The latest revelations of leaked directives issued by Chinese authorities to state media outlets come as no surprise. The country is considered “not free” in Reporters Without Borders’s World Pr...
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Public interest journalism did not come to a halt in 2020. To the contrary, we relied on journalism using anonymous sources, leakers, and whistleblowers, to keep us informed as much as ever. However, ...
Surviving the extinction: from post-truth and infodemic to public interest media
At the December 2021 Democracy Summit, President Joe Biden committed critical seed money to a new initiative to save independent media from “extinction”. President Emmanuel Macron also pledged to ...
For decades climate change was a story about what’s to come. Not anymore. Today, we see climate change manifesting across the world - in heat-fueled hurricanes and megafires, in rising seas swamping...
How often have we heard that journalism is a young person's game? Why does our industry frequently make it clear it doesn't welcome older employees? For a newsroom to be truly representative of societ...
In this panel, Afghan and foreign journalists will discuss the future of Afghanistan coverage at a time when scores of local journalists have been forced to flee the country, others have stayed behind...
Growth: what are the big levers, and what muscles do organisations need to pull them?
Growth is the core common challenge for the media industry. While Covid brought a welcome boost in audiences and subscriptions, it is clear that ‘what got us here won’t get us there’. Covid-era ...
Global efforts to sustain journalism as a public good have increased in urgency in parallel with escalating pandemic-era threats. Newspaper sales in low- and middle-income countries have been particul...
How local news can empower civic engagement and the fight against misinformation
With so many seemingly intractable problems facing societies worldwide, negative “if it bleeds, it leads” headlines are leaving news consumers anxious and demoralized. Meanwhile, misinformation an...
A global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. The European Union and Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms ...