Q&A with the Humanitarian News Outlet formerly known as IRIN
If you follow humanitarian issues or events, chances are you’ve come across IRIN, the award winning humanitarian news agency set up in 1995 to help …
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5 Humanitarian Newsletters You Should Sign Up For
Following the success of our summer post recommending the top 20 humanitarian Twitter accounts to follow, we asked for your suggestions for a similar post …
20 humanitarians you should follow on Twitter
A few weeks back we asked our followers to recommend the best people to follow in the humanitarian sector. Today, we’re publishing our very own …
South Sudan’s Media Authority is no friend of courageous journalism
Guest Post by Richard Stupart, PhD Candidate at the London School of Economics and Politics. The views in this article do not necessarily reflect those …
Q&A on Digital Humanitarians with Researcher Wendy Norris
New technologies have enabled virtual volunteers to collect and share situational information during natural and human-caused disasters. We spoke to Wendy Norris, author of the …
New Report Highlights Gender Inequality In Humanitarian Media
New research from the Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG) asks how often women speak within news stories about humanitarian issues – with depressingly predictable results. In this article, we provide a summary …
The impact of fake news on the charity sector: New report from the International Broadcasting Trust
A new report by the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) looks at how fake news is affecting the charity and humanitarian aid sector, and hopes to change …
Foundations, philanthropy and international journalism
Private foundations provide crucial funding for news outlets that report on humanitarian crises and international development. But why do these foundations fund journalism? Do they …