How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
Meera Selva
Meera Selva is Chief Executive of Internews Europe. She was previously the Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and is a co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. She is an experienced journalist who has reported from the field across Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, including several years at the Associated Press.She is also a senior research associate of the Reuters Institute and an associate fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, as well as a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Her research focuses on issues of press freedom, diversity in newsrooms, and media sustainability.
Events IJF 2024
Preparing for exile: the playbook every journalist dreads but needs
Governments can play an important role in enabling independent professional journalism -- by protecting journalists’ rights and freedom to do their job safely, by directly or indirectly supporting i...
From drowning to surfing: how journalism can help audiences avoid information overload
“What really worries me is the fact that we all know that our media consumption is bad and addictive, but we still do it” – this authentic quote from a student in Cologne serves as an excellent ...
In her State of the Union Speech EU Commission President Von Der Leyen announced that the EU intends to pass a Media Freedom Act protecting free journalism at a time of increasing pressure from populi...
Our brains use plenty of short-cuts to process the complex world around us, filter relevant information and allow us to make decisions. On the one hand, a useful optimization process, this also bears ...
All eyes are on climate change: it is a pervasive, complex, systemic issue. Scientists and experts are needed to understand and deal with it, but they are not enough. So between journalism, data visua...
Overcoming the trolls: political polarization, disinformation and journalist targets
In 2019, Brazilian political journalist Patricia Campos Mello, who had previously reported from hot spots and conflict zones around the world, hired her first ever bodyguard in the wake of a relentles...
Climate change: is journalism ready to uphold its mission to serve the people's right to know?
As we enter 2022, and with COP26 behind us, everything remains to be done for climate journalism. Major, and disruptive changes are expected as decarbonation starts. As journalists, we will have to re...
The talent challenge: how to attract the right people to make newsrooms more diverse and sustainable
To be a journalist used to be a sought-after profession. But with job prospects declining and the trust debate in full swing, becoming a reporter or editor is losing out on attractiveness for many. At...
To coincide with the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crash, this panel will consider the impact of that crash on the media worldwide, and ask what lessons have been learnt, by business reporte...
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