Australia’s path-breaking 2021 legislation, which got Google and Meta to pay more than 300 million dollars to media outlets, is being watched by countries around the world that want to emulate it. H...
Courtney Radsch
Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, works at the nexus of media, activism and technology and has spent her career developing a 360-degree perspective on how journalism and human rights empower citizens and marginalized communities. She is currently a fellow at UCLA's Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and a strategic tech policy advisor for mission-driven media and human rights organizations and previously led policy and advocacy at the Committee to Protect Journalists and freedom of expression in the Arab region at UNESCO. She regularly publishes and provides commentary and analysis in top media outlets and is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change along with dozens of book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and policy papers.
She has led advocacy missions and media assessments to more than a dozen countries and serves on several boards and advisory bodies including Facebook’s News Integrity Panel, the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety, and Tech Policy Press. She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Online Violence (COAV), the ACOS Alliance (A Culture of Safety), and the Christchurch Call Advisory Network.
Events IJF 2023
The digital convergence has upended the news media’s traditional business model while at the same time online disinformation has become an issue of global concern. What if both of these problems cou...
Last year, Brazilian political journalist Patricia Campos Mello, who had previously reported from hot spots and conflict zones around the world, hired her first ever bodyguard in the wake of a relentl...
Why does a 26-year-old journalist decide to go undercover with six cameras on her body, living an isolated life as a Hindu nationalist, undertaking one of the riskiest undercover operations? What happ...
The press and power: the particular challenges of reporting on powerful people
As whole, journalism can be a particularly dangerous industry – journalists around the world are threatened, harassed, censored, attacked, jailed, and even killed with alarming regularity. But when ...
The Internet, and in particular, social media, increasingly impact how people’s worldviews are shaped. In this panel, human rights and digital rights experts will address, in an engaging interview s...
At least 52 journalists were killed in 2018, 33 of who were murdered in retaliation for their work. The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and continuing impunity for those who ordered and carried out h...
Last year in Perugia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) led an interactive panel on the use of sexual violence to silence women journalists. The discussion helped to scope the range of ways t...
With press freedom increasingly under attack and violence against journalists on the rise, there is much to be said about the state of media today. Most media organizations, however, shy away from rep...
When a state trolls: strategies for responding to online harassment against journalists
In the Philippines, a coordinated campaign of “paid trolls, fallacious reasoning, leaps in logic, poisoning the well” were among “the propaganda techniques that helped shift public opinion on ke...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an organization that defends the right of journalists to report without fear of reprisal. While all journalists face threats, our research indicates that ...
Journalism's perfect storm? Confronting rising global threats from "f*ke news" to censorship, surveillance, and the killing of journalists with impunity
Some hail this period in journalism as a Golden Era, pointing to major global collaborative journalism projects and the biggest data dumps in history. True, large scale investigative journalism is ‘...
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