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Surviving hostile and billionaire politicians: Patrícia Campos Mello on holding the line in challenging times. Renowned for more than just impactful investigative reporting, Folha de S.Paulo’s Editor at Large shares her experience in exposing electoral crimes, facing misogynistic presidential attacks – and standing up to a demagogue
The next chapter for fact-checking: information integrity. Fact-checking needs to evolve to meet new challenges
News outlets push vertical video to the homepage. Short vertical videos, a staple of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, are increasingly making their way on to news sites. The format is a hit with audiences but more than two-thirds of that viewing still takes place on platforms, not publisher websites. Publishers are trying to change that
Netanyahu’s boycott of Haaretz won’t stop us reporting the grim truth about Israel’s wars. Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us. By Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief of Haaretz
Brendan Carr makes it clear that he’s eager to be America’s top censor. He is, as the Verge’s Nilay Patel aptly put it, “the most direct and sustained threat to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press any of us will ever experience”
Bluesky already delivering more referral traffic than X for some publishers. The Boston Globe and Guardian have both reported seeing more traffic from Bluesky than Threads
Global real estate developers can find enduring success through deep collaborations with nontraditional partners. McKinsey’s Samvit Kanoria and coauthors explain how in a new article.
A benevolent extraterrestrial entity with unlimited resources should fund investigative journalism in perpetuity. But until then, let’s have a reasonable conversation about sustainable models
JournalismAI, supported by GNI, awards 35 AI innovation grants. The grants will enable publishers to experiment, implement and share best practices of AI technologies, through the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative
2024 Rory Peck Awards. Winners and finalists of the 2024 Rory Peck Awards, announced at the ceremony on 28 November in London
Thinking about the people formerly known as the press. No, journalism isn’t over, but it is changing in fundamental ways
Adapt or get left behind: the future of podcasting is multi-platform. The future of podcasting isn’t audio—it’s multi-platform shows that transcend formats, platforms, and audiences, with video as the driving force of this transformation
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries
Agent for Russia and UK-based Bulgarian planned ‘honeytrap’ for journalist, court hears. Pair chatted on Telegram about plot to target Christo Grozev, known for his investigations into Russian espionage
Photo credit: Patricia Campos Mello at #ijf23 by Francesco Cuoccio