Dilemmas

Dilemmas of Verification and Rigor

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• Disinformation machinery
• Rumors — some fabricated, others spontaneous
• Anonymity
• Slow timing — frozen and delayed responses
• Displaced insiders and 'widows of power' — filtering biases
• Out of timing

Operational Dilemmas

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• Remote work
• Access to physical places and records
• Internal communication challenges with a dispersed team
• Merging teams, training, and maintaining culture
• Preparing for potential shutdowns
• Adapt the way of working without changing the method

Institutional & Sustainability Dilemmas

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• Ensuring the safety of staff and contributors
• Protecting bylines and journalistic credibility
• Organizational sustainability
• Criminalization of independent funding
• Censorship and blocking
• Growing the audience and improving reach
• Remaining journalists, not activists
• Working without a clear horizon of change