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‘As you publish it, the question is always there’: Lina Attalah on Mada Masr’s future

Sep 28, 2022 By Pesha Magid

On August 31, Mada Masr, one of Egypt’s last independent news sites, published an article about the potential reorganization of leadership in the Nation’s Future Party, which dominates parliament and supports Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The article drew on comments from multiple sources “who are members of the party’s governing body and central secretariat,”...

The Washington Post has a Bezos problem

Sep 27, 2022 By Dan Froomkin

For a news organization, being owned by an oligarch can be complicated. In 2013, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post from the Graham family, those complications were not top of mind. The Post was in a downward spiral, sloughing off staff and flirting with irrelevance. Bezos’s money changed everything, bulking up the newsroom, revolutionizing...

The Intermediary

Sep 26, 2022 By Deborah Bloom

In October 2017, Louise Godbold published a blog post accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. In the post, Godbold referred to an event that took place “in the early ’90s” involving an “office tour that became an occasion to trap me,” followed by unwanted overtures and physical contact. At the time of her...

From the Existential Issue: Digital journalism didn’t have to be this way

May 4, 2021 By Nehal El-Hadi

I’m a journalist and an urban planner, both service professions with an ethical obligation to the public. The work of planners and journalists is deeply embedded within power structures that perpetuate racial injustice and social inequality—and unfortunately, neither profession has engaged in the deep self-reflection required to change all that. My interest in the confluence...

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