Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media
By the end of this year, more than 3 billion of the world's 7.2 billion people will have Internet access. Two billion of those people will be in developing countries, which means writers have an increasing audience of readers around the globe who can access their stories on the web. However, our interconnected world isn't necessarily a better place for all journalists.
Earlier this month, the grantmaking network Open Society Foundations published a 360-page report that evaluated the forces affecting digital media worldwide. Researchers in 56 countries detailed both the risks and opportunities created by media innovations in the past ten years. A good portion of the report examined the ways in which the changing media landscape affects investigative journalism....