Men taking top positions in news media
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The disbalance between women and men holding top positions in the news industry continues and has even gotten a bit worse. Only 21% of 179 top editors across 240 news
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How does the Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner cover the war? [updated]
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Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co- laureate of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his courageous fight for freedom of expression, announced that it would remove
Need for war information: BBC reports Russian traffic up 250%
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BBC reports that its Russian language news website has had record audience numbers since Russia invaded Ukraine. “Visitors to the English language bbc.com site from Russia were also up by
Google signing agreement with 300 French newspapers
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Google and French publisher Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale, with close to 300 newspapers announced that they have signed an agreement where the search engine agrees to pay for
Fact-checkers joining forces against disinformation about the war in Ukraine
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Disinformation is part of modern warfare. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fact-checker community has joined forces to fight disinformation. Swedish public service broadcaster SVT announced special efforts for fact-checked
State-owned TASS suspended from European news agency cooperation
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State-owned Russian news agency TASS has been suspended from the news agency organization European Alliance of News Agencies with the organization saying TASS under the circumstances is unable to provide
Meta closing fake news accounts targeting Ukraine
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Meta announced it has taken down a network run by people in Ukraine and Russia targeting Ukraine for violating the company’s policy. The network ran websites posing as independent news
Russian state-owned media Russia Today and Sputnik banned from EU
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The state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, and their subsidiaries, will be blocked from EU territory, Ursula von der Leyen announced, as part of the sanctions against Russia. “We will ban
Social media & cyberwar as an answer to Putin’s war
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Hacking group Anonymous has announced a cyber war against Russia, and has already claimed an attack on the state-controlled TV network Russia Today, where they projected Ukrainian President’s appeal towards
Journalists of Ukraine unite to coordinate actions
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The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) has set up a special group to monitor the situation and coordinate actions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “The safety of