What has the fake news problem taught us about the nature of the news cycle? Ahead of the 2020 US election, this is the perfect time to assess lessons of the disinformation era for our industry.
Natalia Antelava
Natalia Antelava is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning media start-up Coda Story. Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, Natalia started her career freelancing in West Africa. Following that, she was the BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and India. She covered the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the war in Eastern Ukraine and reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan. Her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won her a number of awards and an Emmy nomination. In addition to a career in broadcast journalism, Natalia has also written for the Guardian, Forbes magazine and the New Yorker among others.
Targeting technology: how are we covering one of the most important beats in the world?
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The great balancing act: when your work story is in the way of your life story
All of us are children, parents, siblings struggling to balance our work with our family responsibilities. Some of us are also managers trying to figure out how to accommodate both newsroom and empl...
The session will explore different ways in which press freedom is threatened and how that translates into innovative media projects in the CEE region. We are going to talk about the polarization and i...
From Russia to India and the United States, around the world historical revisionism fuels fake news and disinformation. But what does it mean for journalism? Should newsrooms think harder about their ...
In this session, three experts on Russia and the former Soviet space will discuss the phenomenon of fake news, told within the context of modern Russia. Amie will moderate a panel between Natalia and ...
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