TRACIE POWELL’s Post

🎉 Excited to announce that my article is now published in Volume 101, Issue 2 of the esteemed Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly journal! 📰✨ Explore how media impacts public cognitive maps in a polarized media system under competitive authoritarianism. Check out the details in the article! 📖🔍#Research #Journalism #MediaEffects #NetworkAgendaSetting

Insightful discussion from the Poynter Institute of how restrictions on credible sources affect local reporting – with outstanding lessons to be translated to international media assistance projects.  My key takeaway?: Media development programs around the world support Freedom of Information frameworks within emerging democracies, yet these projects are often severely under-financed. Creating the FOI legal framework is not the goal – USING the FOI mechanism, robustly and repeatedly, establishes data journalism as a successful reporting practice. Budget-constrained governments require resources to respond to FOI requests. Media outlets require investments to allow journalists the time to devote to data journalism projects without the demanding pressure to produce daily news content. The FOI ecosystem – especially where none existed before – needs financial capital to transition from regulations on the books to reporting that audiences consume and use to make political decisions. Your thoughts? #journalism / #mediadevelopment / #medialiteracy / #internationaldevelopment https://lnkd.in/eEkiZjjx Poynter Institute

I write for The Telegraph on the systematic-institutional attack on media, mainstream media sliding to communalism, hatred & sensationalism, its impact on democratic values of our nation. "In these distressing times, our nation is grappling with communal conflicts, the insidious takeover of fake news, an alarming surge of misinformation in the digital age, arbitrary overhauls of educational materials and syllabus revisions along with a disturbing increase in assaults on women. The mainstream media seems to have reached its lowest ebb too, with journalists finding themselves either under official scrutiny for merely carrying out their duties or choosing sensationalism over matters of genuine significance. In the face of these challenges, one cannot help but wonder: what remains of our democracy?" Thanks for the crucial reports by Lokniti CSDS, Delhi, V-Dem Institute, Economist Intelligence: EIU, The Polis Project and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) https://lnkd.in/dQ6Genfd

Investigating Anti-Semitism in Your Community Anti-semitism in colleges, universities and other public places is a big story right now. How can journalists cover the story fairly, accurately, and with insight helpful to their viewers, readers, and listeners? This article is the first of two-parts that I hope will help us all better understand what's going on in the world around us and how we can use critical thinking to respond logically and reasonably. #antisemitism #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #journalism #newsmedia #college https://lnkd.in/e5WGmnbs

📰🔱 "By sharing the stories of ordinary #Ukrainians and highlighting their #experiences, #hopes, and #aspirations, Volynska Gazeta aims to infuse #humanity into the discourse surrounding the ongoing #conflict." The ViLNi project, led by Teti Poudel, seeks to harness the power of #digital #media and innovative #storytelling to continue Volynska Gazeta's tradition of providing reliable #news and serving the #community. https://lnkd.in/ebg88udx

📊 Today's #DataJournalism Top 10 include stories that visualize the war in #Israel and #Gaza, Australia’s #IndigenousVoice vote, aging in Taiwan, romance novel covers, and many more... Find them all here: ⬇️ #datajournalism #dataanalysis #investigativejournalism

It was such a treat to review investigative journalist Josi Joseph's latest book "How to Subvert Democracy: Inside India's Deep State" for Dawn's flagship Books&Authors Magazine. Joseph uses his vast range of insights and experiences, as one of the world`s finest investigative journalists, to explain in meticulous detail the sub-events that preceded and followed some of the tectonic shifts in the Indian government`s policies. The incidents in this unparalleled reportage, unravelled intricately and delicately by Joseph yet explained with clinical objectivity, include the undercurrents and the aftermath of many well known events. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dfR--kpg

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“INDIA’S PRESS FREEDOM SCORE DECLINED IN THE LAST YEAR: RSF.” Why in the news? “India’s press freedom declines, says RSF index, citing concerns of political influence and harassment campaigns against critical journalists.” About RSF’s World Press Freedom Index Findings: India’s press freedom score dropped from 36.62 to 31.28 in the past year, as per Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Despite a slight improvement in rank from 161 to 159, it’s attributed to other countries’ decline rather than India’s progress. source:kasmirtimes Key Facts about Reporters Without Borders (RSF): ● International NGO defending and promoting media freedom. ● Headquarters: located in Paris, France. ● Holds consultative status with the United Nations. ● Defines press freedom as journalists’ ability to produce and disseminate news independently, without interference or threats to their safety. About World Press Freedom Index 2024: ● Annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ● Compares media freedom in 180 countries. Ranking based on political, legislative, economic, sociocultural, and journalist safety categories.#IAS2023 #TopperTalk #SuccessStories #Inspiration #Motivation #CivilServices #UPSCPreparation #IASExam #AchievementUnlocked #DreamsToReality #LiveEvent #TuneIn #YouTubeLive #FacebookLive #AspireHigher #IAS #IPS #KAS #IRS #UPSC #Bangalore #Karnataka #INDIA #GOVERNMENT #UPSC #IRS #HEALTHDEPARTMENT #KERALA #UNO #WHO #MEDICALCOLLAGE #GOVERNMENTHOSPITAL

One more international ranking and the most essential for a democracy freedom of press. Not surprisingly India has been ranked low in the report. Paid news and state control has weaken the fourth pillar of democracy. India is one of the countries where there’s a perception of authorities participating in mass disinformation,according to the index put out by Reporters sans Frontières.Index looks at freedom enjoyed by journalists globally. India’s rank improved from 161 in 2023 to 159 in 2024, but this was because other countries had slipped in their rankings. The government has in the past dismissed international rankings of freedoms in India as misinformed and propaganda driven. Norway and Denmark topped the RSF table while Eritrea was at the bottom, with Syria just ahead of it. The press freedom questionnaire covers five categories — political context, legal framework, economic context, sociocultural context and security. India’s media has fallen into an ‘unofficial state of emergency’ since Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 and engineered a spectacular rapprochement between his party, the BJP, and the big families dominating the media. Reference is also made to “Godi media” as mixing populism and pro-BJP propaganda. Indian journalists who are very critical of the government are subjected to harassment campaigns by BJP-backed trolls, the India country report says.