Why subscribe?
Unembedded is an independent publication on media systems, technology, online influence, digital conflict, information integrity, and institutional power.
It exists for people trying to understand not only what is happening across today’s information environment, but how these systems shape journalism, public understanding, crisis response, political behavior, accountability, and real-world harm.
The gap between events, expertise, and meaningful action is widening. Unembedded exists to help close that gap through sharp analysis, practical resources, practitioner exchange, and grounded insight from people working directly inside these environments under real-world conditions.
This publication brings together analysis, tools, field knowledge, emerging practice, and cross-sector conversations that are often fragmented across institutions or inaccessible to the broader public.
The knowledge shared here comes from applying and stress-testing media, verification, governance, and technology frameworks across crisis environments, fragile infrastructures, platform failures, legal fragmentation, political pressure, and cross-cultural contexts—where theory alone is not enough and implementation determines impact.
Much of this work sits at the intersection of media, technology, human rights, public-interest systems, and institutional strategy: translating complex ideas into approaches that can function under pressure, adapt across regions, and remain effective in real-world conditions.
What you’ll get
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Investigations and analysis on media systems, AI, platform power, online influence, digital conflict, and information ecosystems
Practical guides, frameworks, reporting resources, verification methods, and practitioner tools
Access to emerging practices, operational lessons, and implementation insight shaped by real-world conditions across global contexts
Research notes, field observations, and deeper contextual analysis rarely surfaced in public conversations
Access to community discussions and a growing cross-sector network connecting journalists, researchers, technologists, lawyers, advocates, strategists, founders, and practitioners
Opportunities for collaboration, workshops, expert conversations, interviews, and shared learning across sectors and regions
Early access to selected projects, multimedia work, podcast conversations, training resources, and future community initiatives as the platform expands
Publishing includes essays, reporting analysis, field notes, interviews, practitioner resources, guides, workshops, multimedia projects, and long-form series examining the systems shaping media, technology, crisis, governance, and public narrative.
Areas of focus include:
• media systems and institutional trust
• online harm and extremism
• AI, synthetic media, and information integrity
• platform power and digital influence
• verification, evidence, and video documentation
• crisis reporting and narrative framing
• technology governance and accountability
• humanitarian and public-interest systems
• emerging practice under crisis conditions
• the politics of visibility, legitimacy, and public narrative
Unembedded is also growing into a broader public-interest ecosystem spanning analysis, training, workshops, practitioner resources, multimedia storytelling, research collaboration, and cross-sector community building.
About the author
Raja Althaibani works at the intersection of media, technology, evidence, and power. She is a strategist, advisor, trainer, and writer with more than fifteen years of experience leading crisis response, documentation, verification, and capacity-building initiatives across MENA / SWANA, US, and other global contexts.
Previously at WITNESS (witness.org), Raja helped lead work on video evidence, information integrity, platform accountability, crisis response, and emerging technology in high-risk environments. WITNESS received the 2024 Peabody Global Impact Award.
She is the founder of Unembedded, Raja Advisory, The Field, and Arab Hyphenated.
Training and workshops are available on media systems, digital evidence, information integrity, verification, video as evidence, crisis reporting, and practitioner capacity building.
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