Authoritarian regimes increasingly leverage technology to suppress dissent, control narratives, and surveil populations. This panel will examine how media and tech industries can respond to these grow...
Jakub Parusinski
Jakub Parusinski is a director at The Fix, a media industry publication and research hub, where he focuses on MediaTech product development and advisory work with publishers and media investors. He has 15 years of experience in the media sector, including as a journalist, editor, manager and publisher.
Jakub co-founded The Kyiv Independent, a leading Ukraine-focused publication, and is helping grow its internal research and think tank centre, KI Insights. Jakub is also on the advisory board of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Media Centre, where he is a program director and lecturer on media strategy and entrepreneurship.
Events IJF 2025
At last year’s IJF, one independent news editor said “We are being trained to death, but that’s the only way we can access funding.” The viability of independent media relies on long-term str...
It’s no secret that news media around the world are in trouble. Business models are failing, permanently and irreversibly altered by the algorithms of tech platforms. Media freedom globally is in de...
Building a viable newsroom in exile: successes and challenges of Russian independent media
The war censorship and unprecedented crackdown on press freedom in 2022 saw a mass exodus of Russian journalists and media organisations abroad. As a result, Russian independent journalism - painstaki...
Besides the emergency support for Ukraine media, there is a need to reestablish the media ecosystem in Ukraine in the hard hit regions. We want to talk about the best ways to help the reconstruction o...
The tumultuous events of the past 2 years - war in Ukraine, a crushed revolution in Belarus, a last gasp for Russia's independent media - have left the CEE media struggling to adapt. Audiences have b...
In the hours after the Russian invasion started a coalition including The Fix Media, Are We Europe, Jnomics, and the Media Development Foundation, together with multiple media partners, started workin...
Journalism in Ukraine faces many challenges, from conflict reporting about the war with Russia, through disinformation and infowar, to freedom of press issues, oligarchy influence and ownership. But o...
Recent years have been marked by growing antipathy toward journalists, particularly when they challenge respected figures or in times of national crisis. Journalists are associated with increasingly v...
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