Behind the Scenes 🙌
Our lessons learned from working in a feminist cross-border newsroom, brought to you by our international editorial team.
Why we are launching the Democracy Playbook
What tactics and strategies work to defend democracy from elite capture? How do people build movements to protect institutions, the environment, and each other from authoritarianism? What are the strategic, cultural, emotional resources possessed by the majority that can counter the way of authoritarianism?
Connecting disability to the climate beat
The climate beat has traditionally been dominated by Global North science and politics coverage, which is important but doesn’t always centre on those most impacted. Even when climate justice is a focus, disability is still often left out of the picture.
Reporting migration as a human story: tips from our journalists
“I not only understand the circumstances that lead people to move abroad, but I also share their experiences, know the problems and processes they went through to come here, and because immigrants tend to build networks to provide help for each other,” Landivar notes.
Interrupting racism in Korea
Can a three-letter word help us change our approach toward discrimination?
How to inject some optimism into your climate doom diet
Curiosity and wonder are good anecdotes against fear.
Late Summer Reading Recommendations
Here’s what the team at Unbias the News has been reading this summer!
Why we are launching the Sinking Cities Project
Unbias the News will connect, train, and publish local journalists covering how rising sea levels and coastal flooding caused by climate change threaten cities.
How it started | How it’s going
Holy cow, it’s been a ride: After eight years, Co-Founder Tabea Grzeszyk is going on a sabbatical in 2022. Join her on a look back!
Read this before you eat
Behind the scenes of our latest story: Editor Wafaa Albadry reflects on the discrimination faced by Black journalists, in both Western and non-Western settings.
On the defense: Black journalists shouldn’t have to fight to exist
Behind the scenes of our latest story: Editor Wafaa Albadry reflects on the discrimination faced by Black journalists, in both Western and non-Western settings.
Is tech providing an invisible cloak for harassment?
Behind the scenes of our latest story: Editor Tina Lee looks at an epidemic of sexist harassment enabled by messaging apps and social media.
For some women, a different kind of pain during birth
Behind the scenes of our latest story: Editor Mercy Abang looks at an epidemic of maltreatment and substandard care that affects women during childbirth.
The Climate disaster trauma within us
Behind the scenes of our latest story: Editor Zahra Salah Uddin asks what the emotional impact of climate change and climate disaster will be.
What a social media blackout means for marginalized communities
Behind the scenes: our editor Purple Romero asks, can marginalized groups use social media to challenge and change the narrative?
Ways of Seeing
Behind the scenes of our latest story: who suffers when surveillance technology is unleashed on a diverse population?
Women’s inheritance, the inequality that hits the world silently
Can society be equal without equal rights to inherit? Behind an undercovered issue that reduces women’s chances to build prosperity.
Across borders, without wages
Behind the scenes of “Exploitation Across Borders”, our new story following Indian laborers fighting for their wages in Serbia.
Going beyond the “single story”
What comes to mind when you think of your country? Behind the scenes of our latest story,”Mind the Gaze.”
A woman who breaks all stereotypes
Behind the scenes of “I wouldn’t take no for an answer”, the story of a woman fighting for women escaping abuse in rural India.
How a divided society comes together with the help of music
Can music bring unity beyond populism? Editor Zahra Salah Uddin goes behind the scenes of our latest story, looking at how pop music is bringing people together in Spain.
When do we pause to consider consent?
Our editor Ankita Anand goes behind the scenes of our latest story, “When Help Hurts,” which asks whether people with disabilities have an equal right to consent.
It’s pouring pitches!
Behind the scenes of the selection process: Editor Ankita Anand shares how the ed team picked the story pitches for Unbias the News.
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