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Coda Media
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Coda Media is a nonprofit news organization that produces journalism about the roots of major global crises.[1] It was founded in 2016 by Natalia Antelava, a former BBC correspondent, and Ilan Greenberg, a magazine and newspaper writer who was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal.[2]

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As of 2024, the organization is led by Antelava, who is CEO and editor-in-chief, and overseen by a board of directors. Notable board members include Nicholas Dawes, the executive director of The City and former communications director for Human Rights Watch; and Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning co-founder and CEO of Rappler. Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist and TV producer, and Oliver Bullough, a British writer, are contributing editors.[3]

Coda has been focused on reporting on Russian disinformation campaigns.[4] Coda has created a documentary about the history of Soviet Gulag camps.[5]

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Concept

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]

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Funding

Coda Media is a 501(c)(3) organization with offices in New York City and Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. It is supported by foundation grants and private donations and has also experimented with crowd-funding.[10][11] Coda Media has partnered with several newsrooms throughout Eurasia via the Coda Network, which received a grant of $180,130 from the National Endowment for Democracy.[12][13][14][non-primary source needed]

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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 the European 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 the Online News Association's award for explanatory 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 the European Press Prize's Distinguished Reporting Award for her report on Uyghur women fighting against China’s surveillance state.[19]
  • In 2018, Coda Story and Reveal won the Alfred 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 the Global 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 the Orwell 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 from One World Media Awards 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 2016 Online News Association Awards in 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]
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Partners

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

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