On March 25th, teams of volunteers in more than 130 countries scrutinized gender equality in their national news media. Since 1995, the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has assessed…
Last week the Minister for Communications Alex White launched a report by FuJo and the National Women’s Council of Ireland on Hearing Women’s Voices? Exploring women’s underrepresentation…
Internet comment sections have a bad reputation. Here be trolls and not much else. Can readers have engaging dialogue below the line? Often the conversation…
To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on November 2, UNESCO launched a special report World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. This follows…
In October, the Council of Europe’s European Audiovisual Observatory published a free eBook Freedom of Expression, the Media and Journalists. The book provides valuable insights into the…
FuJo’s journalism students are participating in an “elecathon” at Storyful’s offices this Friday to build an open source database of information on all Irish political…
IAMCR, the preeminent body of international communications scholars, has submitted evidence to the House of Lords Inquiry into BBC Charter Renewal. This follows the organisation’s…
Last week the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (IBI) launched the Television License Fee Report and called for the public service work of independent broadcasters to…
On Friday WikiLeaks released the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). To protect trade secrets, the TPP requires each signatory…
When the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared the EU-US Safe Harbour framework invalid last Tuesday, it raised serious questions about Ireland’s capacity to act as…