A writer reflects on the absurdity - and naivety - of journalists who place themselves at the centre of the stories they cover.

While global media organisations continue to fly in their own correspondents, relying on local journalists only for translation and ‘fixing’, the world will never get to know the real stories happening in the Global South.

Punishing journalists who publish leaked information is an assault on democracy, but journalists still need to handle such information with care and integrity.

It took me years to see how my privilege would influence the outcome of interviews with minority Hindus in Pakistan. This ‘positionality’ is something journalists should pay closer heed to.

Western media is full of negative stereotypes about my birth country. My job as a diaspora journalist is to challenge those tired old tropes.

Zimbabwe’s Cybersecurity and Data Protection Bill aims to protect privacy and guard against child sexual abuse depicted online. But it could also seriously hamper a free press.

When journalists unquestioningly swallow the narrative put forward by governments in the name of 'secrecy', it serves no-one.

Journalists have evolved from traditional tools to digital platforms, yet storytelling remains central to their work. With the rise of social media, especially among younger audiences, news organizations face challenges in delivering concise, engaging content that competes with a myriad of online distractions.

Propaganda and censorship are as old as war itself, but that has generally been a struggle to control the story rather than targeting

Years ago, the Moroccan thinker Hassan Aourid published his book titled "The Refracted Mirror of the West". Among its major topics was his seeking for media intervention to shape a new public opinion. The article brought a detailed explanation of compatibility of media visions between the West and the Arab regimes' orientations after September 11, 2001 events.

Does the global media treat Palestinian lives as inherently less valuable?

In the coverage of events in Jerusalem and Gaza, mainstream media outlets are failing to report on the situation fairly.

Journalism and sociology cannot be at odds since they are based on the same principle, and they use the same tools to construct social analyses. Still, the two disciplines do not see eye to eye. The sociologist sees the journalist as superficial, while the journalist sees the sociologist as cloistered in an ivory tower.

Asian migrant workers in Oman face a host of challenge in adjusting to their host country. Could media outlets in their native languages ameliorate those challenges?

Digital media might be the answer to a question gripping the journalism industry: Slow or instant journalism?