This brochure from the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) explains the significance of IPDC’s monitoring and reporting on safety of journalists media workers and social media producers in many parts of the world, including in countries which are not considered conflict areas and the issue of impunity. Some 827 journalists have been...

Donald Trump’s conduct throughout his campaign for President of the United States has brought into renewed focus a question made famous by Pontius Pilate: what is truth? Trump has exploited the 24/7 symbiotic news cyclone in which social media and the professional journalism of traditional media are both caught up. He first creates social media...

Are digital and social media fuelling a more partisan, less rational political discourse? With more people relying on social media for news, both the Brexit result in the UK and the rise of Donald Trump in the US have raised concerns around the growth of echo chambers and the reliability and accuracy of news on...

How are legacy news organisations dealing with the business of digital news? How are they addressing recent developments such as the rise of social media, the move from desktop internet to an increasingly mobile web, and the growing importance of online video? This report explores how twenty-five different newspapers and commercial broadcasters, in six European...

In this article, Johanna Dunaway, Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstain Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy, explains mobile’s limitations as a means of news consumption and its implications for an informed citizenry.