As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold globally in early 2020, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) & the Tow Center for Digital Journalism launched a study into the transformational impact...
Sharon Moshavi
Sharon Moshavi is the President of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Moshavi oversees new project development, innovation, research and impact at ICFJ, the premier global network of journalists. From newsroom transformation efforts in India to investigative reporting networks in Latin America and health reporting across Africa, she has led the design of a range of projects aimed at strengthening independent media. In addition, Moshavi developed an initiative to spur innovation in combating dis/misinformation in the world's five largest democracies. She directed the publication of ICFJ’s 2017 and 2019 surveys on the State of Technology in Global Newsrooms, in 14 languages.
Prior to ICFJ, Moshavi worked as Communications Manager at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more than a decade before that, Moshavi was based in New Delhi, Jerusalem and Tokyo, reporting on issues from across Asia and the Middle East for The Boston Globe, Newsday, BusinessWeek, KQED, PRI, and The New Republic, among others.
Events IJF 2022
Surviving the extinction: from post-truth and infodemic to public interest media
At the December 2021 Democracy Summit, President Joe Biden committed critical seed money to a new initiative to save independent media from “extinction”. President Emmanuel Macron also pledged to ...
Let’s go beyond the usual media profile and hear what is going on in media in Kenya and Nigeria, the two reference countries for East and West Africa. Two of the largest economies of the continent a...
Is the global village becoming a Potemkin village? Back in the optimistic 90s, many were certain that the Internet would spell the end of ‘Potemkin villages’ and bring a new era of media pluralism...
For the last few years the rise of data journalism has generated some hope that newsrooms could make use of new technologies for better reporting. But what about enabling newsrooms to create new servi...
