The International Press Institute (IPI) today named as its 67th World Press Freedom Hero prominent Syrian lawyer and human rights defender Mazen Darwish, who has advocated for media freedom in his country for more than 10 years, and for the last three from behind bars. IPI also announced Mexican journalists’ network Periodistas de a Pie […]

“What is amazing is that I am forced to feel brave to do my job here, at my house,” Spanish journalist Mayte Carrasco, who has covered major conflicts worldwide over the past eight years, says.

She made that statement within hours after she received more than 100 insulting and threatening messages through Twitter following the primetime, Jan. 20 broadcast of a documentary about Islamic fundamentalism that included comments by Carrasco.

“Lo que es increíble es que me parezca valiente hacer mi trabajo aquí, en mi casa”, asegura Mayte Carrasco, una periodista española que ha cubierto los principales conflictos bélicos en todo el mundo durante los últimos ocho años.

Estas declaraciones nacieron pocas horas después de haber recibido más de cien mensajes con insultos y amenazas a través de la red social de Twitter tras su intervención en un documental sobre el fundamentalismo islámico, emitido el pasado martes, 20 de enero.

Five tech-savvy media professionals and entrepreneurs are launching Trollbusters, a digital tool that aims to combat the online harassment of women.

Trollbusters impressed a panel of judges at the Cracking the Code hackathon hosted by the Ford Foundation and the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) in New York on Jan. 30. Its creators walked away with $3,000 USD in Google prize money that will be used as start-up capital to get the project up and running.