Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Climate journalism is growing up
Environmental coverage is moving on from panic-inducing warnings about global warming to the more constructive, solutions-based approach of climate journalism
Why are British police arresting journalists?
UK police forces increasingly regard criticism from the media as a ‘war on policing’. Journalists are being harassed, accused of crimes and arrested as a result
Covering a natural disaster - a time for credible and useful journalism
How should journalists set about covering the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria without adding to the trauma of victims?
When will this epidemic of dead and dying journalists come to an end?
Journalists are being targeted and killed in greater numbers than ever before. What will it take to get our leaders to act?
Has the media enabled a new age of scientific misinformation?
Social media and complex AI newsroom tools have produced a toxic environment in which dangerous misinformation is flourishing
‘Border jumpers’ and ‘spreaders of disease’ - how South African media incites racial hatred
The evidence that mass violence and vigilante killings have been sparked by the media in South Africa is undeniable
Julian Assange is no hero among journalists
A record number of journalists are languishing in prisons around the world, yet Assange is constantly held up as a poster boy for this type of injustice. There are far more deserving candidates
Is it time to ditch the word ‘fixer’?
A large part of the work associated with foreign correspondents is actually carried out by local journalists who are rarely credited - they work in the shadows
Morocco was the World Cup feel-good story we needed
Scenes of players frolicking on the pitch with their mothers were more than enough for me
In appreciation of sports journalists
The common perception of sports journalists as mere entertainment reporters is far from the full story
Sexual harassment in African newsrooms is a scourge on journalism
Well over half of women journalists in Africa have been subjected to sexual harassment, abuse or victimisation in news rooms. It’s time to crack down
Drone wars have removed our ability to report the horrors of conflict
What is the future for journalism in the ‘third drone age’? Full of manipulated news, most likely
America and Israel are partners in denial of justice for journalists
Both countries have a disgraceful history of disregard for the rights of media staff who are the victims of violence, particularly in conflict zones
On Zimbabwean journalists and American democracy
A Zimbabwean journalist invited by the US embassy in Harare to ‘monitor’ the US Midterms has been labelled a ‘Western spy’ by some people at home
Why Western media makes this football fan so uneasy
Criticism of Qatar in the lead up to the World Cup was always a given. But some of the hypocrisy on display is something else