One year and climbing: Israel responsible for record journalist death toll
One year in, Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has exacted an unprecedented and horrific toll on Palestinian journalists and the region’s media landscape.
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.
Meet four attendees of the 2024 iMEdD International Journalism Forum
University of Pennsylvania student Anna Vazhaeparambil photographs and talks to young journalists about their expectations as they take their first steps in the industry. What do journalists hope to get out of an international media conference? What do journalism students seek to learn from their seasoned colleagues’ experiences? And what are journalists most concerned about today? University of Pennsylvania student Anna Vazhaeparambil reports on the hopes and fears of journalists attending the 2024 iMEdD International Journalism Forum in Athens.
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.