Around the world, the law is increasingly being weaponised to silence independent reporting and to compromise journalists’ freedom, wellbeing, and financial security. As ‘lawfare’ escalates in i...

More than half the world’s population will get to vote for their government in 2024, making it the biggest election year in history, according to The Economist. Almost 100 different elections will h...

Thousands of kilometres from home, exploited and unprotected, victims of human trafficking have gone through countless horrors. Without careful planning, journalists wanting to tell their stories can ...

Jeff Jarvis is unable to participate in the festival for personal reasons. This session has in consequence been cancelled.  The open internet -- the information commons -- is being fenced in first b...

Shailesh Prakash, Google's VP of News and former Chief Information Officer of The Washington Post, joins forces with award-winning journalist and author Barbara Serra in an exclusive Fireside Chat. Di...

We’ve all seen the influence of social media platforms on elections, but closed platforms like WhatsApp are much harder to track than Facebook or Twitter. Increasingly, however, this is how people g...

For years now the China "story" has been one of the most important beats to cover. But as China's role on the world stage has grown, so too have the challenges of covering the country. The very real d...

Two brutal conflicts - one in Gaza, another in Ukraine - have claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives, killed scores of journalists and dominated global headlines for months. But what happens when...

In an era where digital news audiences are shrinking and disinformation threatens the very fabric of information dissemination, journalists face a daunting challenge. Yet, out of this disruption, a ne...

Breaking news without breaking people. When younger generations ask for a better work-life balance and the news industry is under pressure to do more with fewer resources, what does it take to build, ...