Independent, ethical and local journalism in Ukraine needs greater international support, says the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) in a special report on the country’s media landscape. The report, ‘Ukraine media: defiance and truth-telling – the frontline struggle for information and […]

Kamal Ahmed, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the US/UK based media company, equates the traditional model of journalism to media organisations living in castles, deciding what’s important for the audience, opening the castle door, throwing the news product to them and […]

The many probing questions posed to, and among, panelists at the Editors Summit session on “Facts, lies, hate and elections” at the World News Media Congress in Taipei last week, underscores the many different issues plaguing newsrooms across the world.  […]

Yesterday we published Gingras’ speech as we received several requests from the audience about getting their hands on his presentation. Here is an edited version of that exchange with Rehnquist and Congress participants. Pia Rehnquist: How important are our news […]

“You don’t have to become a developer or a hacker, but you have to have an understanding of how algorithms work – and why they do what they do. You need to understand why the rules are as they are. […]

Richard Gingras, Vice President of News at Google, delivered these reflections at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress 2023 in Taipei. Gingras gave this speech on 29 June, the same day Google announced it would remove news links from its Search […]

Scientists warn of significant global challenges in the 21st century – from future pandemics to extreme climate events, food security risks to growing inequalities. Today, the International Science Council, led a panel session on “Preparing for Crisis X” at the World News […]