Women Lead the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution in Gabes
Women are the first victims of air pollution produced by the Tunisian Chemical Group in Gabes. Today, women of the region are at the forefront of an unprecedented social movement, fighting to ensure the future of their children and of generations to come. Special report.
With a general strike and special congress drawing near, 2026 promises to be a decisive year for the union organization founded by Farhat Hached. In December, the UGTT’s long-standing secretary general, Noureddine Taboubi, resigned from his position just as the Union gears up for a nationwide strike. Will the Union recover its place among the country’s dynamic forces, despite a destabilizing internal conflict and government attacks aiming to bring the organization to its knees?
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Platform journalism on YouTube: A democratic functions approach to analysing journalism on digital platforms | Intellect
Independent youtubers who create content on political, social and economic issues attract very large audiences and are increasingly the object of study for journalism scholars. This article contributes to the literature by conducting a detailed analysis of the Australian YouTube channel friendlyjordies. Rather than comparing the channel to the journalistic field, this article assesses whether friendlyjordies produces journalism by applying definitions based on journalism’s democratic functions. With the democratic functions approach the critical question is not, who is a journalist? but who is performing the democratic functions of journalism? This question guides the research that combines the analysis of three friendlyjordies videos with data from an interview with a producer of the channel. From this analysis, this article argues that friendlyjordies produces platform journalism, an emerging form of journalism that applies the norms and affordances of a specific platform, in this case YouTube. Moreover, when a democratic functions approach is applied to friendlyjordies, it becomes evident that the channel engages in public interest platform journalism.
Would you listen to an independent news publishing podcast? - News Spring
Having listened to a few journalism podcasts for a while I feel like hearing more about the smaller independent news publishers in the world. After failing to find any dedicated to the topic I've started outlining my own.
I like photography. My current photography project is taking photos of books with coffee. I'm also researching emerging forms of journalism on social media platforms. Doing my PhD on Platform Journalism.
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Is there a new type of journalism emerging on social media platforms?
In this newsletter piece I talk about the emergence of platform journalism. I suggest that we need to focus more on content and less on worrying about who is a "real" journalist. This article is inspired by my current PhD research.
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