Media

Republik set crowdfunding records. Then reality hit.

By Alison Langley January 28, 2019 View original story here Republik, a Swiss news startup, raised…
Can She Help Restore Trust in the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Because the literature prize has been a stuffy boys club for too long. This OZY series…
Want to quell hate speech online? Talk to right-wing politicians

Populist politicians set the tone on European social media, while hate speech on Facebook and Twitter…
The Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger: putting fossil-fuel divestment on the agenda

By Alison Langley AFTER ALAN RUSBRIDGER ANNOUNCED last December that he would step down as…
Hungary’s RTL faces tough taxes

This article first appeared in cjr.org. The government takes on the investigative news channel…
European Union journalists cross borders for story collaboration

This article first appeared in cjr.org Reporters are taking continent-wide investigations one step further…
A different take on Syria

This article first appeared in cjr.org Jihad Yazigi discusses why The Syria Report sticks…
Meet Ukraine’s Media Moguls

This article first appeared on CJR.org Russia’s advance into Crimea has transformed Ukrainian television…
Topless women endure in the UK press

Women have been organizing against the tabloid mainstay, but some editors maintain that it’s…
Go West – In the quest for digital-age prosperity, legacy newsrooms are making pilgrimages to Silicon Valley

This article first appeared the Columbia Journalism Review Magazine. November 1, 2013 by Alison Langley…