Category: Behind the Scenes

People in a crowd of protesters hold up signs against a firey backup, in the foreground people read a giant book that has been censored
Behind the Scenes

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?

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Behind the Scenes

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.

Individuals staring into their smartphone screens as their shadows show them with mops and brooms.
Behind the Scenes

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.

A Black man stands in front of a club entrance where a sign says its K-hip hop night. Below that, a sign reads, "no foreigners, no Moroccans, Egyptias, Algerians"
Behind the Scenes

Interrupting racism in Korea

Can a three-letter word help us change our approach toward discrimination?

Waves and lightening strikes wash away buildings of all sorts, windmills, churches, bridges, huts in this image by Victoria Shibaeva
Behind the Scenes

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.

Behind the Scenes

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!

A woman stands at a stall of a food market offering multiple dishes for sale containing insects
Behind the Scenes

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.

Two girls sitting by a rainy window, one has her head in her hands in fear, the other takes a selfie happily
Behind the Scenes

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.

A collage with a woman wearing a headscarf taking a selfie and a man wearing glasses looking in a screen, both their images are distorted in reflection
Behind the Scenes

Ways of Seeing

Behind the scenes of our latest story: who suffers when surveillance technology is unleashed on a diverse population?

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