Press Freedom Escalating Peril: CPJ Condemns Mounting Hostilities Against Journalists in the West Bank October 26, 2026 Evan Lee Salim BEIRUT — October 26, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a stern condemnation following a series of aggressive actions by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against…
Press Freedom Escalating Silence: The Trial of Lina Attalah and the Crisis of Press Freedom in Egypt October 24, 2026 Evan Lee Salim The landscape for independent journalism in Egypt has reached a precarious new low. On Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), alongside an international coalition of media watchdogs and human…
Audio and Podcast Journalism The State of Audio: Industry Insights, Climate Action Podcasting, and Global Chart Movements October 24, 2026 Evan Lee Salim October 23, 2026 — As the podcasting ecosystem matures, creators, platforms, and industry analysts are grappling with a complex landscape defined by shifting audience habits, structural measurement limitations, and innovative…
Data Journalism Rethinking the Rewrite: Why My First Attempt at Porting a Shiny App Failed—And What It Taught Us About Modern Web Architecture September 29, 2026 Evan Lee Salim Diary of a Rewrite, Episode 2 of 4. Translating legacy code line by line is almost always a blueprint for failure. When development teams embark on modernizing critical internal tools,…
Media Business Models Behind the Lens: The Detention of "Richard LA" and the Mounting Crisis for Independent Journalists September 28, 2026 Evan Lee Salim In the evolving landscape of American news, the traditional press gallery is being augmented—and sometimes supplanted—by independent creators. These citizen journalists, armed with little more than smartphones and social media…
Journalism Education Mastering the Digital Frontier: Inside the DFRLab’s ‘Digital Sherlocks’ Investigative Training Program September 26, 2026 Evan Lee Salim In an era defined by the rapid proliferation of disinformation, state-sponsored influence campaigns, and the weaponization of social media, the ability to discern truth from fabrication has become a critical…
Press Freedom Escalating Repression: The Detention of Journalist Henry Constantín and the Battle for Press Freedom in Cuba September 25, 2026 Evan Lee Salim MIAMI – In a move that has drawn swift condemnation from international human rights organizations and press freedom advocates, Cuban authorities continue to hold Henry Constantín, the director of the…
Digital Security for Journalists Unlocking the Cold War’s Cryptographic Giant: The Untold Story of the NSA and IBM’s "Harvest" Supercomputer September 22, 2026 Evan Lee Salim Introduction and Main Facts In the shadowy corridors of Cold War intelligence, the race to break unbreakable codes drove technological innovation to its absolute limits. Decades before the advent of…
Solutions Journalism Saving the Heart of the Village: How a Small Burgundian Commune Rescued Its Last Café-Bistro from Extinction September 21, 2026 Evan Lee Salim SAINT-MARTIN-SUR-OUANNE, France — In the quiet commune of Saint-Martin-sur-Ouanne, nestled within the rolling hills of the Burgundy region, the morning routine once again includes the sharp clink of porcelain coffee…
Media Business Models The Crisis of Truth: How the Al-Ahli Hospital Blast Exposed the Limits of Visual Investigations September 19, 2026 Evan Lee Salim On the evening of October 17, 2023, the world watched in horror as flames consumed a section of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital complex in Gaza City. Grainy, shaky footage—captured by…
