The window of time between keeping unbiased independent news organisations and going back to square one – to state-owned biased media – is limited and depends on how soon experts can step in, writes Suliman Ali Zway Read more »
Nicole Tung travelled to Libya earlier this year, capturing black and white images of the revolution, which have subsequently been exhibited around the world Read more »
To succeed, the Tunisian journalists’ union will have to develop into a strong organisation, comprised of professional journalists. This is where The Journalism Foundation comes in, and we are looking forward to working alongside them, writes Mongi Aouinet Read more »
Two daily papers in towns in Australia have been closed down as part of a systematic closure of paid-for titles Down Under. The loss of a local paper may not have the day-to-day impact on a community of, say, the closure of a butcher’s shop or a hardware store, but the gap it leaves behind is a very serious one Read more »
The world watched the Arab Spring unfold through the lens of photographers in Libya, Tunisia and beyond. Some were professionals; others, like Chris Belsten, were amateurs with a Flickr account Read more »
The Arab Spring was widely reported as the Twitter and Facebook revolution. Collected are some of the key social media commentators of the Arab Spring, writes Celia Graham-Dixon Read more »
The more certain a journalist is about something, the more we should be sceptical about what he or she has to say, writes Rod Liddle. Read more »
The demise of regional papers and the rise of online media have opened up opportunities for individuals to run grass roots websites reporting on issues that matter to them, writes Naomi Westland. Read more »
2012: It certainly won’t be an easy or quiet year
Last January the overwhelming majority of the national press was still studiously ignoring the fizzing fuse of the phone-hacking scandal, pretending to their millions of readers that nothing serious had gone wrong in their industry, writes Brian Cathcart Read more »