News Avoidance: Ideas for reconnecting the public with journalism
Can public trust in the media be restored? What kinds of content make investigative journalism more accessible? Can broader representation of social groups help reverse news avoidance? Elli Petraki, a second-year journalism student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, noted the innovative solutions that four journalists – with different perspectives from each other – proposed to combat news avoidance.
Columbia University’s young reporters: from covering campus protests to Greece
These young journalists found themselves on the frontlines of the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian encampment, balancing the roles of students, activists, and reporters. Now they travel halfway around the world at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum to present their work to a room of top-tier journalists they look up to. Columbia University Graduate student Gaia Caramazza, who also covered the Columbia University protests talked to Editor-in-Chief, President, of the Columbia Daily Spectator Isabella Ramírez and Palestinian freelance fournalist and Jordan Media Institute faculty member, Jude Taha about the challenges they faced, for the Forum’s Pop-Up Newsroom.
Underreported: the Nagorno-Karabakh displaced
How can journalists and the media cover the crisis in the region and the displacement of thousands of refugees in Armenia.
Reporting the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis
How should journalists and the media cover the crisis in this region? One year after Azerbaijan’s military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian refugees who fled en masse, are trying to build their lives.
Decolonise How? | Do we really need foreign correspondents?
‘News was freed from the shackles of media.’
Marine heatwaves threaten the Mediterranean
In July, sea temperatures reached their highest levels on record, posing a significant threat to marine life and accelerating climate change.
How Israel continues to censor journalists covering the war in Gaza
Journalists’ organizations and the correspondents themselves have been lobbying for access to Gaza for months now. But the Israeli government appears to be not giving way.
A Sudanese journalist describes the horrors of a war she cannot cover
‘Will I survive? Will I emerge unscathed? If I am killed, will I be buried, or will my body be left on the streets for the dogs to eat?’
Notable Watchdog Reporting on the Israel-Hamas Conflict
