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The festival portal for the purchase of bus transfer tickets from Rome Fiumicino airport to Perugia town centre (and back) is now online. This service is available for festival speakers (free, by using a coupon provided by the festival) and festival attendees (by payment). The festival provides this service in order to facilitate the trip from Rome Fiumicino airport to Perugia (and back). The full timetable of bus transfers is on the portal. We advise speakers and attendees to buy their tickets well before the start of the festival.
Nieman Lab predictions for journalism 2026. Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here’s what they told us
How will AI reshape the news in 2026? Forecasts by 17 experts from around the world. As the news industry enters a crucial year, here are the thoughts of experts from BBC, WSJ, Scroll, NPO, SZ, Semafor, the New York Times and other newsrooms. Compiled by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Here are the top 10 journalism collaborations of 2025. By the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University
A defining moment for media reform in Botswana and its implications for the region. Botswana has a long tradition of relative openness and respect for the media. That legacy matters. But it cannot be taken for granted. It has to be defended deliberately, especially at moments of legal and institutional change
2025 A year in photos. By the Pulitzer Center
Ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, watch this video featuring McKinsey senior leaders Solveigh Hieronimus, Eric Kutcher, Tunde Olanrewaju, Alex Panas, and Lucy Pérez on the key issues they expect to focus on this year.
Basta! – a French investigative media outlet that relies solely on donations. With nearly 400,000 euros collected in donations in 2025, the French media outlet Basta! is targeting a loyal audience to counter the decline in social media traffic
The Wayfinder Report 2025/6. By Ezra Eeman
The battle for cognitive liberty in the age of corporate AI. Freedom of thought isn’t just a shield against intrusion, it’s the ground on which we build everything else: the right to express, to dissent, to believe, to learn, to love. It requires both negative liberties — freedom from manipulation, surveillance, coercion – and positive ones — the capacity to imagine alternatives, to seek truth, to shape our own opinions and preferences
These are the exiled Venezuelan journalists joining forces to report on Maduro’s ouster from afar. Six reporters discuss how they’ve covered a crucial week, what foreign colleagues get wrong about their country, and why repression is likely to stay in place
Floodlight connects investigative reporting with the film and television industry to produce informed fiction in the public interest. Hard-hitting investigative journalism. Gripping films and television series. Floodlight is the bridge between these two worlds
Here’s how taz.de and RUMS are engaging Germany’s offline generation. A look at how two German outlets have successfully transitioned their older audience from print to online news
Photo credit: José Zamora, author of the 2026 Nieman Lab prediction for journalism entitled A year to choose solidarity over silence, at #ijf25 by Alexa Cano