OC Media
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| Type | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Mariam Nikuradze, Dominik K Cagara, and Caroline Sutcliffe |
| Editor-in-chief | Robin Fabbro[1] |
| Founded | January 2017 |
| Political alignment | Center-left |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Tbilisi |
| Website | OC-Media.org |
OC Media(Open Caucasus Media) is an independent English-language online news platform covering theNorthandSouthCaucasus regions.
Overview
[edit]OC Media is aTbilisi-based website founded in 2017 by journalists Mariam Nikuradze and Dominik K. Cagara and brings together journalists from throughout the Caucasus.[2][3][4]
The site covers the South Caucasus nations ofArmenia,Azerbaijan,andGeorgia,Russia'sNorth Caucasusrepublics, and the disputed territories ofAbkhazia,Nagorno-Karabakh,andSouth Ossetia.[5][6]
OC Media receives funding from different organizations and institutions as well as their readers. It has received funding from organizations such asUK Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung,Open Society Foundations,theNational Endowment for Democracy,theEuropean Endowment for Democracy,theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic,and theThomson Reuters Foundation.[3]
In March 2020, Georgianrights grouptheHuman Rights Education and monitoring centre (EMC)appealed to the government after an undercover investigation by OC Media revealed poor working conditions in several textile factories in the country.[7][8]They called on theDepartment of Labour Inspectionto immediately inspect garment factories and forParliamentto pass legislative changes to prevent future violations of workers’ rights.
In October 2020, the site was temporarily taken offline by a cyberattack. The outlet's management attributed the attack to their coverage of the2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[9][10][11]
OC Media was awarded the 2023Free Media Award.[12]
In September 2023, OC Media revealed that the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament,Shalva Papuashvili,had contacted the site's institutional donors in an attempt to have their funding cut, after they refused to publish anop-edhe had authored.[13][14]The Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethicscondemned the speaker's actions.[15]
References
[edit]- ^"Our Team".OC Media.Retrieved2020-05-24.
- ^"A progressive, pro-peace voice in the Caucasus".European Endowment for Democracy.2020-11-18.Retrieved2020-11-18.
- ^ab"Who we are".OC Media.Retrieved2020-05-16.
- ^"16th South Caucasus Media Conference".OSCE.Retrieved2020-05-16.
- ^Narimanishvili, Nino (2020-06-21)."OC Media პანდემიის პირისპირ, დაფინანსების ახალი გზების ძიებაში - ინტერვიუ მარიამ ნიკურაძესთან"[OC Media in the face of the pandemic, in search of new means of financing — Interview with Mariam Nikuradze].Media Checker(in Georgian).Retrieved2020-06-22.
- ^"How OC Media is training the next generation of freelance journalists in the Caucasus region".Engaged Journalism.Retrieved2020-11-16.
- ^"Inside Georgia's textile industry".OC Media.Retrieved2020-11-18.
- ^"EMC სამკერვალოებში დასაქმებული ქალების შრომით ექსპლუატაციას ეხმიანება"[EMC responds to the labour exploitation of women employed in sewing].The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC)(in Georgian).Retrieved2020-11-18.
- ^"Хакеры атаковали OC Media методом" грубой силы ""[Hackers attack OC Media with brute force attack].Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty(in Russian). 2020-10-29.Retrieved2020-11-16.
- ^"OC Media-ზე კიბერთავდასხმა მოხდა"[Cyber attack on OC Media].On.ge(in Georgian). 2020-10-29.Retrieved2020-11-16.
- ^"OC-Media".Justice for Journalists.Retrieved2020-11-16.
- ^"Fritt Ord's and ZEIT-Stiftung's Free Media Awards for 2023: Free Media Awards to journalists and media outlets from Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and Russia".Fritt Ord.2023-06-22.Retrieved2024-09-04.
- ^"Speaker of Georgian parliament pressured OC Media's donors after failure to place op-ed".OC Media.Retrieved2024-09-04.
- ^"Speaker Complains to Donor After Outlet Refuses Op-ed".Civil Georgia.2023-09-13.Retrieved2024-09-04.
- ^"ქარტია მოუწოდებს ხელისუფლებას, შეწყვიტოს თავისუფალი და მიუკერძოებელი მედიის დევნა"[The Charter calls on the authorities to stop persecuting free and impartial media].The Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics(in Georgian). 2023-09-12.Retrieved2024-09-04.