Five insights from UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference
This year’s UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference in Uruguay saw policymakers, journalists and media practitioners come together to discuss matters of press freedom, privacy and sustainability within a sector facing existential digital threats, surging violence and unregulated surveillance. The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) outlines five key trends that emerged at the conference.
'Bad boys' are back: India doubles down on coal as heatwave worsens power crisis
A resurgence in India's hunger for coal could mean peak consumption is years away as it moves to reopen more than 100 mines
Earth Focus: Fighting for Air
"Fighting For Air" looks at the David and Goliath struggle for clean air in America's wealthiest state, as neighbors come together to fight the online shopping giants they say are poisoning the air they breathe
Pandemic tempts U.S. technology workers away from Silicon Valley
Smaller cities aim to lure newly-remote tech workers with perks ranging from cash handouts to free babysitting
Pakistan bus network gives women a ticket to work and study
Peshawar's BRT transport system is helping women travel safely without fear of sexual harassment, opening up new opportunities for them to study and find jobs in the socially conservative city
OPINION: What critics get wrong about regulating Big Tech
The Digital Markets Act is ambitious in its aims, with objectives that take into account the interests of not a single stakeholder group, but the interests of many - at the forefront of which are users.
Karine Jean-Pierre named first Black and openly gay White House press secretary
Karine Jean-Pierre will become White House press secretary, succeeding Jen Psaki and becoming the first Black and openly gay person to serve as the public face of a U.S. administration.
U.S. abortion war spotlights women's risk from online tracking
Location tracking, search history, online shopping: with the U.S. Supreme Court expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, privacy advocates are on edge about women's digital footprints
Five highlights from the 2022 Stop Slavery Award
On April 28, the Thomson Reuters Foundation held the 2022 Stop Slavery Award ceremony in the heart of London – its first in-person event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago.
OPINION: Strong internet legislation bonds societies
Putting an end to surveillance advertising and online platforms’ manipulative practices that peddle hate and disinformation, and holding online platforms to account make the Digital Services Act a unique constitution for the digital world.