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Freedom of Expression | April 17, 2023

International journalists keep up the good fight despite government attacks, appreciative 24th ISOJ audience hears

By Kylee Howard

View video of the panel here. Journalists from around the world discussed the precarious state of media in their home countries during a panel chaired by Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, at the 24th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) on April 14. According to the Reporters …  Read More

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Freedom of Expression | April 17, 2023

Journalists call on organizations, lawmakers to support reporters in exile, ISOJ audience hears

By Sierra Juarez

View video of panel here. A group of journalists who have been exiled because of their reporting called on lawmakers, news organizations, and nonprofits to help find ways to sustainably support reporters in similar situations. The journalists gathered at the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) in Austin on April 15 to discuss how they …  Read More

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Freedom of Expression | February 20, 2023

‘Exile Journalism:’ ISOJ to discuss how journalists use technology to cover the countries they were forced to abandon

By Teresa Mioli

They work in newsrooms that have been relocated to neighboring countries, or sometimes, much farther from home. They left after being imprisoned, threatened with criminal charges, or labeled as “foreign agents.” Despite all this, they continue to report on the places they left behind. Cases of “exile journalism” have been proliferating around the world and …  Read More

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Coloquio | April 4, 2022

Devastated by the Ortega-Murillo administration, Nicaraguan journalism bets on resistance, resilience and reinvention

By Silvia Higuera

“Brave,” “hopeful,” “combative,” and “creative.” This is how four Nicaraguan journalists described in one word the journalism that is carried out in their country during the panel “SOS Nicaragua: Imprisoned, persecuted and exiled journalists” that took place on April 3 during the 15th Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism at the University of Texas in Austin. …  Read More

Freedom of Expression | April 2, 2022

‘This is not a profession for people who want to be silent,’ says Univision’s Jorge Ramos on journalists’ role when democracy is at risk

By César López Linares

Journalists have two main responsibilities they should be able to fulfill, said Jorge Ramos, co-anchor of Noticiero Univision at the 23rd International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. First, report reality as it is, not as journalists wish it would be. And the second is to serve as a counterweight to power. Ramos gave …  Read More

Lightning Session

Freedom of Expression | March 14, 2022

Journalists from Asia and Latin America to discuss online journalism and press freedom during special ISOJ lightning session

By Teresa Mioli

Through its 2021 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders found that “journalism is completely or partly blocked in 73 percent of the 180 countries” it ranks. The organization noted a “decline across the board” in terms of press freedom in Latin America, while Asia-Pacific was hit with censorship and disinformation. Journalists from these two regions …  Read More

Katie Kingsbury (The New York Times), Sérgio Dávila (Folha de S. Paulo), Peter Erdelyi (444.hu), Anna Gielewska (Reporters Foundation - Poland), and Juan E. Pardinas (Reforma)

Freedom of Expression | July 22, 2020

Targeted by populist leaders, journalists develop safety protocols, collaborate with competing outlets and take legal measures against those in power

By Júlio Lubianco

For the first time in its 21-year-history, the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) was held online only in 2020. To watch this panel, click here. To watch other panels, click here. Across the globe, a new generation of populist leaders is targeting journalists as their political enemies. Although practices and strategies differ, their intended results are …  Read More

Maria Ressa

Freedom of Expression | July 20, 2020

Holding the line and battling for the truth: journalist Maria Ressa from the Philippines explains the weaponization of social media during the first panel of ISOJ

By Silvia Higuera

“We will not duck, we will not hide, we will hold the line,” said Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa in a documentary over the last four years of Rodrigo Duterte as president of the Philippines, and about to release in the United States. “We felt this is the line of our constitutional rights, we felt power …  Read More