As more and more corporate-owned news outlets lay-off reporters and dramatically slash coverage, there’s a growing movement in the US to provide a stronger infrastructure support system to accelerat...
Natalia Antelava
Natalia Antelava is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of Coda Story, an award-winning newsroom that covers the roots of global crises.
Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, Natalia started her journalism career in West Africa and has been BBC's resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and India. She has covered wars in Georgia, Ukraine and Iraq 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. Natalia has also written for the Guardian, Forbes magazine, New Yorker and CNN.
She is the author of Coda's weekly Disinfo Matters newsletter and the host of a narrative podcast Undercurrents: Tech, Tyrants and Us, Coda’s collaboration with Audible which tells stories of people whose lives were turned upside down when digital technology collided with tyrants.
Parachute journalism, sending reporters from western countries into Black and brown communities globally, is a foundational and institutionalized norm in journalism. It also leads to coverage of commu...
Targeting technology: how are we covering one of the most important beats in the world?
Technology has become one of the most important news beats in the world, impacting elections, economies and societal structures. Yet much of the focus is centered on the U.S and Europe, when in fact m...
Partnership has become the industry buzzword. But when do partnerships work and why do they fail? And how do we make collaboration the real future of journalism? Organised in association with Coda M...
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold globally in early 2020, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) & the Tow Center for Digital Journalism launched a study into the transformational impact...
Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine changed everything, including the information landscape. What are the consequences of this conflict for journalism in Ukraine, in Russia and beyond? What should the Wes...
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.
Targeting technology: how are we covering one of the most important beats in the world?
Technology has become one of the most important news beats in the world, impacting elections, economies and societal structures. How are global news organizations approaching their coverage?
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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