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Zapatismo and Citizen Journalism in Chiapas, Mexico

In Chiapas, independent journalists risk their lives to document resistance, preserve Indigenous memory, and challenge state and cartel violence. From Zapatista films to grassroots radio, media becomes a weapon for dignity, truth, and survival.

Latest Articles

Zapatismo and Citizen Journalism in Chiapas, Mexico

In Chiapas, independent journalists risk their lives to document resistance, preserve Indigenous memory, and challenge state and cartel violence. From Zapatista films to grassroots radio, media becomes a weapon for dignity, truth, and survival.

Ana Maria Monjardino
Ana Maria Monjardino Published on: 26 Oct, 2025
Lost in Translation: The Global South and the Flaws of Content Moderation

Global Rules, Local Consequences: How Biased Moderation Fuels Disinformation in the Global South. Unequal systems of AI and human oversight are failing to protect and often silencing non-Western voices online.

Lucia Bertoldini
Lucia Bertoldini Published on: 22 Oct, 2025
Propaganda: Between Professional Conscience and Imposed Agendas

When media institutions first envisioned editorial charters and professional codes of conduct, their primary goal was to safeguard freedom of expression. However, experience has shown that these frameworks have often morphed into a "vast prison", one that strips journalists of their ability to confront authority in all its forms. In this way, Big Brother dons velvet gloves to seize what little space remains for the practice of true journalism.

فرح راضي الدرعاوي Farah Radi Al-Daraawi
Farah Radi Al-Daraawi Published on: 17 Oct, 2025
Journalists Under Occupation; Palestinian Journalists in the West Bank

Palestinian journalists in the West Bank face extreme physical danger, psychological trauma, and systemic targeting under Israeli occupation, yet continue to report with resilience, amplifying the voices of their people despite global indifference and media bias.

Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand
Synne Bjerkestrand Published on: 13 Oct, 2025
Narrative Without Debate: The Telegraph’s Comment Ban on Gaza Coverage

What does it mean for readers when their voices are deliberately cut off? This content analysis of The Telegraph, a UK-based conservative newspaper known for its pro-establishment stance and alignment with right-leaning narratives, shows it systematically disabled Instagram comments on Israel-Gaza posts, blocking dissent and shaping a one-sided, pro-Israel narrative.

Mohammed Ramees
Mohammed Ramees Published on: 9 Oct, 2025
Bild Newspaper: The Story of Israel’s Propaganda Machine Specializing in Anti-Palestinian Incitement

It labelled Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, killed by the occupation, a “terrorist”; denies famine in Gaza; trains its journalists in Israel to promote the Zionist narrative; published forged documents leaked from Netanyahu’s office; and belongs to a media group whose charter affirms “support for Israel’s right to exist”. This is Bild, Germany’s newspaper of incitement against Palestinians, cited by Israel’s president.

Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Al Jazeera Journalism Review Published on: 7 Oct, 2025

Opinion

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Journalism in Spain: Why Omitting Ethnicity May Be Doing More Harm Than Good

In Spain, a well-intentioned media practice of omitting suspects’ ethnic backgrounds in crime reporting is now backfiring, fuelling misinformation, empowering far-right narratives, and eroding…

Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Interview with Zina Q. : Digital Cartography as a Tool of Erasure in Gaza

Amid Israel’s war on Gaza, Zina Q. uncovers how Google Maps and satellite imagery are being manipulated; homes relabelled as “haunted,” map updates delayed, and evidence of destruction obscured,…

Samira Mohyeddin
Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine: A Call to Name the Killer, Not Just the Crime

How many journalists have to be killed before we name the killer? What does press freedom mean if it excludes Palestinians? In its latest strike, Israel killed an entire Al Jazeera news crew in…

Diaries

Anas Al Sharif; Killed by Israel, but His Final Words Will Echo far Beyond His Death

For over a year and a half, Anas Jamal al-Sharif refused to leave northern Gaza, documenting the destruction and loss that others tried to hide. Tonight, Israel silenced his voice, but his final words, written on April 6, will echo far beyond his death.

Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Al Jazeera Journalism Review Published on: 11 Aug, 2025
Charged with Being a Journalist in Sudan

Between the barricades of the conflicting parties, sometimes displaced, and sometimes hiding from bullets, journalist Iman Kamal El-Din lived the experience of armed conflict in Sudan and conveyed to Al-Sahafa magazine the concerns and challenges of field coverage in a time of deception and targeting of journalists.

Iman Kamal El-Din is a Sudanese journalist and writer
Eman Kamal El-Din Published on: 2 Feb, 2025
From Journalism to Agriculture or “Forced Unemployment” for Sudanese Journalists

How did the war in Sudan push dozens of journalists to change their professions in search of a decent life? In this article, colleague Muhammad Shaarawi recounts the journey of journalists who were forced by war conditions to work in agriculture, selling vegetables, and other professions.

Shaarawy Mohammed
Shaarawy Mohammed Published on: 23 Jan, 2025

Reports

Zapatismo and Citizen Journalism in Chiapas, Mexico

In Chiapas, independent journalists risk their lives to document resistance, preserve Indigenous memory, and challenge state and cartel violence. From Zapatista films to grassroots radio, media becomes a weapon for dignity, truth, and survival.

Ana Maria Monjardino
Ana Maria Monjardino Published on: 26 Oct, 2025
Lost in Translation: The Global South and the Flaws of Content Moderation

Global Rules, Local Consequences: How Biased Moderation Fuels Disinformation in the Global South. Unequal systems of AI and human oversight are failing to protect and often silencing non-Western voices online.

Lucia Bertoldini
Lucia Bertoldini Published on: 22 Oct, 2025
Propaganda: Between Professional Conscience and Imposed Agendas

When media institutions first envisioned editorial charters and professional codes of conduct, their primary goal was to safeguard freedom of expression. However, experience has shown that these frameworks have often morphed into a "vast prison", one that strips journalists of their ability to confront authority in all its forms. In this way, Big Brother dons velvet gloves to seize what little space remains for the practice of true journalism.

فرح راضي الدرعاوي Farah Radi Al-Daraawi
Farah Radi Al-Daraawi Published on: 17 Oct, 2025
Journalists Under Occupation; Palestinian Journalists in the West Bank

Palestinian journalists in the West Bank face extreme physical danger, psychological trauma, and systemic targeting under Israeli occupation, yet continue to report with resilience, amplifying the voices of their people despite global indifference and media bias.

Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand
Synne Bjerkestrand Published on: 13 Oct, 2025
Narrative Without Debate: The Telegraph’s Comment Ban on Gaza Coverage

What does it mean for readers when their voices are deliberately cut off? This content analysis of The Telegraph, a UK-based conservative newspaper known for its pro-establishment stance and alignment with right-leaning narratives, shows it systematically disabled Instagram comments on Israel-Gaza posts, blocking dissent and shaping a one-sided, pro-Israel narrative.

Mohammed Ramees
Mohammed Ramees Published on: 9 Oct, 2025
The Silent Death of Urdu Newspapers in India

With a 200-year history, Urdu newspapers in India are now facing a silent death—trapped in a cycle of decline where circulation has fallen by nearly 25%, advertising is absent, and government support is scarce. What vanishes is more than print: it is the erosion of a cultural and political lifeline that once bound Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs in common debates and carried the voices of the marginalised into India’s public sphere.

Hanan Zaffa
Hanan Zaffar, Majid Alam Published on: 1 Oct, 2025