By Jessica Weiss Journalism trainer Babatunde Akpeji, an ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow, is building a network of citizen journalists to cover health in Nigeria’s Delta region,... Read more
By Javier Garza The soccer World Cup starts this week in Brazil. As players get in shape and fans stock their refrigerators, news organizations are getting ready to handle the huge log... Read more
By Kyle Stokes The reputation of the comments section as an “infamously troll-ridden Wild West of abuse, ignorance and spam” is alive and well. Popular Science shut down its comment sections... Read more
How digital news consumption is growing, news outlets reaching new audiences via chat apps, and more are found in this week’s Digital Media Mash Up, produced by the Center for Internat... Read more
If you have access to a clean toilet at your workplace, you’ll probably appreciate it a lot more after reading this. Bus conductors in Bangkok, Thailand, don’t even get toilet breaks – they... Read more
By Chido Onumah Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels, feminism or hair. A few weeks ago, she was... Read more
Luis Suarez has been banned for nine international matches — and from all football activity for four months — after being found guilty of biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini.... Read more
By James Ogunjimi “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite The situation of things in OOU at present can best... Read more
By James Ogunjimi “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That... Read more
A festival for children and young people will run together with the World Summit on Media for Children in Malaysia later this year, placing children and young people at the heart of the even... Read more