🇺🇦 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of journalists and newsrooms have had to flee both Russia and Ukraine in order to keep reporting safely and independently from government influence. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/forced-ex…
🇸🇻 Often exile journalism is the only way independent media under authoritarianism can survive. Recently, Salvadorian newspaper @_elfaro_ announced that it had to move its legal and admin operations due to what they describe as a campaign of gov harassment reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/jailed-ex…
🇳🇮 Our 2023 Reuters Memorial Lecturer Nicaraguan journalist @cefeche has been in exile in Costa Rica for a second time since mid-2021: “Journalism done from exile remains the last reserve of all of our constitutional freedoms.” reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-reut…
🇨🇳 Some journalists have been in exile for decades. For example, Uyghur journalists have been reporting on their community and China’s abuses since the 1990s. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reporting…
"Exiled journalists are always presented as like personas in the public discourse. But when it comes to the real life experience of being in exile as a journalist, there was a dominance of being abandoned by the international community," says @MLouisaE
"The lack of awareness is extremely frustrating on a personal or emotional level. It translates into basically a total absence of structural support," says @MLouisaE twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"A free and vibrant media is the foundation for any healthy democracy," says Nic Glicher from @TRF in his introduction #DNR23 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
👎Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries
📱TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences
💰The economic downturn is putting further pressure on business models reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
Facebook is becoming much less important as a source of news
👎 Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016. News usage for Twitter has remained relatively stable, with usage of Mastodon very low. Evolution for each platform in the chart below
🔥What are the members of Cohort 3 at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network doing?
In this week's thread you'll find stories and projects by members and their teams, curated by our colleagues @arguedasortiz and @katherine_dunn
🇬🇧From the U.K., @KrystinaShveda and colleagues at @cnni have this detailed story on how extreme heat hits your health—and how how a severe heat wave in SE Asia hit outside workers first
☀️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on the China-India media row, the conviction of a Nicaraguan journalist, a change in WaPo’s leadership, and more.
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🇨🇳🇮🇳 China has called for India to meet it halfway in a dispute over journalists working in each other's countries after China said its reporters in India had been treated unfairly and an Indian journalist was asked to leave China. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
🚨 Nicaraguan journalist Victor Ticay was convicted on charges of undermining national integrity and disseminating false news; crimes that in conjunction can carry a prison sentence to up to 16 years. cpj.org/2023/06/nicara…
🌥️ Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on the death of former Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, an investigation into a conspiracy theory newspaper and more.
Silvio Berlusconi died aged 86, Italian media announced today.
The controversial former prime minister founded Mediaset, Italy's largest commercial broadcasting network. His media group includes TV channels in Spain and Germany, as well as a publisher. ft.com/content/b73dd3…
@BBCWorld's @mariannaspring investigated 'The Light', a UK publication that shares conspiracy theories and hate