Efforts to make #BigTech pay for news they use are gaining steam globally & we need to ensure media everywhere benefit.

I’m excited to present my work analyzing news media bargaining codes, licensing & copyright regulations & #JCPA in Johannesburg at this important convening A really helpful resource is the policy guide we @M_Karanicolas @UCLAtech put out after our own conference on this topic: Sustaining Journalism, Sustaining Democracy: A Policy Guide on Platforms and the Press, which looks at 4 main types of interventions techpolicy.press/sustaining-jou…

During a global health pandemic, when journalism is more important than ever, governments around the world are imprisoning a record number of journalists, 274, dozens on #FakeNews charges, most on anti-state and terrorism charges & many without charges cpj.org/reports/2020/1… This is the 5th consecutive year of record highs with #China #Turkey #Egypt and #SaudiArabia once again topping this ignoble list of the world's leading jailers of journalists. In Iran, 15 journalists were imprisoned on Dec 1, and on Dec 12 one of them #Roohollah_Zam was executed

Yes a thousand times yes. I've gotten pushback from men (and women) because I started using Dr. In my email signature & on Twitter a couple years back. I spent 8 years earning a PhD, which meant passing 2 comprehensive field exams, learning Arabic, and writing a dissertation.

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I spent years on the ground and helped pioneer virtual ethnography empirically researching the political impact of blogging & social media in Egypt beg. in 2006, contributing theoretical understanding of social movements, citizen journalism and technology. While working full time