Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government attempted to overhaul Israel's judiciary and form a national guard in March, triggering the largest demonstrations seen in a decade. Noa Landau, deputy editor of Haaretz and member of the Reuters Institute Advisory Board, explains how her newspaper is covering developments.
Lessons from the Amazon: novel ways to report on the climate
David is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of OjoPúblico platform in Peru. Based in Lima, OjoPúblico is non-profit investigative journalism website covering issues including human rights, corruption, drug trafficking, environment, health and transparency. He explains the site's award winning collaborative approach to covering environmental news.
How media businesses in Asia are using AI
Rishad Patel is a product and design professional who co-founded Splice Media. His newsletter, Frames, gives a weekly overview of the latest media products and design trends. During a 20-year career, he has designed and developed products for the web, mobile, radio, advertising, newsrooms, newspapers, magazines, and podcasts in Singapore, India, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. Hear how Asian newsrooms are adapting to ChatGPT and other evolutions in AI.
Crowdfunding independent journalism in Latam
Camille is the co-founder of 9 Millones, a Puerto Rican crowdfunding and publishing initiative that has raised $55,000 for independent journalism, distributed to 31 projects. She is a Columbia J-School grad and worked at El Diario and NowThis before creating 9 Millones.
Top 5 takes from Washington Post's TikTok experiment
Carmella Boykin is part of the team that has pioneered the use of TikTok at the Washington Post. Previously, she worked as a local TV news reporter in Rochester, New York. Their channel has 1.6 million followers, 74 million likes, and has won three Webby Awards. With the threat of a U.S. TikTok ban looming, we ask what lessons can be learnt from this team, and whether they can be applied to other platforms.
Gender in Academia & DPIR
Oxford has been a men-dominated space for centuries and it still shows today. We want to discuss how gender shapes our experiences at DPIR and in academia more generally. What are the underlying reasons for the imbalanced gender ratio of senior academic staff at our Department? How does gender impact the manner of seminar discussions? What counts as rigorous (political science) knowledge and methodology and how is this informed by socialised gender expectations? And, importantly, how does gender intersect with other social identities to create unequal chances and experiences?
Alexander Yen
Alexander is a DPhil student in International Relations who focusses on diplomatic language, international institutions, and rising powers. His research specifically examines undiplomatic language at multilateral institutions and the causes and implications of their incidence. His mixed-method approach aims to arrive at a long-term perspective of an individual country's (currently the US, India, and China) diplomatic activity at multilateral institutions (currently the UN General Assembly) with a view to understanding both variation and consistency in diplomatic discourse.