by Helen Womack | 16 May 2024 | Education, Media Literacy, News Decoder Tips
Within professions, people use terminology to be precise. But for communication, clarity requires simple language. A confusion of terminology forms the word Huh? (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news...
by Helen Womack | 3 May 2024 | History, Human Rights, Journalism, Russia
In Russia, international press credentials don’t keep journalists out of prison. But how to stop Vladimir Putin from using arrests to spur prisoner swaps? Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, left, stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the First...
by Helen Womack | 26 Feb 2024 | History, Journalism, Russia, Ukraine
Millions in Russia mourn the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny but few do so openly. In Russia, grieving is an act of political defiance. A man holds a poster reading “Freedom for Seva Korolev and all political prisoners” as he comes to pay tribute...
by Helen Womack | 16 Feb 2024 | Journalism
When you work on your own, you don’t get a steady paycheck. But if you can find enough work, it isn’t a bad gig in this gig economy. A woman freelances from her kitchen. (Credit: EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA from Pexels) This article was produced exclusively for...
by Helen Womack | 3 Jan 2024 | Decoder Replay, Europe
Millions of people around the world have no rights and live in the shadows, on the margins of society. Migrants are rescued by a Doctors Without Borders rescue team boat in the Mediterranean Sea after leaving Libya trying to reach European soil, 6 October 2023. (AP...