Unbias the News

Apr 10, 2024 | unbiasthenews.org | Tina Lee

Alarm bells have been going off for some time, but they have now reached a fever pitch. News articles that once tentatively posed the question, “Is democracy at risk in [insert any country all over world]?” have now been replaced with declarative statements. Democracy is in peril. Democracy dies in the darkness. Democracy is in decline.

Dec 8, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Danai Maragoudaki |Daphne Tolis

Written by Danai Maragoudaki, Daphne Tolis, Aristea Protonotariou Edited by Stavros Malihoudis and Tina Lee Illustration by Antoine Bouraly Read this article in Greek in Solomon. The phone rang on a morning in October 2022 at work, in Finland, where 35-year-old Mohamed Samim has been living for the last ten years or so. His nephew did not have good news: his brother Samim, Tarin Mohamad, along with his son and two daughters, was on a boat that sank near a Greek island, having sailed from the...

Dec 8, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Eoghan Gilmartin |Leah Pattem

Written by Eoghan Gilmartin and Leah Pattem Illustration by Antoine Bouraly Edited by Tina Lee Read this article in Spanish in El Diario. In January 2020, Alhassane Bangoura was buried in an unmarked grave in the Muslim area of Teguise municipal cemetery in Lanzarote as city officials and members of the local Muslim community watched on. He had been born only a couple of weeks earlier onboard a cramped patera migrant boat on which his mother, who is from Guinea, and 42 others were trying to...

Dec 8, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Gabriele Cruciata

Written by Gabriele Cruciata Illustration by Antoine Bouraly Edited by Tina Lee Photos by Tina Xu Before the Syrian civil war erupted, Refaat Hazima was a barber in Damascus. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had also been barbers. Thanks to his craftsmanship, flair, and a reputation built over four generations, Refaat was a wealthy man. Together with his wife – a doctor for the national service – he could afford to have his three children study instead of sending them to work at...

Dec 7, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Belle de Jong

Written by Belle de Jong Illustration by Walker Gawande Edited by Tina Lee More than 1500 journalists from dozens of US news organisations have signed an open letter protesting the Western media’s coverage of Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians since the October 7th attack. Condemning Israel’s targeted killing of reporters in Gaza and criticising Western media bias, they write that newsrooms are “accountable for dehumanising rhetoric that has served to justify the ethnic cleansing of...