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Casualty of war: Sudan’s media emergency. A new report examines the country’s fragile media ecosystem, engulfed in a new wave of information warfare
Taking journalism to the stage: lessons from newsrooms turning reporting into performance. How Austria’s Dossier and Portugal’s Mensagem de Lisboa are using live performance to reach new audiences, rethink storytelling and expand their business models
Beyond the artifact: the brutal economics of liquid content. Value is migrating away from content, and creating surprising new opportunities
The secret to building a global newsroom? Lead with impact, says Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler. Journalism alone can’t solve the environmental crisis, but it can help make solutions possible. Credible information is the foundation on which good decisions are built. By supporting that work, you’re investing in the conditions that allow change to take root
OpEd: executive editor Julie Pace on why AP is standing for your right to speak freely. “When fundamental freedoms are at stake, however, it becomes our duty, as an independent, not-for-profit news organization, with no owner and no shareholders, to stand up. On behalf of all of us”
Unprecedented crackdown in Georgia: 600 attacks against the press in one year. Over the past year, press freedom violations in Georgia have reached unprecedented levels
Winners of the 2025 Rory Peck Awards. A highlight of the international news industry calendar, uniquely celebrating the most outstanding work by freelance journalists over the past year
In a world of geopolitical upheaval, McKinsey’s Cindy Levy, Kurt Strovink, Shubham Singhal, and coauthors spotlight five imperatives for CEOs to lead with purpose and turn uncertainty into opportunity.
College students are choosing TikTok and Instagram over newspapers and magazines. And though they know social media is rife with misinformation, they still won’t give it up
“If you don’t support exile media, it will disappear.” Ivan Kolpakov, editor-in-chief of Meduza, spoke about what it means to be working in exile as the largest independent Russian-language media outlet
Rebuilding local journalism: inside the Public Interest News Foundation’s strategy. Jonathan Heawood, executive director of PINF, explains how the organisation is tackling the current crisis in public interest journalism and its focus on regenerating local news in the UK
How math broke media. The underlying logic of media will change in every conceivable way
“No dictatorship is eternal.” When a state suppresses all liberties, “the last reserve of freedom is journalism in exile”
The Impact Lab: a collaboration to make journalism impact-first. If journalism keeps chasing clicks, it will keep missing change. The Impact Lab – created by Syli with Report for the World and climateXchange as founding partners – proposes a different north star: outcomes in the real world
As grant funding dries up, exiled newsrooms are finding hope in new revenue strategies. Exiled newsrooms from Russia, Cuba and Myanmar are developing innovative products and strategies to cope with the end of foreign support
Strategy for the sector that never had a Golden Age. We worked with 50 publishers this year. Here is what we learned
Photo credit: Meera Selva, CEO of Internews Europe and author of the 25 November 2025 article Casualty of war: Sudan’s media emergency, at #ijf25 by Francesco Cuoccio