The financial challenges facing the news industry have not stopped a takeover frenzy in the last couple of years, from the Observer in London to the LA Times as well as the almost never-ending saga of...
Branko Brkic
Branko Brkic is founder of Project Kontinuum, a global initiative to advance journalism, media innovation, and sustainability. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Daily Maverick, South Africa’s leading online daily, which he co-founded in 2009. In his 40-year career, he has founded the DOSSIER book publishing house in Yugoslavia, and edited both Timbila, the South African National Parks magazine, and Brainstorm, a business and tech magazine. He also founded, edited and published Maverick and Empire magazines, also in South Africa.
Events IJF 2025
Who is responsible for the survival of independent media? At a time of acute crisis, this panel looks at the support journalism need to keep operating worldwide and who, if anyone, should provide it a...
Disarming disinformation: how leading international editors are responding to information pollution in a pivotal year for democracy
This panel presents the first insights from the new global research project Disarming Disinformation, which has seen researchers embedded in multiple international newsrooms to study their responses t...
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...
Journalism Innovation Project: rebooting audience engagement amidst 'platform capture' and online toxicity
Dramatic shifts in the media landscape over the past two decades — including the advent of social media, the rise of participatory audiences, and what the Journalism Innovation Project calls “plat...
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