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Nobel peace prize winners call for action on online disinformation

Campaigning journalists say data-harvesting Big Tech business model an ‘existential threat’ to democracies

The Guardian - UK

Philippine media under pressure as Marcos Jr courts influencers

Critical journalists expected to remain in sights of administration as new president invites vloggers to the palace.

Al Jazeera

Irish barrister working in London warns of ‘rising anti-Irish rhetoric in the UK’ in the aftermath of Brexit

Caoilfhionn Gallagher, an international human rights lawyer in London, has warned of what she fears is rising anti-Irish sentiment in…

Irish Independent

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Defiant Philippine Nobel laureate Ressa fights for her freedom

Manila (AFP) - Less than a year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect free speech,…

AFP

Maria Ressa: Amal Clooney condemns court after Nobel laureate’s conviction upheld

Human rights lawyer’s team calls on new Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr to ‘stop the rot’ and allow a free…

The Guardian - AU

Philippine journalist loses another legal fight

MANILA: Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has lost her appeal against a conviction for cyber libel, her news…

Bangkok Post

Philippines' Nobel laureate Ressa loses appeal of cyber libel conviction

Manila (AFP) - Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa lost her appeal against a conviction for cyber libel, her…

AFP

Some Filipinos Think ‘Biased’ News Site Rappler Should Be Shut Down

At home, Rappler receives little support from Filipinos as journalists and fact-checkers become increasingly vulnerable to attacks from the government…

The News Lens

Press freedom in death throes as autocrats shutter media outlets of Nobel laureates

Less than a year after journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were anointed the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for…

Crikey

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Philippines shuts down Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s news outlet

After authorities in the Philippines ordered Rappler to shut shop, investigative news platform’s founder, Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, decried “highly…

Newslaundry

Nobel laureate Ressa vows to fight order to shut Philippine news site

Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa pledged on Wednesday to fight an order by the corporate regulator to shut…

Reuters

Philippines: Maria Ressa’s Rappler news site ordered shut down

Nobel prize winner pledges to keep her critical news site running, labels shutdown order ‘highly irregular’.

Al Jazeera

Philippines' Ressa says 'business as usual' despite news outlet's shutdown order

Manila (AFP) - Philippine journalist Maria Ressa's news company Rappler was continuing to work "as usual", the Nobel Peace Prize…

AFP

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Nobel laureate Maria Ressa vows to fight Philippines order shutting Rappler site

‘Kill’ order to revoke news website’s certificates of incorporation made in final days of Rodrigo Duterte’s rule

The Guardian - UK

Philippine news site Rappler ordered to shut down

A Philippine news site co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been ordered to shut down, the company…

Bangkok Post

Maria Ressa: Philippines affirms news site shutdown order

Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa says in a speech in Hawaii Tuesday that the Philippine government…

The Independent UK

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa: U.S. democracy "far worse off" thanks to social media

The Filipino American journalist sees a global tide of misinformation that demands government action.

Axios

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa: Journalism is 'at an existential moment'

Lies, laced with anger and hate, spread faster than facts, Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has told this year's DW Global…

Bangkok Post

Bust-up at the Judith Neilson Institute offers a chance to rethink our media future

Should monetary support for Australia’s media ecosystem fill gaps in traditional platforms, or help them transition to a more diverse…

Crikey

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Russian Nobel Prize winner sells medal for Ukrainian children

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov shared the Nobel Peace Prize last year with journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines.

Livemint

Nobel laureate fears SNS used to 'manipulate minds'

MANILA -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa has expressed concerns over the way powerful people disseminate self-aggrandizing information online…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

The Marcos makeover: How history was rewritten to place a dictator's son on the cusp of power

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Sr, is poised to become the next president of the Philippines,…

ABC News

Social media threatening press freedom: Nobel laureate

Geneva (AFP) - The rise of social media has allowed dangerous propaganda to flourish and left professional journalists facing constant…

AFP

Outnumbered and outgunned, public-interest journalism is losing to identity politics

Is media reform in the shape of a national public service internet needed to fix our broken digital landscape?

Crikey

Outnumbered and outgunned, public-interest journalism losing to identity politics

Media systems have no answer for toxic polarisation. The development of a public-service internet and public-service media needs to be…

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