The Listening Post

Ceasefire in Gaza: As journalists in the Strip stop to catch their breath, Israel's media stand accused of inciting violence against Palestinians. Contributors: Yara Hawari - Academic and writer; senior analyst, Al Shabaka Tareq Baconi - Senior analyst, International Crisis Group Joshua Leifer - Assistant editor, Jewish Currents Rami Younis - Palestinian journalist On our radar In Qatar, a Kenyan who blogged under the pen name "Noah" about his life as a migrant worker in the Arab Gulf state finds himself in custody. Richard Gizbert and producer Johanna Hoes discuss the case of Malcolm Bidali. The Xinjiang whitewash Meet the white Western influencers helping China contest claims of genocide in Xinjiang. Contributors: Mareike Ohlberg - Senior fellow (Asia Program), German Marshall Fund Sophie Richardson - China director, Human Rights Watch Amelia Pang - Author of Made in China Shelley Zhang - Writer, China Uncensored

Gaza under assault. Bloodshed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Social media is the place to go for the coverage of this story except when the platforms take issue with what is being posted. Contributors: Marwa Fatafta - Policy analyst, Al-Shabaka Yossi Mekelberg - Associate fellow of the MENA Programme, Chatham House Mariam Barghouti - Writer and activist Rami Khouri - Professor of journalism, American University of Beirut On our radar Three Myanmar journalists have been arrested in Thailand. Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Flo Phillips about their possible deportation back into the hands of Myanmar’s military government. Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire: Stereotyping Black women in media We discuss the stereotyping of Black women in the media and the push for change in an industry where diversity and inclusion have been too long in coming. Contributors: Kovie Biakolo - Culture writer and multiculturalism scholar Francesca Sobande - Lecturer of digital media studies, Cardiff University Naeemah Clark - Professor of cinema and television arts, Elon University; author, Diversity in US Mass Media Babirye Bukilwa - Actor and playwright - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

In Russia, the political stakes are rising in the run up to election season - journalists are being branded as "foreign agents" and an opposition figure is labelled an "extremist". Contributors: Ilya Yablokov - Academic, Leeds University Lisa Alexandrova-Zorina - Journalist, Team 29 Ivan Kolpakov - Editor-in-chief, Meduza Uliana Pavlova - Journalist, Moscow Times On our radar After months of deliberation Donald Trump’s Facebook account remains suspended. Richard Gizbert asks producer Meenakshi Ravi to explain the decision. The Turks turning to YouTube Independent journalists in Turkey, like Cüneyt Özdemir, are taking refuge online. Özdemir’s daily YouTube program has become a staple for Turks, especially among younger viewers looking for journalism of a different kind. Contributors: Cüneyt Özdemir - Creator and host, Cüneyt Özdemir Show Cansu Çamlibel - Editor-in-chief, Duvar English Emre Kizilkaya - Turkish vice chair, International Press Institute; author, The New Mainstream Media is Rising - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

While India’s healthcare system lies in total collapse, the government is leaning on social media companies to protect its own image. Contributors: Vineet Kumar - Author and media scholar Pratik Sinha - Co-founder, Alt News Pragya Tiwari - Political and cultural commentator Sangeeta Mahapatra - German Institute for Global and Area Studies On our radar Having imprisoned leading opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Russian authorities are now looking to put his entire organisation out of business. Producer Johanna Hoes tells Richard Gizbert why the group is being targeted by the state. Paul Rusesabagina: The trial of the 'hero of Hotel Rwanda' Dissident or "terrorist"? The many-sided story of hotel manager turned Hollywood hero, Paul Rusesabagina. Contributors: Michela Wrong - Author, Do Not Disturb Gatete Nyiringabo Ruhumuliza - Political analyst Tom Ndahiro - Genocide scholar Terry George - Director, Hotel Rwanda - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

COVID-19 has brought India to its knees and, in many ways, the mainstream news media are failing to do their job. Contributors: Atul Chaurasia - Executive Editor, Newslaundry Paranjoy Guha Thakurta - Journalist & Author Sandhya Ravishankar - Journalist, India Ahead News Kapil Komireddi - Author, Malevolent Republic On our radar Host Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Flo Phillips about doctored footage coming out of Russia. Kremlin-backed channels would have you believe it is not just Ukrainian and Russian forces building up at the border but American as well. Attacked on the streets, typecast on TV: a media history of being Asian in America How Asian Americans have been othered in the media; the tropes and the rise in hate. Contributors: Kimmy Yam - Reporter, NBC News Takeo Rivera - Assistant Professor, Boston University Amanda Nguyen - Civil Rights Activist & Founder, Rise

Some of Brazil’s biggest media companies have come together to combat COVID-19 misinformation – a lot of which is coming from President Jair Bolsonaro’s office. Contributors: Luciana Coelho - Head of COVID task force, Folha de Sao Paulo Cristina Tardáguila - Associate director, Poynter Laura Guimarães Corrêa - Associate professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Marcelo Lins - Journalist, GloboNews On our radar Nicholas Muirhead and Richard Gizbert discuss a curious case of photo colourisation (and distortion) that has landed American media outlet Vice in hot water. Wikipedia: The internet’s unlikeliest experiment turns 20 How has a free online encyclopedia built through crowdsourcing, open editing and volunteers managed to maintain its relevance and preserve its credibility? We look at what makes Wikipedia tick. Contributors: Katherine Maher - CEO, Wikimedia Foundation Sandister Tei - Co-founder, Wikimedia Ghana User Group Shane Greenstein - Professor, Harvard Business School

This week, we are veering out of the mainstream and looking at journalism that broke the rules, pushed boundaries and, in some cases, redefined them. We explore the work and the legacy of three such innovators: Tom Wolfe, Ghassan Kanafani and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Their journalism defied convention and categorisation and continues to inspire people to consider new ways of presenting stories. Contributors: Dan Bischoff - Art critic, The Star-Ledger Emily Witt - Writer, The New Yorker Refqa Abu-Remaileh - Professor of modern Arabic literature and film, Free University Berlin Elias Khoury - Novelist and literary critic As’ad Abukhalil - Professor of political science, California State University Juanita León - Director, La Silla Vacía Jaime Abello Banfi - Director, The Gabo Foundation María Jimena Duzán - Journalist and author - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Facing scrutiny over working conditions and a union’s drive to get employees organised, Amazon’s PR pushback seems to be doing more harm than good. Contributors: Ken Klippenstein - Reporter, The Intercept Jonathan Capriel - Writer, Washington Business Journal Alex Press - Writer, Jacobin Magazine James Bloodworth - Author, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain On our radar The WHO released the findings of its investigation into the origins of the new coronavirus. Producer Meenakshi Ravi talks to Richard Gizbert about Western doubts on the credibility of the report and Beijing’s grievances with the news coverage. Framing the self: The rise of the bookshelf aesthetic With so many pundits working from home, creating a backdrop has become an exercise in self-branding; bookshelves have become the background of choice. Contributors: Tamar Garb - Professor of art history, UCL Bernie Hogan - Senior research fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Hussein Kesvani - Culture and technology journalist Alex Christofi - Editorial director, Transworld Books - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Scientists say vaccines are our way out of this pandemic. But with trust in vaccination at an all-time low, the role of the messengers - politicians, pharmaceutical companies and the news media - is as important as ever. Contributors: Kai Kupferschmidt - Contributing correspondent, Science Magazine Hristio Boytchev - Germany correspondent, Research Europe Deborah Fuller - Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine Mun-Keat Looi - International features editor, The BMJ On our radar: The US government has launched a new vaccine campaign - producer Johanna Hoes talks to Richard Gizbert about the White House’s use of Christian broadcasters, sports stars and a country music legend to convince conservative Americans that vaccination is in their best interests. From COVID conspiracism to vaccine hesitancy: France’s other epidemic France is where lab vaccines were invented - so how did the French grow so sceptical, so reluctant to get the COVID jab? Contributors: Lucie Delaporte - Journalist, Médiapart Richard Sénéjoux - Senior reporter, Télérama Antoine Bristielle - Sociologist, Sciences Po & Researcher, Fondation Jean-Jaurès - - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

As military leaders ban independent media and arrest reporters, citizen journalists become an information lifeline in Myanmar. Contributors: Swe Win - Editor-in-chief, Myanmar Now Aye Chan Naing - Chief editor, Democratic Voice of Burma Wai Hnin Pwint Thon - The Burma Campaign UK Wai Wai Nu - Human rights activist; founder, Women's Peace Network On our radar In Russia, opposition figure Alexey Navalney is locked up in prison. Producer Tariq Nafi talks to Richard Gizbert about how the part-politician, part-journalist is still managing to get the word out. The 'anti-woke' challengers looking to disrupt UK broadcast media To the right? Britain braces for two new broadcasters who are out to rebalance TV news. Contributors: Robin Aitken - Former BBC reporter; author, Can We Trust the BBC? Martin Fletcher - Former foreign editor, The Times Stewart Purvis - Former chief executive and editor-in-chief, ITN; former content and standards partner, Ofcom Ash Sarkar -  Contributing editor, Novara Media - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah has left British news outlets in a frenzy. Contributors: Stephen Bates - Former royal correspondent, The Guardian and author, Royalty Inc. Laura Clancy - Lecturer in media, Lancaster University and author, Running the Family Firm Anna Pasternak - Royal biographer and author, The American Duchess Shola Mos-Shogbamimu - Author and lawyer Miranda Larbi - Freelance journalist On our radar Myanmar’s new military rulers hire a PR firm with the hope that they will be able to change the news narrative on the coup. Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Nic Muirhead about the firm’s back catalogue of clients. A game designer’s analysis of QAnon Alternate realities - the similarities between conspiracy movements like QAnon in the United States and the gaming world. Contributor: Reed Berkowitz  - Game designer - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

After months of a media blackout, journalists are finally able to examine reports of war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Contributors: Fisseha Tekle - Ethiopia researcher, Amnesty International Tsedale Lemma - Editor, Addis Standard Zecharias Zelalem - Freelance journalist Abebe Gellaw - Journalist and activist On our radar Two and a half years after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a press freedom watchdog accuses Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of crimes against humanity. Richard Gizbert talks to producer Johanna Hoes about the case. You’ve got mail: Journalism via newsletter The hottest trend in news consumption - the humble email inbox. Contributors: Judd Legum - Creator and writer, Popular Information Ariel Zirulnick - Fund director, Membership Puzzle Project Priti Patnaik - Creator and writer, Geneva Health Files Lance Strate - Professor, Fordham University - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

This past week, the Australian government passed a law called the News Media Bargaining Code - designed to force Facebook and Google to pay up for the news content that ends up on their platforms. The tech giants have long resisted this idea, but things are changing. This is a story about value - how much news is worth, who should be funding it and how. Contributors: Lizzie O’Shea - author of Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology James Temperton - digital editor, Wired UK Paris Marx - host, Tech Won't Save Us James Meese - senior lecturer, RMIT University On our radar Al Jazeera Media Network launches a new platform, aimed at a new audience. The clue is in the name: Rightly. Iconic, absurd, haunting: Ten years since Gaddafi's 'Zenga Zenga' speech On February 22, 2011, with Libya in a state of revolt over his 42 years in power, Muammar Gaddafi decided it was time to take to the airwaves. For Libyans all too familiar with political repression, the "Zenga Zenga" speech, as it came to be known, was equal parts chilling and bizarre. Ten years on, we look back at one of the Arab Spring’s most extraordinary media moments. Contributors: Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy - senior research fellow, Overseas Development Institute Mansour El-Kikhia - professor of political science, University of Texas Abdulkader Assad - columnist, The Libya Observer - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

A civil disobedience movement is growing in Myanmar; young people are using social media to organise and keep citizens and the outside world informed. Contributors: Thin Lei Win - Founder and former chief correspondent, Myanmar Now Aye Min Thant - Myanmar-based journalist Manny Maung - Researcher, Human Rights Watch Francis Wade - Author, Myanmar’s Enemy Within On our radar Australia is now a front line in the revenue battle between big tech and the mainstream media. Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Nic Muirhead to find out how Google and Facebook are responding. Lockdown’s lost children: Britain’s digital divide Home school is hard enough - but what if you cannot afford an electronic device or Wi-Fi? That is the reality for more than a million schoolchildren in the United Kingdom. Contributors: Ayse Guveli - Sociologist, University of Essex Vanessa Jackson - Associate professor, Birmingham City Flora Kisby - Deputy head teacher, Christ Church Primary Amanda Naylor - Head of partnerships, Barnardo’s Charity - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

News with a grain of salt: South Africans have found out their government has been paying for favourable journalism. Karyn Maughan - legal journalist, News24 John Matisonn - journalist and author of God, Spies and Lies Sbu Ngalwa - chairperson, South African National Editors Forum Eusebius McKaiser - political analyst and broadcaster On our radar Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein has been released from an Egyptian prison after four years with no charge or trial. Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Johanna Hoes about the timing of the release and an update on journalists who remain jailed in Egypt. The power and politics of data visualisation Data is often presented as the objective truth. But the way it is presented, interpreted and contextualised can distort its original purpose. Contributors: Mona Chalabi  - data editor, Guardian US and illustrator Beth Blauer - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center; executive director, Centers for Civic Impact Alberto Cairo - author of How Charts Lie; professor of visual journalism, University of Miami - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/