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In Ukraine, it grows on trees ...

Ever since becoming Ukraine’s president in 2010, Viktor Yanukovych has been preparing for his next election in 2015 – and this time he intends to win without the support of the oligarchs. But he needs cash, lots of it, and this, as Sergii Leshchenko reports, is where "self-made" Serhiy Kurchenko c

By Sergii Leshchenko

/ 20 Aug 2013

On Al-Jazeera's lopsided coverage of Egypt

Al-Jazeera has not only lost much of its credibility, but the credibility of its main backer and benefactor, Qatar.

By Ahmed Magdy Youssef

/ 2 Aug 2013

Keeping calm and carrying on

St Petersburg's Regional Press Institute has defended Russian media rights for the last two decades. Like other similar organisations, it has been subjected to various forms of governmental harassment, but has managed to keep going. Director Anna Sharogradskaya tells the story

By Anna Sharogradskaya

/ 31 Jul 2013

David Kelly and the silence of British media - 10 years on

Are concerns over the official narrative "conspiracy fodder", or have the media failed to adequately challenge the state's account of what happened?

By Justin Schlosberg

/ 18 Jul 2013

When we talk about the Internet, we are talking about the bone marrow of contemporary monopoly capitalism

In a wide-ranging interview, the author and media reform activist Robert W. McChesney discusses the political economy of the Internet, the crisis in contemporary journalism, and the struggle to create a media system equal to the needs of democracy.

By Robert W. McChesney and Dan Hind

/ 8 Jul 2013

Radio Jittery

The crisis that has shaken the Moscow bureau of Radio Liberty over the last year appears to be drawing to a close. Zygmunt Dzieciolowski spoke to its Acting President and CEO Kevin Klose about his plans for the station.

By Zygmunt Dzieciolowski and Kevin Klose

/ 25 Jun 2013

The BBC Business Unit and the public interest

The BBC's reporting of issues from NHS reform, welfare reform and the looming EU US trade deal can be better understood by looking at the BBC's Business Unit. A narrow and questionable 'business perspective' drives more coverage than viewers may think.

By Linda Kaucher

/ 17 Jun 2013

NHS reforms? What NHS reforms? A call for citizen journalism

Media failings and government distortions mean many people don't believe the NHS is being dismantled. It’s down to all of us to communicate the news.

By Ken Band

/ 29 May 2013

Life on an Island

Russia may be a huge land mass, but Maksim Trudolyubov believes it is better to think of it as a pattern of islands, divided not by geography but by a host of other factors. Here he looks at the island group he himself inhabits – the independent media – as it battles against the waves.

By Maxim Trudolyubov

/ 22 Apr 2013

Authentic journalism: weapon of the people

The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.

By Al Giordano

/ 19 Nov 2010

The Assam conflict: a failure of the press

While debate on Assam's future rages in the Assamese media, the issue continues to be ignored by the Indian national press.

By Aruni Kashyap

/ 29 Jul 2010