Alexandra Borchardt

MUNICH – When a local radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina started a podcasting competition in its community, it was prepared for many contingencies, except one: that the response would overwhelm the station’s server. The initiative was aimed at increasing on-air diversity, and tens of thousan...

In an age of unprecedented access to information people of all ages must improve their media literacy

Technology alone cannot encourage democracy. To some extent, high-quality, responsible journalism can

Although confidence in news media has been rising, constant vilification of journalists’ integrity and intelligence threatens to erode the profession

In the US, Trump’s attacks on so-called “fake news media” have pushed more people to support independent journalism than ever before

Just like perilous financial products, the only way to mitigate the risks of new technologies is to be fully educated about what could go wrong

Speech has always been filtered. In democratic societies, everyone has the right to express themselves but no one has ever been guaranteed an audience.