What is journalism's obligation to police our own? What do we do about the malign influence of Rupert Murdoch's empire in the English-speaking democracies and the taint he brings our field?
James Ball
James Ball is the Global Editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
He has worked in political, data and investigative journalism in the US and UK for BuzzFeed, theGuardian and the Washington Post in a career spanning TV, digital, print and alternative media. His reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Scripps Howard Prize, the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, The Royal Statistical Society Award and the Laurence Stern Fellowship, among others. His books include The Infographic History of the World (2016), Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered The World (2017), Bluffocracy (2018) and The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us (2020).
Once upon a time they were the audience. Then "the people formerly known as the audience". Then came the backlash, with comment sections closed down and a revolt against social media. Then a counter-m...
Freedom of Information requests are a powerful tool to expose the relationship between the state and outside interests, including big business, powerful individuals, and even the religious lobby. Our ...
Regulation of the net has brought a series of unintended consequences affecting freedom of expression, the business of news organizations, and they power of platforms (giving them more). Is there an a...
Almost every news title on the internet relies on advertising, much of it programmatic adverts supplied by the tech giants. For a lucky few, subscription revenue offers a way out of this codependency,...
Populist leaders are working to Trump’s playbook: pick a fight with the press, get the public on side and avoid scrutiny by broadcasting direct to the nation. With some global leaders now routinely ...
Launch of the Ethical Journalism Network’s annual magazine on international media ethics. Join the Ethical Journalism Network’s CEO Hannah Storm and journalism colleagues for the launch of the EJ...
James Ball, author of Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered The World, commissioner of the London School of Economics' Truth, Trust and Technology report, and journalist covering online and Russian disin...
Facebook and Twitter are being blamed for almost every ill of society. Have the tech companies screwed up? Sure. But are journalists justified leaving social platforms and turning their backs on the c...
Investigative journalists have much in common, not least an obsessive attention to detail and a compulsion to keep digging when most normal people would move on. But are these inherent character trait...
The history and the impact of the scoop that earned the Pulitzer Prize for The Guardian and The Washington Post for "public service" rendered to the world. What in Italy is known as Datagate is not me...
Offshoreleaks is an ICIJ-produced story that unveiled a financial scandal, unmasking details of 130,000 offshore accounts in April 2013. Its follow-up Chinaleaks is an exposé of the Chinese elite's ...
With the emergence of a widespread surveillance system in the NSA files, the Edward Snowden case has deeply affected journalism, both in terms of the role played by the media and of the practices adop...
How is cyberactivism evolving, from Anonymous to other groups that use the Internet to defend freedom of expression and the free circulation of information? What is the role of leaking in this scena...
In this session, we bring you the minds behind some of the most successful collaborative investigation platforms and projects in Europe and Asia - from the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting...
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