BBC: why enhancing the public broadcaster's fact-checking would strengthen its impartiality

Oct 31, 2021 23:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views

From the 1926 General Strike, through the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, to the more recent Brexit debate and the COVID-19 pandemic, how the BBC tries to ensure impartiality in its journalism has always generated fierce debates...

Banning large university parties won’t work — students need to be empowered to propose change

Oct 31, 2021 23:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Every year instructors carefully plan what theyre going to teach during the semester. Then something significant happens that makes us pause and we have to resist the temptation to teach what was planned for the next...

Paid millions to hide trillions: Pandora Papers expose financial crime enablers, too

Oct 09, 2021 08:39 am UTC| Insights & Views

The Pandora Papers investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a non-profit newsroom and network of journalists based in Washington, D.C., has revealed there are still some go-to...

As we mark Thanksgiving, a study into entrepreneurs explains why we give without receiving

Oct 09, 2021 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views

From someone dropping off dinner at the doorstep of a neighbour with COVID-19 to an octogenarian in India giving up his oxygen bed for a middle-aged patient, instances of people giving to those in need without expectations...

10 ways we can better respond to the pandemic in a trauma-informed way

Oct 09, 2021 08:01 am UTC| Insights & Views

Fear is one of the central emotional responses during the pandemic. Every day brings a new level of stress: concerns about getting sick, the stigma of testing positive, financial difficulties due to not being able to work,...

Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media

Oct 09, 2021 08:00 am UTC| Insights & Views

Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even the end of history. But democracy isnt doing so...

What the objections to COVID-19 control measures tells us about personal freedom

Sep 24, 2021 02:35 am UTC| Insights & Views

As the protracted global battle with SARS-CoV-2 continues to rage, objections to the measures being taken to combat the virus are increasing. Protests have been reported in countries such as the US, the UK, Australia,...