Marta Checa

Marta Checa is co-editor of Equal Times. A multimedia journalist, she has worked as a correspondent for the EFE news agency in Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau. She started her career as a journalist in Brussels in 1998, working with various media and production companies and co-founding a local magazine.

Twitter : @martacheca

Articles by this author (22)

22 December 2023

Goodbye 2023: our recommended Equal Times reads of the year

Tamara Gausi: To round up the year, each Equal Times editor picks the stories that have stayed in their heart and mind, long after [...]Read the full article

Are our education systems helping to create emancipated human beings or simply preparing human resources?

7 August 2023

Development

Are our education systems helping to create emancipated human beings or simply preparing human resources?

Against a backdrop of globalisation and fierce competition between economies, with automation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence for the [...]Read the full article

How do we create a future of work that centres on the wellbeing of people?

24 July 2023

Labour

How do we create a future of work that centres on the wellbeing of people?

In an environment of accelerating automation and digitalisation, will lifelong learning be the key to staying in our chosen job or profession? [...]Read the full article

Aída Ponce del Castillo, researcher: “CEOs like Sam Altman of OpenAI can negotiate with a state as if they themselves were a state. What are the consequences for democratic governance?”

17 July 2023

Labour

Aída Ponce del Castillo, researcher: “CEOs like Sam Altman of OpenAI can negotiate with a state as if they themselves were a state. What are the consequences for democratic governance?”

“Neither self-regulation nor ethical guidelines work when it comes to labour. Only laws do.”Read the full article

16 December 2022

Celebrating 10 years of worker-powered global news at Equal Times – and here’s to many more years of quality journalism

18 November 2022

Labour

Celebrating 10 years of worker-powered global news at Equal Times – and here’s to many more years of quality journalism

Tamara Gausi: As Equal Times turns 10 years old, its editors reflect on the online news platform’s past, present and future.Read the full article

The “normalisation of mass surveillance” could pose a threat to social mobilisation, warns digital rights advocate Diego Naranjo

31 August 2020

Human rights

The “normalisation of mass surveillance” could pose a threat to social mobilisation, warns digital rights advocate Diego Naranjo

“It’s not about whether you have ‘nothing to hide,’ it’s that you need to live in freedom and not under the eye of constant [...]Read the full article

Lee Cheuk-yan of the HKCTU: “When you beat, arrest, prosecute and shoot at protesters, social dialogue is very difficult”

18 October 2019

Politics & economy

Lee Cheuk-yan of the HKCTU: “When you beat, arrest, prosecute and shoot at protesters, social dialogue is very difficult”

“HKCTU plays an important role and we are part of the movement, so in supporting the young protesters we are also supporting ourselves,” says Carol [...]Read the full article

Beatrice Fihn: “As long as we have nuclear weapons, nuclear war will always be an option”

16 September 2019

Human rights

Beatrice Fihn: “As long as we have nuclear weapons, nuclear war will always be an option”

“With nuclear weapons, it is hard for people to visualise their impact. But, like climate change, nuclear weapons know no borders. These are [...]Read the full article

Psychological warfare and resistance, ‘Made in Cambodia' (in three acts and an epilogue)

15 January 2019

Human rights

Psychological warfare and resistance, ‘Made in Cambodia’ (in three acts and an epilogue)

Critics, activists and trade unionists in Cambodia: on the verge of outlaw status?

3 December 2018

Human rights

Critics, activists and trade unionists in Cambodia: on the verge of outlaw status?

On 29 July 2018, a single party, the CPP, received 100 per cent of the seats in parliament. In Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodia, there is no [...]Read the full article

14 September 2018

Development

A sustainable world by 2030?

That is the challenge and the time limit. In this special, we take a glance at the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda, and [...]Read the full article

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