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Jozef M. Mintal on the Tech Stacks of Untrustworthy Slovak and Czech Websites

October 6, 2021
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Publications - Academic Articles

In a new paper for Communication and Smart Technologies, CMDS Fellow Jozef Michal Mintal and his colleagues at UMB Data&Society Lab mapped the back-end services untrustworthy Czech and Slovak websites rely on and analyzed how they can be utilized to combat disinformation.

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Dean Starkman Serves as Senior Editor for the Pandora Papers

October 5, 2021
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CMDS Fellow Dean Starkman worked as a senior editor of the Pandora Papers, which he hopes will shed some light on the shadowy system of the offshore world that undermines faith in democratic institutions.

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Funding Journalism in Britain: Commercial Logic Beats Public Interest

September 28, 2021
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Publications - Reports
MIM News

Public funding is the most suited, if not sole, future for Britain’s public interest journalism. But both policymakers and commercial media seem to oppose it. A new CMDS report sheds light on the latest trends in journalism funding in the UK.

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The Media Influence Matrix Expands to Latin America

September 27, 2021
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We are happy to announce that Montevideo-based think tank Observacom has joined the Media & Power Research Consortium to expand the Media Influence Matrix to Latin America.

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When the Medium is the Message: The Cuban “El Paquete” System

September 21, 2021
Journalism Breakthroughs
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Publications - Articles

In our latest article covering innovation in journalism from around the world, Jelena Prtoric writes how one TB of films, series, magazines, newspapers and advertisement is delivered every week in Cuba to millions of people in an offline delivery system known as El Paquete Semanal.

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