Cinco periodistas, tecnólogas y emprendedoras trabajan en la creación de Trollbusters, una herramienta digital que busca combatir el acoso cibernético que sufre un creciente número de mujeres en la web.

Trollbusters impresionó al panel de jueces del hackathon Cracking the Code organizado en Nueva York por la Fundación Internacional de Mujeres en los Medios (IWMF) y la Fundación Ford el pasado 30 de enero. Sus creadoras ganaron un premio de $3,000 USD proporcionado por Google como capital semilla para echar a andar el proyecto.

Social media has proved to be an inestimably valuable tool for freedom of expression around the world, and more specifically in repressive countries, where it has become the only sphere where critics can raise their voice. As Bahrain human right activist Nabeel Rajab recently told IPI, speaking on the press freedom situation in his country: […]

Press freedom advocates this week cautiously greeted promises that press freedom in Sri Lanka will improve after former health minister and opposition coalition candidate Maithripala Sirisena unexpectedly unseated President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an election last Thursday, but some observers remained wary. Sirisena’s victory marks the first time an incumbent has been beaten out by an […]

Reflective of a lack of global legal consensus, media policies toward anonymous online reader comments remain in an “experimental” stage, a new report commissioned by the International Press Institute (IPI) has concluded. The report, released today, examines law and media best practices from around the world on the question of anonymous speech online, an issue […]