Author: Yasmine Ryan
2016 WPI Fellow
Website: http://yasmine.org.nz/
Twitter: @yasmineryan
#Sabratha: As of a few weeks ago, both armed groups were affiliated with the #Serraj government.
Officially “dissolved” militias in #Libya have a way of not disappearing into thin air.
But the #Serraj govt in #Tripoli is definitely in the process of disappearing indeed. https://twitter.com/arraedlg/status/933757426079354881
#Libya #Libye Débat #Slavery # De @ChBozonnet : Au Maghreb, la persistance d’un #racisme anti-Noirs http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2017/11/23/au-maghreb-la-persistance-d-un-racisme-anti-noirs_5219175_3212.html via @lemondefr
CPJ urges #Algeria to release #freelancer Said Chitour, held without trial for over 3 months https://cpj.org/2017/11/cpj-urges-algerias-prime-minister-to-release-freel.php
Posts by Yasmine Ryan:
Public trust in the media
At the RNC in Cleveland One of the questions that journalists of our generation are struggling to understand is why the public has such a deep distrust of the media. Already, as we finish the second week of the World Press Institute Fellowship, it’s an issue that has...
Fear and Loathing in Cleveland
I was still jetlagged when I arrived in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention. It was something of a culture shock to arrive in the town center, and even the locals told me they had never seen anything like it. They had been warned for weeks to stay away,...
Naturally, we had to talk about the state of journalism in #NewHorizonsWPI host country, Bulgaria. Read up on our last panel of the conference here:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-dire-state-of-independent-media-in-bulgaria/
Podcasts as a tool (for audience engagement, as a revenue stream) came up a lot at the #NewHorizonsWPI Conference on 9/24 --
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/dr-ruja-or-how-we-stopped-worrying-about-podcasts-and-embraced-them/
Check out @AEJBulgaria's write up of day 1 at #NewHorizonsWPI:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-big-questions-faced-by-media-new-horizons-in-journalism-conference-day-1/