Yaël Ossowski

Journalism

  • Canada’s news cartel and social media link tax breaks an open internet and harms digital journalism

    My appearance on The News Forum in Canada to discuss Bill C-18, which allows a media cartel to force social networks to pay a “link tax” for allowing articles on their platforms. We also discuss the future of journalism and what consumers expect from their news sources.

  • Adam Curtis on The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist

    I’ve often written about the works of the BBC’s Adam Curtis, one of the most fascinating documentarians of our age. He came out with this diddy on journalism not too long ago. His thesis is that TV journalists originally set out to create a narrative of the world, but in the midst of chaos, they’ve basically reverted to…

  • Tips For Good Journalism And Making It Stick — Speech by Yaël Ossowski

    Here is a speech I gave on investigative journalism in Atlanta, Georgia on 12. February, 2013. AFPGA was gracious enough to invite me alongside my Citizen Watchdog colleagues, and my warm-up act was the Attorney General of Georgia. My themes remained the same: become an expert, question the narrative, make them go off-script, connect the…