Every Saturday morning, we invite a publishing pro to put together their top media links. This week’s guest editor is Aanu Adeoye.

Aanu is news editor at The Continent, a weekly pan-African digital newspaper designed to be read and shared on messaging apps. He has contributed to CNN, Vice, The Guardian, Rest of World and others.

You can find Aanu on Twitter and Linkedin.

Aanu says:

"I’m curious about global media trends and how new forms of media are being created or revived to find audiences in 2021. And as a journalist working in Africa, press freedom, here and elsewhere, is a value that I hold dear and constantly worry about as it is being increasingly eroded around the world. These articles are some of the most interesting pieces I’ve read recently that delve into these issues."

How publishers are engaging new audiences on messaging apps in the Global South — reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

Conversations abound about how misinformation spreads on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook but messaging apps like WhatsApp, which are closed networks, are fertile ground for the proliferation of falsehoods. These media outlets are working to find new audiences on messaging apps to combat misinformation and evade censorship.

Marc Lacey goes Live — www.cjr.org

How does the New York Times, a traditional print powerhouse and now digital behemoth, become even more nimble in its approach to news in a fast-paced environment? The answer seems to be a series of snappy briefings being updated as news breaks. An insightful conversation with the editor leading the project.

No one in the Philippines would air a documentary about press freedom. So Frontline is doing it itself — www.washingtonpost.com

A documentary about Maria Ressa, founder of the investigative Philippines-based news site Rappler, has found no takers in her homeland. An inside look at the forces of censorship in a country where democratic freedoms shrink by the day.

Shattered dreams and lost opportunities: A year in the fight to #KeepItOn — www.accessnow.org

For readers in the West, an internet or social media shutdown is an unthinkable proposition. But for many people around the world, this is an unfortunate reality. This report by Access Now, the digital rights advocacy group, shines a light on internet shutdowns in 2020 around the world.

Less than a third of the world’s top editors at major outlets are women — www.niemanlab.org

This is particularly relevant in the week of International Women’s Day, when organisations make a big show of celebrating “extraordinary” women without actually doing much to promote them. Perhaps the only good news here is that things will hopefully improve from here on out.

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