Strategies for Internet Technology
and Digital Rights Reporting

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When generalist reporters are entrusted with covering internet and technology issues they often
don’t provide context, nuance or analysis because they tend to conceptualise and develop stories on
the basis of available research reports, press releases or events 41 . Survey respondents reinforced
these observations as follows:

40% of the survey respondents indicated that they had above average capacity because they had
previous experience with exposure to or some training in ICT. Consequently, they brought their
technical background to their reporting.

41 Paraphrasing,Massarani, L (2014) Science communication in Latin America: What is going on? Science Museum Group Journal 2014(2). Available at: http://
journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-02/science-communication-in- latin-america/ [Accessed 17 September 2020]

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