🗞 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20220113
✅ Obstruction of Journalism: A new way to combat violence against journalists
妨礙新聞公正報導法：打擊針對記者暴力的新方式

Obstruction of journalism would also be an important deterrent. Now, virtually nothing impedes these attacks—not newsrooms, not social media platforms, not law enforcement. Although some news organizations have started to address violence against their journalists, many reporters still feel vulnerable and that they are professionally tethered to the most prolific font of abuse—social media.

🗞 AP NEWS 美國《聯合通訊社》（簡稱《美聯社》）｜20211231
✅ Media reps say 45 reporters, staffers died at work in 2021
媒體代表 IFJ：2021 年有 45 名記者和媒體員工因公殉職
A total of 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last year, the highest number among them in strife-torn Afghanistan, the world’s largest organization of journalists said Friday.

🗞 Al Jazeera 卡達《半島電視台》｜20211224
✅ Almost half of Afghan media closed since Taliban takeover: Survey
調查：塔利班佔領以來，已有近半數阿富汗媒體關閉

A survey by Reporters Without Borders and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association shows 60 percent of journalists are unemployed.

🗞 New Statesman 英國倫敦政治和文化雜誌《新政治家》｜20211217
✅ Why Ofcom needs clear powers to audit Big Tech’s algorithms
為什麼英國通訊管理局需要明確的權力來監理大型科技公司的演算法？

Inspection of algorithms in social media is an essential, but also frequently overlooked, part of the Online Safety Bill. 

🗞 The Journalist’s Resource 哈佛大學肖倫斯坦中心《記者資源》｜20211209
✅ How to hold the line: 4 journalism survival tips from 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa
如何守住底線：來自 2021 年諾貝爾和平獎得主 Maria Ressa 的 4 條新聞生存秘訣

The champion of press freedom shares insights for journalists who are fighting to hold power to account amid relentless harassment and misinformation on social media.

🗞 The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20211204
✅ Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
諾貝爾獎得主：「我們記者室獨裁和戰爭之間的防線」

“It’s a huge signal that we are in that same kind of moment. We are on the verge of fascism. It’s different this time because it’s being enabled by technology but it’s also happening faster. There is this insidious manipulation happening at scale and humanity is wrapping its head around that.”
It is, she says, “a sliding doors moment”.

🗞 International Journalists’ Network (IJNet) 國際記者網｜20211124
✅ What J-Schools should teach about freelancing
關於「自由特約」新聞學院應該教導的事

A colleague, who preferred not to be named, said that because she was new to freelancing, she had no idea how to properly pitch a story. A journalism graduate, she asked if a pitch should include a full reported draft. Her school did not prepare her for this element of reporting.

🗞 Journalism.co.uk 英國新聞媒體網站《Journalism.co.uk》｜20211123
✅ Check out this new guide on how AI can support your journalism
新指南：人工智能如何協助您的新聞工作？

The team behind the JournalismAI project at LSE has created a resource that covers just about every question journalists may have about artificial intelligence and its place in the newsroom.

🗞 NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20211116
✅ About a third of news organizations have already adopted a remote or hybrid working model
新聞機構約 1/3 已採取遠端或混合工作模式

Just 9% of newsrooms plan to reject remote work and return to their pre-pandemic setup.

🗞 Nieman Lab 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20211110
✅ Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism
公共近用電視頻道是建立在地新聞的未開發資源

Instead of letting public access channels wither due to commercial market fluctuations, we should publicly fund and expand the precious communication infrastructure that access media offers.