Democratic Information in an Age of Corporate Power

Information, Democracy and Corporate Power
►http://multinationales.org/Information-Democracy-and-Corporate-Power

Without free and independent information, there can be no democracy. Yet the growing power and #influence of bug business and transnational corporations in the economic and political realms is partly based on the control of information about their influence and impacts. This article was first published as an introduction to our publication Democratic Information in an Age of Corporate Power. It seems obvious that without information, democracy cannot exist. It’s impossible to imagine modern (...)

#Investigations

/ #internal_democracy_within_firms, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, influence, #regulations_and_norms, (...)

#transparency
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Anya Schiffrin: “The link between advocacy and journalism is older than many of us think.”
►http://multinationales.org/Anya-Schiffrin-The-link-between-advocacy-and-journalism-is-older-th

A number of international tax avoidance scandals have come out over recent years, highlighting the important role played by investigative journalists in denouncing the corrupt practices of governments and corporations. Investigative journalism has been playing this role for decades, as the American journalist and teacher Anya Schiffrin explains. Schiffrin is the author of a collection of investigative articles on different issues across the globe. This interview was first published in our (...)

#Investigations

/ #freedom_of_expression_and_of_the_press, #public_campaign, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, human (...)

#human_rights
“►https://multinationales.org/Democratic-Information-in-an-Age-of-Corporate-Power”
“►https://www.icij.org”
“►https://www.occrp.org/en”
“▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Morel”
“▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker”
“►http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175886/tomgram%3A_anya_schiffrin,_who_knew_we_were_living_in_the_golden_age_of”
“►http://gijn.org/2016/06/20/a-golden-age-of-global-muckraking”

Democratic Information in an Age of Corporate Power
►http://multinationales.org/Democratic-Information-in-an-Age-of-Corporate-Power

Independent information on big business and corporate power has never been more critical to our democracy. Whether from trade secrets protection, media concentration or because of the general erosion of workers’ and civil society’s rights to challenge business practices, independent information is under threat. The Multinationals Observatory, along with French NGO Ritimo, publishes a special issue of the Passerelle collection dedicated to this challenge, which includes contributions from many (...)

#Investigations

/ #Economic_Democracy, #internal_democracy_within_firms, #whistleblower, #freedom_of_expression_and_of_the_press, #transparency, #reporting, A la (...)

“►https://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/pass14_enbd.pdf”
►http://www.ritimo.org
►http://www.multinationales.org
“►https://multinationales.org/Information-Democracy-and-Corporate-Power”
“►https://multinationales.org/Anya-Schiffrin-The-link-between-advocacy-and-journalism-is-older-th”
►http://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/pass14_enbd.pdf