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Parthasarathi and Agarwal on Media Regulation in India

June 23, 2020
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Two tendencies mark the regulatory framework of digital journalism in India, one ridden with control and the other with laissez faire, our Fellow Vibodh Parthasarathi and Simran Agarwal, co-authors of the Media Influence Matrix: India report wrote in their article Rein and Laissez Faire: The Dual Personality of Media Regulation in India, published by Digital Journalism.

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Bognar on the Threats Against Index.hu’s Independence

June 22, 2020
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“If pro-government forces seize Index, it will be bad for the Hungarian media, readers and democracy,” our Senior Program Officer and Researcher, Eva Bognar said to Slovak daily SME.

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Pursuing Wickedness: Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda in Romania – Part I.

June 22, 2020
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Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania’s communist dictator executed by firing squad on December 25, 1989, “lived and died like a lion,” proclaimed a January 2020 Sputnik-Moldova column, demonstrating that fiction is the lie by which to tell a bigger lie and not “through which we tell the truth,” as Albert Camus describes it.

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Black Waters: An Account of an Experimental Hybrid Project

June 19, 2020
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Journalists, anthropologists, a sociologist and a natural scientist came together in the Black Waters project to look into the causes and social consequences of environmental damage along the Danube. The project was run by the Center for Media, Data and Society in partnership with Atlatszo and Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.

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New Podcast: Innovations in Journalism During a Pandemic

June 18, 2020
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The podcast discusses how the media coped with the crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic: Innovations in journalism allowed media outlets to survive.

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