Tag: Courtney Tenz
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Reading Books Makes You Smarter
Did you know that reading printed books can change your brain? Even after just a few days of reading on paper instead of on a screen, there are recognizable neurological shifts that take place. The importance of books and reading hasn’t changed, even as publishing increasingly goes digital. That’s what I learned recently while attending…
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Freelancer Burnout
As someone who lives in Europe but writes exclusively in English, I cherish the networks I’m able to build online. One of the smartest moves I’ve made in the last year was to join the StudyHallXYZ community of freelance writers and media professionals. It’s full of many wise and supportive people who are leading discussions…
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Amazing Women: Arlene Gottfried
“For me, it was natural to go out of the house, to be out. So when I got a camera, I went out with my camera. When I shoot, it’s mostly something about the way a person is, or who they are, what they’re doing, it could be anything that’s attractive to me. Why people?…
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Media freedom in Kurdistan
I grew up in a time and place when freedom of expression was a given — which is why witnessing the increasing threat to media freedom in Europe and around the world has been so difficult to grasp. For the last several months, I’ve had the privilege of working on the DW Freedom project, a…
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For your viewing pleasure: my speech on online harassment from the Media Convention Berlin 2019 ‘Dick Pics & Death Threats’
In case you missed me speaking about the threats that women journalists face online at the Media Convention Berlin last month, here’s your chance to make up for it. I was honored to speak to Der Spiegel ahead of the event and to see they’d recommended my workshop for visitors to re:publica. I was in…