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Alexander Fanta
Alexander Fanta is a Brussels-based journalist at Netzpolitik.org, a German news site that covers digital civil rights. Alexander writes about technology and digital policy-making in the European Union. In the past, he was a Google Digital News Fellow at at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and worked for the Swiss newspaper NZZ on a project on automated journalism. From 2011 to 2017, Alexander worked as a staff writer at the Austrian Press Agency (APA), where his beat included the OSCE and UN organizations in Vienna.
Google and Facebook dominate online advertising and play a pivotal role in news distribution. But that is not the only way in which big tech companies influence journalism. Google, especially, has bee...
Thirteen fellows from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University - from Poland, Austria, Finland, China, Korea, Japan, Kenya, India, Russia - will present their research on...
