News publishers develop playbook to defend against government attacks

In Brazil, Hungary, Poland, and Mexico, populist presidents have weaponized social media to undermine the press Editors of leading publications in those countries described their own strategies to defend press freedom. Key elements: don’t back down, collaborate internationally, protect your team, uncover the facts. Some of the tactics used by populist presidents include taking over […]

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Is six hours a day on my phone too much?

This is the third year I have done an unscientific survey of my students in Media Economics about how they use their smartphones. The point of the exercise is for them to do their own assessment and make observations. In previous years they simply counted how many notifications or alerts they received on their phones […]

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