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Coda Media

Coda Mediais anonprofit news organizationthat produces journalism about the roots of major global crises.[1]It was founded in 2016 by Natalia Antelava, a formerBBCcorrespondent, and Ilan Greenberg, a magazine and newspaper writer who served as a staff reporter forThe Wall Street Journal.[2]

Coda Media
Type of site
Online magazine
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersNew York City,United States
CEONatalia Antelava
IndustryJournalism
URLcodastory.com
LaunchedJanuary 18, 2016(2016-01-18)
Current statusActive

As of 2024, the organization is led by Antelava, who serves as CEO and editor-in-chief, and overseen by aboard of directors.Notable board members includeNicholas Dawes,the executive director ofThe Cityand former communications director forHuman Rights Watch;andMaria Ressa,theNobel Peace Prize-winning co-founder and CEO ofRappler.Peter Pomerantsev,aBritishjournalist and TV producer, andOliver Bullough,a British writer, are contributing editors.[3]

Coda has been focused on reporting onRussian disinformationcampaigns.[4]Coda has created a documentary about the history of SovietGulagcamps.[5]

Concept

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Coda produces written stories, video reports, podcasts and newsletters focused on one major theme at a time in order to put "individual stories in the context of larger events."[6]According to Antelava, Coda aims to cover "crises in a way that creates a meaningful, cohesive narrative".[7]Coda covers many global issues, including disinformation, authoritarian technology, the war on science, and rewriting history. The site's first theme covered LGBT issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.[8]

Coda is an example of "pioneer journalism".[9]

Funding

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Coda Media is a501(c)(3) organizationwith offices inNew York CityandTbilisi,Republic of Georgia.It is supported by foundation grants and private donations and has also experimented withcrowd-funding.[10][11]Coda Media has partnered with several newsrooms throughout Eurasia via the Coda Network, which received a grant of $180,130 from theNational Endowment for Democracy.[12][13][14][non-primary source needed]

Awards

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The organization and its contributors have won several awards throughout the last decade:[15]

  • In 2023, Anna-Catherine Brigida's report for Coda about the surveillance state in Honduras won first prize in the 2023 Fetisov Journalism Awards in the category of Contribution to Civil Rights.[16]
  • In 2022, Peter Pomerantsev was given theEuropean Press Prize's Public Discourse Award for his piece exploring why certain news events fail to capture sustained public attention.[17]
  • In 2022, Coda was the winner of theOnline News Association's award for explantory reporting conducted by a small newsroom for the report "Germany’s historical reckoning is a warning for the US" by Erica Hellerstein. The judges described the report as a "masterful storytelling" and "a thorough, devastating piece and poignant analysis of who must carry these stories and who has the privilege/shame/guilt to avoid or bury them."[18]
  • In 2020, Isobel Cockerell won theEuropean Press Prize's Distinguished Reporting Award for her report on Uyghur women fighting against China’s surveillance state.[19]
  • In 2018, Coda Story andRevealwon theAlfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award[20]for their collaborative radio documentary "Russia's New Scapegoats",[21]which explores the human costs as well as the political reasons behind the Kremlin's war on gay people.
  • In 2014, Coda won the Best Startups for News competition from theGlobal Editors Network.[22]

Coda's journalism and reporters have been a runner-up or a finalist in several other awards cycles:

  • Isobel Cockerell was a finalist for the 2023 Journalism Prize from theOrwell Foundation.[23]
  • Third prize for the 2023 True Story Award for Katia Patin's piece "Poland’s ministry of memory spins the Holocaust."[24]
  • Shortlisted for the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Alexander Wells' report on Australian memory politics.[25]
  • A nominee for the 2020 Digital Media Award fromOne World MediaAwards for the multimedia project "Generation Gulag."[26]
  • A nominee for the 2018 European Press Prize's Innovation Award for the video series "Jailed for a Like."[27]
  • A finalist in the 2016Online News Association Awardsin the category of Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling for a Small Newsroom for its project, "Permission to Exterminate: Terror in Central Asia."[28][29]

Partners

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Coda has collaborated with various other news outlets in its reporting:

Memberships

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References

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  1. ^"About Coda".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  2. ^"'Local is not geographical anymore, local is our interest': How Coda Story reports on the bigger picture | Media news ".www.journalism.co.uk.2017-01-24.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  3. ^"About Coda".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  4. ^Japaridze, Tinatin (2022-02-21).Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism.Lexington Books.p. 100.ISBN978-1-7936-4187-8.
  5. ^Buder, Emily (March 5, 2020)."Life in the Gulag: A Harrowing Account of Stalin's Prison Camps - The Atlantic".The Atlantic.Retrieved2024-05-17.
  6. ^BBC Academy (16 December 2015)."A startup called Coda Media wants to help journalists keep reporting on stories after 'mainstream media' has left".American Press Institute.Archived fromthe originalon 31 August 2022.Retrieved6 November2017.
  7. ^Coelho, Pedro (2023-12-31)."New Frontiers of Investigative Journalism: From the Lone Wolf to the Pack".Comunicação e sociedade(44).OpenEdition Journals:1–18.ISSN1645-2089.
  8. ^Yudico, Andrea Vega (2022-12-08)."Covering the Authoritarian Playbook: How Coda Story Gets to the Root of Global Crises".Center for International Media Assistance.Retrieved2024-05-17.
  9. ^Anderson, Bissie (2023-11-29).""Join the Coalition": How Pioneer Journalism Communities Reimagine Journalistic Epistemology from the Periphery ".Digital Journalism:8.doi:10.1080/21670811.2023.2278043.ISSN2167-0811.
  10. ^"How Coda Story will add continuity to crisis coverage one story at a time".ijnet.org.Archived fromthe originalon 2017-12-28.Retrieved2017-11-06.
  11. ^"Coda Story, focused on deep dives around single themes, is now tackling a" post-truth "Eurasia".Nieman Lab.Harvard.
  12. ^"Eurasia Regional 2019".NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-11-25.Retrieved2020-08-10.
  13. ^"Why Armenia Is Cheesed Off With Eurasia".Coda Story.2018-01-29.Retrieved2020-08-10.
  14. ^"NED Grantees Win European Press Prize".NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY.2020-06-17.Retrieved2020-08-10.
  15. ^"Our awards and impact".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  16. ^"Fetisov Journalism Awards".fjawards.com.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  17. ^"Memory in the age of impunity".European Press Prize.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  18. ^"Germany's historical reckoning is a warning for the U.S."Online Journalism Awards.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  19. ^"Isobel Cockerell".European Press Prize.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  20. ^"2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award Winners Announced - School of Journalism".journalism.columbia.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 2022-11-30.Retrieved2018-01-08.
  21. ^"Russia's new scapegoats".revealnews.org.24 September 2016.
  22. ^"Startups for News".GEN.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-07-14.Retrieved2017-11-06.
  23. ^"Isobel Cockerell | The Orwell Foundation".www.orwellfoundation.com.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  24. ^"Poland's ministry of memory spins the Holocaust".True Story Award.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  25. ^Mem: 7792280."Woollahra Digital Literary Award shortlists announced | Books+Publishing".Retrieved2024-04-30.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ^"2020 Winners".One World Media.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  27. ^"2018".European Press Prize.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  28. ^"Coda Story Award-Winning Work - Online Journalism Awards".Online Journalism Awards.
  29. ^"Terror in Central Asia - Video".codastory.com.3 May 2016.
  30. ^"New East network | World news | The Guardian".the Guardian.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  31. ^Kucera, Joshua (2017-12-13)."US joins the information war in Georgia".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  32. ^Echeverri, Juan David Restrepo Ortiz, Juan Diego Restrepo (2023-02-07)."Watching the streets of Medellín".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  33. ^Wangari, Njeri (2023-11-08)."In Africa's first 'safe city,' surveillance reigns".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  34. ^"Russia's new scapegoats".Reveal.2016-09-24.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  35. ^Patin, Katerina."Russia Used a Two-Year-Old Video and an 'Alternative' Swedish Group to Discredit Reports of Syria Gas Attack".isnblog.ethz.ch.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  36. ^Weiss, Michael (February 27, 2018)."The Interpreter Joins Coda Story".The Interpreter.
  37. ^Patin, Katia (2023-10-30)."Russia's Largest Rights Group Survived the Kremlin's Dismantling. It Is Now Rediscovering Itself".New Lines Magazine.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  38. ^Jr, Victor Barreiro (2022-05-01)."Fleeing Russian bombs while battling Facebook: A Meta problem Ukrainian journalists did not need".RAPPLER.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  39. ^"Putin's Oligarchs: A year in the sanctioned lives of Russia's richest men".Coda Story.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  40. ^"The TikTok exodus: how an Albanian town was emptied".The Economist.ISSN0013-0613.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  41. ^Cockerell, Isobel (2023-12-07)."Green Colonialism".{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help)
  42. ^"Infamous International: The Pink Panthers Story".EXACTLY RIGHT.Retrieved2024-04-30.
  43. ^Undercurrents: Tech, Tyrants, and Us.
  44. ^"Our Members".gijn.org.Retrieved2024-06-11.
  45. ^"Coda Story".Find Your News.2021-10-04.Retrieved2024-06-11.
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