Al Jazeera Journalism Review

How do we determine ‘newsworthiness’?

Digital media and the algorithms used by platforms to determine the news they send out to their audiences have fundamentally changed the face of news planning

Published on: 07/24/2023 - 13:37
What Zimbabwe’s news rooms must learn from global media closures

A flourishing media needs more than just capital and a few good ideas - it needs innovation  

Published on: 07/13/2023 - 08:56
Journalists beware! The silly season is upon us

With parliaments on recess and all the movers and shakers off on their holidays, journalists can find themselves scrabbling about for any old news to report. But be careful what you resort to

Published on: 07/03/2023 - 13:41
Guatemalan media needs to talk about the consequences of corruption

The media in Guatemala has a responsibility to demonstrate how corruption affects people’s human rights

Published on: 06/26/2023 - 10:38
Donald Lu is dangerously wrong - India does not have a ‘free press’

The US must stop whitewashing Prime Minister Modi’s crackdown on Indian journalists

Published on: 06/20/2023 - 07:42
Sudan shows us why Africans must tell their own conflict stories

Africa lacks freedom of expression because its stories are told by others

Published on: 06/01/2023 - 08:37
What happened when I asked ChatGPT to write my article

It got quite a lot right, and quite a lot very, very wrong

Published on: 05/22/2023 - 11:40
Shireen Abu Akleh’s forgotten murder

Over the past year, many in the media profession in the US have deliberately chosen to forget the assassination of their colleague

Published on: 05/11/2023 - 12:11
Good Correspondents Ask People; They Don’t Speak for Them

This piece reflects on the ethics of foreign correspondence, arguing that journalists covering another country should not endorse political actors or try to shape outcomes; their role is to listen, observe and report what people think rather than tell societies what they should do.

Published on: 05/08/2023 - 13:26
Why won’t Zimbabwe’s media report truthfully on the Gold Mafia?

When it comes to government corruption, mainstream media only reports what the government tells it to - as can be seen by their response to a damning Al Jazeera documentary

Published on: 04/16/2023 - 10:48
A ‘Culture of Fear’ - the Scourge of Racism in UK Newsrooms

Always ready to expose prejudice and hypocrisy within political and social elites, the bosses of Britain’s newsrooms have completely failed to address their own

Published on: 04/09/2023 - 09:43
Is the media responsible for the Auckland violence?

The media is failing to adhere to well-founded principles of journalism in its coverage of transgender issues. Violence is the result

Published on: 03/27/2023 - 12:29
How Do We Decolonise Journalism?

It is our place as journalists to lead the way in challenging oppressive social and political structures - here’s how to do it

Published on: 03/14/2023 - 07:54
Turkish media is trapped under the rubble

Turkey has suffered one of the gravest humanitarian disasters in its history, but still the media cannot seem to disengage from political polarisation

Published on: 03/02/2023 - 10:55
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

Published on: 02/27/2023 - 10:22