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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and its implications on Journalism

by Site Manager | May 22, 2022 | Press Freedom, WPFD22

by Karl Furlong In 2014 The Los Angeles Times created an algorithm to generate a story after an earthquake. The tool, Quakebot, brought AI into the company’s newsroom. By pulling data from the US Geological Survey and other trusted sources, the computer algorithm is...

New fund aims to increase Media Viability in developing markets

by Site Manager | May 22, 2022 | Press Freedom, WPFD22

The venture was announced on World Press Freedom Day, explicitly linking media freedom and media viability by Mac Larsen In honor of World Press Freedom Day 2022, the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) announced the first round of funding for public...

How Newsrooms and Tech Companies are Combatting Online Violence Against Women Journalists

by Site Manager | May 22, 2022 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom, WPFD22

by Hevenn Vanhelsdingen As digital attacks become more frequent, female journalists are increasingly exposed to online sexual assault and personal information leakages. These attacks are a threat to women’s rights and to democracy because smear campaigns and other...

Religion, Russia, Ukraine: Panel Discussion

by bbanna | Mar 10, 2022 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News

An awareness of the deeply religious dimension of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is totally missing in the Western media’s otherwise impressive, and often brave, coverage of this ongoing tragedy, which is incomprehensible in reductively political/secular terms....

Child-labor’s frightening growth during the war in Yemen

by laufer | Jan 22, 2022 | Conflict Sensitive Reporting, Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Intercultural and Interreligious Conflict, News, Stories

  Child-labor’s frightening growth during the war in Yemen by Ahmed Aldali and Abdusalam Almassajdi Sana’a, Yemen November, 5 2021  (Translated from the Arabic by University of Oregon Professor David Hollenberg, January 17, 2022. The children’s...

COVID VACCINES A “GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD”

by bbanna | Nov 19, 2021 | Food for Thought, Intercultural and Interreligious Conflict, News

UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has recently declared COVID-19 vaccines to be “a global public good.” The pandemic is a global phenomenon and can only be approached, and ameliorated, from a global perspective....
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