The Next Newsroom Is an Action Centre, if Its Operating System Allows It
“Whose tomorrow will be easier because of you?” Dmitry Shishkin argues the newsrooms that can answer that question will be the ones that survive.
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What Independence Really Means for Indie Journalists
This group is more able to innovate, represent diverse communities, and tell stories that might escape institutional newsrooms — stories we need more than ever. But independence, it turns out, is not so simple.
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Who Pays for Local News in India
And Why the Answer Should Matter to Every Journalism Market in the World
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The Hardware of Democracy: Upgrading Journalism’s Next Operating System
We are navigating a fundamental shift in how people consume and verify reality. The modern crisis of trust stems from an architecture that has outpaced our collective ability to process information…we now have the opportunity to serve as the engineers…
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Letters From the Field
From Afghanistan and Nigeria to Ukraine, journalists speak of exile, legacy, and resilience.
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Integrating Emerging Technology in Newsrooms Must Preserve Journalistic Agency
In interviews with more than 70 journalism professionals, Emilia Ruzicka found that daily journalists are being left out of conversations about the future of AI in the field.
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Rethinking the Donor Playbook: What 30 Years of Media Development Have Taught Us
Donor assistance alone is not enough to sustain journalism around the world. The “Fourth Estate” ideal cannot exist without also having strong business models and sustained political investment.
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It Takes More than Facts: Understanding the News Avoidance Gap
In many cases, news avoidance is a response to news outlets’ outdated model: The content and its format no longer align with how consumers actually ingest facts and information today, and so fails to meet users’ needs.
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We Just Lost Our Best Chance in a Generation to Expand Media Freedom
A US retreat from international media assistance will set back the global movement for media freedom by years. The gap left behind will not be easy to fill. The movement, however, can be sustained by fortifying its roots. In time,…
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Stories of Success at a High Price: Accountability Journalism in the Largely Autocratic MENA
The ICFJ Knight Trailblazer Award that I received in Washington on November 14 in many ways symbolizes my life-long mission to encourage accountability journalism and equip journalists throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the tools to practice…
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Media, Technology, and Civic Institutions are Up to the Task of Dealing with Negative AI Generated Election Content
In a discussion that’s often overwhelmed by bad news, whether of the media or despair about manipulated content, there are glimmers of hope that show all of us how there can be a better and effective way forward into the…
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Impacts of the Digital Services Act on Critical Voices in Serbia
Civil society organizations (CSOs) based in the Western Balkans have raised concerns about the impacts of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) on the region. For successful implementation, the DSA requires the operational independence of state-level institutions.
