Don’t feed the trolls

December 3rd, 2012

An anti-Muslim video demonstrated how politics of fear dominate the online environment. It’s time we took action, argue Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman (more…)

Hillary Clinton offers support to Maziar Bahari

August 7th, 2009

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States has “expressed our concern about Maziar Bahari’s confinement and trial” to the Canadian government and offered to help.  Newsweek’s Tehran correspondent was detained on 21 June as part of Iran’s post-election crackdown on the media. This week her husband, Bill Clinton, returned from North Korea having obtained the release of two imprisoned US journalists. Read more here

Stryker McGuire: “Lousy economics are constricting information”

May 18th, 2009

With the media in decline, we shouldn’t assume that news journalism will survive
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