, a
Half of US adult TikTok users never post video themselves
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TikTok is a fast growing social media success story with more than 1.5 billion monthly active users. A new US study shows a minority of avid posters create the vast
How news websites block makers of AI tools
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Close to half – 48% – of the most widely used news websites across ten countries were blocking OpenAI’s crawlers at the start of the year. 24%, were blocking Google’s
More proofs that Russian authorities do not accept freedom of expression
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Just a couple of days prior to jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death came another proof that Vladimir Putin’s regime will silence opposition and freedom of expression. Freedom of expression
Israel-Hamas war brings killings of Palestinian journalists
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More than three quarters of the 99 journalists and media workers who died worldwide in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Gaza war. This is the highest number of deaths recorded
Growing number says inaccurate news on social media is a problem
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News avoidance and misinformation are growing problems especially in a big election year like 2024 with citizens in 76 countries, including the US, going to the polls. Social media is