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Call for Interest: Workshop on Organizing in the Media Field

September 7, 2022

The Journalism Breakthroughs Project led by the Democracy Institute’s Center for Media, Data and Society is organizing a one-and-a-half-day event in which members of media organizations, labor activists, students, researchers and members of civil society organizations are invited to debate and discuss the use of organizing into unions, networks, associations and communities to push forward the rights of journalists and to protect the freedom of the media. 

Joan Barata Joins the Board of Directors and International Advisory Board of Access Info

September 6, 2022

CMDS Fellow Joan Barata has become one of the new members of the Board of Directors of human rights organization Access Info Europe.

Arne Hintz and Lina Dencik on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

A new research report on civic participation in the datafied society, co-authored by CMDS Fellows Arne Hintz and Lina Dencik as well as by Joanna Redden, Emiliano Treré, Jess Brand and Harry Warne, has just been published by the Data Justice Lab.

Kristina Irion on EU-UK Digital Trade

August 29, 2022

CMDS Fellow Kristina Irion and Mira Burri co-authored a commentary on the digital trade chapter in a new handbook on EU-UK trade relations.

Anya Schiffrin on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code

August 26, 2022

Australia’s news media bargaining code has pried $140 million from Google and Facebook and channeled it into journalism, CMDS Advisory Board member Anya Schiffrin reports for Poynter.